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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students

Anabel Hernandez · Verso
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were...
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what...
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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

Bradley W Hart · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular...
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The Mueller Report

Washington Post · Scribner
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype ... the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency." - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive analysis...
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Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

Chelsea Handler · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler's year of self-discovery - featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed) , friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles"This...
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The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World

Tim Marshall · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations.The globe has always been...
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Antisemitism: Here and Now

Deborah E. Lipstadt · Schocken
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators...
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Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

Alfredo Corchado · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today. When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called...
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Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food

Timothy A. Wise · The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expertFew challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion...
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

John Lewis · Hachette Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested...
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