Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6196+7265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734638 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684883 Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret campaign to infiltrate the U.S. government; its vindictive treatment of critics; its phenomenal wealth; and its dramatic efforts to grow and prevail after the death of Hubbard--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713134 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734598 A portrait of the dynamic Emanuel brothers cites their achievements in medicine, politics, and Hollywood, offering insight into the family history, unique upbringing, and social atmosphere that influenced their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697604 Presents a narrative exploration of the health-care crisis in inner-city communities as drawn from the authors experiences as an emergency room resident in the Newark community where he grew up, in an account that illuminates the complicated human realities behind the statistics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693645 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711448 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682648 The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674574 Its every teenage girls dream, isnt it? You meet a boy, you fall in love, and then one day you have a family and grow old together, happily ever after. But what if you get pregnant-- and find out after your break-up? What if he dies in an accident? The TV show Teen mom has made Abraham a media sensation. In this unflinching memoir, she reveals the difficult truth about the life that hasnt been seen on television. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1440786 This book is an account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings. On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and eighteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head. The auhtor, a fifth generation Arizonan and longtime friend of Giffordss and a field organizer on her Congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizonas political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen. He discusses the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing markets boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration. He offers a revealing portrait of the Southwestern state at a critical moment in history, and as a symbol of the nations discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667947 A memoir written in the form of a letter to an unknown man who shot the author in the back and rendered him a paraplegic describes how he embraced forgiveness, earned a masters degree, and became an advocate for the disabled. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668557 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609070 After her husbands death, the author, devoting herself to radically reinventing public education, recounts the journey that led her to risk her life savings to open schools in Harlem while proving that even children living in poverty could learn at a high level. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604561 Presents the archeological mystery of an accurate calendar at an ancient temple on the remote plains of southern Alberta, older than Englands Stonehenge by eight hundred years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623811 Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts. And new parents find themselves struggling to reconcile their elation with the often exhausting, confusing, and expensive business of child care. If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if its impossible to have it all, if people dont have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing, then why do it? And why are anxious new parents flocking to every Tiger Mother and Bb-raiser for advice on how to raise kids? Here, feminist author Jennifer Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom. She moves beyond the black-and-white mommy wars over natural parenting, discipline, and work-life balance to explore a more nuanced reality: one filled with ambivalence, joy, guilt, and exhaustion.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569654 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624181 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681639 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647831 Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hairs breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668339 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518338 Explores the Obama familys transition into the White House, capturing the emotions and personalities beneath the public faade as the president and the First Lady deal with their new roles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609737 Chronicles Americas troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhoods fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parishs forty-year effort to build an integrated church. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667990 Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. In 1979 MacDonald was convicted of the brutal 1970 murder of his wife and two children, and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books, including Joe McGinnisss Fatal Vision, and a blockbuster television miniseries have attempted to solve and explain the MacDonald case. Here, Morris, who has been investigating the case for nearly two decades, reveals that almost everything we know about it is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In a reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth. Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and original interviews, he brings a complete forty-year history back to life and allows the reader to explore the case as a detective might by confronting the evidence as if for the first time.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730797 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668519 In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, activist and educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebtrate their bodies. Writers, activists, performers and poets write about everything from fat burlesque and queer dating to plus-size modeling and building the ultimate fat wardrobe--P. []4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274951 An almanac of rural lore, nature facts, and other country wisdom concerning the weather, moon, livestock, medicine, and other topics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263858 The adult child of Sonny Bono and Cher tells the story of the long road to discover the gender he truly identified with and his life-changing decision to have a sex-change operation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335422 Relates the full, twenty-seven-year story behind the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, the six-year-old son of Americas Most Wanted host John Walsh, as well as the decades-long search for the boys elusive killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307123 When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own answer. Susan Cheever talks about the excruciating hazards of casual sex, while Gail Collins recounts her Catholic upbringing in Cincinnati and the nuns who passionately forbade her from having carnal relations. Jennifer Weiner explores how, in love, the body can play just as big a role as the heart. The octogenarians in Karen Abbotts sharp-eyed piece possess a passion that could give Betty White a run for her money. Molly Jong-Fast reflects on her unconventional upbringing and why a whole generation of young women have rejected free love in favor of Bugaboo strollers and Mommy-and-me yoga. Sex, it turns out, can be as fleeting, heavy, mundane, and intense as the rest of life. Indeed, as Jong states in her powerful introduction: the truth is--sex is life.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431528 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single Black Experience. Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1389378 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652965 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1483847 A fully illustrated history of the Temple of Solomon--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364777 A tour of the diamond industry explores the historically rich network connecting Communist Siberia, Israel, and New Yorks diamond district, and profiles some of the industrys more colorful characters, including the authors father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1271093 Tasha and Trae try to overcome their troubles and make their marriage work, while Jaz is facing drama of her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645774 For over sixty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseuss adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odins effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamiltons classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today. An essential part of every home library, Mythology is the definitive volume for anyone who wants to know the key dramas, the primary characters, the triumphs, failures, fears, and hopes first narrated thousands of years ago-and still spellbinding to this day. Monsters, mortals, gods, and warriors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1216105 This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted rescue pass, the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully rescued. For eight weeks, the author conducted interviews with families, rescue workers, the mine psychologist, drill operators, scientists, and the architects of the rescue operation. He reported from an improvised office on the mountainside that was the nerve center of the rescue operation, in a makeshift container. Far below, families and loved ones lived in a cluster of tents known as Camp Hope. While the men were still underground, the author interviewed them via a crude telephone; he helped send vital supplies to them via the paloma (pigeon). And when the first miners were rescued on October 13, he had the first media contact with the recently freed men in a series of interviews from inside the field hospital. The book reads like a thriller, toggling between the dramatic chaos belowground as the men realized that their escape routes were blocked and that their shelter held only enough rations for ten men to survive seventy-two hours; and the desperate rescue efforts aboveground, the massive campaign from the top level of the Chilean government to enlist and unite brilliant minds from around the world in the San Jose rescue effort. In never before revealed detail, the author tells a story of the improbable survival of the miners, trapped some 2,200 feet underground for sixty-nine days. He also chronicles what had to go right, an impossibly long list, to rescue them all alive. The death-defying rescue demanded endurance, ingenuity, and most of all, unified fronts above and below ground. To be sure, none of this came easily. Based on more than 110 interviews with the miners, their families, and the rescue team, this account combines an eye for detail and dialogue with the remarkable human interest story of these miners struggling to survive in a savage environment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391985 In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this book, the author, a commentator and journalist tackles what it means to be Black in America today. He begins by examining the concept of Post-Blackness, a term that defines artists who are proud to be Black but dont want to be limited by identity politics and boxed in by race. He soon discovers that the desire to be rooted in but not constrained by Blackness is everywhere. In this book he argues that Blackness is infinite, that any identity imaginable is Black, and that all expressions of Blackness are legitimate. Here, he divulges intimate, funny, and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life and explores how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, society, psychology, art, culture, and more. He knew he could not tackle this topic all on his own so he turned to 105 of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, Harold Ford Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Paul Mooney, New York Governor David Paterson, Greg Tate, Aaron McGruder, Soledad OBrien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and many others. By engaging this eclectic group, and employing his insight, courage, and wit, the author delivers a clarion call on race in America and how we can change our perceptions for a better future. Destroying the notion that there is a correct way of being Black, this book changes how we perceive race. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1369131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244141 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279600 The story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a propaganda tool for one side of the political spectrum: the left side-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427454 An internationally known speaker, Valerie Young has devoted her career to understanding womens most deeply held beliefs about themselves and their success. In her decades of in-the-trenches research, she has uncovered the often surprising reasons why so many accomplished women experience this crushing self-doubt. In The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women,Young gives these women the solution they have been seeking. Combining insightful analysis with effective advice and anecdotes, she explains what the impostor syndrome is, why fraud fears are more common in women, and how you can recognize the way it manifests in your life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252862 The touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctors office on wheels. His patients are homeless adolescents and children living on the outskirts of Phoenix. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1312606 A full-color guide teaches seniors everything they want to know about computing from using office applications and checking e-mail to working with photos, social networking and tracing ones family tree. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299817 Provides current information and practical problem-solving advice for reclaiming your life from bipolar disorder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392599 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1347482 Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274873 The founder of the Bring Sean Home Foundation advocacy group for parents of internationally abducted children describes how his Brazilian wife unexpectedly returned to her native country and refused to share custody of their son, triggering an international controversy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393071 The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1250518 A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens cant see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645141 Official histories of the United States have ignored the fact that 25 percent of all U.S. presidents were slaveholders, and that black people were held in bondage in the White House itself. And while the nation was born under the banner of freedom and justice for all, many colonists risked rebelling against England in order to protect their lucrative slave business from the growing threat of British abolitionism. These historical facts, commonly excluded from schoolbooks and popular versions of American history, have profoundly shaped the course of race relations in the United States. In this work, the author presents a comprehensive history of the White House from an African American perspective, illuminating the central role it has played in advancing, thwarting, or simply ignoring efforts to achieve equal rights for all. Here are the stories of those who were forced to work on the construction of the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the determined leaders who pressured U.S. presidents to outlaw slavery. They include White House slaves, and servants who went on to write books, Secret Service agents harassed by racist peers, Washington insiders who rose to the highest levels of power, the black artists and intellectuals invited to the White House, community leaders who waged presidential campaigns, and many others. Juxtaposing significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for civil rights, the book makes plain that the White House has always been a prism through which to view the social struggles and progress of black Americans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307126 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1216318 A collection of the African-American intellectuals quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and philosophical writings is accompanied by a CD featuring an interview by Tavis Smiley with the contemporary philosopher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1203690 Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mothers exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260856 In Join the Club, Rosenberg identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure, and shows how peer pressure has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get top grades in college calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1205462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1444378 He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057014 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037887 Edge.org presents 125 of todays leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?--Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1111335 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1042197 From radio show host Jerry Doyle, Have You Seen My Country Lately? tackles tough issues like the financial crisis and American sovereignty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351482 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1164875 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114247 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1164438 The cohost of National Public Radios All Things Considered set out, through original reporting, to write a book about the hidden conversation on race that is going on in this country. Along the way she unearthed painful family secrets that compelled her to question her own self-understanding; she traveled extensively to explore her own complex racial legacy. Her exploration is informed by hundreds of interviews with ordinary Americans and their observations about evolving attitudes toward race in America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136145 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133010 Rush crystallizes just how pervasive and pandemic Negrophilia really is-- and the best way to treat it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1155173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053170 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1131194 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1205450 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1079277 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1046642 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1155176 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522484 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059144 Ever since evangelical Christians rose to national prominence, mainstream America has watched them with a nervous eye, but our understanding hasnt gone beyond the caricatures. Who are evangelicals, really? To find out, Gina Welch, a young secular Jew (born atheist) from Berkeley, joined Jerry Falwells Thomas Road Baptist Church. Over the course of nearly two years, Welch immersed herself in the life and language of the devout: she learned to interpret the world like an evangelical, weathered the death of Falwell, and embarked on a mission trip to Alaska. Alive to the meaning behind the music and the mind behind the slogans, Welch recognized the allure of evangelicalism, even for the godless, realizing that the congregation met needs and answered questions she didnt know she had. What emerges is a riveting account of a skeptics transformation from uninformed cynicism to compassionate understanding, and a rare view of how evangelicals see themselves.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374507 This book includes the history of the celebration and explains the symbols and traditions associated with the celebration of a girls fifteenth birthday--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059223 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116262 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235631 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293470 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1224739 Psychologists Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss examine the sexual motivations of women and discuss their varied findings, which includes the use of sex as a defensive tactic, a ploy to boost social standing and self-esteem, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185723