Sabin, Paul
Summary: "The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SABCavalier, Darlene
Summary: Learn how monitoring the night sky, mapping trees, photographing dragonflies, and identifying mushrooms can help save the world! Citizen science is the public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal. It is an excellent option for anyone looking for ways to get involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 CAVReeves, Joshua
Summary: Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. Citizen Spies shows how If You See...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 REESheard, P.
Summary: "In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Money SheardKirby, David
Summary: "A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 KIRStossel, John.
Summary: "New York Times" bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic StosselDean, John W. (John Wesley)
Summary: Former White House counsel John Dean has become one of the most trenchant and respected commentators on the current state of American politics. Here he takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its core conservatives have inflicted on the federal government. He assesses the state of all three branches of government,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 DEABray, Ilona M.
Summary: "For a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all, you'll know that you are taking each needed step in the most efficient way. Becoming a U.S. Citizen also shows how you may be able to take advantage of special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 BRAMazzucato, Mariana
Summary: "A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry--and what to do about it. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 MAZSummary: "Democracy Unchained is about how to make American democracy work to solve problems that have long impaired our system of governance. The book is the work of thirty-nine of the most perceptive writers, practitioners, scientists, educators, and journalists writing today, all committed to moving the political conversation from the present anger and angst to the positive and constructive change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 DEMSlezkine, Yuri
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SLEBray, Ilona M.
Summary: "For a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all, you'll know that you are taking each needed step in the most efficient way. Becoming a U.S. Citizen also shows how you may be able to take advantage of special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 BRAVentura, Jesse.
Summary: In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jess Ventura offers a different side to the stories we've all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed to the American people. He will look closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and examine the truth as well as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 VENSummary: "Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation is the first practical and comprehensive manual that provides step-by-step instructions for creating natural science research projects that involve collaboration between scientists and the general public. As citizen-science projects become increasingly common, there is a growing need for concrete best practices around planning and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.9 HANRajczak, Michael.
Summary: An introduction to the role of the president's cabinet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 352.24 RAJHatcher, Daniel L.
Contents: How the poverty industry is siphoning aid from the vulnerable -- Agency purpose versus agency self-interest: conflict in serving the vulnerable -- Poverty's iron triangle -- Mining foster children for revenue -- Medicaid money laundering -- Cost recovery: poverty industry taking child support from children and families -- The expanding web of the poverty industry -- Reeling in the poverty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 HATCooper, Caren B. (Caren Beth)
Summary: "Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit of information, innovation, and discovery, these volunteers are following protocols, collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 COOPahlka, Jennifer
Summary: "A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. Just when we most need our government to work-to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats-it is faltering. Government at all levels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.7 PAHSchweizer, Peter
Summary: In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they've earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer shows who is really behind those enormous payments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1 SCHRothstein, Richard
Summary: In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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Summary: Revisits Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" in light of contemporary American issues, and suggests that some of the very freedoms given as reasons that independence was first necessary are again in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BECWillrich, Michael
Summary: "In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long “war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.83 WILStargardt, Nicholas
Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015