No Snowflake in an Avalanche goes deep inside the world of religious extremism in America s military and political infrastructure from the perspective of Michael L. Mikey Weinstein proud Academy graduate and father of graduates who single-handedly brought to light the Evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nations military mission. Weinsteins war pits him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens of varying religious backgrounds against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into right-thinking warriors more befitting a theocracy than a democracy.

No Snowflake in an Avalanche

History

Weinstein, Michael L.

Military

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Bumbling hitmen. Burning corpses. Life in hiding. A threatened son. Jerry Schneiderman's orderly world evaporated when his business partner was executed by an assassin in 1979 Los Angeles, and the buzzard-eyed ringleader soon came for him. Though the killers behind this murder-for-hire corporation were nabbed, the trauma annihilated Jerry's family and stripped his trust. Recovery only came years later with Jerry's improbable rebirth as a prank-loving activist who defended the weak and made enemies with the rich and powerful.

The Ascension of Jerry: Business Lies, Hitmen and the Making of an L.A. Muckraker

Biographies & Memoirs

Jacobs, Chip

Leaders & Notable People

Inside Passage: A Corey Logan Novel (The Corey Logan Novels, 1)

Literature & Fiction

Weissbourd, Burt

United States

Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs, bright ideas, and transgressive game-changers. Featuring in-depth and expanded stories previously published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others, The Vicodin Thieves is an instant classic of crime, politics, and socio-analysis. Winner, anthology/collections, Southern California Book Festival

The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

The Ultimate Anti-Cancer Cookbook takes "you are what you eat" to a whole new level with easy to use recipes, using everyday foods. Incorporating sound science, a chef's sensibility, and common sense, this indispensable reference gets tons of use while inspiring well-being with Pam Braun's delicious recipes that are virtuous for your body. Plus, readers learn about nutrition along the way.

The Ultimate Anti-Cancer Cookbook: A Cookbook and Eating Plan Developed by a Late-Stage Cancer Survivor with 225 Delicious Recipes for Everyday Meals, Using Everyday Foods

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Braun, Pam

Special Diet

A compendium of four critical selections, including: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited, Vaulting the Color Bar, The X-Factor, and The Power of "Out," as well as a new introduction and new forewords by Joanna Coles, Cornel West, Mellody Hobson, and Kenji Yoshino. The Center for Talent Innovation, a non-profit think tank, has a long history of focusing on challenges and issues pertaining to the workplace. The mission is two-fold: to drive groundbreaking research that leverages talent across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture; and to create a community of senior executives united by an understanding that full utilization of the global talent pool is at the heart of competitive success. The flagship project of CTI is the Task Force for Talent Innovation and was founded in 2004. To date, the Task Force has spearheaded 200-plus new best practices, many of which are "second-generational" and go beyond access and opportunity to retention and acceleration. This action on the ground has garnered significant attention (ten Harvard Business Review studies and numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Strategy &amp; Business, The Huffington Post, and others) which brands Task Force members as "thought leaders" in global talent management.

Brainpower: Leveraging Your Best People Across Gender, Race, and Other Divides

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann

Sociology

Jim Bass is a 22-year-old failed college student, who sees the world through the tragedy of his sister’s death. It’s a perspective that sets him on a journey that starts at misunderstanding and whose path is self-delusion, but whose destination might just be redemption. There’s a Somebody begins as Jim, having dropped out of school days before graduation, abandons the woman he admits he loves more than anything else, and the daughter he has yet to meet. A loner by nature, Jim builds a successful business in an attempt to fill the void in his life and to have, as he puts it, something people can point to, a number, something no one can deny.” But while he’s good at racking up miles and socking away dollars, one misstep leads to another in his personal life until he’s in danger of losing everyone he cares about. In an age when growing up” is something to be avoided, Jim Bass bucks the trend. He wants the wife, the child, the stability. But as he discovers, when you don’t get what you want, it’s still possible to weave together a pretty good life.

There's a Somebody: A Novel

Long, Stephen W.

Genre Fiction

Winner of the Robert A. Gannon Award. The first official poetry installment in David Rose's unique blend of tenderness and morbidity, From Sand and Time engages a cataclysmic self-reflection coming with the complexities, times, and demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. An evocative collection of rhyme and free verse, From Sand and Time weaves through ambition and belief, doubt and loneliness, deployment, combat, and what waits thereafter.

From Sand and Time: Poems

Rose, David

Poetry

Charlie and the Tortoise shares the journey of how Charles Darwin discovered the connections between all animals on an adventure to some very unique islands.

Charlie and the Tortoise: An Adventure of a Young Charles Darwin (Tiny Thinkers Series)

Children's Books

Mouton, M. J.

Biographies

Collecting Sins is a highly-charged coming-of-age novel set in the Southern California of the late-1960s/early '70s. Steven Sobel evokes the inner environment of Ben, a sensitive and carefree youth confronting adulthood. Ben explores the labyrinth of sewers beneath the San Fernando Valley, cavorts on the sun-drenched, bikini-infested beaches of Santa Monica, and immerses himself in the hippie culture of Topanga Canyon. In the tradition of J.D. Salinger, Carolyn See, and Jay McInerney, Sobel takes us on a rollicking journey through the heady atmosphere of the era. Amplified by drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll, Vietnam, feminism, violence, and poetry. More than the story of an individual, Collecting Sins is the story of a generation before it came to power.

Collecting Sins

Sobel, Steven

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