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U.S. Immigration Made Easy

Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO
Format: updated legal content Edition

Green cards, visas, and more: What every prospective immigrant to the U.S. needs to know . An info-packed guide that covers both eligibility for U.S. visas and green cards and the practical requirements for obtaining them. . Readers will learn how the U.S. immigration system really...
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The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained (The Handy Answer Book Series)

David L. Hudson Jr. J.D. - Visible Ink Press
Format: Hardcover

The U.S. Supreme Court, its decisions, and its nominating process for new justices are often in the news ... but are just as often not well understood. Constitutional law professor David L. Hudson, Jr., explains the cases, processes, and important history with this in-depth primer on the U.S....
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Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions by Shae Irving J.D. (2008-01-14)

The Editors of Nolo The Editors of Nolo - NOLO
Format: 12th Edition


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Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Jena Friedman - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award-nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.. Growing up, Jena Friedman didn't care...
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country - and how a grisly murder of a woman brought...
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King: A Life

Jonathan Eig - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The Millions, and Literary HubThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. . Vividly written and exhaustively...
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Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report

Covid Crisis Group - PublicAffairs
Format: Paperback

This powerful report on what went wrong - and right - with America's Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation

Justice Malala - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela...
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

Ned Blackhawk - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America "In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental - either obstacles to be overcome or part...
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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

Joan Biskupic - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business...
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