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The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Trevor Aaronson · Ig Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Joel Kurtzman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about... |
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Obama: An Oral History
Brian Abrams · Little A
Format: Hardcover
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The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama's administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories that illuminate... |
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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
HOWARD G BUFFETT · Hachette Books
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America.... |
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Absinthe: A Thriller
GUIDO EECKHAUT GUIDO EECKHAUT · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a Hercule Poirot Award, a fast-paced international crime thriller about Russian infiltration in the financial world.Walter Eekhaut, a veteran of the Belgian police force who has a problem with authority, is dispatched to Amsterdam to aid the Dutch security service in investigating... |
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
ALAN STRAUSS-SCHOM · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians.Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)... |
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Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities
Steve Albrecht · ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2015.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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Library work is really all about people. And the inclusive, welcoming nature of the library means that all kinds of people pass through its doors. Not all difficult patrons are dangerous, but some frighten staff and other library users, which can lead to situations that are distracting,... |
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Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
Graham Allison · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains, in the past... |
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Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War
James Harkin · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi)... |
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting
John Shiffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 267
Format: Hardcover
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On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Microchips. Gyroscopes. Radar-cloaking and night-vision technology. Developed and manufactured in the United States... |
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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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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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