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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality.
America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz · Humanix Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.
One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling... |
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The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
Wendell Berry · Shoemaker & Hoard
Pages: 180
Format: Book |
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* In a democratic commonwealth, what are the costs and consequences of rugged individualism?* What, in the fullest sense, is involved in our National Security?* When considering Weapons of Mass Destruction, does our inventory include soil loss, climate change, and ground water poisoning?... |
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Understanding the Department of the Interior
Don Philpott · Bernan Press
Pages: 327
Format: Print book |
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Understanding the Department of the Interior reviews many of the major issues handled by the Department of the Interior and impacting the U.S. today. The book aims to present the case, scientific and otherwise, for both sides of all the issues addressed. Areas covered include protection... |
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A
Frederick Hertz · Nolo
Pages: 456
Format: Print book |
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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An explosive, alarming history that finally confronts how American governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide. Lauded by Ta-Nehisi Coates for his "brilliant" and "fine understanding of the machinery of government... |
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Celebrating Life Customs around the World
Victoria Williams · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 1247
Format: Hardcover |
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This book documents hundreds of customs and traditions practiced in countries outside of the United States, showcasing the diversity of birth, coming-of-age, and death celebrations worldwide.* Examines cultural events in the general categories of birth and childhood events, teen and early... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise... |
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Today's Economic Issues: Democrats and Republicans
Nancy S. Lind · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover |
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on economic policies, including taxation, spending priorities, wages, business regulation, and other... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 176
Format: Print book |
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American principles.
Over the course... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID · PENGUIN Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special... |
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First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home
Jill Abraham Hummer · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover |
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Unelected, but expected to act as befits her "office," the first lady has what Pat Nixon called "the hardest unpaid job in the world." Michelle Obama championed military families with the program Joining Forces. Four decades earlier Pat Nixon traveled to Africa as the nation's... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
From the former Secretary of State and bestselling author - a sweeping, definitive look at the birth, life and struggle of global democracy.
From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza... |
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