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Administrative agencies Administrative agencies United States Comic books, strips, etc Discrimination in criminal justice administration United States Leadership National security Social service Social service United States Comic books, strips, etc Terrorism Prevention Terrorism Prevention Drama United StatesGates, Robert Michael
Summary: Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352 GATUnited States
Contents: Legislative Branch -- Judicial Branch -- Executive Branch: the President -- Executive Branch: Departments -- Executive Branch: independent agencies and government corporations -- Other international organizations -- Selected bilateral organizations -- Commonly used agency acronyms -- History of agency organizational changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Claitor's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 353 UNIPahlka, 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 PAHLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.973 LEWGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: "Somewhere in this great nation of ours is Project Skin Horse, an overworked, underfunded secret agency dedicated to assisting America's nonhuman citizens. The receptionist is a clockwork robot, the project head is a swarm of bees, the field team consists of Sweetheart the talking dog and her faithful zombie Unity, and Dr. Tip Wilkin, the lone human staffer, feels he can only do his job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: In its ongoing mission to assist America's nonhuman citzenry, Project Skin Horse is dispatched to Alaska, where someone's been dining on National Guardsmen. Snowbound, the field team falls back on its basic survival skills: Unity's zombie strength, Sweetheart's canin (and Canadian) instincts, and Tip's talent for coordinating boots with leggings. Will the frozen North be tamed? WIll Tip find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Couscous Collective 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: When you work for Black Ops SOcial Services, there's never a slow day at the office. Maybe today's the day the clockwork receptionist's evil gears will kick in. Maybe the office supplies will vote to go on strike. Maybe a mad scientist will escape the facility and go on a high-fashion funkadelic rampage. But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of topless mud-wrestling, the staff of Project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARSummary: Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a line between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWESummary: Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWEMueller, Tom
Summary: The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 MUESummary: Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMLesko, Matthew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Information USA 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAISummary: After twenty months in a Chinese prison, Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the United States. But instead of being free, Jack's release is part of a secret deal: his life in return for the location of Hamri Al-Assad, the leader of a terrorist organization that has unleashed a wave of terror across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWEKane, Robert L.
Contents: Background -- The stroke -- Rehabilitation -- Assisted living -- The dementia unit -- Nursing home -- Doctors, other medical personnel, and hospitals -- Informal care -- The roads not taken -- End of life -- What kind of long-term care do we want? -- What can we do about it?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 KANTorrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)
Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TORCoates, Laura Gayle
Summary: "A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, LAURA COACooper, Phillip J.
Summary: The author explains how the war against regulation has been conducted both from within and outside the government over the past thirty years. Chronicling its major battles from the Jimmy Carter years through the presidency of George W. Bush, he shows that it is a war-waged by Democrats and Republicans alike-that has been fought in high places but whose casualties include children, senior...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 COONielson, Erik
Summary: "A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 NIEThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THODolan, Hannah
Summary: Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Dolan 2018Studer, Quint.
Summary: To make health care a better place for employees to work, physicians to practice medicine, and patirents to receive care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Starter Pub. 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4092 STUNasaw, David
Summary: Documents the experiences and fates of the one million concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers and political prisoners left in Germany after World War II who spent years as displaced refugees in unsupported, segregated, and poorly converted buildings while the world's nations refused shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 NASSummary: For Tom, it was love at first sight when Summer Finn walked into the greeting card company where he worked. Summer is the new administrative assistant. Soon, Tom knows that Summer is the woman with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life. Although Summer does not believe in relationships or boyfriends, Tom and Summer become more than just friends. Through the trials and tribulations of Tom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009