May 18, 2013
New Arrivals · Politics
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
The reality-based rules of the workplace : know what boosts your value, kills your chances, & will make you happier
May 17, 2013
Wakeman, Cy.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, [2013], ©2013.
viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The new value equation -- Your current performance -- Your future potential -- Your emotional expensiveness -- The five reality-based rules of the workplace -- Rule #1: your level of accountability determines your level of happiness, so don't hope to be lucky, choose to be happy -- Rule #2: suffering is optional, so ditch the drama! -- Rule #3: buy-in is not optional, your action, not opinion, adds value -- Rule #4: say "yes" to what's next, change is opportunity -- Rule #5: you will always have extenuating circumstances, succeed anyway -- Call to action: put the new rules to work.
Shares advice on how to calculate one's true value to an organization by recognizing the cost of actions and attitudes, explaining how to become an invaluable team member and find greater job satisfaction.
Northern Ireland : the reluctant peace
May 17, 2013
Cochrane, Feargal.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
352
Fighting for common ground : how we can fix the stalemate in Congress
May 15, 2013
Snowe, Olympia J. (Olympia Jean), 1947-
New York : Weinstein Books, c2013.
viii, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The first woman to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress describes how to dissolve the polarization afflicting the current American government and unite both parties to work for the common good.
Pray for us sinners
May 15, 2013
Taylor, Patrick, 1941-
New York, NY : Forge, 2013.
320
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
In 1973 Belfast, a British Army bomb-disposal expert agrees to go undercover to identify the source of bombs being used by the Provisional IRA only to confront events that shatter his beliefs.
The Federalist Society : how conservatives took the law back from liberals
May 14, 2013
Avery, Michael, 1944-
Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press, c2013.
x, 294 pages ; 26 cm.
Gerald R. Ford : an honorable life
May 6, 2013
Cannon, James M., 1918-2011.
482 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes index.
A crisis of the regime -- Resolve -- Transformation -- Challenges -- Advancing -- Advancing -- Passage -- Revelations -- Confirmations -- Conflicted -- Proposition -- Taking charge -- Reaction -- The pardon -- Testifying -- Managing -- Progress -- Challenges -- Ford's way -- Initiatives -- Vietnam -- The campaign begins -- Nomination -- Election -- Epilogue.
The center holds : Obama and his enemies
May 6, 2013
Alter, Jonathan.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
448
Traces President Obama's reelection campaign against a backdrop of widespread unemployment and a vindictive political climate, offering insights into Mitt Romney's rival campaign and how the race reflected current views about the roles of government and societal values.
Wrapped in the flag : a personal history of America's radical right
May 6, 2013
Conner, Claire, 1945-
Boston : Beacon Press, 2013.
pages cm
The constitutional legacy of forgotten presidents / Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
May 3, 2013
Gerhardt, Michael J., 1956-
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
313
Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939
May 3, 2013
Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
ix, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Prologue: Judenfilm! -- Hollywood-Berlin-Hollywood -- Hitler, a "blah show subject" -- The Nazis in the newsreels -- The Hollywood anti-Nazi league -- Mussolini Jr. goes Hollywood -- The Spanish Civil War in Hollywood -- Foreign imports -- "The blight of radical propaganda" -- Inside Nazi Germany with the March of Time -- "Grim reaper material" -- There is no room for Leni Riefenstahl in Hollywood -- "The only studio with any guts" -- Hollywood goes to war -- Epilogue: the motion picture memory of Nazism.
Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing
May 3, 2013
Hager, Christopher, 1974-
Harvard University Press : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2013.
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages.
Damascus diary : an inside account of Hafez Al-Assad's peace diplomacy, 1990-2000
May 3, 2013
Shaaban, Bouthaina.
Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, c2013.
xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction -- The road to Madrid -- Blessed are the peacemakers -- The rise of Bill Clinton -- Syria's honeymoon with Clinton's America -- The deposit that never was -- Rabin's assassination and the long road to nowhere -- The legacy of Yusuf al-Azma -- The April understanding -- The not-so-secret Lauder talks -- The Shepherdstown debacle -- The man who did not sign -- Epilogue.
Leadershift : a call for Americans to finally stand up and lead : why we need to recognize and overcome the five laws of decline
May 3, 2013
Woodward, Orrin, author.
viii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
A business parable challenges American leaders to take active roles to reverse the economic decline, relating the story of a CEO who taps the insights of trusted advisors to rally citizens and meet economic, financial, and political challenges.
Big, hot, cheap, and right : what America can learn from the strange genius of Texas
May 2, 2013
Grieder, Erica.
New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
284
Man-made miracle -- The Texas model -- The troublesome territory -- State of hate -- Land and cattle -- Black gold -- The ungoverned -- The shadow state -- The democrats -- The rise of the right -- 21st-century Texas -- Vestigial parts -- Turning Texas blue -- The coming crackup -- Tweaking the model -- The texanization of the United States.
The new digital age : reshaping the future of people, nations and business
May 2, 2013
Schmidt, Eric, 1955-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
315 pages ; 25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Our Future Selves -- The Future of Identity, Citizenship and Reporting -- The Future of States -- The Future of Revolution -- The Future of Terrorism -- The Future of Conflict, Combat and Intervention -- The Future of Reconstruction.
Outlines a transformational vision of a connected world, drawing on expertise to address questions regarding power balances, the relationship between privacy and security, and the role of technology in combating or enabling terrorism.
Told you so : the big book of weekly columns
May 1, 2013
Nader, Ralph.
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2012]
480
Son of a gambling man : my journey from a casino family to the governor's mansion
May 1, 2013
Miller, Bob, 1945-
xiv, 251 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
The real North Korea : life and politics in the failed Stalinist utopia
May 1, 2013
Lanʹov, A. N. (AndreÄ Nikolaevich)
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
283
The society Kim Il Sung built and how he did it -- Two decades of crisis -- The logic of survival (domestically) -- The survival diplomacy interlude -- The contours of a future: what might happen to North Korea in the next two decades -- What to do aboutthe North? -- Being ready for what we wish for -- Conclusion.
City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York
April 29, 2013
Williams, Mason B.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
544
Digital disconnect : how capitalism is turning the Internet against democracy
April 25, 2013
McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-
xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
What is the elephant in the digital room? -- Does capitalism equal democracy? -- How can the political economy of communication help us understand the Internet? -- The Internet and capitalism I: where dinosaurs roam? -- The internet and capitalism II: empire of the senseless? -- Journalism is dead! Long live journalism? -- Revolution in the digital revolution?
Looks at the relationship between economic power and the digital world, encouraging readers to fight back against the monopolies that are making the Internet less democratic.
The machine : a field guide to the resurgent Right
April 25, 2013
Fang, Lee.
xvi, 250 pages ; 21cm
1. The true history of the Tea Party -- 2. Coordinating the message -- 3. The Koch-fueled war on Obama -- 4. Reform hits a wall at K Street -- 5. A social media facelift for conservatism -- 6. Taking it to the states.
The coup : 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations
April 25, 2013
Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940-
New York, N.Y. : New Press, 2013.
xxiii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.
Chronology -- Leading personalities -- Oil nationalization -- Anglo-Iranian negotiations -- The Coup -- Legacy.
"A history of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran and its aftermath"--Provided by publisher.
Patriots of treason
April 24, 2013
Roberts, David Thomas.
[United States]: [AKA:yoLa], c2012.
299 p. ; 24 cm.
Power to the poor : Black-Brown coalition and the fight for economic justice, 1960-1974
April 23, 2013
Mantler, Gordon Keith, 1972-
362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
The "Rediscovery" of Poverty -- First Experiments -- War, Power, and the New Politics -- Poverty, Peace, and King's Challenge -- Race and Resurrection City -- Multiracial Efforts, Intra-racial Gains -- The Limits of Coalition -- Making the 1970s -- Epilogue: Poverty, Coalition, and Identity Politics.
The art of controversy : political cartoons and their enduring power
April 23, 2013
Navasky, Victor S.
xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
The cartoon as content -- The cartoon as image -- The cartoon as stimulus -- Caricature -- The gallery. William Hogarth ; James Gillray ; Francisco Goya ; Charles Philipon ; Honoré Daumier ; Thomas Nast ; Pablo Picasso ; The Masses : Art Young and Robert Minor ; Käthe Kollwitz ; George Grosz ; John Heartfield ; Der Stürmer ; David Low ; Philip Zec ; Victor Weisz (Vicky) ; Bill Mauldin ; Herbert Block (Herblock) ; Al Hirschfeld ; ; Raymond Jackson (Jak) ; Ralph Steadman ; Robert Edwards ; Naji al-Ali -- Edward Sorel ; Robert Grossman ; Steve Platt and the New Statesman ; The New Yorker images ; Doug Marlette ; Plantu and the Danish Muhammads ; Qaddafi and the Bulgarians ; Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) ; David Levine.
"A lavishly illustrated, witty, and learned look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky knows just how incendiary--and transformative--cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever sketched--by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honore Daumier, Thomas Nast, Ralph Steadman, et al.--as he asks what makes cartoons so uniquely positioned to affect our minds and our hearts. Incorporating neuroscience, psychology, and a sweeping historical view of the cartoon's evolution, The Art of Controversy is a book for all lovers of satire, politics, and the vastly underappreciated and endlessly surprising art form of the political cartoon. "-- Provided by publisher.
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