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Feminism's Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family
Kirsten Swinth · Harvard University Press Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by reactionaries of the sweeping changes they campaigned for.When people discuss feminism, they often lament its failure to deliver on the promise... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY · Dutton Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas Pages: 254 Format: Paperback
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · William Morrow Pages: 960 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National... |
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The Artist's Library: A Field Guide
Erinn Batykefer · Coffee House Press Pages: 220 Format: Hardcover
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Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making... |
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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
HOWARD G BUFFETT · Hachette Books Pages: 356 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America.... |
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
MATTHEW RESTALL · Ecco Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital... |
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Everyday Sexism
Laura Bates · St Martin'S Press, 2016. Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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Special Hardcover Library EditionGood Housekeeping has this to say about Everyday Sexism, "a new generation of women is shouting back against everyday sexism, and their leader, Laura Bates, is determined to change the world."In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London... |
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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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Bobby Jindal
Tom Aswell · Pelican Publishing Co Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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What makes Bobby run? In this new, balanced look at Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, political authority Tom Aswell explores the past and record of this polarizing political figure. He covers the Rhodes scholar's meteoric rise and appointment as secretary of the Louisiana Department... |
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Crapitalism: Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars
Jason Mattera · Threshold Editions Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and ambush journalist Jason Mattera sets his sights on his next big target: crony liberals, including Al Gore, Carlos Slim, Harry Reid, and Jay Z, whose riches come at taxpayer expense.From billionaire business tycoons like George Soros and Warren Buffett... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page · Twelve Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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