Trump and his generals: the cost of chaos

By Bergen, Peter L.

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 300

Call Number: 355.0097 BER

"From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the world. It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real estate developer from Queens promised to bring his brash, zero-sum swagger to bear to cut through America's most complex national security issues, and he did. If the cost of his "America First" agenda was bulldozing the edifice of foreign alliances that had been carefully tended by every president from Truman to Obama, then so be it. It was clear from the first that Trump's inclinations were radically more blunt force than his predecessors'. When briefed by the Pentagon on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, he exclaimed, "The next time Iran sends its boats into the Strait: blow them out of the water! Let's get Mad Dog on this." When told that the capital of South Korea, Seoul, was so close to the North Korean border that millions of people would likely die in the first hours of any all-out war, Trump had a bold response, "They have to move." The officials in the Oval Office weren't sure if he was joking. He raised his voice. "They have to move!" Very quickly, it became clear to a number of people at the highest levels of government that their gravest mission was to protect America from Donald Trump. Trump and His Generals is Peter Bergen's riveting account of what happened when the unstoppable force of President Trump met the immovable object of America's national security establishment--the CIA, the State Department, and, above all, the Pentagon. If there is a real "deep state" in DC, it is not the FBI so much as the national security community, with its deep-rooted culture and hierarchy. The men Trump selected for his key national security positions, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, and H. R. McMaster, were products of that culture: Trump wanted generals, and he got them. Three years later, they would be gone, and the guardrails were off. From Iraq and Afghanistan to Syria and Iran, from Russia and China to North Korea and Islamist terrorism, Trump and His Generals is a brilliant reckoning with an American ship of state navigating a roiling sea of threats without a well-functioning rudder. Lucid and gripping, it brings urgently needed clarity to issues that affect the fate of us all. But clarity, unfortunately, is not the same thing as reassurance."--

Sea stories: my life in special operations

By McRaven, William H.

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 300

Call Number: 359.0092 MCR

"Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II -- the place where a young Bill McRaven learned the value of a good story. Sea Stories is an unforgettable look back on one man's incredible life, from childhood days sneaking into high-security military sites to a day job of hunting terrorists and rescuing hostages."--Amazon.

Close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration

By Wojnarowicz, David

Publishing Date: 1991

Classification: 300

Call Number: 362.1 WOJ

"...From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is [the author's] powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically."-- Publisher description.

Visual Mantracking: for law enforcement and search & rescue

By Moreira, Fernando

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.2562 MOR

Visual Mantracking for Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue is a guide catering to those who use human tracking skills as part of the law enforcement community.Professional tracker Fernando Moreira shares over 40 years of tracking experience with you. - Learn about the tools and equipment used in tracking- Learn how to use all your senses to track- Learn about the effects of aging on tracks- Develop skills to track at night- Learn about sign cutting- Learn about crime scene and evidence preservation- Learn what it takes to track in an urban environmentAbout the AuthorThe trail of a lost person or wanted criminal never goes cold when a trained man tracker follows the signs. Fernando Moreira is the master man tracker who wrote this book to reveal the secrets behind the process of finding people. Fernando is a third generation professional tracker whose skills are in constant demand by police and search and rescue agencies the world over. He continues to be involved with numerous search and rescue organizations and will respond to requests anywhere in the United States, particularly for missing children searches. What Fernando has practiced successfully for decades is explained point by point for the aspirant who needs the skills of tracking. Join him, chapter by chapter, and learn how to find anyone - anywhere.Biography by Frank Thayer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Journalism, New Mexico State University - (Booksurge)

Unplanned: the dramatic true story of a former Planned Parenthood leader's eye-opening journey across the life line

By Johnson, Abby

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.46 JOH

Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in an actual abortion procedure for the first time, walked down the street to join the Coalition for Life. Unplanned is a heart-stopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and compassion into the political controversy that surrounds this issue. Telling Abbýs story from both sides of the abortion clinic property line, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the life versus rights debate and helping women who face crisis pregnancies.Now updated with a new chapter covering the latest events in Abbýs journey, in the news, and in changing legislation . . . and revealing the impact Abbýs story has had in the most surprising places.

Losing Earth: a recent history

By Rich, Nathaniel

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.7387 RIC

"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--

199 cemeteries to see before you die

By Rhoads, Loren

Publishing Date: 2017

Classification: 300

Call Number: 363.7509 RHO

The most striking cemeteries from around the globe.

Circle of treason: a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed

By Grimes, Sandra

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.131 GRI

Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s.

NEW RELEASE

Hate crimes

Publishing Date: 2020

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.1509

The reference shelf ; volume 92, number 1 Reference shelf ; v. 92, no. 1.

The thirty-year genocide: Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924

By Morris, Benny

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.151 MOR

A new understanding of the three waves of ethno-religious violence that swept Turkey from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to the early years of the Turkish Republic, arguing that all three were part of one purposeful genocidal program.--

Locking up our own: crime and punishment in black America

By Forman, James

Publishing Date: 2017

Classification: 300

Call Number: 364.973 FOR

"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures -- such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods -- were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency. Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas -- from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils. "--

The abolition of man, or, Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools

By Lewis, C. S

Publishing Date: 2001

Classification: 300

Call Number: 370.1 LEW

A collection of three essays discussing education, society, and nature.

Born reading: bringing up bookworms in a digital age--from picture books to ebooks and everything in between

By Boog, Jason

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 300

Call Number: 372.425 BOO

A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children's book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.

The years that matter most: how college makes or breaks us

By Tough, Paul

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 300

Call Number: 378.198 TOU

"The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States"--

An edible history of humanity

By Standage, Tom

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 300

Call Number: 394.1209 STA

From the Publisher: From the bestselling author of A History of the World in Six Glasses, this is a riveting history of humanity told through the foods we eat. Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance; it has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. And today, in the culmination of a process that has been going on for thousands of years, the foods we choose in the supermarket connect us to global debates about trade, development, and the adoption of new technologies. An Edible History of Humanity is a journey through the uses of food that have helped to shape and transform societies around the world, from prehistory to the present. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, anthropology, ethno-botany and economics, the story of these gastronomic revolutions is a deeply satisfying account of the whole of human history.