Kevin: 5344 books
Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher...
by Kevin Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This is a volatile, unstable and hostile world. The Light and Darkness are on an equal footing as humanity uncomfortably leaves the last Dark Age. God's creation, the world and all human souls are struck by harsh energies on a regular basis. This is due to the dark side of humanity ruling with its...
Who Killed the Constitution?
The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.
You won’t hear that from the...
Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming?
Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists....
A Force So Swift
Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award
A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues...
by Kevin O'Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Pure Massacre is a compilation of perspectives from a group of Australian UN peacekeepers who where sent to Rwanda under a United Nations mandate. Kevin OHalloran, a Platoon Sergeant at the time, stresses the weaknesses of the UN charter and what happens when good men do nothing.
Follow the Money
Where is Alberta's Wealth Going?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Alberta’s most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft, together with economists Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, follows the money to uncover why Alberta — one of the richest places on earth — still talks poor when it comes to public services.
Do...
by Kevin Leman
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
What are your earliest childhood memories? Were you afraid of the dark? Can you remember a particularly embarrassing moment? Those memories—along with the words and emotions you use to describe them—hold the key to understanding the person you are today! Drawing on examples from his own life,...
by Kevin Passmore
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition...
by Kevin Grange
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A true account of going through UCLA’s famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program—and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles.
Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks—that was Kevin Grange’s initiation...
Defending the Damned
Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned...
by Kevin Lang
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature...
Perfect Little World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“Wilson’s ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact.” —Boston Globe
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she’s fresh out of high...
The Spaceships of the Visitors
An Illustrated Guide to Alien Spacecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
The first comprehensive field guide to alien spacecraft, complete with illustrations of more than one hundred spaceships
In the last decade, the number of reports of alien spacecraft sightings has skyrocketed. However, the phenomenon of alien encounters is not new. Here, for the first time,...