Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 226 |

Allies at war : America, Europe, and the crisis over Iraq / by Gordon, Philip H.,1962-(CARDINAL)371734; Shapiro, Jeremy.(CARDINAL)667412;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-255) and index.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / by Austen, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)678184; Gordon, Robert Philip,cartographer.(CARDINAL)496317;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index.Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes.
Subjects: Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.); Cabrini-Green High Impact Program; Public housing; Low-income housing; Urban poor; African Americans; Inner cities;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
unAPI

Losing the long game : the false promise of regime change in the Middle East / by Gordon, Philip H.,1962-author.(CARDINAL)371734;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the regime change temptation -- Original sin : Iran, 1953 -- "We won" : Afghanistan, 1979-92 -- "We have turned a corner" : Afghanistan, 2001 -- "Mission accomplished" : Iraq, 2003 -- "The transition must begin now": Egypt, 2011 -- "We came, we saw, he died" : Libya, 2011 -- "Assad must go" : Syria, 2011 -- Conclusion : why regime change in the Middle East always goes wrong."The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades-despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents-and how it's finally time to forge a new path forward. "Must reading-by someone who saw it first-hand--for all interested in America's foreign policy and its place in the world." -Robin Wright Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade-in places as diverse as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The reasons for these interventions have also been extremely diverse, and the methods by which the United States pursued regime change have also been highly varied, ranging from diplomatic pressure alone to outright military invasion and occupation. What is common to all the operations, however, is that they failed to achieve their ultimate goals, produced a range of unintended and even catastrophic consequences, carriedheavy financial and human costs, and in many cases left the countries in question worse off than they were before. Philip H. Gordon's Losing the Long Game is a thorough and riveting look at the U.S. experience with regime change over the past seventy years, and an insider's view on U.S. policymaking in the region at the highest levels. It is the story of repeated U.S. interventions in the region that always started out with high hopes and often the best of intentions, but never turned out well. No futurediscussion of U.S. policy in the Middle East will be complete without taking into account the lessons of the past, especially at a time of intense domestic polarization and reckoning with America's standing in world"--
Subjects: Regime change;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Double-cross : the Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon / by Monk, Philip,1950-(CARDINAL)174615; Gordon, Douglas,1966-(CARDINAL)227759; Power Plant (Art gallery)(CARDINAL)196043; York University (Toronto, Ont.).Art Gallery.(CARDINAL)202290;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Film noir.; Film adaptations.; Video art.; Gordon, Douglas, 1966-; Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Half past autumn : a retrospective / by Parks, Gordon,1912-2006.(CARDINAL)144871; Brookman, Philip.(CARDINAL)271823; Corcoran Gallery of Art.(CARDINAL)144056;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Exhibition catalogs.; Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006; Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006; African American photographers; Photography, Artistic; African American photographers; African American photographers;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
unAPI

City through the ages / by Steele, Philip.(CARDINAL)719834; Lapper, Ivan,illustrator.(CARDINAL)717877; Howatt, Andrew,illustrator.(CARDINAL)738097; Davidson, Gordon,illustrator.(CARDINAL)366311;
Traces the development of a fictitious city in Western Europe from the Stone Age through the present and future.
Subjects: Cities and towns; Cities and towns; Civilization;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Kafka on the shore [sound recording] / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-(CARDINAL)354292; Barrett, Sean,1940-; Gabriel, Philip,1953-; Griffin, Gordon.; Le Sueur, Oliver.; Philpott, Daniel.; Rollett, Bob.; Sutton, Georgina.;
Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur, Gordon Griffin, Georgina Sutton, Bob Rollett, Daniel Philpott.
Subjects: Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Pets [videorecording] : wild at heart / by Dalton, Philip(Producer),television producer.; Downer, John,television director.(CARDINAL)326774; Gordon, Matthew(Television producer),television producer.; Pilley, Rob,television producer.; Unger, Brian,1965-narrator.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.(CARDINAL)143648; John Downer Productions Ltd.,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher,broadcaster.(CARDINAL)189964; Thirteen Productions,production company.(CARDINAL)849774; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.),production company.(CARDINAL)150050;
pt. 1. Playful creatures -- pt. 2. Secretive creatures.Photography, Rod Clarke, Michael W. Richards, Richard Jones, Stephen Downer, Philip Dalton, Jim Clare, Antoine Briot, Richard Cook ; editors, Stuart Napier, Imogen Pollard ; music, Will Gregory and the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales.Narrator, Brian Unger.Originally broadcast in 2015 as two episodes of the PBS television series Nature.Pets may seem familiar but they exist alongside people in a secret world of wild behavior and natural abilities that humans hardly recognize. From talkative budgies, marathon-running hamsters, wall-climbing cats and diving dogs, as well as an island where rabbits rule and a city where dogs live a secret double life; discover how pets' playful games are just a whisker away from the wild.TV Parental Guidelines Rating: TV-G.DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Educational television programs.; Nature television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Pets;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
unAPI

Paul Rand : conversations with students / by Kroeger, Michael.(CARDINAL)335426; Rand, Paul,1914-1996.(CARDINAL)335424; Weingart, Wolfgang,1941-(CARDINAL)336537; Burton, Philip.; Geissbuhler, Steff,1942-(CARDINAL)336536; Helfand, Jessica.(CARDINAL)336538; Hofmann, Armin.(CARDINAL)199026; Salchow, Gordon.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-80).Conversation one -- Conversation two -- Thoughts on Paul Rand -- Philip Burton -- Jessica Helfand -- Steff Geissbuhler -- Gordon Salchow -- Armin Hofmann.
Subjects: Rand, Paul, 1914-1996.; Graphic arts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Bullitt [videorecording] by Bisset, Jacqueline,1944-; D'Antoni, Philip,1929-; Duvall, Robert.; Fell, Norman,1924-1998.; Gordon, Don,1926-; Kleiner, Harry.; McQueen, Steve,1930-1980.; Oakland, Simon.; Pike, Robert L.,1912-1981.Mute witness.; Trustman, Alan.; Vaughn, Robert,1932-; Yates, Peter,1929-; Solar Productions.; Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, William A. Fraker; editor, Frank P. Keller; music, Lalo Schifrin.Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell.A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.MPAA rating: PG.DVD.Academy Awards, 1969: Best editing.
Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Detectives; Feature films.; Witnesses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 226 |