Authors:Angie Crouse, Center for Responsive Politics,
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: politics, practices, rated, companies, pages, directory, blue, amp
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0981709141
ISBN-13: 9780981709147

By summarizing the political contributions and business practices of hundreds of corporations, this handy directory helps you support companies that share your political values. Follow your money; you might be surprised. The Blue Pages includes valuable information on political contributions to each major party, employee benefits and labor practices, lawsuits and investigations, and community and charitable programs. As this information starts to affect these companies at the cash register, they may be less inclined to support positions that conflict with their customers’ values. T

Author: The Institute of Politics
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: american, style, campaigning, managers, president, campaign
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-07-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0742570479
ISBN-13: 9780742570474

Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election Day. The result is a book, and the 2008 election edition is published for general audiences as well as college classrooms and campaign and media professionals.

Author: Center of Excellence Defence Against TerrorCenter
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: peace, security, science, nato, cyber, terrorism, responses
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $161.00
ISBN-10: 1586038362
ISBN-13: 9781586038366

The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as ’a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal.’ But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated ’intention to cause death or s

Author: San Francisco Zen Center
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: desserts, amp, dinners, tassajara
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-01-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1423605209
ISBN-13: 9781423605201

TASSAJARA Dinners & Desserts IN TASSAJARA: DINNERS & DESSERTS, readers will not only find recipes filled with the flavor of Zen practice but also stories from past guest cooks, such as Deborah Madison, Ed Brown, Gloria Lee, and many others, whose calm and peaceful minds were truly tested behind the doors of the Tassajara kitchen, whose monastic kitchen differs from a normal restaurant kitchen in that the activity of preparing the food is understood to be spiritual practice. The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center teaches that every aspect of one’s day can be lived with mindfulnes

Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, disaster, bright
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0345497961
ISBN-13: 9780345497963

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.Very pregnant and not quite married, Jenny Harris doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned. But Dean is acting distant, and the night he runs out for cigarettes and doesn’t come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor. And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, and fits

Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, beautiful, everyone
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1400066433
ISBN-13: 9781400066438

Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in the Northeast. She’s left behind family, friends, and a comfortable life–all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. If only she could remember what they were.These days, Lanie always seems to rank herself dead last–and when another mom accidentall

Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, lucky
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345507916
ISBN-13: 9780345507914