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Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America
Shad White - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover
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How America's youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation's poorest state. "A must read" with all the thrills of a John Grisham novel - for fans of shocking true crime exposés like Black Edge and Bad Blood (Peter... |
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Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change
M.V. Ramana - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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NUCLEAR POWER WILL SLOW OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE THE RISK OF WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CATASTROPHE. THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment.... |
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
Rebecca L. Davis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America -- the first major account in three decades.Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ... |
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine
Charles Lachman - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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The white-knuckled saga of a maverick captain, nine courageous sailors, and a US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944--capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine. Two days before D-Day--the course of World... |
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Benjamin Nathans - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR - and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination.... |
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards. "Amanda Jones... |
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Nate Silver - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller. "Engaging and entertaining ... a glimpse of the economy of the future." - Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise,the definitive guide to our era of risk - and the players... |
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