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HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Gather 'round, pull up a chair, and join family, friends, and your local community to swap some of the best reader-submitted recipes from American Profile . With more than 150 cherished recipes and dozens of beautiful photographs, Hometown Get-Togethers serves up the perfect dish for your next reunion, church event, potluck supper, tailgate party, family dinner, picnic, holiday celebration, or dinner party. The editors of American Profile have compiled...
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Authoritarian regimes have made a concerted effort to shrink the space available for civil society by restricting access to domestic decision-making, transparency, and accountability. An ultimate power ruler is known as an autocrat. A democracy's three branches of government - executive, judicial, and legislative - serve as an essential check on an executive leader's unchecked and uncontested power. The executive branch has grown at the expense of...
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Birthdays are special days-- thanks to Belle the Birthday Fairy! S he makes sure that birthdays are filled with happiness and magic. But icy Jack Frost can't even enjoy his own birthday! He's determined that no one else will enjoy it either, so he steals Belle's three magic charms. Now it's a very unhappy birthday to ... everyone! Can Rachel and Kirsty help save birthday bashes everywhere? Or is Belle's magic lost forever?
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English
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Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their
distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying
within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to
knock them down. Studying the US's Barack Obama, Ukraine's Volodymyr
Zelensky, and France's Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates,
political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the
strength of the incumbent, the...
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Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic problems and ensure widely shared prosperity. Instead of working together to meet the challenges ahead-an aging work force, exploding inequality, climate change, rising debt-our elected leaders are sabotaging our economic future by blaming and demonizing each other in hopes of winning big in the next election....
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English
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Michael Gerson, who worked with George W. Bush on his most inspiring speeches, is considered by many Democrats and Republicans to be the most influential White House speechwriter since the Kennedy administration. He was also more than a speechwriter, he was a trusted insider who helped shape policy.
In Heroic Conservatism Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic...
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Publisher
HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history. Today's political class--in both parties and at all levels of government--shows a blatant disregard for both the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution. More and more Americans are fed up, and from this sweeping sense of discontent and anger the Tea Party movement...
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English
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“Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win” tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.
Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold...
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