Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
America's Greatest Library
Author: John Young Cole
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Union List of Serials
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. Library System
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Congress in Context
Author: John Haskell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042997499X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular (and most misunderstood) branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of the government. But the Framers of the Constitution explicitly intended for the branches of government to be interdependent. Congress in Context introduces readers to Congress's critical role in the context of this interdependent system. Using the metaphor of a board of directors, the authors explain the three key roles of Congress within the federal government (authorizing what government does, funding its activities, and supervising how it carries out the laws Congress passes) and shows students how Congress interacts with the rest of the government to exercise these powers. The thoroughly expanded and revised second edition features brand-new chapters on Congress and the courts and Congress and interest groups. It also includes expanded coverage of Congress's relationship with the executive branch, campaign finance, and today's major budget issues. Grounded in the latest political science literature coupled with contemporary examples, Congress in Context offers students an informed yet accessible introduction to how the legislative branch carries out its duties.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042997499X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular (and most misunderstood) branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of the government. But the Framers of the Constitution explicitly intended for the branches of government to be interdependent. Congress in Context introduces readers to Congress's critical role in the context of this interdependent system. Using the metaphor of a board of directors, the authors explain the three key roles of Congress within the federal government (authorizing what government does, funding its activities, and supervising how it carries out the laws Congress passes) and shows students how Congress interacts with the rest of the government to exercise these powers. The thoroughly expanded and revised second edition features brand-new chapters on Congress and the courts and Congress and interest groups. It also includes expanded coverage of Congress's relationship with the executive branch, campaign finance, and today's major budget issues. Grounded in the latest political science literature coupled with contemporary examples, Congress in Context offers students an informed yet accessible introduction to how the legislative branch carries out its duties.
The Library of Congress as a National Library
Author: Herbert Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Author: SUSAN L. ROTH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643790817
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction. Also available in Spanish.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643790817
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction. Also available in Spanish.
The Library of Congress Trust Fund Board
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library of Congress trust fund board
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library of Congress trust fund board
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Eyes on Russia
Author: Margaret Bourke-White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Scratched
Author: Elizabeth Tallent
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062410385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction In this bold and brilliant memoir, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life. In the decade between age twenty-seven and thirty-seven, Elizabeth Tallent published five literary books with Knopf, her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, and she secured a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. But this extraordinary start to her career was followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote —or rather published— nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. Elizabeth’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington, D.C., when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment, Elizabeth moves back and forth in time, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. She traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family,” to her adulthood, when perfectionism came to affect everything. As she toggles between teaching at Stanford in Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives, raises her son Gabriel, and pursues an important psychoanalysis, Elizabeth grapples with the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her personal life and writing life. Eventually, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. Her final triumph is the writing of this extraordinary memoir, filled with wit, humor, and heart—a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062410385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction In this bold and brilliant memoir, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life. In the decade between age twenty-seven and thirty-seven, Elizabeth Tallent published five literary books with Knopf, her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, and she secured a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. But this extraordinary start to her career was followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote —or rather published— nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. Elizabeth’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington, D.C., when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment, Elizabeth moves back and forth in time, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. She traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family,” to her adulthood, when perfectionism came to affect everything. As she toggles between teaching at Stanford in Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives, raises her son Gabriel, and pursues an important psychoanalysis, Elizabeth grapples with the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her personal life and writing life. Eventually, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. Her final triumph is the writing of this extraordinary memoir, filled with wit, humor, and heart—a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence.
The Federal Theatre Project Collection
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description