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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

by Mark Steyn

In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Vintage)

The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Vintage)

by David K. Shipler

“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor. They perform... (more)

The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace

The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace

by Ronald Alsop

The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between 1980 and 2001—is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever encountered. They are trying to integrate the most demanding and most coddled generation in history into a workplace shaped by the driven baby-boom generation. Like them or not, the millennials are America future work force. They are... (more)

The Revolt of the Masses

by Jose OrtegaYGasset

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos brought its author international fame and has remained one of the influential books of the 20th century.

The Death of the West

How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization

by Patrick J. Buchanan

The national bestseller that shocked the nation-- The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and... (more)

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are

by Rob Walker

“Fascinating … A compelling blend of cultural anthropology and business journalism.” — Andrea Sachs, Time Magazine “An often startling tour of new cultural terrain.” — Laura Miller, Salon “Marked by meticulous research and careful conclusions, this superbly readable book confirms New York Times journalist Walker as an expert on consumerism. … <A> thoughtful and unhurried investigation into... (more)

Life 2.0 : How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness

Life 2.0 : How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness

by Richard Karlgaard

Have You Found the Where of Your Happiness? One of the intriguing things about the United States is the idea of the second chance, that when you feel stuck there is always a frontier you can cross to reinvent yourself. In Life 2.0, Rich Karlgaard used his own personal and professional midlife crises to look at the state of the American dreamthe belief in continuous personal upward mobilityand where it stands... (more)

There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

by William J. Wilson

A stunning, long-awaited book that looks at the (still) shocking truths of race, ethnicity, and class in America today. William Julius Wilson, among our most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, author of When Work Disappears (“Profound and disturbing”— Time; “His magnum opus”—David Remnick, The New Yorker ), and Richard P. Taub, chairman of the Department on Comparative Human Development at the... (more)

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost... (more)

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United StatesJoel Williamson

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

by Joel Williamson

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and The Myth of Converging ValuesMichael; Jamieson, David; Langstaff, Amy Adams

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and The Myth of Converging Values

by Michael; Jamieson, David; Langstaff, Amy Adams

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

by Jones Jacqueline, Jacqueline Jones

This is history at its best-the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a... (more)

Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality

Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality

by Mary Ellen S. Capek

Winner, 2007 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize given by Independent Sector and Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). In Effective Philanthropy , Mary Ellen Capek and Molly Mead offer strategies for strengthening organizations through a commitment to diversity and gender equality. Capek and Mead's research shows that institutionalizing a more nuanced... (more)

Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas (Henry Holt Reference Book)

Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas (Henry Holt Reference Book)

by Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty, Patrick Williams

Full-color, double-page spreads consider historical themes and debates, including exploration, colonization, wars, political movements, gender relations, and the slave trade in West Africa. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

BetrayalCaroline Moorehead

Betrayal

by Caroline Moorehead

Children have not, traditionally, been considered to have civil rights. Moorehead cites the attempts for recognition of these rights in her preface to this collection of articles about the terrible worldwide abuse and neglect of children. Tied closely to the work of UNESCO, the book introduces readers to regions where poverty and hunger cause people to sell and exploit their children and to nations in which wealth... (more)

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census

by Philip D. Curtin

United States Electoral Systems: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Contributions in Political Science)

United States Electoral Systems: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Contributions in Political Science)

This is the only full-length study to examine how different electoral systems impact the election of women and minorities to public office in the United States. Professors Rule and Zimmerman have brought together leading scholars to show how different systems affect local, state, and national elections. Important demographic changes, new opportunities, and formidable problems are underscored in analyses of the... (more)

The Poverty of Communism

by Nick Eberstadt

Whole Library Handbook 4: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa about Libraries and Library Services (Whole Library Handbook)

Whole Library Handbook 4: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa about Libraries and Library Services (Whole Library Handbook)

by George M. Eberhart

Now in its fourth version, "The Whole Library Handbook" is a one-volume encyclopedia of library history, demographics, folklore, humor, current events, and popular wisdom. The new volume is organized in easy-to-find general categories, including types of libraries, the profession, people, materials, special users, operations, technology, promotion, issues, and librariana. Readers will find fascinating bits of... (more)

Latino Boom!: Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market

Latino Boom!: Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market

by Chiqui Cartagena

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re selling Pampers, blue jeans, cars, or credit cards, the Hispanic community is a market you must include in your business plans.” –Chiqui Cartagena It’s the largest demographic group in America–and one with an ever-expanding buying power. Now media pioneer Chiqui Cartagena, an expert on the Hispanic market, has written an indispensable, fact-packed guide that will help anyone... (more)

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