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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014. Pages: 281 Format: Print book
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Your Right to Privacy: Minimize Your Digital Footprint
Jim Bronskill · Self-Counsel Press Pages: 152 Format: Print book
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Hacking, snooping and invading are commonplace on the Internet. Your personal information can be seen and shared and your privacy can be violated. Two veteran journalists, authorities on how information is handled in the digital age, have written a definitive guide to minimize your digital... |
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Study Guide for the US Citizenship Test in English and Spanish: Updated 2015
Mike Swedenberg · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 7th edition Format: Print book
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#1 Best Seller in Citizenship Test Guides September 11, 2015 The 100 Sample Questions and Answers to the US Immigration Test in Spanish and English A unique product, professionally developed and annotated with current Representatives, State capitals and Sample Written Questions. Updated... |
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Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature, Past & Present
Christopher Allen Varlack · Salem Pr Pages: 370 Format: Hardcover
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Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. American civil rights literature has largely been associated with speeches, letters, and non-fiction works... |
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Human Rights and the United States, Third Edition
Not Available · Grey House Pub Pages: 750 Format: Hardcover
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This two-volume set offers easy to grasp explanations of the basic concepts and laws in the field, with emphasis on human rights in the historical, political, and legal experience of the United States. This indispensable resource surveys the legal protection of human dignity in the United... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Pages: 259 Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
Danielle Keats Citron · Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Most Internet users are familiar with trolling -- aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious,... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · William Morrow Pages: 960 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National... |
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
KATY TUR · Dey Street Books Pages: 291 Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review FROM THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"... |
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Battlefield America: The War on the American People
John W. Whitehead · Select Books (NY) Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich · Center Street Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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