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The Artist's Library: A Field Guide
Erinn Batykefer · Coffee House Press
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
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Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,... |
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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
John Paul Stevens · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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The United States Constitution: Questions and Answers
John R. Vile · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.
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Readers will easily grasp the foundations and purposes of the U.S. Constitution - and the critical importance and implications of its amendments - through a series of questions and answers about constitutional topics. The work proceeds logically, covering each article, section, and amendment,... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it.The... |
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Upheaval
Lou Dobbs · Pocket Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation's most intractable problems.IF YOU DREAM OF A BETTER TOMORROW FOR AMERICA, FIRST FACE THE REALITIES OF TODAY. Expanding on his candid "Chalk Talks" that inform the popular... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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False Black Power?
JASON L RILEY · Templeton Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid... |
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Cyberphobia : identity, trust, security and the Internet
Edward Lucas · Bloomsbury
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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Cybercrime is increasingly in the news. Stories about weaknesses in cybersecurity like the "Heartbleed" leak, or malicious software on the cash registers at your local Target have become alarmingly common. Even more alarming is the sheer number of victims associated with these... |
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Peniel E. Joseph · Basic Civitas Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists. However, far from marking the end of an era, as is commonly thought, the 1965 Voting... |
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
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