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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

Marietje Schaake - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it. Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have...
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Mad Wife: A Memoir

Kate Hamilton - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate's love for her husband . But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving. In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with...
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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful. A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens'...
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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

Clara Bingham - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes - from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.. For lovers...
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Patriot

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family,...
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein - David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack...
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The Case for Trump

Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and "a brilliant and bracing analysis" (Mark R. Levin) of Donald Trump, his presidency, and his vision of America's future - now updated for 2024 In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains...
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The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History

Michael D. Hattem - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly two hundred...
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Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War

George Butler - Candlewick Studio
Format: Hardcover

A collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine, collated and illustrated by award-winning artist George Butler.. While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the headlines....
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,...
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