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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk... |
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Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Richard N. Haass · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’s Foreign Policy Begins at Home.A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran,... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Emily Dufton · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,... |
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50 Events That Shaped American Indian History
Donna Martinez · Greenwood
Pages: 853
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful two-volume set provides an insider's perspective on American Indian experiences through engaging narrative entries about key historical events written by leading scholars in American Indian history as well as inspiring first-person accounts from American Indian peoples.*... |
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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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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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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage
Jared Yates Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following... |
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The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
Arthur C. Brooks · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute - the leading intellectual think tank on the right - offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice.In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing... |
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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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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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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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Islamophobia and Racism in America
Erik Love · NYU Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America.Islamophobia has long been a part of the problem of racism in the United States, and it has only gotten worse in the wake of shocking terror attacks, the ongoing refugee crisis, and calls from public figures like Donald Trump for drastic... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm,... |
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