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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer · The New Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal... |
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No Refuge for Women: The Tragic Fate of Syrian Refugees
MARIA VON WELSER · Greystone Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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An exposé of the hidden suffering that over half of Syria's refugees endure and the conflicts they continue to flee.No refuge: this is the harsh reality encountered by the women and children who flee Syria in search of safety. When boatloads of Syrian refugees began arriving on European... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World
Jay Griffiths · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination why are so many children in Euro-American... |
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The Librarian's Guide to Book Programs and Author Events
Brad Hooper · ALA Editions
Pages: 135
Format: Print book
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From hosting authors to planning and coordinating book activities such as book signings and book clubs, libraries are perfect venues for readers to interact directly with authors and their books. And mounting literary programming can be easier than you might think. In this guide BOOKLIST... |
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
Karen J Greenberg · Crown Publishers
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Jay Nordlinger · Encounter Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos · Dangerous Books
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H Achen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth... |
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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