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1. Mercy For Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
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A compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy For Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nations leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy For Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organizations work; from MFAs early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organizations current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.
But this isnt just Nathans story. Mercy For Animals examines how our country moved from a network of small, local farms with more than 50 percent of Americans involved in agriculture to a massive coast-to-coast industrial complex controlled by a mere 1 percent of our populationand the consequences of this drastic change on animals as well as our global and local environments. We also learn how MFA strives to protect farmed animals in behind-the-scenes negotiations with companies like Nestl and other brand namesconglomerates whose policy changes can save countless lives and strengthen our planet. Alongside this unflinching snapshot of our current food system, readers are also offered hope and solutionsbig and smallfor ending mistreatment of factory farmed animals. From simple diet modifications to a clear explanation of how to contact corporations and legislators efficiently, Mercy For Animals proves that you dont have to be a hardcore vegan or an animal-rights activist to make a powerful difference in the lives of animals.
2. The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction
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The CAFE Book Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and InstructionDescription
"All readers of any age need instruction and support that helps them become more independent and self-reflective in their work." Gail Boushey and Joan Moser
In The CAFE Book, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion. The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding vocabulary. The system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small-group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs.
Gail and Joan developed the CAFE system to support teachers as they:
organize assessment data so it truly informs instruction;
track each child's strengths and goals, thereby maximizing time with him or her;
create flexible groups of students, all focused on a specific reading strategy; and
help students remember and retrieve the reading strategies they learned.
The CAFE system does not require expensive materials, complicated training, or complete changes to current classroom literacy approaches.Rather, it provides a structure for conferring with students, a language for talking about reading development, and a system for tracking growth and fostering student independence. The CAFE systems built-in flexibility allows teachers to tailor the system to reflect the needs of their students and their states standards. And its a perfect complement to The Daily Five, The Sisters influential first book, which lays out a structure for keeping all students engaged in productive literacy work for every hour of every classroom day.
3. God's Power to Change Your Life (Living with Purpose)
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What does it take to Become more loving? Live more peacefully? Develop patience? Have self-control? In the years I have been a pastor, writes Rick Warren, the number-one question Im asked is, Rick, why cant I change? People want to changebut theyre stuck. Do you want to get unstuck? Heres how. Drawing simple but powerful truths from the Bible, this book gives you practical guidance for specific types of change, and it links you up with the power to actually make the changes you long to make. As you apply the truth of Gods Word by the power of his Spirit, your life will change. Youll move out of your rutand get on track with Gods wonderful purposes for your life.
4. I Lift Up My Soul: Devotions to Start Your Day with God
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The sun rises, the day begins, and the world begins clamoring for your time. But the whisper of God calls you to be with Him?and it's the best part of your day.
Beloved pastor Charles Stanley has been teaching the Word of God for forty years?lovingly, reverently explaining the wonders of Christ's Good News from the pulpit, in his internationally acclaimed radio program, and in more than thirty-five best-selling books. In I Lift Up My Soul, Dr. Stanley's inspirational gems?filled with personal wisdom and words of encouragement?will lead you to your heavenly Father day after day.
Each day in I Lift Up My Soul, you will find a verse from Scripture, recommended reading, a guided prayer, and an inspirational and instructional message designed to lift your heart and soul from the earthly to the eternal. Your day will be transformed.
5. Uprising
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The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought attention to the labor movement in America, is part of the curriculum in classrooms throughout the country.Told from alternating points of view, this historical novel draws upon the experiences of three very different young women: Bella, who has just emigrated from Italy and doesn't speak a word of English; Yetta, a Russian immigrant and crusader for labor rights; and Jane, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Bella and Yetta work together at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory under terrible conditions--their pay is docked for even the slightest mistake, the bosses turn the clocks back so closing time is delayed, and they are locked into the factory all day, only to be frisked before they leave at night to make sure they haven't stolen any shirtwaists. When the situation worsens, Yetta leads the factory's effort to strike, and she meets Jane on the picket line. Jane, who feels trapped by the limits of her own sheltered existence, joins a group of high-society women who have taken an interest in the strike as a way of supporting women's suffrage. Through a series of twists and turns, the three girls become fast friends--and all of them are in the Triangle Shirtwast Factory on March 25, 1911, the day of the fateful fire. In a novel that puts a human face on the tragedy, Margaret Peterson Haddix has created a sweeping, forceful tale that will have readers guessing until the last page who--if anyone--survives.
6. Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas.
One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In FACTORY MAN, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
7. Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima
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In the grand tradition of John Keegans enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima.This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire.
Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independenceand reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.
To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them.
Praise for Men of War
A tour de force . . . strikingly vivid, well-observed, and compulsively readable.The Daily Beast
Military history at its best . . . This is indeed war up-close, as those who fought it lived itand survived it if they could. Men of War is deeply researched, beautifully written.The Wall Street Journal
A brilliant, riveting, unique book . . . Men of War will be a classic.General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army (Retired)
The fact is that Men of War moves and educates, with the reader finding something interesting and intriguing on virtually every page.National Review
This is a book that has broad value to a wide audience. Whether the reader aims to learn what actually happens in battle, draw on the military lessons within, or wrestle with what actually defines combat, Men of War is a valuable addition to our understanding of this all-too-human experience.The New Criterion
A highly recommended addition to the literature of military history . . . [Rose] writes vividly and memorably, with a good eye for the telling detail or anecdote.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Using the firsthand accounts of brave soldiers who fought for freedom, Rose sheds new light on viewpoints we havent heard as widely before. Its a welcome perspective in an era where most people have no military experience to speak of.The Washington Times
Rose poignantly captures the terror and confusion of hand-to-hand combat during the battle.The Dallas Morning News
If you want to know the meaning of war at the sharp end, this is the book to read.James McPherson, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The War That Forged a Nation
8. Factory Man: How Jim Harbour discovered Toyota's quality and productivity methods and helped the U.S. auto industry get competitive
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Factory Man is about James Harbour and the epic struggle of the U.S. auto industry to catch up to Japan in quality and productivity. Harbour is a former manufacturing executive who, partly by chance, became the first U.S. expert to study Toyota's operations in Japan. Harbour's consulting firm, Harbour & Associates has gained worldwide recognition for its annual public studies of factory productivity. The Harbour Report is the essential annual scorecard of who is winning the productivity race in the U.S. In 1981, Harbour reported that Toyota could offer a small car for sale in the U.S. at a production cost of $1,500-$1,700 less than the Detroit automakers at that time, a cost advantage of about 30 percent. The impact on Detroit was atomic, and launched the painful, historic effort by the Big Three to catch up, which continues today.James Harbour's story, blunt and accessible, includes a detailed description of how Detroit went astray, beginning right after World War II. He saw it all firsthand. A Depression child, he started working at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue assembly plant in 1946 and rose through the ranks, struggling all that time against a system that tolerated inferior products. The story continues to the present day as he explains why Detroit still hasn't quite caught up and how desperate the situation has become.
9. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
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"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoovers FBI was an American gestapo." Newsweek
Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentrys masterful portrait of Americas top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; as well as insight into the Watergate scandal and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. 32 pages of photographs10. The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
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Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions. The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier editions, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of winsome text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.
11. Dead Man Upright (Factory 5)
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Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatchers England.The fifth and final book in the authors acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymonds death, and so didnt get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of Derek Raymonds rabid fans arent even aware there is a fifth book.
But Dead Man Upright may be the most psychologically probing book in the series. Unlike the others, its not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile, the series herothe nameless Sargent from the Unexplained Deaths departmentis facing more obstacles in the department, due to severe budget cutbacks, than hes ever faced before.
However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question. But even the Sargents brutally blunt way of speaking cant convince the besotted victim, and hes got to convince a colleague to go against orders and join him in the attempt to catch the killer... before its too late.
12. Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman