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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak · Pantheon Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover
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* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award * National Book Award Finalist * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 "A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally... |
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
JonathanMorduch · Princeton University Press Pages: 248 Format: Hardcover
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What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children.... |
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG · Random House Trade Paperbacks Pages: 128 Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country
GLENN BECK · Threshold Editions Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention.... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Gilbert King · Riverhead Books Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read."... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN · Penguin Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts,... |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating... |
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