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Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right

Melissa Deckman · New York University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Notable for its radical conservative views, the Tea Party is progressive in one way that much of mainstream US politics is not: it has among its most vocal members not spokesmen but spokeswomen. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Governor Nikki Haley, US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers,...
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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

Ron Paul · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and 1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about Americas broken education system in order to fix it.Whether or not you have...
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.

Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books
Pages: 736
Format: Print book

In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best...
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I Work At A Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Gina Sheridan · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 157
Format: Paperback

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout...
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Future Sex

Emily Witt · Farrar
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single womanEmily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience "eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center."...
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The Joint Ventured Nation: Why America Needs a New Foreign Policy

Edward Goldberg · W W Norton
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

Moving America from the Troubled Superpower to the Indispensable PartnerWhat a ride the world has been on over the last thirty years: the fall of the Berlin Wall, China's reemergence as a major power, the wishful creation of the BRICS, technological innovations, 9/11, conflicts in Iraq,...
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Hiding in plain sight : the pursuit of war criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

Eric Stover · University of California Press
Pages: 487
Format: Print book

"Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of an estimated thirty thousand Nazi war criminals after the Second World War, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan...
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Anonymous. · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,...
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