Factual Review
Title | Factual Review PDF eBook |
Author | Arizona. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN |
Includes highway department organization; road systems of Arizona, including interstate highways; financing and cost, road mileage, population changes, passenger car speeds, traffic flow, traffic accidents, motor vehicle registration, and sufficiency ratings.
The Bully Society
Title | The Bully Society PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Klein |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1479860948 |
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 Through interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for bully behavior in America's schools In today’s schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim America’s schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that threatens our children and our society at large. Heartbreaking interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by acting “masculine”—displaying aggression at one another’s expense as both students and adults police one another to uphold gender stereotypes. Klein shows that the aggressive ritual of gender policing in American culture creates emotional damage that perpetuates violence through revenge, and that this cycle is the main cause of not only the many school shootings that have shocked America, but also related problems in schools, manifesting in high rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-cutting, truancy, and substance abuse. After two decades working in schools as a school social worker and professor, Klein proposes ways to transcend these destructive trends—transforming school bully societies into compassionate communities.
Why We Sleep
Title | Why We Sleep PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Walker |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1501144316 |
"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.
Hillbilly Elegy
Title | Hillbilly Elegy PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. Vance |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0062872257 |
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
We're Not from Here
Title | We're Not from Here PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Rodkey |
Publisher | Crown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1524773069 |
Imagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences. The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option (we may have blown it up), it was time to find a new home. That's how we ended up on Choom with the Zhuri. They're very smart. They also look like giant mosquitos. But that's not why it's so hard to live here. There's a lot that the Zhuri don't like: singing (just ask my sister, Ila), comedy (one joke got me sent to the principal's office), or any kind of emotion. The biggest problem, though? The Zhuri don't like us. And if humankind is going to survive, it's up to my family to change their minds. No pressure.
Factual Campaign Information
Title | Factual Campaign Information PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Elections |
ISBN |
Batman: Venom
Title | Batman: Venom PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis O'Neil |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1401242103 |
A new edition of the classic Batman tale by writer Dennis O'Neil that introduces the strength-enhancing drug Venom. After Batman fails to save a young girl, he begins taking the drug in order to lift his limitations; however, when the Dark Knight becomes addicted to the substance, his entire life begins to spiral out of control. The drug Venom later goes on to play a major role in the KNIGHTFALL storyline that sees the villain Bane breaking Batman's back.