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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea
Paul Ryan · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz · Humanix Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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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 author, and a mentor... |
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America Needs Talent: Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce
Jamie Merisotis · Rosettabooks
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover |
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"This book should be on the desk of every 2016 Presidential candidate." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New AmericaWith falling wages and rising inequality, persistent unemployment, failing schools, and broken cities, have America's best days come and gone?In America... |
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The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Mike Lofgren · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred, House of Cards-style exposé of who really wields power in Washington Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN""You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."... |
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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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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
James Risen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 285
Format: Print book |
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War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,... |
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
Ben S. Bernanke · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed... |
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Henry Petroski · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally... |
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
Dana Loesch · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald · Encounter Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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