Gladwell, Malcolm
Summary: Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, and the powerful and the dispossessed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.24 GLASherman, Jake S.
Summary: "The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 SHEOrr, Tamra.
Summary: Looks at the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, examining how it came to be passed and how the balance of power between the federal government, the states, and the people has been handled over the years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73042 ORRSummary: This program examines presidential leadership in an era of an increasingly divided government. The American presidency was conceived as a part of a larger system of institutions, and its effectiveness rests, in part, upon a good measure of cooperation among the branches. However, as revealed in the program, as our constitutional system has developed, this cooperation has broken down at crucial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMContents: [v. 2]. Disc 1. Episodes 35-41. Goku's ascension ; The tuffle gorilla attacks! ; Old Kai's last stand ; Family bonds ; Baby put to rest ; Piccolo's decision ; Curtain call -- [v. 2]. Disc 2. Episodes 42-48. A dangerous unio ; The resurrection of Cell and Frieza ; 17 times 2 ; Piccolo's best bet ; Raising the stakes ; The greatest surprise ; The shadow dragons -- [v. 2]. Disc 3. Episodes 49-54....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME DRABurns, William J. (William Joseph)
Summary: "Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNS, WILLIAM J BURSummary: Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? In this episode of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with retired U.S. Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich, who identifies three major problems facing American democracy-crises of economy, government, and militarism-and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life. Respected by Republicans and Democrats alike, Bacevich is author...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The day of Rukia's execution draws ever closer, and to save her, Ichigo and his loyal comrades must navigate the madness of a Soul Society on the brink of collapse. Ichigo and Renji face the most difficult training of their soul reaper careers as they struggle to achieve bankai, without which they have no hope against the most powerful captain of the Seireitei-Byakuya Kuchiki. Meanwhile, all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLEMcGonigal, Kelly.
Summary: Draws on the latest research and scientific insights to define willpower and explains how to promote personal well-being through an understanding of willpower-related mind-body responses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 MCGMoss, David A.
Summary: Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 MOSSummary: How far can a President go to defend the nation? This program examines the unprecedented presidential power that some say has been amassed by the Bush administration-and wielded, often secretly, in the name of national security. Bill Moyers gets perspective from two experts on the limits and abuses of federal power: Charles Fried, who teaches Constitutional law at Harvard Law School and served...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Bogart, Julie
Summary: "A joyful and accessible approach to homeschool that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 BOGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.04 BOGBacevich, Andrew J
Summary: "A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 BACGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including : the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill ; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz ; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen ; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814.6 GLAShaara, Jeff
Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Gladwell, Malcolm
Summary: Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 814 GLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 GLARudolf, David S.
Summary: "From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RUDBlackaby, Richard
Contents: Introduction: The problem is never with God -- Exceeding the limits -- Unlimiting what we hear from God -- Unlimiting God's work through us -- Unlimiting what we know of God -- Unlimiting God's power in our lives -- Unlimiting God's joy in our lives -- Overcoming our spiritual limits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 BLASummary: Once scientists succeeded in identifying and organizing the 92 naturally occurring chemical elements, the challenge then became how to manipulate them into amazing new configurations - and how to tap their essentially limitless energy. A tale of struggle meeting serendipity and of accident meeting design, this program focuses on element-related flashpoints in modern science history: the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Contents: The tried and the true: Native American women confronting colonization / John Demos -- The colonial mosaic: 1600-1760 / Jane Kamensky -- The limits of independence: 1760-1800 / Marylynn Salmon -- Breaking new ground: 1800-1848 / Michael Goldberg -- An unfinished battle: 1848-1865 / Harriet Sigerman -- Laborers for liberty: 1865-1890 / Harriet Sigerman -- New paths to power: 1890-1920 / Karen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 NOMasur, Kate
Summary: "A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangementsof free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 MASThornton, Stephanie
Summary: A sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton... Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Thornton 2019Oswalt, Patton
Contents: The miracle of sweatpants -- The parking ticket -- The gifted child -- The parental defense -- The stripper -- The bugged car -- The dumb gay friend -- The best argument against gay marriage -- The invisible anus -- The power of Jesus -- The vomit bag -- The magic of cursive -- The ham incident -- The Museum of Spam -- The weight loss plan -- The limits of dancing -- The Burroughs of carbs --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2011