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Leadership on the line: staying alive through the dangers of leading
By Ronald A Heifetz. 2002
This survival manual for leaders explains what one needs to know to handle the professional and personal perils of leading,…
and discusses how to exercise leadership in a way that reduces the chances of being pushed aside. The authors address leaders at all levels (parents, general employees, managers, community activists, and presidents of organizations and countries)Nisei daughter (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By Monica Itoi Sone. 1979
The author spent her childhood in pre-World War II Seattle, in a part Japanese, part American world. After the bombing…
of Pearl Harbor, she and her family are sent to an internment camp in Topaz, Idaho. Her family attempts to maintain their values and ethics amidst the barbed wire and armed guards, demonstrating the conflict between the loss of their civil rights and their love of their adopted countryTough love: my story of the things worth fighting for
By Susan E. Rice. 2019
US ambassador to the United Nations and former national security advisor to President Obama recounts pivotal moments from her career…
in American diplomacy and foreign policy as well as her early life in Washington, DC. 2019Too much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man
By Mary L. Trump. 2020
President Trump's niece, a clinical psychologist, reflects on her family's history to theorize how her uncle became the man he…
is. A first-hand witness to countless family interactions, she details events, relationships, and patterns of behavior among the members of the Trump family. Strong language. 2020In the name of Emmett Till: how the children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle showed us tomorrow
By Robert H. Mayer. 2021
An award-winning author provides an unflinching portrayal of life in the segregated South and the bravery of young people who…
fought that system. From the violent Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people worked to reveal the vulnerability of black bodies and the ugly nature of the world they lived in. For junior and senior high readers. 2021Vagina obscura: an anatomical voyage
By Rachel E. Gross. 2022
Examination of the historical and modern research into and care for female sexual anatomy. Topics are arranged around individual anatomical…
parts, including the glans clitoris, the internal clitoris, the vagina, vaginal microbiome, egg cells, ovaries, the uterus, and the neovagina. Addresses the impact of prejudicial views of female anatomy on the care of people with those anatomical parts.Fire shut up in my bones: a memoir
By Charles M. Blow. 2015
"Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist's indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M.…
Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to "love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel." Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After--the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of America's most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart." -- Provided by publisherGawain and the Green Knight: adventure at Camelot
By Y. R. Ponsor. 1979
Here is a fresh telling of the fourteenth century poem about Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and perfect knight. A mysterious…
Green Knight appeared at Camelot one Christmas season and challenged anyone to exchange a single axe blow with him. Gawain the youngest knight accepted challenge and after a year and a day went to meet his destiny. A prose retelling of the Middle English poemThe looting of social security: how the government is draining America's retirement account
By Allen W. Smith. 2004
Explains the history of Social Security from its inception in 1935 to the present, including the enactment of the 1983…
Social Security tax increase. Then the author details how the government's promise to the American people -- a pledge to never spend the Social Security funds -- was broken by every succeeding administrationA good day's work: an Iowa farm in the Great Depression
By Dwight W. Hoover. 2007
Midnight assassin: a murder in America's heartland
By Thomas Wolf, Patricia L. Bryan. 2005
In December 1900, a prosperous Iowa farmer was murdered in his bed--killed by two blows of an ax to his…
head. Four days later, the victim's wife, Margaret Hossack, was arrested and charged with the crime. The community was split by the trial which was covered by young journalist Susan Glaspell, later an acclaimed writer. Co-author is Thomas Wolf. Unrated. 2005What are you doing in there?: balancing your need to know with your child's need to grow
By Charlene C. Giannetti, Margaret Sagarese. 2003
"For an inside look at the hard work, pleasant play, hearty meals and devout worship of the "Plain People", we…
asked 63 Amish families to keep a diary --all on the same day--of their dawn-to-dusk activities."A nickel's worth of skim milk: a boy's view of the Great Depression
By Robert J Hastings. 1972
Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head…
on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois.The Klan unmasked
By Stetson Kennedy. 1990
In this unexpurgated edition, Stetson Kennedy tells the story of his years in the KKK. The book mixes eyewitness reports…
of Klan activities with accounts of Kennedy's clandestine information-gathering activities and of his efforts to report his findings to the media and to any law enforcement agency that would listen. Contains descriptions of violenceThe argument culture: moving from debate to dialogue
By Deborah Tannen. 1999
Asserts that public issues tend to be framed as adversarial, yes-or-no arguments by lawyers, journalists, politicians, and others in American…
society. Explains how the resulting conflict in public dialog often obscures the truth and hampers the constructive resolution of problems. Includes Reader's CompanionThe content of our character: a new vision of race in America
By Shelby Steele. 1990
These essays illuminate the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between…
blacks and whites. Black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have actually increased themPapa's game
By Gregory Wallance. 1982
Papa was Vincent Papa, a New York drug dealer. His game was the theft of the heroin confiscated in the…
celebrated French Connection case. The heroin was stored in the Manhattan Police Headquarters and his accomplices were members of the NYPD Special Investigations UnitIt feels good to be yourself: a book about gender identity
By Theresa Thorn. 2019