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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

BRITTNEY COOPER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come...
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Peter Andreas · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to South...
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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction, 4th Edition

Suzanne S Bell · Libraries Unlimited
Format:  Print book : English : Fourth EditionView all editions and formats

This groundbreaking textbook and guide for library school students and librarians will help youregardless of experience level or environmentlearn the ins and outs of working with online databases, the best tactics for effective research online, and the methods for conveying these search...
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful...
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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Adrian Levy · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads....
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Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II: Images by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Other Government Photographers

Richard Cahan · CityFiles Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

It is a shame of America.In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them...
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK

JOHN R BOHRER · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Alice Goffman · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks,...
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

Drew Philp · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search of a place to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread...
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The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism

Trevor Aaronson · Ig Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate...
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

Sady Doyle · Melville House
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself....
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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Moises Naim · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying....
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Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

Bruce D. Jones · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover

Is the United States still a "superpower"? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability?For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers -- principally China, India,...
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

John Stubbs · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique...
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Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch

David Orentlicher · NYU Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

“Can Orentlicher be serious in calling for a plural executive? The answer is yes, and he presents thoughtful and challenging arguments responding to likely criticisms. Any readers who are other than completely complacent about the current state of American politics will have to admire...
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