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Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal

Ben Sasse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Our culture has always had tribalism. Different political parties, preferred media outlets, and shifts in positions when politically...
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The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry

Raj Kumar · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme povertyDrawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world's poorest people to make progress....
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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

Ian Kershaw · Viking
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and BackAfter the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from...
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

Rick Reilly · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An uproarious indictment of Donald Trump's lying, cheating, and poor sportsmanship--by the bestselling author and acclaimed sportswriter. Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump is an on-the-ground and behind-the-scenes look at Trump's ethics deficit on and off the course. Reilly...
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Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America

Kyle Swenson · Picador
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s, three...
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

Jason Sharman · Princeton University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian...
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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer

Antonin Scalia · Crown Forum
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime, history, and tragedy...
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

Susan Page · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}...
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The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

Kate Pickett · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental...
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