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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
Howard French · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978,... |
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
John Stubbs · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique... |
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National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear
David Rothkopf · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of 911, America and its people have experienced a sense of vulnerability unprecedented in the nations recent history. Buffeted by challenges from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the financial crisis, from Washington dysfunction to the rise of China and the dawn of the era of cyber... |
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Social Insecurity: 401
James W. Russell · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensionsNamed one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
Retha Powers · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient... |
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Without a Doubt
Marcia Clark · Graymalking Media
Pages: 489
Format: Print book
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The most recognized female attorney in America opens up about life during -- and after -- the trial of the centuryWithout a Doubt is not just a book about a trial. It's a book about a woman. Marcia Clark takes us inside her head and her heart with a story that is both sweeping and deeply... |
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Southern Reconstruction
Philip Leigh · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The Reconstruction Era the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union remains, as Eric Foner suggested, America s unfinished revolution. But Reconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice;... |
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Rosemary Mahoney · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree"This joyful, thoughtful book took me on an emotional... |
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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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The Sociology Book
Christopher Thorpe · DK Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest... |
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