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|  | Roberts Rules of Order by Darwin Patnode, Robert
Description not available.A new updated version of the official guide to parliamentary procedure offers readers insight into how to conduct meetings over the Internet, on the phone, and using video conference calling. Simultaneous. 40,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Darwin Patnode, Robert
PUBLISHER: Perseus Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Addiction Is a Choice by Jeffrey A. Schaler
A psychologist offers the provocative argument that addiction to drugs, gambling, alcohol, smoking or sex is not a disease but a choice of lifestyle. AUTHOR: Jeffrey A. Schaler
PUBLISHER: Open Court Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | In Our Own Best Interests by Mary Robinson, William F. Schulz
A director of Amnesty International argues that human rights should be a prime motive in shaping America`s foreign policy; and he argues that the United States should intervene on behalf of those imprisoned by foreign governments in violation of their human rights. AUTHOR: Mary Robinson, William F. Schulz
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Border Passage
A lucid and luminous evocation of growing up in a whirlpool of cultures and the rewarding struggle of sorting it all out.
A lyrical memoir--from Egyptian Muslim girlhood to American feminist womanhood. Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But the family's opposition to Nasser's policies led to persecutions that would set their youngest child on a journey across cultures and through some of the major transformations of our century: the end of colonialism and the European empires, the creation of Israel, the rise of Arab nationalism, and the breakdown of the multireligious society that had thrived in Egypt. Through university in England and teaching jobs in Abu Dhabi and America, Ahmed sought to define herself-and to understand how the world defined her-as a woman, a Muslim, an Egyptian, and an Arab. Her search touched on language and nationalism, on variations in men's and women's ways of knowing, and on vastly different interpretations of Islam. In the end she arrived at an ardent but critical feminism and an insider's understanding of multiculturalism and religious pluralism. In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of her Cairo youth and the fierce beauty of the Arabian desert, Ahmed has provided a story that can help us understand the passages between cultures that so affect our global society.
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Don Quixote by A. J. Close, Michael J. Marshall, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter A. Motteux, Robert Whitfield
Description not available.A middle-aged Spaniard, impressed by the fantasy he finds in books, sets off with his servant to revive the age of chivalry. AUTHOR: A. J. Close, Michael J. Marshall, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter A. Motteux, Robert Whitfield
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Halloween Classics from Modern by Modern Library Staff
Description not available.A macabre anthology of chilling poetry and short fiction from Edgar Allan Poe features The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, among other works, as well as tales by O. Henry, W. W. Jacobs, Edith Wharton, and Charles Dickens. Original. AUTHOR: Modern Library Staff
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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