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It's a Crime: Women and Justice, Second Edition
by Roslyn MuraskinThe roles women play and what they face in the criminal justice system, both as criminals and as employees.
The Lobster Chronicles
by Linda GreenlawAfter seventeen years at sea, Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain, the career that would later earn her a prominent role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and a portrayal in the subsequent film. She felt she needed to return home-to a tiny island seven miles off the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom are her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go quite as planned. The lobsters resolutely refuse to crawl out from under their rocks and into the traps she and her sternman (AKA, her father) have painstakingly set. Her fellow Islanders, an extraordinary collection of characters, draw her into their bizarre Island intrigues. Eligible bachelors prove even more elusive than the lobsters. And as mainlanders increasingly fish waters that are supposed to be reserved for Islanders, she realizes that the island might be heading for a "gear war," a series of attacks and retaliations that have been known to escalate from sabotage of equipment to extreme violence.
Let Freedom Ring
by Sean HannityNow, in Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity offers a survey of the world-political, social, and cultural-as he sees it. Devoting special attention to 9/11, the war on terror, and the continuing threat we face at home and abroad, he makes clear that the greatest challenge we have to overcome may not be an attack from overseas, but the slow compromising of our national character. And he asks why, particularly in this time of war, should we entrust our future to the voices of the Left-the very people who have spent decades ravaging so many of our core values and traditions? Our nation, as Hannity reminds us, was founded on the idea of order to protect our freedoms, he argues we must standvigilant "against liberal attempts to compromise our strength sFrom our military and intelligence forces, to our borders and airports, to our unified commitment to root out terrorists at home and abroad, he reveals how our strongest lines of defense have come under attack-by left-wing voices within our government, media, schools, and elsewhere. And he shows how even domestic issues like taxation, education, patriotism, and the family have been exploited by liberals with their own agendas-with potentially disastrous results. Filled with the commonsense commentary and passionate argument that have made Sean Hannity the most compelling conservative voice since Rush Limbaugh, Let Freedom Ring is an urgent call to arms. For, as Hannity warns, "We are engaged in a war of ideas. And civilization is' at stake."
The Life God Blesses
by Jim Cymbala Stephen SorensonJim Cymbala points out, based on 2 Chronicles 16:9, that God is constantly searching for people to bless. God iss not looking for men and women with special talents or unusual intelligence or great strength but for those whose hearts are wholly devoted to Him. As we cultivate the kind of heart God desires to bless, we can become channels of blessing to those around us.
War Without End: Cultural Conflict and the Struggle for America's Political Future
by Robert ShoganConservative view of recent American history.
Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences
by W. Paul VogtThis reference provides definitions of commonly used statistical terms in easily-understood language.
Assistance Dog Providers in the United States: A Complete Guide to Finding a Guide, Hearing, or Service Dog
by Carla Stiverson Norm PritchettThis book offers excellent information of guide, service and hearing alert dogs and schools and organizations that train them in the United States. offers information on obtaining a working dog, what the different tasks that the dog do, and gives a list of addresses and contacts.
Girlfriends for Life
by Carmen Renee Berry Tamara TraederA woman's guide to keeping your girlfriends, based on fan mail and interviews with true blue friends.
Affirmative Acts: Political Essays
by June JordanAffirmative Acts: Political Essays marks the twenty-fifth book in the celebrated career of poet, essayist, activist, and professor June Jordan. The recipient of the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest and the PEN West Freedom to Write Awards, Jordan has created a widely influential and groundbreaking body of work over several decades. With the same clear-sighted passion found in her classic essay collections Civil Wars and Living Room, in Affirmative Acts Jordan writes brilliantly about controversial, critical, and timely issues that are currently at the center of American debate. Whether discussing the tragic dismantling of affirmative action; ruminating on the combustible intersections of race, class, gender, and injustice; reflecting on the palpable hatred that infuses American society; or speaking out against worldwide suffering, June Jordan paints, as in her previous works, what she calls "an intimate face of universal struggle."
Final Gifts: Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Patricia Kelley Maggie CallananThe authors provide a compassionate and readable book to help both those who are dying and those who are providing care for them. The authors (hospice workers) gently address common stages experienced by those who are terminally ill. A highly useful book.
Trajectory of Change: Activist Strategies for Social Transformation
by Michael AlbertThis book provides strategies for advancing the activist movement to fight against economic, social, political, and other forms of injustice world-wide in the wake of increasing globalization. The author discusses historical as well as future steps needed to enable necessary changes for equality.
The New Disability History: American Perspectives
by Paul K. Longmore Lauri UmanskyIn a series of scholarly but highly readable essays, this book opens discussion on the role of disabled people in American history. It also examines how history has been affected by perceptions of disability. For example, one article looks at the ways disability has been used to strengthen prejudice against particular ethnic groups and to justify discrimination - "experts" have often claimed that one or another group of immigrants is genetically inferior and prone to mental retardation or physical frailty. One essay is based on the Civil War letters of a deaf man to his family. Another looks at the ways Helen Keller's Socialist beliefs were stifled by those around her.
Chaos Or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics
by Holly SklarExamining today's major socio-economic issues.
The Fifteen Biggest Lies In Politics
by Major Garrett Timothy J. PennyIn the world of politics, it's hard to separate the truth from the lies. In this strongly argued but nonpartisan book, Major Garrett and Timothy J. Penny draw on their combined decades of experience watching government work to illuminate the deceptions and delusions to which we as citizens are subjected every election season. Here are some of the lies: <P> Tax Cuts Are Good <P> Social Security Is a Sacred Government Trust <P> Medicare Works <P> Money Buys Elections <P> Republicans Believe in Smaller Government <P> Democrats Are Compassionate<P>
Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You
by Sonia Pressman FuentesSonia Pressman Fuentes, who was born in Berlin, Germany, came to the US as a child with her immediate family to escape the Holocaust. Her memoirs reveal how this five-year-old immigrant in 1934 grew up to become the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1965, one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, the highest-paid woman at the headquarters of two multinational corporations--GTE and TRW, and an international speaker on women's rights for the US Information Agency. The author of this book donated a digital copy to Bookshare.org. Join us in thanking Sonia Pressman Fuentes for providing her accessible digital book to this community.
Theogony, Works and Days, Shield
by Apostolos N. Athanassakis HesiodTranslation of 3 texts by Hesiod.
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
by Gene BruckerAccount of a 1456 court case in which a woman complains her husband has just married another woman, which shows many customs and laws of love and marriage at that time.
Gay Cuban Nation
by Emilio BejelWith Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed popularity, Gay Cuban Nation shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.
Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images
by Alan Gartner Tom JoeIn this collection of a dozen essays, writers with strong backgrounds in the disability rights movement examine the roots of public attitudes toward the disabled. Several essays consider portrayals of people with disabilities in literature, film, and journalism. Others explore social policy toward the disabled in education, employment, and health-care. Nat Hentoff's powerful piece, ""The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe," expresses the author's outrage over the case of a child born with spina bifida who was denied treatment because doctors persuaded her parents that she would be better off dead.
Out Of The Closet Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Our Gay/Lesbian Family Members
by Laura Siegel Nancy Lamkin Olson
The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime
by Joel Dyera scathing indictment of the prisons for profit system in the U.S., which imprisons a greater % of its citizens than Russia or China
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
by Gerda LernerAutobiography of pioneering women's historian focusing on her youth in Austria, escape from the Nazis involvement in radical politics and emigration to the U.S.
The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood
by Diana MclellanMcLellan's investigative account of the lives of Hollywood's most glamorous and uninhibited goddesses plunges deep into the rich stew of love, money, and passion that was the dawn of the movie business. The Girls reveals an early marriage to a communist spy that Marlene Dietrich fought all her life to keep secret and unearths an equally shrouded fling between Dietrich and Greta Garbo as starlets in Berlin. From the complex love life of the elegant Mercedes de Acosta through Isadora Duncan and Tallulah Bankhead to Garbo's lover Salka Viertel, McLellan untangles a passionate skein of connections that stretches from the theater in New York through brazenly bisexual socialites deep into the heart of the film industry.