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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper middle-class... |
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Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Roger McNamee · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting... |
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Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky · PICADOR USA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples,... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Joshua Zeitz · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform,... |
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Careers in Law Enforcement
Coy H. Johnston · SAGE
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing. Written in a concise and conversational tone, author Coy H. Johnston includes three main sections: planning a realistic path, selecting an appropriate... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates · One World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller * Finalist for the PEN/Jean... |
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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It
Eric Bolling · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous... |
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