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Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Language
English
Description
"This thirteenth edition of The Complete Mental Health Resource Guide provides comprehensive coverage of 22 mental health disorder categories, from ADHD to Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, with over 100 subcategories and specific disorders"--Introduction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...
Author
Publisher
By the Vine Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He asked if he could die on her porch…but instead he brought hope for new life.Once a wistful romantic, Opal Martin now simply aspires to scrub the remnants of the War Between the States from her tattered life. But when a nearly drowned soldier appears and asks if he can die on her porch, she must guard against the sudden revival of her heart's hope for love. Haunted by the war, Tristan Stuart just wants to escape the pain. But when he wakes up...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The sports media powerhouse, over the course of 100 essays, spanning more than 600 pages, reveals the greatest football players of all time-and uncovers the history of the NFL in the process, bringing to life the extraordinary athletic talents who changedthe way the game is played.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this political memoir, Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000 and 2004. As a senior adviser to her father, she was in the middle of every major event of the 2000 and 2004 presidential contests--at the conventions, the debates, and...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Organizations, government programs, legal resources, health resources, continuing education, libraries, electronic resources, research centers, hotlines, travel and recreation"--Cover
A directory of organizations, government programs, legal, health, travel and recreation resources for older adults.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
In The Cult of Trump, mind control and licensed mental health expert Steven Hassan draws parallels between our current president (Trump) and people like Jim Jones, David Koresh, Ron Hubbard, and Sun Myung Moon, arguing that this presidency is in many ways like a destructive cult. He specifically details the ways in which people are influenced through an array of social psychology methods and how they become fiercely loyal and obedient. Hassan was...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice about you. Still, there are other ways of being different--and...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller."--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning multiple generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy.." --publisher's website
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. It opens with the "outbreak" of the poor posture epidemic, which began with turn-of-the-century paleoanthropologists: If upright posture was the first of all attributes that separated human from beasts - and importantly a precondition for the development of intellect and speech - what did it mean that a...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Determined to do what he could to stop the rising tide of bigotry perpetuated by the right wing and frustrated by not being able to acknowledge his sexual preference, Marvin Liebman - a major strategist and fund-raiser for the conservative movement - decided in 1990 to reveal his homosexuality. With the demise of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union - the "enemy" that has long held the conservative movement together - Liebman fears that the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From Wright--an award-winning country music singer and songwriter--comes a candid and inspiring glimpse into her extraordinary journey from high school homecoming queen to #1 "Billboard" artist, and an exploration of the toll that success has taken on her life.
Author
Publisher
Advocate Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend, Matthew Shepard, was murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, Romaine Patterson was thrust into activism by the media frenzy that surrounded the town. In 1999, she founded Angel Action, an organization for peaceful demonstration, tolerance, acceptance, and nonviolence.
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A sexual abuse survivor unapologetically confesses the intimate workings of the Catholic seminary, celibacy and priesthood during an era of sexual scandal and exposes how priests are "formed" to perpetuate a cycle of abuse where truth is relative, chastity is a myth, and powerful men will stop at nothing to silence those who speak the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...