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Anonymous 9781250205797 · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. "An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu · Vintage
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
NADIA MURAD · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters... |
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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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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Evgeny Morozov · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
RICHARD VINEN · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale. The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary--around ten million... |
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National Geographic People of the World: Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity
Catherine Herbert Howell · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world. Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, the book... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
Anabel Hernandez · Verso
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were... |
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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" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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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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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Jeff Madrick · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why theyre wrong, and how theyve been harming America and the world. Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free... |
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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,... |
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