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The Hurricanes
One High School Team's Homecoming After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina pummeled the lower end of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a peninsula housing one of the nation's most isolated, vulnerable, and vital counties. A year later several ravaged communities came together to form South Plaquemines High. Kids who were former rivals defiantly...
Black Mass
Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
When the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major motion picture.
James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US...
Passing Game
Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Benny Friedman, the son of working class immigrants in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto, arrived at the University of Michigan and transformed the game of football forever. At the time, in the 1920s, football was a dull, grinding running game, and the forward pass was a desperation measure. Benny would change...
The Supreme Court
A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
The Supreme Court grew out of an historic opportunity to interview all of the living Supreme Court justices for a C-SPAN feature documentary about the Court, the only time that the nine sitting members and their retired colleagues have granted interviews to a single television network. Eleven of those...
Seeing What Others Don't
The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A renowned cognitive psychologist reveals the science behind achieving breakthrough discoveries, allowing readers to confidently solve problems, improve decision-making, and achieve success.
Insights-like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough...
Other People's Money
The Real Business of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2015
An Economist Best Book of the Year, 2015
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year, 2015
The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure...
Keynes
The Return of the Master
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes-that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that governments need to step in and use fiscal ammunition to prevent these storms from becoming depressions, and that societies that value the pursuit of...
The Big Shift
Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies...
Healthcare, Guaranteed
A Simple, Secure Solution for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare-2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure...
Capitalism 4.0
The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system-- one that will continue to be led and...
Excellence Without a Soul
Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
America's great research universities are the envy of the world-and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of...
by Jonathan R. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Education has been disrupted dramatically by culture, technology and economics. The only certainty about the universities of the future is that they will not thrive if left unchanged. Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, and its former provost, is one of the country's...
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued...
by Henry M. III Robert, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2020
The only authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure, with new and enhanced features, including how to conduct electronic meetings
Robert's Rules of Order is the book on parliamentary procedure for parliamentarians and anyone involved in an organization, association, club,...