| Author | : Terry McAuliffe |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2008-02-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780312377755 |
A political strategist for the Clinton administration shares insider information on how key Democratic initiatives unfolded behind the scenes, from the Carter-Kennedy primary contest in 1980 to Clinton's health-care reform plan of 1993.
| Author | : Sandy Asher |
| Publisher | : Philomel |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Froggie is so excited about celebrating Grandpa's birthday that he does not want the day to end.
| Author | : Ana Maria Machado |
| Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2013-03-18 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1554983495 |
If it is just a few days until your birthday, and your mother says you can invite anyone you like to come over to play, be careful! If you don't watch out, you might soon be having the craziest party ever, with people and food from around the world. Before you know it, night could come and go and a new day could begin, and the dancing might still be going strong. At least, that is what happens in this humorous and irresistibly joyful cautionary tale! In a celebration of neighbors and diversity, an open-ended party invitation results in a raucous gathering of children, pets and parents (plus salsa dancers and a reggae band!), all feasting on food from all over the world. Couscous, crepes, salad, ackee--there isn't enough room on the table for all the food. And it's noisy too, because people don't stop talking while they eat and dance. The party might have gotten out of hand a bit, but nobody minds--after all, it is the craziest, wildest, funnest party ever! Everyone loves a party, and with its vivid illustrations and irresistibly playful text, this picture book delivers the rowdiest, happiest birthday party ever.
| Author | : Marty Cohen |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2009-05-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0226112381 |
Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.
| Author | : Joshua Chambers-Letson |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2018-08-07 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1479846465 |
Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, 2018 Errol Hill Award in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vō, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eiko, and Tseng Kwong Chi, and with additional appearances by Nao Bustamante, Audre Lorde, Martin Wong, Assata Shakur, and Nona Faustine, After the Party considers performance as it is produced within and against overlapping histories of US colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. Building upon the thought of José Esteban Muñoz alongside prominent scholarship in queer of color critique, black studies, and Marxist aesthetic criticism, Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait of performance’s capacity to produce what he calls a communism of incommensurability, a practice of being together in difference. Describing performance as a rehearsal for new ways of living together, After the Party moves between slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, the first wave of the AIDS crisis, the Vietnam War, and the catastrophe-riddled horizon of the early twenty-first century to consider this worldmaking practice as it is born of the tension between freedom and its negation. With urgency and pathos, Chambers-Letson argues that it is through minoritarian performance that we keep our dead alive and with us as we struggle to survive an increasingly precarious present.
| Author | : John H. Aldrich |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2012-07-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226012751 |
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in resurgence or decline and undertakes a wholesale reexamination of the foundations of the American party system. Surveying critical episodes in the development of American political parties—from their formation in the 1790s to the Civil War—Aldrich shows how they serve to combat three fundamental problems of democracy: how to regulate the number of people seeking public office, how to mobilize voters, and how to achieve and maintain the majorities needed to accomplish goals once in office. Aldrich brings this innovative account up to the present by looking at the profound changes in the character of political parties since World War II, especially in light of ongoing contemporary transformations, including the rise of the Republican Party in the South, and what those changes accomplish, such as the Obama Health Care plan. Finally, Why Parties? A Second Look offers a fuller consideration of party systems in general, especially the two-party system in the United States, and explains why this system is necessary for effective democracy.
| Author | : Libby Walden |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-02-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0735270759 |
This Is Owl is a bright and cheerful interactive picture book with lots of flaps and accompanying actions that make it loads of fun to read together! Meet Owl. Oh wait, it's daytime. Meet Owl now, at night, when he's most active -- even if he isn't the most graceful. When the act of sneaking up on Beetle goes awry, it's up to readers to help Owl flap his wings and right himself. But when Owl is determined to make his own way, readers are taken on a journey, first to find Owl and then meet his budding family!
| Author | : Jennfier VanDerBeek |
| Publisher | : Crafty Branch, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2021-07-27 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 9780983551119 |
A gamer's gotta eat! What to Feed Your Raiding Party is a comic book cookbook that challenges gamers to cook their way out of the fast-food dungeon! Written by a chef-turned-artist and a gamer herself, each chapter opens with a 16-page comic story following the adventures of gamers Ami, Jud, and their canine companion, Woodrow, through various times and spaces: parodies of favorite stories with a definite foodie twist. Each of the over 75 recipes in the book is broken down into three different serving sizes, eliminating the need to make adjustments on the fly whether you're cooking for a big family, a small gaming group, or vice versa. The recipes include Skill Levels--level 1 recipes are great for the beginner cook, using simple techniques and ingredients, while level 5s are for those looking for something more advanced. Speaking of techniques, there are several illustrated techniques throughout the book-from how to boil water to how to debone a leg of lamb. While this is certainly not a health food book, we do believe that making your own food helps you make better choices about what you eat instead of leaving it up to chance. To help with that, nutritional information is included with each of the recipes, but we've turned them into Culinary Stats: calories are Hit Points, carbohydrates are Constitution, protein is Strength, and fat is Dexterity (full explanations are included in the beginning of the book). Finally, every recipe carries with it a certain amount of XP (experience points). As you cook, you earn points, leveling up your cooking skills. There's even a leveling system in the front of the book based on the classical French kitchen brigade of Escoffier. Challenge your friends or just compete against yourself to work your way up from Dishwasher to Executive Chef. What to Feed Your Raiding Party makes a great gift for lovers of food, comics, gaming, or all three.
| Author | : Edward Gorey |
| Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 10 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Horror stories. |
| ISBN | : 9780394851297 |
Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."
