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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Thomas Frank · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only... |
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis · Pantheon Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson... |
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Rosemary Mahoney · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree"This joyful, thoughtful book took me on an emotional... |
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books
Pages: 736
Format: Print book
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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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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United... |
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Mei Fong · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 250
Format: Print book
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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
John W. Dean · Viking
Pages: 746
Format: Hardcover
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Based on Nixon's overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we've come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA's... |
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Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A transcendent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief Teju Cole is the rare writer whose work can stir conversation among opinion makers and become a viral sensation with the general public. Cole's debut essay collection is sure... |
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Barron's Police Officer Exam, 10th Edition
Donald Schroeder Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 672
Format: Print book
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This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country. It includes:Four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explainedTwo official exams given by a large metropolitan... |
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