Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal is a personal and political history told with acid humor and a loving heart. Barry Crimmins, a writer and commentator on Air America Radio, travels from a skeptical childhood in frozen upstate New York, through the founding of the Boston comedy scene, to a career as a satirist and activist. No villain is spared; no hero is forgotten. Crimmins also cuts a hilarious swath through our political tormentors, in the...
Author
Description
The two hundred political cartoons by Robert Sarnoff, Editorial Cartoonist for New York's oldest weekly newspaper, The Wave, that fill these pages, attempt to capture and make some sense of the days, weeks and years that render 9/11/01 to 9/11/11, a decade to remember. It is ten years After The Fall, since the world crumbled to Ground Zero shattering our rose colored glasses. Writings, snippets, explanations, add insight and spice to the two hundred...
Author
Description
P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell" in more than 40 countries. Now O'Rourke, born at the peak of the Baby Boom, turns his keen eye on himself and his 75 million accomplices in making America...
Author
Description
George Washington was said to be "First in War, First in Peace." In The Making of the President 1789, humorist Marvin Kitman argues that our first president was also the first American leader to ride his personal foibles to political greatness. Kitman lampoons the modern "campaign insider" books, asking: "How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more battles than he wins and becomes a war hero? He has absolutely...
Author
Description
Q: How do you survive in a world of disinformation?
A: You chronicle the truth.
Welcome to the post-truth world!
In this age of disinformation, it is important to document the travesties of the oligarchs and puppet masters; the "Powers That Be".
This monthly publication is salty.
It's for adults ONLY!
If you can't handle tough questions (hint: you are a snowflake) you will not like this periodical.
Left, Right, Libertarian?-I don't care!
The...
89) The 45th
Author
Formats
Description
What if a political party in disarray turned to a man to lead them with no political background? What if a country torn apart by ideology turned to a man whose charisma belied a complete lack of governing experience? What if a country elected a President based not on qualifications, but on hope? Would this man lead the country into a new era of fortune and prosperity? Or would he lead them into total and complete chaos?
Author
Description
"Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Politics of place volume 3
Formats
Description
"Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico...
Author
Formats
Description
Forget the G-7 and the G-20; we are entering a leaderless "G- Zero" era- with profound implications for every country and corporation. The world power structure is facing a vacuum at the top. With the unifying urgency of the financial crisis behind us, the diverse political and economic values of the G-20 are curtailing the world's most powerful governments' ability to mediate growing global challenges. There is no viable alternative group to take...
Author
Formats
Description
"How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia: It is impossible to think of Russia today without considering Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world and dominates Western media coverage of Russia to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the center of attention for detractors and supporters alike. But as Tony Wood...
94) Snow job
Author
Series
Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 4
Formats
Description
Arthur Beauchamp moves to Ottawa, and all hell breaks loose
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But, he hates it there: the cold, the politics, the apartment, his place in his wife's shadow. So when a diplomatic delegation from Bhashyistan is blown sky-high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, in no time at all, he's tangled...
Author
Formats
Description
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength" while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think...
Author
Formats
Description
As the UK's national narrative falters and trust in key political institutions is wavering what does the future hold? Is the UK set to become 'Singapore on Thames?' as some suggest? What might a future relationship with the EU look like? What would it take to rekindle a real enthusiasm for the European project, as opposed to the semi-detached relationship Britain has had with the EU? How do we rebuild trust in our institutions and create a new, 21st...
Author
Description
Bill Muckler was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the same parochial school for 9 years and graduated from Christian Brothers College High School (an Army Junior ROTC School) in St. Louis. Bill graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.A. in Psychology (Personnel Management) with 2 years Air Force ROTC.
After graduation, Bill dodged both the draft and jury duty to enter the USMC Officer Candidate Course in Quantico,...
Author
Description
Obviously, in the vein of protest novels, such as Civil Disobedience, Invisible Man, and The Souls of Black Folk, comes Kill Trump: Invoke the 25th -A Revolution of the Human Spirit.
Remarkably, the story begins onboard the R.M.S. Titanic as it mysteriously sets sails across the Atlantic with its very well-known cast of characters: Captain J. Smith, Mr. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of White Star Line, John Jacob Astor and his new eighteen-year-old...
100) You Have Rights!
Author
Series
Description
Teach students they have rights! This nonfiction book explains what rights are and encourages students to protect their own. Made for young readers, this book includes a fiction story connected to the topic, interactive discussion questions, a related project, and other helpful features. This 24-page full-color book explains what rights are while encouraging students to stand up for themselves and each other. It also guides students toward becoming...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Ajax Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request