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It is America's most revered document. A product of man's search for unconditional fairness, liberty and freedom. It contains prerogatives so...
by U.S. House of Representatives (Author), Jeffrey Jones (Editor) The Select Committee identifies failures at all levels of government that...
by Patricia Fara Patricia Fara unearths the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the...
by Harvey Shapiro The distinguished poet Harvey Shapiro passed away on January 7, 2013. The poems in this book, many of them previously...
by Jeanne Theoharis Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a...
by Paul Jankowski A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around...
Kathy Ross (Katharine Reynolds), 1948- author. Barbara Leonard illustrator. Provides instructions for creating a variety of Valentine's Day...
Walter Meyers (Danny Glover) is a retired automotive engineer who lost his wife Grace (Rachel Kylian) one year earlier. Now that the holiday season...
by Scott Sullivan (Author), Scott Sullivan (Illustrator) This amazingly intricate maze book will delight puzzle fans of all ages as they make...
By Gerald F. Cavanagh Business is a Human Endeavor, Where Every Decision and Action Has a Personal Result for All Individuals Involved The...
by Tim Alberta Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern...
"The epic history of the AR-15 rifle, America's most controversial weapon"-- In the 1950s an obsessive firearms...
In this ebook, "an Influencer's World pulls back the curtain and reveals what's behind social media influencing - an exploding and...
by Marguerite Kearns Through the lens of one family's history, An Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the suffrage movement and...
Edited by Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump...
by Alex Zamalin An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in...
by Ran Yan , Shuaian Wang Machine learning and data analytics can be used to inform technical, commercial and financial decisions in the...
by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co. This open access book aims to give our readers a basic outline of today’s research and technology...
by Jennifer Greenburg At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. In the...
"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the...
by Jesse H. Rhodes Voting rights are a perennial topic in American politics. Recent elections and the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby...
Stefano Antonelli 1966- author. Gianluca Marziani author. "The largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world's most enigmatic...
by Marcia Amidon Lusted Book banning goes to court -- A history of book banning -- Why are books banned? -- The fight over book banning --...
by Thomas Weber An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful...
by Aldo J. Regalado “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . ....
Shelly C. Lowe editor.; Heather J. Shotton 1976- editor.; George S. McClellen writer of foreword.; Waterman, Stephanie J., 1957- editor....
by Kristin Pekoll Equitable access to information for all, including underserved populations, is a core value of librarianship. The growing...
by Shomari Wills The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges...
by Christopher Cameron Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious,...
by Alex Zamalin, University of Detroit Mercy, faculty Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges...
Spike Lee won Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed by...
by Zaria Ware 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS NOMINEE: OUTSTANDING NON-FICTION A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art...
Born on the Fourth of July is the biography of Ron Kovic, a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War. After accidently killing one of his men, and then...
by John C. Tramazzo American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered...
By Samuel Stein “This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author...
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by Penne L. Restad The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a...
by Jan Jorrit Hasselaar Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and...
by Diane P. Koenker The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning,...
This thought-provoking and interesting text provides a complete examination of each of the United States' 27 Constitutional Amendments. From...
by Yumiko Nakanishi This book analyzes issues in human rights law from a variety of perspectives by eminent European and Asian professors of...
by Scott L Greer (Author), Elizabeth King (Author), Elize Massard da Fonseca (Author), Andre Peralta-Santos (Author) COVID-19 is the most...
by Hal Brands (Editor), Francis J Gavin The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also...
The race between covid-19 vaccines and variants is on. Alok Jha, The Economist’s science correspondent, and Natasha Loder, health policy...
"Crazy Rich Asians" follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Golding), to his...
by Ethan J. Kytle Named one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018...
Daniel J. Clark author It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and...
by Thora Hands This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol...
Time for a classic summer movie? Relive the adventure and magic in one of the most beloved motion pictures of all-time,E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,...
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond...
by W R Matson This book is an introduction to wave dynamics as they apply to earthquakes, among the scariest, most unpredictable, and deadliest...
Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an "enemy of the American people." Attacks...
by Whitney Bauman This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate...
by Eric Y. Drogin PhD JD First published in 1995, Ethical Conflicts in Psychology has long been a definitive resource for students,...
by Benjamin Hurlbut Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise...
by Vinod Kumar Khanna Electronic devices and circuits are employed by a range of industries in testing conditions from extremes of high or low...
by Venkat Sumantran A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable,...
"This book invites the reader to explore the chains of improbable events that can mold a long unknown pathogen into an agent of distress...
by Bob Woodward THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through nine...
by Olivier Blanchard Policy makers in advanced economies find themselves in an unusual fiscal environment: debt ratios are historically high,...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a...
by John Denvir The United States is in the midst of a heated conversation over how the Constitution impacts national security. In a traditional...
by Hans Binnendijk Report evaluates strategies for dealing with U.S. partners and adversaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a time of...
by Peter Vasterman (Editor) The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown,...
Lawrence R. Samuel Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business is the first and only book to link a decision-making and...
"The role of generations is an important, yet often overlooked, variable in the study of American politics. A topic of research in...
by Frédéric Martel A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world. In Global Gay,...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E....
by Peter Spring Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian's Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of...
by Nicholas Rogers Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a...
by Tareq Baconi Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various...
by Kyle McGee Heathen Earth: Trumpism and Political Ecology looks beyond the rising fortunes of authoritarian nationalism in a fossil-fueled late...
by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic...
by Wendy Steele, John Handmer, Ian McShane Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to...
by Jon Meacham Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard...
by RJ Andrews How do we create new ways of looking at the world? Join award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews as he pushes beyond the usual...
Hannes Werthner editor.; Carlo Ghezzi editor.; Jeff Kramer editor.; Julian Nida-Rümelin editor.; Bashar Nuseibeh editor.; Erich Prem editor.;...
by Amin Saikal When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that...
by Jorge Rodríguez Beruff (Editor), José L. Bolívar Fresneda (Editor) Despite Puerto Rico being the...
by Lawrence A. Klein An intelligent transportation system (ITS) offers considerable opportunities for increasing the safety, efficiency, and...
by Nancy Goldstein At a time of few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women, Jackie Ormes (1911–85)...
LynnPeppas Every year on June 19th, people of all backgrounds celebrate the day that African Americans were freed from slavery in the United...
Take a break from the real world! Winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best Director for writer/director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a...
by Peter G. Northouse In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice, a new chapter on Followership examines the...
"Lies that Kill takes readers inside the world of disinformation campaigns to show concerned citizens how to recognize disinformation,...
by Catherine A. Stewart From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former...
Interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving fell in love and were married in 1958. They grew up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was...
by David Meerman Scott In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the...
by Jaclyn Schildkraut Ph.D. This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as...
by Teresa M. Bejan Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of civility and a veritable war of words polluting our...
In Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines, Nicholas Money explores the vital and complex role fungi play in our lives, both inside and outside the body. He...
by Alan Kelly The goal of Molecules, Microbes, and Meals is to provide an overview of the science of food, exploring all aspects of how food...
by Anurag Agrawal Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration...
by Joy Porter In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key...
by Richard Winston (Author) Silent witness to eight centuries of war and revolution, empire-building and pageantry, the cathedral of...
by Peter H. Schuck A unique primer on how to think intelligently about the thorniest public issues confronting us today Let's be honest,...
by John Fund (Author), Hans von Spakovsky (Author) Behind the deeply contentious 2020 election stands a real story of a broken election process....
by Min Jin Lee In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in...
by Stefan Elbe A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that....
by Sarah Travis (Editor), Amelia M. Kraehe (Editor), Emily J. Hood (Editor), Tyson E. Lewis (Editor) This book presents a collection of vivid,...
by Annette Arlander (Editor), Bruce Barton (Editor), Melanie Dreyer-Lude (Editor), Ben Spatz (Editor) Performance as Research (PAR) is...
by Kelly Burkholder Discusses the elements of poetry, some different types of poetry, how to find ideas, and making changes to what you write....
"Rumors and the misinformation they spread play an important role in American politics-and a dangerous one with direct consequences, such as...
by Linda K. Mancillas Taking a new and innovative approach to the subject, this book looks at how U.S. presidents and their administrations'...
Andrew J. Douglas 1980- author. Jared A. Loggins 1992- author. Many of today’s insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial...
by Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. Douglas Many of today’s insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at...
by H. Lowell Brown This book provides a detailed look at the constitutional, historical, and political arguments concerning presidential immunity...
by Chris Miller When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor author LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban...
by Tara Abraham Warren S. McCulloch (1898--1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life -- among them philosopher, poet, neurologist,...
by James Zeigler During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the...
Katie S. Martin In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as...
by Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian...
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the...
June 6th 1944, D-DAY Its been 75 years... Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's...
by Alexia Bloch Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women’s exploitation as a feature of migration in the early...
by Zeke Jarvis "Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across...
Philip Clausen, Jonathan Whale, and David Wood There is huge potential for smaller wind turbines to provide clean energy around the world. Small...
by Shauna Pomerantz Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting...
by Loch K. Johnson All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively...
by Srimoyee Mitra Stephanie Dinkins is renowned for her critical investigations into artificial intelligence and machine learning systems as they...
by Lee Daniel Kravetz Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz’s Strange Contagion is a...
by Leonard N. Moore Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for 25 years, mostly to White people. Drawing on decades of experience in the...
by Joseph Turow A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are...
Gregory S. Mahler The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most protracted and contentious disputes in modern history. This wide-ranging...
Jonathan V. Last editor From the all-star cast that brought you The Seven Deadly Virtues and The Dadly Virtues comes the ultimate Christmas...
by John A. Lawrence In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American...
by Robert B. Reich From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must...
by Marianna King The Crisis of School Violence is the only interdisciplinary book about school violence. It presents a broad and in-depth approach...
by Thomas M. Nichols People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every...
by Lawrence Perlman It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis...
by Paul Golata Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates Google searches, the personal assistants in our smartphones, and is all over our newsfeeds....
by Richard O. Prum A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste...
Laurence M. Ball The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession...
by Stephen H. Axilrod The Federal Reserve System - the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed - has never been more...
by Mitchell Brown (Editor), Kathleen Hale (Editor), Bridgett A. King (Editor) As the American election administration landscape changes as a...
by Melanie Benjamin From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a...
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep...
by Leslie Sklair In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities....
by Abram de Swaan An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers By historical...
by Peter Hart Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli,...
by Wei-Ta Fang (Author), Arba'at Hassan (Author), Ben A. LePage (Author) This open access book is designed and written to bridge the gap on...
"The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a...
by Christopher J. Lebron Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter...
In 1843 London, author Charles Dickens finds himself in financial trouble after writing three unsuccessful novels in a row. Desperate for a hit,...
by B. Cameron Reed The development of nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project during World War II was one of the most dramatic...
by Alexander William Salter (Author), Andrew T Young (Author) Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western...
In this gripping narrative of Putin’s rise to power, Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin’s origins–from his childhood of abject...
Robert R. M. Verchick "One cloudy day in Miami, an octopus was found in the parking garage of a fancy condominium complex. How it got there...
by R. James Ferguson (Author), Rosita Dellios (Author) This book provides a timely analysis of the politics, philosophy, and history of...
by Angélica Durán-Martínez Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous...
by Fred Schlipf;John A. Moorman Distilling hard fought wisdom gleaned from hundreds of successful library construction projects they've...
by David Gleicher This work seeks to understand why a disproportionately large number of third class passengers, particularly women and children,...
by Richard Pacelle When the Supreme Court's effectively decided the presidential election of 2000, it decision illustrated a classic question...
Katrin Vohland editor.; Anne Land-zandstra editor.; Luigi Ceccaroni editor.; Rob Lemmens editor.; Josep Perelló editor.; Marisa Ponti editor.;...
by Nikole Brooks Bethea Snap! The quarterback throws it deep into the endzone. With the leap of a receiver, the team earns six...
by Simone de Beauvoir Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s...
by Richard Barnett An incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the...
by Joshua T. James Drawing on research from the field of narrative ethics, The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms argues that story and...
by Scott W. Stern The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and...
by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter Disability Law is an increasingly important area in combating disability discrimination. The book "This...
by Matthew McKay PhD (Author), Martha Davis PhD (Author), Patrick Fanning (Author) If you are depressed, anxious, angry, worried, confused,...
Chris van Uffelen More and more architects and builders are exploring the possibilities of a material for the construction of houses that offers...
by Mardi J. Horowitz Nearly 20 years after publication of the groundbreaking Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes comes this second, thoroughly...
by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal...
by David Frum Frum argues that "Trump and his administration are damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy, perhaps...
by Beate Schirrmacher (Editor), Nafiseh Mousavi (Editor) This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a...
by Charles Fountain There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose...
Olexander Hryb author Nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity are complex social phenomena worldwide and especially so in post-Soviet...
Olexander Hryb author Nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity are complex social phenomena worldwide and especially so in post-Soviet...
Noel Allen Sawatzky author Motivational models are critical to understanding crisis decision making because leaders and their advisors are...
Sara Roy author. Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the occupation, is the linchpin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
During one of the deadliest pandemics in human history - The Spanish Influenza, the then San Francisco Mayor signed The Mask Ordinance - the...
by Martha S. Jones The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the...
by Nada Bates-Brkljac Virtual Reality (VR) was created to fulfill human curiosity about exploring beyond the reality. Humans establish the...
by Keith W. Olson A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt...
by Peter Spier This work consists largely of color pictures illustrating the preamble to the Constitution. It also includes the text with...
by Donald R. Prothero The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past...
By Melvin Delgado When the Lord's House Closes explores the reasons behind church closures and offers community-focused suggestions for...
by Naomi White Many people grow up with at least one sibling. These siblings are often ‘fellow travellers’ through adversity or...
Editied by Hannah Wills Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific...