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The Nixon effect: how his presidency has changed American politics
By Douglas E Schoen. 2016
Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics. His legacy includes a generational shift in ideological orientations of…
both Republican and Democratic parties, pushing them both further out to their ideological poles. Adult. UnratedEveryone gets a say
By Jill Twiss. 2020
Pudding the snail and his friends can't seem to agree on anything. Whatever Jitterbug the chipmunk wants, Geezer the goose…
does not. Whatever Toast the butterfly wants, Duffles and Nudge the otters are absolutely against. And if somehow Toast and Duffles and Jitterbug and Nudge all agree on something, then Geezer is not having it. So when Toast suggests they need a leader, the friends try to figure out the best way to pick someone to be in charge. Should that someone be the fastest? The fluffiest? The squishiest? Or can Pudding show his friends that there just might be a way where everyone gets a say? 2020. For grades K-3Loaded: a disarming history of the Second Amendment (City Lights Open Media Ser.)
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2018
High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain
By Simon Heffer. 2022
"Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen…
and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people-politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers-who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture collided with broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the "great projects" of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced portrait into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people-and show how the Victorians' pursuit of perfection gave birth to the modern Britain we know today." -- Provided by publisherMissouri (My United States)
By Jennifer Zeiger. 2019
If white kids die: memories of a civil rights movement volunteer
By Dick J Reavis. 2001
Memoirs of a white middle-class college student from Texas who joined in the voter registration efforts in the South in…
the summer of 1964. An up-and-coming leader named Stokely Carmichael told a group of prospective volunteers in New York that the "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" wanted to be sure that if blacks were killed for the civil rights cause, whites would die with them. The price Dick Reavis paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocenceA lifelong affair: my passion for people and politics
By Bethine C Church. 2003
Bethine Church, wife of Idaho senator Frank Church, had been her husband's political partner since their earliest days together. In…
her own winsome words this is the story of the woman people called "The Third Senator from Idaho". Critical chapters of our history, from civil rights battles and the Vietnam War to Senator Church's chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee, come vividly to life here, as does the idealism and love of people that animate Bethine Church's entire career in politicsWhiteness in plain view: a history of racial exclusion in Minnesota
By Chad Montrie. 2022
Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate, control, remove, and keep out African…
Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats, vandalism, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants, realtor deceit, and mortgage discrimination, and they were aided by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration, in some particular place or passing moment, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter, the book shows that Minnesota's overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental, and that racial exclusion's legacy is very much woven into the state's contemporary politics, economy, and culture. Provided by publisher Adult. UnratedThe Violence Project: how to stop a mass shooting epidemic
By Jillian Peterson. 2021
Stalin's library: a dictator and his books
By Geoffrey Roberts. 2022
This engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator explores the books Stalin read, how he read them,…
and what they taught him. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Adult. UnratedTommy: my journey of a lifetime
By Tommy George Thompson. 2018
A memoir from former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and biographer Doug Moe. Told from Thompson's perspective, he details his life…
growing up in Elroy, a small town in Western Wisconsin, and how he steadily rose to prominence as a statesman and policy leader for the Republican Party. Adult. UnratedThis place of promise: a historian's perspective on 200 years of Missouri history
By Gary R Kremer. 2021
This book highlights the ways in which the forces of history have shaped the lives of Missouri's residents, for good…
and bad, over the course of 200 years of statehood. Among the key elements of the book is the centrality of race to the Missouri experience, the continuing struggle over the role of government in individual lives, the causes and consequences of the decline in agrarianism and the rise in urbanization in the 20th century, and the ways in which Missourians have dealt with challenges such as war, pandemics, economic depression, and political discord throughout the history of the state. AdultJamais sans ma fille: 2, Pour l'amour d'un enfant
By Betty Mahmoody. 1992
Une jeune Américaine, son mari, d'origine iranienne, et sa fille partent en vacances en Iran. Le père décide de rester…
pour y faire sa vie avec elles, et se transforme en musulman fanatique. Et c'est le long combat de la mère et de la fille pour revenir aux USA.Le cri de la mouette
By Emmanuelle Laborit. 1994
Ces croyants qui nous gouvernent
By Christian Roudaut. 2006
Ils sont les dirigeants puissants de quatre grands pays laïcs mais la religion constitue leur seul point d'union. C'est la…
foi qui aurait sauvé George W. Bush de l'alcoolisme, lui donnant la force de devenir le 43e président des Etats-Unis. C'est sous l'influence d'un pasteur gauchiste que l'étudiant Tony Blair se serait ouvert simultanément à la religion et à la politique. C'est dans les cendres de sa datcha que Vladimir Poutine, l'ancien espion du KGB, aurait rencontré Dieu, révélé à lui sous la forme d'une croix de baptême épargnée par les flammes. C'est dans la quiétude d'un monastère que Jacques Chirac, " l'agité ", aurait trouvé la sérénité nécessaire pour relancer sa carrière politique en 1976. Ces croyants qui nous gouvernent suit pas à pas le voyage spirituel de ces quatre "maîtres du monde". [...] -- 4e de couvLa démocratie
By James Laxer. 2010
" Les Occidentaux sont attachés aux modèles démocratiques qui les gouvernent. Mais peut-on parler de démocratie lorsque les décisions réelles…
sont prises par ceux qui détiennent le capital et que les droits de certaines minorités ne sont pas pris en compte ? Car la démocratie, James Laxer le démontre, c'est beaucoup plus qu'un simple bulletin de vote dans l'urne... Un essai clair et engagé pour mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des systèmes politiques. " -- 4e de couvLes vraies gens: sociologie de trottoir
By Guillaume Meurice. 2022
Compilation de chroniques radiophoniques pour l'émission Par Jupiter grâce auxquelles l'humoriste dresse un état des lieux de la société française.…
Il interroge des inconnus et des personnalités politiques à partir de thèmes d'actualité et décrypte leur réponse, révélant que chaque mot témoigne d'une peur, d'une attente ou d'une certitude. Des encadrés évoquent les coulisses de ses reportages.Irak, les armes introuvables
By Hans Blix. 2004
H. Blix, chef des inspections de l'ONU, dénonce les dessous d'une guerre programmée en Irak, les pressions subies et l'état…
des inspections. Il affirme que les Etats-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne ont menti sur la présence d'armes de destruction massive en Irak. Il analyse aussi les motifs inavoués de l'intervention et les conséquences de l'unilatéralisme sur l'équilibre du monde.En dressant le tableau des génocides qui ont marqué le XXe siècle, de l'extermination des Arméniens dans l'Empire ottoman au…
génocide rwandais en passant par la tragédie de la Shoah ou le génocide impuni du Cambodge, l'auteur interroge les mécanismes qui conduisent à ces crimes. Aborde le processus de stigmatisation des populations et les fondements du geste génocidaire.Dommages collatéraux: la face obscure de la "guerre contre le terrorisme" (Denoël impacts)
By Seymour Hersh. 2005
Dévoile les tréfonds de la toute-puissance américaine en passant en revue le scandale des tortures en Irak, les erreurs dans…
la planification des opérations militaires, l'aveuglement idéologique de certains conseillers de l'administration Bush, les manipulations sur les armes de destruction massive irakiennes ou encore les relations ambiguës qu'entretient la Maison-Blanche avec le monde arabe.