Congress A-Z

Congress A-Z
Author: Staff of Congressional Quarterly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135938423

A ready-reference encyclopedia, now in its Third Edition, detailing the workings and personalities of the U.S. Congress, written in language that will be comprehensible to any level of researcher. 250 entries provide in-depth coverage of how Congress functions. Entries range from short definitions to a series of core essays exploring the legislative process, the seniority system, the committee system, the budget process, and other broad areas.

Congress A to Z

Congress A to Z
Author: Chuck McCutcheon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9781452287508

Congress A to Z provides ready-reference insight into the national legislature, its organization, processes, personalities, major legislation, and history. The 6th edition of this classic, easy-to-use reference is updated with new entries covering the dramatic congressional events of recent years, including social media usage by members of Congress, the politics of recent debt ceiling and deficit spending showdowns with the executive branch, new floor leaders in both chambers, and campaign finance patterns.

Nobody Hugs a Cactus

Nobody Hugs a Cactus
Author: Carter Goodrich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534400915

Celebrated artist and lead character designer of Brave, Ratatouille, and Despicable Me, Carter Goodrich, shows that sometimes, even the prickliest people—or the crankiest cacti—need a little love. Hank is the prickliest cactus in the entire world. He sits in a pot in a window that faces the empty desert, which is just how he likes it. So, when all manner of creatures—from tumbleweed to lizard to owl—come to disturb his peace, Hank is annoyed. He doesn’t like noise, he doesn’t like rowdiness, and definitely does not like hugs. But the thing is, no one is offering one. Who would want to hug a plant so mean? Hank is beginning to discover that being alone can be, well, lonely. So he comes up with a plan to get the one thing he thought he would never need: a hug from a friend.

Stand Up and Fight

Stand Up and Fight
Author: María L. O. Muñoz
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816532508

6. In Defense of Our People: The National Council of Indigenous Peoples, 1975-1985 -- Conclusion: Reimagining the Field of Force -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Once Upon a Playground

Once Upon a Playground
Author: Biondo, Brenda
Publisher: ForeEdge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1611685125

Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides. Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these iconic structures, celebrating their place in our culture and the collective memories of generations. In it, contemporary photos of vintage pieces of playground equipment are juxtaposed with images of the very same pieces as they were shown in classic catalogs, postcards, and photographs. The result is a haunting time capsule showing a rapidly vanishing part of our country's cultural heritage. Whatever the playgrounds of your childhood looked like, the gorgeous photographs in this book will transport you back in time and remind you of just how important play can really be.

Thunder at Twilight

Thunder at Twilight
Author: Frederic Morton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306823276

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.