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Buttigieg, Pete 1982- Globalization Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Political culture Political culture United States Politics and government Religion and culture Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 United States United States Politics and government 2017-Steves, Rick
Summary: Presents advice on traveling to different countries of the world as a way of increasing our understanding of different cultures and political systems, and appreciating the interconnectedness within the global community. In his third edition, the author considers the new political reality of Brexit, Refugees, Erdoğan, and Trump, as well as populism, nativism, terrorism, and climate change and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.202 Steves 2019Baker, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.2 GoldSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 303.42 WhereMitchell, Patti
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 736.9 MitchBrill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 Brill 2018Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 Good 2018Diamond, Jared
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.899 DiamondMacy, Beth
Summary: Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.768 MacyCarlson, Tucker
Summary: The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you. "They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate," Tucker Carlson writes, "as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they're gone." And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 Carlson 2018Levitsky, Steven
Summary: "Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 LEVIT 2018Friedman, Thomas L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 FriedmanGoldsworthy, Andy 1956-
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 730.92 GoldsButtigieg, Pete
Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Buttigieg 2019Schwake, Susan.
Summary: "An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for encouraging an artistic spirit in children! 3D Art Lab for Kids includes 36 kid-friendly fine art projects in paper, clay, textiles, sculpture, and jewelry. Each project is inspired by the work of a prominent artist and is illustrated with step-by-step full-color photographs of the process as well as finished samples and variations. Whether you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 702.8 SchwakeFifield, Anna
Summary: "Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim’s past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 Fifield 2019Armstrong, Karen
Summary: "Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture--the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions--may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 208 ArmstrongO'Reilly, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 O'ReillyAlbom, Mitch
Summary: Tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2013
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Summary: Recounts the story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 BrysonKay, Jonathan
Summary: "America is awash with conspiracy theories, and the shared view of reality we once took for granted has been permanently shattered. Jonathan Kay uses the 9/11 Truth movement as a springboard to examine this fragmented national mindset"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.909 KayLeibovich, Mark.
Summary: "A book about contemporary political culture in Washington, DC"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.209 LeibovMohr, Tim
Summary: "The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 Mohr 2018Maher, Bill
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