Nonfiction

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Nonfiction can als ...more

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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

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Leading With Care in a Tough World by Phillip G. Clampitt

Leading With Care in a Tough World: Beyond Servant Leadership

Phillip G. Clampitt (Goodreads Author),

Bob DeKoch

Release date: Nov 01, 2022

A new book from the authors of the highly praised Transforming Leaders into Progress Makers, Leading with Care breaks new ground in the exploration of ...more
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The Read Aloud Factor: How to Create the Habit That Boosts Your Baby's Brain

Rekha S. Rajan

Release date: Oct 25, 2022

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The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

Sheldon Whitehouse,

Jennifer Mueller

Release date: Oct 18, 2022

A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous mega-donors on the far right seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous mega-donors on the far right seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including a majority of the Supreme Court Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including fifty-four judges for United States courts of appeal, 174 judges for United States district courts, and the last three Justices of the United States Supreme Court.

Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, aided and abetted by Republican justices in cases from Bellotti v. Bank of Massachusetts to the infamous Citizens United. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an "amicus brief" signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to "fast-lane" strategic test cases to the friendly Justices.

Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to "covert ops," ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti- government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.

The world got a glimpse of this story when the Senator's presentation at the Amy Comey Barrett hearing went viral. Now, full of unique insights and inside stories, The Scheme further pulls back the curtain on a powerful and hidden apparatus that has spent years trying secretly to corrupt our politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy. ...more
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