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Series
Jake Ross novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Elliott is grounded after having some trouble controlling his new super powers, but his punishment is short-lived when he's kidnapped by a band of teenage alien outlaws who believe he's the only one capable of destroying a planet-eating monster that's annihilating worlds"--
Author
Series
Epic zero volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Elliott harkness finally has powers and is a full-fledged member of the Freedom Force, the greatest superhero team on Earth. Elliott should be over the moon, but he quickly realizes that having powers is one thing, controlling them is quite another1 so, after yet another botched mission, elliott finds himself totally grounded.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The dramatic rise-and unimaginable fall-of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet...
5) Exercise of power: American failures, successes, and a new path forward in the post-Cold War world
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Formats
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its many instruments, and its limitations. He makes clear...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansiveness, and its limitations. He makes clear...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent in the 1980s before all but disappearing from public view for decades ... With direct and powerful language in the tradition of Lucia Berlin, Kathleen Collins, and Grace Paley, Howland chronicles the tensions of her generation"--Dust jacket flap.