You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Stop! In the real world, life can get so hard it is almost impossible to see a way out! If you knew what would happen after death, would you make the same choices in your life as you have? Or would you stay to ensure changes were made? Aborting the fate that may await you? This is the choice Katelyn must make. After a life of happiness, loss, torment, and abuse, to her the answer was easy . . . Stop fighting and just die! What made her change her mind? In this tear-jerking ‘lifelike’ story, enter her world and make it your own. Through her, find the answers and strength, to not just simply exist, but to also live a life you are in control of – one of love, empowerment, and serendipity. ‘Anja’ is the reason for questioning everything in this man-made world. Through the power within, the power we all possess, we begin to find the secrets of Katelyn’s life and her ability to overcome many mountains.
William C. "Willie" Velásquez Jr. founded the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP) and was an influential participant in other leading Latino rights and justice groups, including the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). From the late 1960s until his untimely death in 1988, Velásquez helped Mexican Americans and other Hispanics become active participants in American political life. Though still insufficiently appreciated, Velásquez holds a unique status in the pantheon of modern American civil rights figures. This critical biography features an introduction by Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of the Department of Ho...
This book makes an impassioned argument that our current conceptions of sovereignty must change before humanity can effectively resolve the world's increasingly global challenges, from international terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons to global warming and poverty.
How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to one’s ideals when confronted with the reality that the only way to get things done in Washington is compromise? Who are the men and women who help shape our national agenda, and what drives their work? Dispatches from the Eastern Front provides fascinating, intensely personal, yet universal answers to these central questions. Recounting four decades inside Washington politics, Gerald Felix Warburg brings remarkable candor to a most unusual memoir. An idealistic California Baby Boomer transported to the intimidating world of Capitol Hill policymaking at a young age, Warburg finds himself working to reform nuclear energy, ...