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The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
Orlando Patterson · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) who tries to "fight... |
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms?... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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Success with Library Volunteers
Leslie Edmonds Holt · Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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In these tough economic times, librarians must maximize the potential of their volunteer programs. This innovative guide not only provides readers with the practical information they need to recruit, manage, and retain effective volunteers, but also demonstrates how to create a dynamic... |
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Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama's War on Millennials, and One Woman's Case for Hope
Katie Pavlich · Crown Forum
Format: Kindle Edition
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A SEARING INDICTMENT OF THE MASTER OF CHARM, BARACK OBAMA, FOR HIS HISTORIC WAR ON AMERICAN YOUTH "Let me be clear." It was his come-hither call, his winsome whistle, his lingual lure. Barack Obama employed this phrase to sell his lies as maxims and his ineptitude as expertise.... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK · Viking
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane · Little a
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police - especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out of trouble with the law. In this timely, relevant, and pragmatic new book,... |
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Death: An Oral History
Casey Jarman · Zest Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist... |
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House
SETH HETTENA · Melville House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated investigative... |
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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Mohsin Hamid · Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of his generations most inventive and gifted writers The New York Times, intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and the war on terror. Mohsin Hamids brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller,... |
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