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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation

Anthony Mancuso Attorney · NOLO; Fifthteen Ediiton edition
Format: Fifthteen Ediiton Edition

You've got a cause you care about -- now you just need the legal status that will help your organization raise money to further that cause. Here, you'll find all the forms and information you need to create a tax-exempt nonprofit for your group. Learn how to form a nonprofit corporation...
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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

Obery M. Hendricks Jr. · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Throughout his distinguished career, Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. has been a pillar of moral clarity for many overlapping communities: African Americans, religious scholars, Christians of all backgrounds, political leaders, journalists, and his many readers. Now, in these pages, he rejects the "anti-Christ"...
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

Jamie Mackay · ‎Verso
Format: Hardcover

Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and the French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions...
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Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective

Gary Vogler · ‎University Press of Kansas; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Was the Iraq war really about oil? As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and briefly as minister of oil, Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq, Vogler discovered that what...
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

Thomas C. Foster · Harper Perennial
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly...
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Anne Case · Princeton University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row -- a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim...
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After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed

Andrew J. Bacevich · Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington's insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common...
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Kai Bird · ‎Crown
Format: Hardcover

Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter...
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What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl

Katherine Dykstra · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives.July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert...
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This Country: My Life in Politics and History

Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In This Country, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of post-World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country....
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