Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6670&N=3+8037+4294967242+8036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739634 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1563039 In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669115 Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexanders own bran was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion--and in essence makes us human--shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexanders eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexanders recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Alexanders story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition. -- Cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522514 At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the ... is wrong with my husband?! In the authors case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains his ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. But it doesnt make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, he sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband, no easy task for a guy whose inability to express himself rivals his two-year-old daughters, who thinks his responsibility for laundry extends no further than throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism-spectrum condition makes seeing his wifes point of view a near impossibility. Nevertheless, he devotes himself to improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, this book: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. They include Dont change the radio station when shes singing along, Apologies do not count when you shout them, and Be her friend, first and always. Guided by the journal, he transforms himself over the course of two years from the worlds most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest, the husband hed always meant to be. Filled with humor and surprising wisdom, this book is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism-spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart can conquer all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566722 Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1512099 Tackling the issues at the forefront of the American mind--healthcare, education, capitalism, and more America the Beautiful is indispensable reading. From four-time bestselling author, internationally renowned neurosurgeon, and humanitarian Dr. Ben Carson, here is a sobering and inspiring manifesto of Americas greatness, her failings, and the values and changes it will take to carry our country into a brilliant and prosperous future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275018 Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left hand, that is, and the way I lean on it every few steps. Then they realize my stiff walk and straight posture arent just pride, and that Tuesday isnt just an ordinary dog. He walks directly beside me, for instance, so that my right leg always bisects his body. He nuzzles me when my breathing changes, and he moves immediately between me and the object--a cat, an overeager child, a suspiciously closed door--any time I feel apprehensive. Because beautiful, happy-go-lucky, favorite-of-the-neighborhood Tuesday isnt my pet; hes my service dog. Captain Luis Montalvan returned home from his second tour of duty in Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three broken vertebrae. But the pressures of civilian life and his injuries proved too much to bear. Physical disabilities, agoraphobia, and crippling PTSD drove him to the edge of suicide. Thats when he met Tuesday - his best friend forever. Tuesday came with his own history of challenges: from the Puppies Behind Bars program, to a home for troubled boys, to the streets of Manhattan, Tuesday blessed many lives on his way to Luis. Until Tuesday unforgettably twines the story of man and dog-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1369142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306964 Beck reworks the Federalist Papers into modern English and provides his own illuminating commentary and annotations. For a number of the essays, he includes the viewpoints of both liberal and conservative historians and scholars, making this a fair and insightful perspective on the historical works that remain the primary source for interpreting Constitutional law and the rights of American citizens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299051 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=1262729 Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201513 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113918 Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. Last Call explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037117 From two of the best political reporters in the country comes the gripping inside story of the historic 2008 presidential election. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1111336 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=989382 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009536 Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991245 McDougall reveals the secrets of the worlds greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999266 A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is a revealing self-portrait by the beloved author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter, a writer in the making. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147669 Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwells writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and hindsight bias, and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1005863 In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753747 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=783891 In his first book in five years, the man loved by liberals and denounced by conservatives presents the definitive guide to the 2008 election. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=783878 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=824589 Discusses what Obama would have to do as president to restore Americas economic future, arguing that transformative leadership is needed to rescue the country from its current financial crisis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=786619 In May 1787 delegates from across the country--including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin--gathered in Philadelphia and, meeting over the course of a sweltering summer, created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804946 Presidential candidate Barack Obama offers bold and specific ideas about how to fix our ailing economy and strengthen the middle class, make health care affordable for all, achieve energy independence, and keep America safe in a dangerous world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=728529 I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Si;s learned about beat poetry, rock n roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities - creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754093 The top undercover journalist in America and the funniest (Randi Rhodes, Air America), hangs out the dirty underpants of the armed and dangerous clowns that rule us. Feared from corporate suites to Osamas cave, Palasts old-style gumshoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporters new book, is illustrated with dozens of documents marked secret and confidential that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palasts hands.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689175 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=981615 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552395 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=456830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566305 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=424415 Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. Todds last known words, Lets roll! have become a rallying cry for the nation to move ahead in hope. This is the story of her marriage, the events of 9/11, and the aftermath. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539979