Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning journalist, J. Malcolm Garcia's, essays highlight the struggle, survival, and endurance of average people affected by the injustices of America's remorseless mammoth institutions and public indifference. They include families and small businesses still recovering from the BP Oil Spill; the man sentenced to life in prison for transporting drugs to save his son's life; the widows of soldiers who died, not in war, but from toxic fumes...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Inspires young learners to explore America's government institutions through the nation's history and the experience of modern Americans.[This book] will interweave historical context, events, and personalities with the experiences of modern Americans to help students understand key social studies topics including the origins of American institutions and values and their relevance to young people's lives today. The book explores the institutions...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The eldest son of the late fortieth president explains how today's political challenges are comparable to those of his father's political career, discussing how Reagan's famous 1976 speech at the Republican National Convention introduced still-applicableprinciples for a strong Republican party.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Children living in poverty have the same God-given potential as children in wealthier communities, but on average they achieve at significantly lower levels. Kids who both live in poverty and read below grade level by third grade are three times as likely not to graduate from high school as students who have never been poor. By the time children in low-income communities are in fourth grade, they're already three grade levels behind their peers in...
52) Progressivism
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Alphabetic entries discuss key themes, events and people of the Progressive era and how its reforms affected and changed the United States.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"These wide-ranging essays--on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues--have as a recurring underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries...Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books/Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes differing with his own Southern Baptist denomination, Carter expresses his personal view on abortion, capital punishment, homosexuality, women's rights, environmentalism, evolution, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, pre-emptive war, fundamentalism, and the mixing of religion and politics.
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. Terence Lester shares the buried history of the struggles that Black people have faced against unjust systems, paving the way for the church to move beyond showing support from a distance toward long-term solidarity, advocacy, and friendship"--