Jeff: 3989 books
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive...
How Bernie Won
Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country--and Where We Go from Here
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign shows how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good.
When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would lead...
C Street
The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet
Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially...
Little Black Lies
Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines...
The Bed Bug Survival Guide
The Only Book You Need to Eliminate or Avoid This Pest Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The 5 year old who carried them home in his backpack thta he grabbed from the communal pile at school...The young assistant who got them from her new work cubicle...the executive who got them on an overseas flight...
It can no longer be denied that the city, the country and the world are in...
When Reporters Cross the Line
The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
When Reporters Cross the Line tells the true story of moments when the worlds of media, propaganda, politics, espionage and crime collide, casting journalism into controversy. Its pages feature some of the best-known names in British broadcasting, including John Simpson, Lindsey Hilsum and Charles...
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.
In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr....
The Tyrants of Syracuse
Vol 1: 480-367 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control...
by Jeff Blake
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Traveling on Grace Street The most important lesson I have learned in the fifty years I have spent working toward the building of a better world is that the true work of social transformation starts within. It begins inside your own heart and mind. Thus, to truly revolutionize our society, we must...
Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am
Discovering Your Personal Best
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Award-winning activist journalist and motivational speaker Jeff Johnson dares the post-Civil Rights generation to stop making excuses, overcome personal challenges, and create lives filled with passion, meaning, and service in Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am. This empowering strategic...
by Jeff McDargh
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
An unordinary night in the life of an ordinary girl.A night that will change not just her life but the life’s of many others.
Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The “fascinating” story of the global scientific race to discover and unlock the power of endorphins—the body’s own morphine (The New Yorker).
In 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz were studying pig brains in an underfunded laboratory in Aberdeen, Sweden. During their...
Sugar Nation
The Hidden Truth Behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
THIS BOOK COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
-Every five seconds, one more person develops diabetes.
-Worldwide, 285 million people are affected by type 2 diabetes.
-Many of them have no idea.
Here is the personal story of one man who has unearthed the mysteries of this global epidemic and offers...
Where the Wild Coffee Grows
The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"Enchanting . . . An absorbing narrative of politics, ecology, and economics."--New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"A must-read for coffee enthusiasts."--Smithsonian (Best of the Year)
"Reads like an engaging multimystery detective novel."--Wall...