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A remarkable mother
Jimmy Carter.
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xiii, 222 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Resumes for re-entering the job market
Editors of McGraw-Hill.
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vii, 150 p. 28 cm.
Powerful, impressive resumes that lead to the right job! Nearly 100 sample resumes and 20 cover letters for each field-more than any competing series A workbook format to organize information before writing a resume Perfect for college grads and people changing careers or re-entering the job market A variety of eye-catching resume formats
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The return of history and the end of dreams
Robert Kagan.
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115 p. ; 20 cm.
Addresses the challenges and questions confronting the modern-day liberal democratic world, from the competition among powerful nations to the violent struggle of radical Islam, and calls for a new approach on the part of the liberal world to shape the future.
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Right is wrong : how the lunatic fringe hijacked America, shredded the Constitution, and made us all less safe (and what you need to know to end the madness)
Arianna Huffington.
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388 p. ; 25 cm.
Arguing that the Republican Party is promoting an agenda at odds with the views of the majority of the American people, the author tackles key issues for the 2008 presidential election and calls for the establishment of a new, progressive national agenda.
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Rising powers, shrinking planet : the new geopolitics of energy
Michael T. Klare.
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339 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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Rosie O'Donnell's crafty U : 100 easy projects the whole family can enjoy all year long
Rosie O'Donnell.
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206 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Rudyard Kipling : the books I leave behind
by David Alan Richards ; with an essay by Thomas Pinney.
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143 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 30 cm.
"The companion catalogue to the monumental exhibition of the works of Rudyard Kipling held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2007 celebrates the achievement of this writer who appealed to a vast audience with his novels, poems, and works for young readers. The David Alan Richards collection documents the variety and breadth of Kipling's printed production. This catalogue, a checklist of the exhibition with selected images of items on display, traces the bibliographic expanse of Kipling and his works. For anyone interested in the purest highlights of a Kipling collection, this book makes the work easy. A browse through the sections of the exhibition will reveal the nature of more than over 200 items on display, creating a timeline of Kipling's best-loved works and many extremely rare or little known pieces."--BOOK JACKET.
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The runner : a true account of the amazing lies and fantastical adventures of the Ivy League impostor James Hogue
David Samuels.
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176 p. ; 22 cm.
"The Runner tells the remarkable true story of a drifter and petty thief named James Hogue who woke up one cold winter morning in a storage shed in Utah and decided to start his life anew. Reimagining himself as a self-educated ranch hand named Alexi Indris-Santana who read Plato under the stars and could run a mile in under four minutes, Hogue applied and was accepted to Princeton University, where he excelled academically, made the track team, became a member of the elite Ivy Club, and dated a millionaire's daughter." "Echoing both The Great Gatsby and The Talented Mr. Ripley, the story of Hogue's life before and after he went to Princeton is both an immensely affecting portrait of a dreamer and a striking indictment of the Ivy League "meritocracy" to which Hogue wanted so badly to belong. Beginning with the end of Hogue's career as a thief in Telluride, Colorado, The Runner takes readers back in time to uncover the true story of Hogue's life based on an unlikely trove of documents and the firsthand accounts of those who encountered the many colorful personalities the gifted liar, dreamer, and athlete had made up as he went along." "The Runner is an extraordinary personal story and an absurdist parable of the Ivy League admissions game. It is also a deeply felt exploration of the slippery nature of personal identity in America. Drawing elegant parallels between Hogue's ambitions and the American myth of self-invention, while also examining his own uneasy identification with his troubled subject, author David Samuels has fashioned a powerful metaphor for the corruptions of the American dream, revealing his exceptional gifts as a reporter and as a literary stylist."--BOOK JACKET.
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The scent of desire : discovering our enigmatic sense of smell
Rachel Herz.
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xxi, 266 p. ; 22 cm.
Discover the importance of smell in our lives, from food to sex to friendship, with this first book on the subject by the worlds leading scientific expert on this vital sense.
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A second opinion : rescuing America's healthcare : a plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit
Arnold S. Relman.
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xvii, 205 p. ; 22 cm.
"In A Second Opinion, Dr. Arnold S. Relman, a long-standing leader in the medical community and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, outlines a thoughtful and measured approach to how we can effectively rescue American health care. To develop a universal health care system that provides quality care at a cost we can afford to live with, we must change not only our system of insuring and paying for health care, but also the way we organize and deliver that care. A public single-payer system would provide a standard package of benefits to all Americans. Private insurance for services not included in the national plan would be available for purchase. Doctors would work within multi-specialty not-for-profit organizations, and their salaries would be determined through the management of the group. The result? Enormous savings, from reduced overhead and improved efficiency, the elimination of billing fraud, and better care available to all." "Relman, a renowned physician, offers a plan that would benefit all patients, and could be put in motion at a much lower overall cost than that of maintaining our current privatized system. The sensible arguments within this book offer a glimpse of the components necessary for a major, long-overdue change in our national health care."--BOOK JACKET.
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The second plane : September 11 : terror and boredom
Martin Amis.
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x, 204 p. ; 22 cm.
"A master not only of fiction but also of a fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time." "At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Amis's reviews of pertinent books and films, from The Looming Tower to United 93, provide a far-ranging survey of other responses to these calamitous issues, which are further explored in two short stories: "The Last Days of Muhammed Atta," its subject self-evident, and "In the Palace of the End," narrated by a Middle Eastern tyrant's double whose duties include epic lovemaking, grotesque torture, and the duplication on his own body of the injuries sustained by his alter ego in constant assassination attempts." "Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read - informed, elegant, surprising - and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with."--BOOK JACKET.
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Shakespeare's wife
Germaine Greer.
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406 p. ; 24 cm.
Challenges popular beliefs about the estranged nature of Shakespeare's marriage to Ann Hathaway, placing their relationship in a social and historical context that poses alternative theories about her rural upbringing and role in the bard's professional life.
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