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Sunk cost : who's to blame for the nation's broken student loan system and how to fix it / by Berman, Jillian,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : how did we get here? -- The GI Bill : America's first try at subsidizing college students -- The Higher Education Act : when a plan to "open the door to education" gets complicated -- The Pell Grant : what happens when the federal government cuts support for college -- States pull back : what happens when states cut support for college too -- Credentialization : the ever-decreasing value of a college degree -- Income-driven repayment : why a smart and compassionate idea didn't provide much help -- Extraordinary collection powers : when a loan meant to help causes harm -- Forgiveness : a radical solution goes mainstream -- Conclusion : going forward."Student loan horror stories are seemingly endless. And yet, since research continually shows that the clearest road to financial stability is a college degree, Americans continue to make the optimistic choice to attend college. Whether they attend state schools or elite privates, community colleges or for-profit behemoths, they will almost certainly need loans to make it to college. If and when those students receive their diplomas, however, student loan payments quickly follow. With rising housing and childcare costs, even those with secure, full-time employment can find it difficult to make ends meet. Many Americans would insist that they chose to enter into debt and should be responsible for those choices. In this book, journalist Jillian Berman shows that focus on personal choice misses the forest for the trees. Through the stories of a diverse group of American college students, history, and policy analysis, Berman demonstrates that the college loan system is built to generate debt. First, federal loans-initiatives designed to support education-are surprisingly difficult to pay down. Second, there is no truly public option for college, making debt all but inevitable. Both of these issues initiated in and were exacerbated by years of policy decisions influenced by corporate lobbyists. The way the student loan system is set up-with guaranteed payback to institutions from the federal government-encourages abuses from all players. The government simply provides too much incentive for schools to list high tuitions and recoup all those funds through government reimbursement. While President Joe Biden's aggressive plan to cancel student debt was overturned by the Supreme Court, his administration has been chipping away at the debt crisis through piecemeal legislation. Berman shows how these measures have helped borrowers, but ultimately argues that these small fixes won't get at the structural problems she identifies. If college continues to get more and more expensive (and for-profit), we'll keep throwing good money after bad."--

Subjects: Informational works.; Student loans; Student loans; College graduates;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy : the many faces of Anonymous / by Coleman, E. Gabriella,1973-author.(CARDINAL)401593;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-432) and index."Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets."Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside-outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book.The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters--such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu--emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, including imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond and the double agent who helped put him away, Hector Monsegur, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, including the history of "trolling," the ethics and metaphysics of hacking, and the origins and manifold meanings of "the lulz.""--"Here is the definitive book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the name Anonymous, by the woman the Chronicle of Higher Education calls "the leading interpreter of digital insurgency" and the Huffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets." Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global collective just as some of its adherents were turning to political protest and disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that some Anons claimed her as "their scholar." Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy brims with detail from inside a mysterious subculture, including chats with imprisoned hacker Jeremy Hammond and the hacker who helped put him away, Hector "Sabu" Monsegur. It's a beautifully written book, with fascinating insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, such as the histories of "trolling" and "the lulz.""--

Subjects: Anonymous (Group); Hacktivism.; Internet;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.(CARDINAL)162666;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-455) and index.Origins, 1513-1760. African slaves, African conquistadors ; Origins of North American slavery ; From red to black slavery ; First Africans and the growth of northern slavery ; Royal African Company ; Early misgivings ; Fear and resistance ; Inoculation ; Fort Mose : a different trajectory -- Forging freedom, 1760-1804. First blooms ; Crispus Attucks and the freedom struggle ; Colored patriots ; The king's freedom ; Declaring independence ; Unleashing freedom ; Freedom, technology ; and king cotton ; Establishing freedom ; Creating a black Atlantic ; Toussaint! -- "It shall ever be our duty to vindicate our brethren," 1800-1834. Tracing the trade ; End of the slave trade in Britain and the United States, 1807 and 1808 ; Serving freedom in the War of 1812 ; Yarrow Mamout by Charles Wilson Peale and the rise of a people ; Colonization and Liberia ; "A fire bell in the night" ; Freedom's Journal and Walker's Appeal ; The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison ; Nat Turner ; The founding of the American Anti-slavery Society and Maria Stewart ; British emancipation -- Race and resistance, 1834-1850. Oberlin College ; Magician and ventriloquist ; Julia Chinn ; An uncompromising talent ; Opposing black freedom ; The Amistad and the Creole ; Finding freedom in Massachusetts ; Frederick Douglass ; Crosscurrents of 1848 : French abolition and the Pearl ; Rush for gold ; Harriet Tubman, American icon ; The Roberts case and the birth of Jim Crow -- Emergence, 1850-1860. The new Fugitive Slave Law ; Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law ; Martin R. Delany and Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Institute for Colored Youth ; The Black Swan ; Clotel, or, The President's daughter, and Colored patriots of the American Revolution ; Anthony Burns ; John Mercer Langston and the bar of justice ; Berea College and Wilberforce University ; Dred Scott ; Our Nig -- War and its meaning, 1859-1865. Harpers Ferry ; "This is a white man's war!" ; Contraband ; The Port Royal experiment ; "An act for the release of certain persons held to service, or labor in the District of Columbia" ; Robert Smalls and the Planter ; President Lincoln and colonization ; First in the field ; Emancipation Proclamation ; Carnival of fury ; The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; Fort Pillow ; Extraordinary heroism : New Market Heights ; Defending rights in the midst of war ; Fruit of a bitter harvest : the Thirteenth Amendment ; First black voice in Congress ; Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands ; Freedman's Bank ; The Lincoln assassination -- Reconstructing a nation, 1866-1877. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan ; Civil Rights Act of 1866 ; Murder in Memphis, 1866 ; Fourteenth Amendment and black citizenship ; Reconstruction and black higher education ; Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution ; African American diplomats ; Hiram Rhodes Revels ; Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Smalls, and African Americans in Congress ; Harvard and Yale, 1870 and 1876 ; Civil Rights Act of 1871 : the Ku Klux Klan Act ; The decline of civil rights, 1875-1883 ; Fisk University Jubilee Singers ; Charlotte Ray ; U. S. Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment : the slaughterhouse cases ; The Catholic Healys ; Convict lease ; End of reconstruction and ho for Kansas! -- "There is no Negro problem," 1877-1895. Black frontierspeople and cowboys ; The inventive Lewis H. Latimer ; Knights of Labor and Colored Farmers' Alliance ; Education and philanthropy in the nineteenth century ; Major league baseball and Jim Crow ; Mississippi Plan and black disenfranchisement ; Provident Hospital and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett and lynching ; The World's Columbian Exposition and The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner ; W. E. B. Du Bois and Harvard University -- New Negro, old problem, 1895-1900. Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; The National Association of Colored Women and the American Negro Academy ; Wilmington, North Carolina, race riot of"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--

Subjects: Illustrated works.; African Americans; African Americans;

Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 39

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The Penguin state of the world atlas / by Smith, Dan.(CARDINAL)221532; Lewis, Isabelle(Cartographer)(CARDINAL)373874;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and index.

Subjects: Atlases.; Maps.; Economic geography; Social history; Quality of life;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The smart woman's guide to diabetes : authentic advice on everything from eating to dating and motherhood / by Mercer, Amy.(CARDINAL)397534;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.Diagnosis -- Managing adolescence -- Diet -- Eating disorders and body image -- Exercise -- Dating, sex and marriage -- Working girl : diabetes at work and school -- Travel -- Pregnancy -- Motherhood -- Aging gracefully."Of the 17 million Americans who have diabetes, approximately 9.3 of that number are women. And it appears that number of women with diabetes is increasing each year. Diabetes is particularly difficult for women in large part due to the hormonal changes associated with the menstrual, changes that affect blood sugar levels. As a consequence women with diabetes have higher rates of chest pain, heart attack, coronary heart disease and stroke. And women with diabetes face special challenges. The Smart Woman's Guide to Diabetes provides advice, tips, and research from a diverse community of women living with diabetes. It provides practical insight and references for the optimal management of diabetes from women living with the disease as well as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and educators. Personal anecdotes from nearly one hundred women throughout the book reveal both the good and the bad of living with diabetes, including the frustration, sense of shame, sense of isolation as well as the capacity for strength and the opportunity for growth. The Smart Woman's Guide to Diabetes lets you know that you are not alone but rather it will make you feel like you are sitting in your favorite coffee shop with your friends who share the same disease"--

Subjects: Diabetes in women;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6

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Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 / by Molesworth, Helen,1966-author.(CARDINAL)267353; Erickson, Ruth,author.(CARDINAL)332060; Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)(CARDINAL)186387; Hammer Museum,host institution.(CARDINAL)299326; Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),originatoranizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)131693; Wexner Center for the Arts,host institution.(CARDINAL)282635;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Director's foreword / Jill Medvedow -- Curator's acknowledgements / Helen Molesworth.Imaginary landscape / Helen Molesworth -- A progressive education / Ruth Erickson -- Josef Albers. Photographs of matières / Michael Beggs -- Bauhaus in America / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Xanti Schawinsky / Spectodrama (Black Mountain Stage Studies) / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Marguerite Wildenhain. Large jar / Jenni Sorkin -- Arnold Schoenberg and musical interpretation at the Black Mountain College Summer Music Institute of 1944 / Jonathan Hiam -- Building autonomy. Creating community: The farm and work program at Black Mountain College / David Silver -- The Design-Build Program at Lake Eden / Lauren Bellard -- A. Lawrence Kocher. Stool and side table / Ruth Erickson -- Josef and Anni Albers: Mexico and modernity / Brenda Danilowitz -- Josef Albers. Graphic tectonic lithographs / Michael Beggs -- Weaving / Jenni Sorkin -- Anni Albers. Free-hanging room divider / Brenda Danilowitz -- Ray Johnson. Untitled / Ruth Erickson -- There is another way: Hazel Larsen Archer. Photographer, educator / Alice Sebrell -- Musical cosmopolitans at Black Mountain College: John Cage, Lou Harrison and Stefan Wolpe / Brigid Cohen -- Texture of the South: Roland Hayes and integration at Black Mountain College / Bryan Barcena -- Jacob Lawrence. Watchmaker / Bryan Barcena -- Leo Amino. Carnivorous Plant #22 / Bryan Barcena -- Summer Session 1948 / Eva Díaz -- R. Buckminster Fuller. Great Circle Sphere Model / Bryan Barcena -- Emerson Woelffer. Last Internment / Jennifer Gross -- Stowaways / Eva Díaz -- Elaine De Kooning. Untitled Drawing and Untitled #16 / Helen Molesworth -- Willem De Kooning. Asheville / Harry Cooper -- Cage, Tudor, and the visual language of indeterminacy / Nancy Perloff -- John Cage. "Defense of Satie" / Martin Brody -- Ceramics at Black Mountain College 1949-1956 / Cindi Strauss -- Shōji Hamada. Vase / Ruth Erickson -- Karen Karnes. Untitled (Candleholder) / Jenni Sorkin -- Peter Voulkos. Rocking Pot / Jenni Sorkin -- M.C. Richards / Jenni Sorkin -- The 1950s: Ways of life / Ruth Erickson -- Lou Harrison. Rapunzel / Martin Brody -- Theodoros Stamos. North Carolina Landscape / Harry Cooper -- Harry Callahan. Eleanor, Chicago / Ash Anderson -- Arthur Siegel. Untitled (Nude against Glass Block) / Ash Anderson -- Aaron SIskind. North Carolina 11 / Ash Anderson -- Chance encounters: Theater Piece No. 1 and its prehistory / Ruth Erickson -- Franz Kline. Painting / Jennifer Gross -- Robert Rauschenberg. Untitled (Night Blooming Series) / Helen Molesworth -- Robert Rauschenberg. Untitiled (a birthday picture for Hermine) / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Charles Olson / Steve Evans -- Charles Olson. Mayan Letters / Steve Evans -- Ben Shahn. Song / Ruth Erickson -- Between media: The Glyph Exchange / Ruth Erickson -- Cy Twombly. MIN-OE / Jennifer Gross -- Robert Duncan. The Song of the Borderguard / Steve Evans -- Black Mountain Review / Steve Evans -- Joseph Fiore. #7-54: The Gathering / Bryan Barcena -- The formation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company / Katherine Markoski -- Ruth Asawa. Dancers / Jennifer Gross -- Intentional communities / Gloria SuttonIn 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making the arts central to learning. Though it operated for only twenty-four years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught or studied there. Among the instructors were Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, Willem de Kooning, and M.C. Richards, and students included Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Leap Before You Look is a singular exploration of this legendary school and the work of the artists who spent time there. Scholars from a variety of fields contribute original essays about diverse aspects of the college--spanning everything from the college's farm program to the influence of the Bauhaus--and about the people and ideas that gave it such a lasting impact. Catalogue entries highlight selected works, including writings, musical compositions, visual arts, pottery, and weaving. The book's fresh approach and rich illustrations convey the atmosphere of creativity and experimentation unique to Black Mountain College that served as an inspiration to so many. This timely volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in art, radical pedagogy, and the enduring legacy of the college. -- Front jacket flap.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.); Art, American; Art, American; Arts; Arts;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 9

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Atlas of the world / by National Geographic Maps (Firm)(CARDINAL)318973;

World -- Natural world -- Human world -- North America -- South America -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Australia and Oceania -- The poles -- Oceans -- Cities -- Space -- Nations.Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology and information with dynamic and diverse physiographic and cultural content, the Eighth Edition is National Geographic's most accurate and interesting record of the world yet. The opening section, Ninety Years of Mapping at National Geographic, traces the founding of Geographic cartography to the present advances in technology and the practice of compiling and organizing geographic information. The atlas truly begins with three stunning new, full-spread world maps, that drape Earth's surface seamlessly with satellite imagery, then physical and natural features, and finally today's political world of countries and growing cities. World thematic topics are organized into two groups: the Physical and Natural World and Human Activities. The Physical and Natural World section includes captivating core topics such as the evolution of earth, geology and tectonics, climate and weather, oceans, world water, the biosphere, and biodiversity. Human Activities covers 11 world themes: population, migration and refugees, conflict and terrorism, cultures, economy, energy and minerals, communications, food, health and education, the environment, and ending with wildlands. All of these intriguing spreads reflect the most authoritative and recent data available and are reviewed by preeminent scholars and experts. Lined up after the world thematic focus is the continental division. All seven continents open with views from space and are then represented with separate physical and political maps. Larger scale regions of each continent are presented for higher definition and detail. Because of our primary readership, additional coverage is given to the United States and Canada. An entirely new component to the Eighth Edition is the city section. Maps and text discussing urban explosion will open this compilation of sixty new maps. Pictures, fact boxes, and text will accompany each city map to create colorful and informative portraits of our built environment. Selected cites such as, New York, Mexico City-the most densely populated city in the world, and Paris will receive more detailed scaling. Less familiar and remote areas of the world and beyond-the poles, the ocean floors, and space-are mapped with new data and findings and dramatic effects. The addition of a new spread and map devoted to Mars will provide a timely reference to the expected news coverage of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission-Spirit and Opportunity. Flags and facts of every country in the world have been newly designed and consolidated into one section, listed in alphabetical order. Locater maps and cross referencing to corresponding large-scale map plates are provided for every entity. Text for each independent country summarizes physical and cultural aspects, while facts reveal the status of population, religion, area, capital, language, literacy, life expectancy, GDP, and economy. A user-friendly, 136 page, comprehensive place-name index cross-references over 130,000 geographical sites and areas. An appendix presents valuable, convenient reference to time zones, metric conversions, foreign terms, abbreviations, airline distances, and temperature and rainfall statistics from all corners of the globe. Navigating throughout the atlas is made easy with enhanced cross-referencing, pointers, labels and an end sheet that includes a visual key with corresponding plate numbers to all the maps. Every map spread in the atlas will include interactive features and access to up-to-the-minute updates and information via the electronic National Geographic Map Machine. Streams of information are available to us on myriad topics and on many fronts. At the same time, there is a need-greater than ever-to better understand our global culture. The Eighth Edition helps bridge the gap with a collection of maps and information that is as engaging as it is informative.

Subjects: Atlases.; World atlases.;

Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15

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