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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 1472
Format: Print book
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As epic in vision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, the definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary... |
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson · New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous... |
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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
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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 seemingly intractable,... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm,... |
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko · PublicAffairs; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Book
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The last days of colonialism taught Americas revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades,... |
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Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate
TR? NH TR?N · University of Hawaii Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years... |
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
ALVIN FELZENBERG · Yale University Press
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects... |
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Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online
Bailey Shoemaker Richards · Potomac Books
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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Cybersexism is rampant and can exact an astonishingly high cost. In some cases, the final result is suicide. Bullying, stalking, and trolling are just the beginning. Extreme examples such as GamerGate get publicized, but otherwise the online abuse of women is largely underreported. Haters... |
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Future Sex
Emily Witt · Farrar
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single womanEmily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience "eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center."... |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis · Vintage
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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