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Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power

Mark Landler · Random House
Pages: 432

The deeply reported story of two supremely ambitious figures, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic destiny but hold very different beliefs about how to project American power In Alter Egos,...
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

Ron Miscavige · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting...
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Revolution

Russell Brand · Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are.   In this book, Russell Brand hilariously...
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Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Nicholas Tanzi · Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback

This book offers a practical template for training patrons to use eBook, streaming video, online music, and journal collections that is practical, adaptable, and most importantly, sustainable.* Introduces librarians to a sustainable approach to teaching or coaching patrons on how to access...
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Wake Up, America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great--and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

Eric Bolling · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

America was built on nine distinct virtues which shaped the character of our nation and made it great. Grit, manliness, individualism, merit, profit and providence, dominion over our environment, thrift, and above all pride in our country -- these qualities define us, and are the reason...
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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document

Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The still-unfolding story of America's Constitution is a history of heroes and villains - the flawed visionaries who inspired and crafted liberty's safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. Those stories are known by few today.In Our Lost Constitution, Senator...
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The Chairman: The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer

Peter Golenbock · NewSouth Books
Format: Hardcover

The Chairman, a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal to rival Hamlet, is the harrowing story of Jim Greer, a man loyal to a fault to Florida governor Charlie Crist, his benefactor. From 2006 to 2010, Greer served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. In 2010, controversies...
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The Secret World of Oil

Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

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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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Brian Krebs · Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times bestsellerThere is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances Steal Your Personal Data and Endanger Your LifeIn Spam Nation investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest...
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

Joseph E. Stiglitz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world's future prosperity.The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous...
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