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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Lexile measure
1310L
Physical Desc
ix, 354 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"PERIOD founder and Harvard student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation. Throughout history, periods have been taboo. They're 'embarrassing'. They're 'gross'. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex-ed program, they are misunderstood. And because of these stigmas, a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from a seat at the decision-making table, which leads to discrimination like the tampon tax and...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality,...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people....
Author
Publisher
Siland Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
75 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This book explains the causes and recent historical events (during the 1990s and the 21st century) causing the crisis and war in Ukraine. It includes a discussion of how these events put the world at risk of nuclear war. It also touches on some general theory relevant to political science and international relations. --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
255 p : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly militaristic border enforcement policies under the guise of security, and local governments around the country are taking matters into their own hands, Dying to Live offers a...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries. At the same time, since the end of World War II approximately 100,000 synthetic chemical molecules have invaded our environment--and our food chain. In Our Daily Poison, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin investigates the links between these...
947) The dangerous case of Donald Trump: 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and the mental health of Americans.
Author
Publisher
ILR press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Do we live in a meritocracy? Many believe we do and that it is an essential element of the American Dream. Others would say we do not. In this book, Doron Taussig examines how people think about the relationship between merit and achievement. The surprise is that our understanding of how life works and what it means to deserve something is more flexible and fluid than our mythology"
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. Proponents of drone warfare, however, prefer the euphemism 'targeted killings.' But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target. Unless it can be proven otherwise, the government refers to these unintended victims as 'enemies killed in action.' These deaths, which have included women and children, dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 276 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence against blacks increased at an alarming rate and when the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi resulted in national media attention. Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when...
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
x, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only t
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him 'Hitler's Pope.' But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously recorded...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 696 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945-from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 586 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fearing the Worst considers how the Cold War and its shape as a strategic confrontation between two superpowers flowed from the Korean War. The book examines the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, each superpower's relations with its allies, and the roles of technology, intelligence, and domestic politics in the decisions of the key nations. The United States reluctantly funded massive increases in nuclear weapons, strategic...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 490 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating...