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41) Making Americans: stories of historic struggles, new ideas, and inspiration in immigrant education
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
42) Revive us
Publisher
Provident Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Featuring teaching, worship, prayer, and thoughtful discussion, this film challenges believers to faithfully lead the was.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A Chicago Cook County Jail chaplain and mass-incarceration sociologist examines the lifelong realities of a criminal record, demonstrating how America's justice system is less about rehabilitation and more about structured disenfranchisement.
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English
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CAL THOMAS IS AMERICA'S "WATCHMAN" IN THE NIGHT
In A WATCHMAN IN THE NIGHT, Cal Thomas-one of the most popular syndicated columnists in the country-takes the reader on a "road trip" through over fifty years of journalism and American life, serving as a "watchman" on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes. A watchman "keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves." Thomas...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early 1960s to inspire women to develop their intellectual capabilities and reclaim lives beyond period conventions.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a reporter with more than a decade of experience covering professional sports, Julie DiCaro has long spoken out against the exploitation of the female body, the hostility women face in the workplace, and the ingrained sexism in sports fandom... In Sidelined, DiCaro combines candid interviews, personal anecdotes, and deep research; covering everything from the abusive online environment at Barstool Sports to the professional women who first took...
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English
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"Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are anxious about the future of the "land that we love." In America's Expiration Date, trusted political commentator Cal Thomas offers a diagnosis of what's wrong with the United States and prophetically reminds us that change will come when Americans look to God instead of Washington"--
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history."
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rabbi Diana Fersko is used to having difficult conversations with members of her congregation about how the rise is antisemitism is affecting their lives, from the threat of violence to microaggressions and identity denial. In We Need to Talk About Antisemitism, she gives us the tools we need to understand the state of antisemitism today. Unpacking the origins of the most prominent conspiracy theories about the Jewish people, Rabbi Fersko shows how...
52) The divorce colony: how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria:...
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English
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Winning was just the beginning. Change may start at the White House, but it finishes at your house. In The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again, Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes reports from the front lines of the culture war in America and provides insights on what you can do to bring about real and lasting change in our nation.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lent Hirsch weaves her own harrowing experiences together with stories from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how health issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies. By shining a light on this hidden demographic,...
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