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Peterson's master the firefighter exam. by Rafilson, Fred M.; Peterson's (Firm : 2006- );
LSCRDA description based on: 18th edition (2020).
Subjects: Fire extinction; Civil service;
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The Ministry of Time / by Bradley, Kaliane,author.;
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he's a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as "washing machines," "Spotify," and "the collapse of the British Empire." But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts. Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry's project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how--and whether she believes--what she does next can change the future.
Subjects: Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Civil service; Man-woman relationships; Space and time; Time travel;
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The fifth risk / by Lewis, Michael(Michael M.),author.;
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system-those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.
Subjects: Administrative agencies; Government executives; Public administration; Civil service;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Mr. Bates vs the Post Office [videorecording] / by Dolan, Monica,actor.; Dooley, Shaun,actor.; Hart, Ian,1964-actor.; Hesmondhalgh, Julie,actor.; Hughes, Gwyneth,screenwriter.; Jennings, Alex,actor.; Jones, Toby,1966-actor.; Kelly, Katherine,1979-actor.; Mellor, Will,1976-actor.; Pattani, Krupa,actor.; Shah, Amit,1981-actor.; Strong, James,television director.; Williams, Lia,actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shaun Dooley, Ian Hart, Alex Jennings, Katherine Kelly, Will Mellor, Amit Shah, Krupa Pattani, Lia Williams.Based on the true story of one man's fight against one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Starting more than 20 years ago, the Post Office wrongly dismissed, harassed, and prosecuted hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters for theft, fraud, and false accounting. Sub Postmasters were told they were the only ones to report a problem with a new computer system called Horizon. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept the Post Office blame. He found and brought together a group of other isolated and wrongly accused victims to form the Justice for Sub Postmasters Alliance. Alan Bates and his friends exposed a shocking scandal at the heart of the Post Office, a government-owned and much-loved national institution.PG.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Historical television programs.; Legal television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Bates, Alan, 1954-; Judicial error; Post office buildings; Software failures; Postal service; Class actions (Civil procedure); Postmasters;
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Reaching Mithymna : among the volunteers and refugees on Lesvos / by Heighton, Steven,1961-author.;
"A poet's firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis. In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY--a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton--alongside the exhausted locals and under-equipped international aid workers--found himself thrown into emergency roles for which he was woefully unqualified. From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind"--
Subjects: Heighton, Steven, 1961-; Refugee camps; Refugees; Volunteer workers in social service;
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MLK/FBI [videorecording] / by Comey, James B.,Jr.,1960-on-screen participant.; Gage, Beverly,on-screen participant.; Hedin, Benjamin,film producer,screenwriter.; King, Martin Luther,Jr.,1929-1968,on-screen participant.; Pollard, Sam,film director.; Tomaselli, Laura,screenwriter.; Field of Vision,presenter.; IFC Films,publisher.; Play/Action Pictures,presenter.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.; TradesCraft Films,production company.;
Director of photography, Robert Chappell ; editor, Laura Tomaselli ; score composed by Gerald Clayton.James Comey, Beverly Gage, Martin Luther King Jr.From the time that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a resonant voice in the American civil rights movement, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover regarded him as a danger to the status quo that needed to be discredited. This stunning documentary lays bare the Bureau's unflagging campaign to surveil and undermine Dr. King through the balance of his life--and the disturbing resonance that the questions raised here have in our contemporary politics.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Cointelpro; African American civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Intelligence service; Undercover operations;
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The trust [videorecording] / by Cage, Nicolas,1965-; Ferreira, Sky,1992-; Lewis, Jerry,1926-; Wood, Elijah,1981-; Métropole Films Distribution.; Mongrel Media.;
Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira, Jerry Lewis.Waters and Stone are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of such a large amount of cash. Through diligent police work they follow a trail that leads directly to a custom bank-style vault.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Police corruption; Police; Vaults (Strong rooms); Criminal behavior;
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Special delivery : Canada's postal heritage / by Amyot, Chantal; Gendreau, Bianca,1960-; Willis, John.; Brousseau, Francine.;
Includes bibliography and index.
Subjects: Postal service; Postal service;
© c2000., Goose Lane Editions,
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Shameless. [videorecording] / by Wells, John,1956-; Macy, William H.,1950-; Rossum, Emmy,1986-; Chatwin, Justin,1982-; Cutkosky, Ethan,1999-; Hampton, Shanola.; Kenney, Emma,1999-; Monaghan, Cameron.; White, Jeremy Allen.; Wiggins, Laura Slade,1988-; Cusack, Joan,1962-; Warner Home Video (Firm); Showtime Networks.;
William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Jeremy Allen White, Laura Slade Wiggins, Joan Cusack.Season Three picks up 137 days since we last spent time with the Gallaghers. Jimmy has moved into the house. Fiona's scrounging for cash. Lip is sentenced to community service. Frank is missing. And although no one else seems to mind, Debbie's worried about him. Everything seems fine -- except for the mysterious Town Car parked out front. When it comes to family drama, the Gallaghers don't set the bar ... they raze it.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Dysfunctional families; Alcoholic fathers;
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