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Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance

Joel Kurtzman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about...
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Progressive Racism

David Horowitz · Encounter Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism - the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes...
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's...
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The Secret World of Oil

Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,...
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Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer

Sylvia Longmire · St Martins Pr
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes,...
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — and How We Can End It

M.D. Deborah Cohen · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding...
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

Amy Chua · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on - is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes....
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

Shane Harris · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought today
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