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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
First Vintage Classics Edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 136 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A faithful translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.
Mike Pompeo is the only person ever to have served as both America’s most senior diplomat and the head of its premier espionage agency. As the only four-year national security member of President Trump’s Cabinet, he worked to impose crushing...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations, tables ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss's head, revealing the skills...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
270 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes his successful two-and-a-half year stint as an undercover agent with the Mongols, a violent outlaw motorcycle gang, documenting their violent crimes and offering profiles of individual gang members.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The FBI criminal profiler and inspiration for the "Mindhunter" series shares the stories of four of the most complex predatory killers of his career, offering previously undisclosed insights into his strategies and profiling process.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the COVID outbreak,...
14) Madam Secretary
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
562 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 274 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former FBI deputy director shows how the greatest threat to the United States comes from within, as President Trump and his administration ignore the law, attack democratic institutions, degrade human rights, and undermine the U.S. Constitution.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former FBI director shares his experiences over the past two decades working in the American government and explores ethical leadership and how it drives sound decision-making.
18) Permanent record
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.