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1) Relinquished: the politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood /|cGretchen Sisson
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all manner of texts: commission reports, political reporting, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional inquiries to understand the controversies animating life in the capital. He also reads copious books by politicians and top officials: tell-all accounts by administration insiders, campaign biographies by candidates longing for high office, revisionist memoirs by those...
Author
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Where does progress happen? The story of civilization is the story of the city. It is cities that have created and defined the modern world by acting as the sites of pivotal advances in culture, politics, science, technology, and more. There is no question that certain places, at certain times in history, have contributed disproportionately toward making the world a better place. This book tells the story of forty of those places. In Centers of Progress:...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez-known as Sito- was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's famous phrase, the president of the National Constitution Center profiles six of the most influential founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives and how it became the foundation of our democracy.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved television host comes a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's writing over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation"--Provided by publisher.
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