Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is a room where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believes dignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter into your own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged by conscience-especially when a piece of paper is the only bridge a person ever built.When a "three envelope anomaly" surfaces-two letters addressed to the sa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One Mirror, Many Faces is a literary novel about attention, responsibility, and the quiet ways inner life shapes what we encounter.The story follows a man who begins to notice subtle patterns—small coincidences that seem emotionally precise, encounters that arrive with unexpected weight. Nothing supernatural is proven. Nothing is explained. Yet the repetitions are difficult to ignore.As relationships deepen and ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Beneath the fluorescent order of the Havensport Regional Postal Facility, there is aroom where undeliverable mail waits for one last attempt. Claire Halston believesdignity lives in procedure: don't pry, don't trespass, don't turn a stranger's letter intoyour own story. Ben Mercer believes some rules exist to be challenged byconscience-especially when a piece of paper is the only bridge a person ever built.When a "three envelope...

This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politics and civil society. They use their position to change local agendas for youth and public perceptions of youth, and work to strengthen local community support systems.Between Movemen...

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two...

In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. The desired results on many public issues exceed the reach and resources of government....

**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for Ameri...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.“Outstanding … Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington PostThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making co...

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares organizations with strong records of engaging people in health an...

This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community engagement, government policy, and accountability.

Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, the authors analyze diverse forms of data to explicate the racialized origins, operati...

An explosive exposé of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatise public education, and curb democratic majority rule.Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over US government is a secretive political establishment with deep and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter democratic governance. But bill...