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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
Amana Fontanella-Khan · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of Indias women. In Uttar Pradesh—known as the badlands of India—a womans life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home... |
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Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama
Stephen Sestanovich · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pages: 402 Format: Hardcover
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From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America's global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in an unexpected new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the present and future.... |
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Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
Bruce Barcott · Time Home Entertainment Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996... |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books Pages: 462 Format: Print book
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first.... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi · Random House Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo · The New Press, 2015. Â2015 Pages: 229 Format: Print book
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders.... |
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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
Richard Aldous · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House.Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007) , known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy -- and the myth of Camelot -- blazed an extraordinary... |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 257 Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Virginia Heffernan · Simon & Schuster Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet.Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension... |
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. |
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Real American: A Memoir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly... |
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Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law
Betsy McCaughey · Regnery Publishing; First edition Format: Paperback
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, theres still precious little information available on how it will impact you, your family, and your pocketbook. This 2,572 page document, nearly unreadable,... |
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