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Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationship with Shopping
Kerry Cohen · Seal Press
Format: Book
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In Spent, editor Kerry Cohen opens the closet doors wide to tales of women’s true relationships with shopping, from humorous stories of love/hate relationships with the mall to heartbreaking tales of overspending to fix relationships. With a contributor list that includes notable... |
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch of October... |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
Donald T Critchlow · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
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"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.Behind the Russian cyberattacks that may have thrown the 2016 election; behind... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA · Crown Forum
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Aaron B O'Connell · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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Behind the Scenes at the Dynamic Library: Simplifying Essential Operations
Beth Wheeler Fox · American Library Association
Pages: 187
Format: Book
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Offers useful tips for both new professionals and non-professionals in public, school and special libraries. Chapters cover such areas as acquisitions, cataloguing and classification, maintenance routines, technical processing, circulation, communications, finance and computers. The book... |
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Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively
Karen Markey · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 297
Format: Print book
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Online Searching puts the aspiring librarian on the fast track to becoming an expert searcher who unites library users with trusted sources of information to answer their questions.To accomplish this, it ushers you through online searching as a seven-step process: (1) determining what... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 758
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald · Encounter Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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