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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's famous phrase, the president of the National Constitution Center profiles six of the most influential founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives and how it became the foundation of our democracy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 546 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the popular artist traces his life and argues that his work is far more interesting and manipulative than critics have credited him for.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Drawing on 150 interviews and extensive archival research, this definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time, who gave women a permanent place on the air, reveals the woman behind the legacy-one who broke all the rules to tell viewers what they deserved to know.
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
12th edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows the reader how to prove a disability, and explains how one's age, education, and work experience affect their chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability. The reader will learn how to find the disability criteria for a medical condition, prove the severity of a disability, appeal if benefits are denied, work part-time...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In Held Hostage, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse health and education outcomes than larger states, and...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him:
First, he liked these people.
Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn’t need legislation. They needed a therapist.
In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you’re not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are trying to rob America of its common sense and deny empirical truths, and we’re all suffering the consequences.
In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 561 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others face addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as overdose and...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xviii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it’s determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts.
FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.
In this fascinating work—part memoir, part cultural...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations? Journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch. Curious to learn more, he embarks on a quest through the North American wilds in search of Bigfoot,...