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The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary

Melissa Murray - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann.In the long span of American history,...
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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Tricia Romano - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers. . You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first...
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Hamilton Nolan - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized...
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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create On The Red Planet

Robert Zubrin - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover

Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society taps today's newest science and most dogged research to foretell in astounding detail the brave, new Martian civilization we will achieve when (not if!) humankind colonizes MarsWhen Robert Zubrin...
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Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation

Kyle Edward Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and "woke capital" evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation....
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

Jake Johnston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy...
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Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager (Updated and Revised Edition)

Kory Kogon - BenBella Books
Format: Paperback

No project management training? No problem!. In today's workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren't formally trained in managing projects - you're an unofficial project manager.. FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon,...
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

Eric Klinenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg. "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through...
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass...
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

David Bellos - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very...
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