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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

DAVID E SANGER · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.Behind the Russian cyberattacks that may have thrown the 2016 election; behind...
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The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines

JAY W RICHARDS · Crown Forum
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work...
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Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture

Kristin Lawless · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food -- even what we're told is good for us -- has changed for the worse in the past...
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Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today

Tom Santopietro · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tom Santopietro, an author well-known for his writing about American popular culture, delves into the heart of the beloved classic and shows readers why To Kill a Mockingbird matters more today than ever before.With 40 million copies sold, To Kill a Mockingbird's poignant but clear...
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country--and Where We Go from Here

JEFFREY WEAVER · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign shows how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good.When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would...
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The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

Keith Mako Woodhouse · Columbia University Press
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state...
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

Travis Jeppesen · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global headlines. But what is life there actually like?In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling,...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

JOSEPH MATTHEWS · NOLO
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security have changed. Find out if you still qualify to file and suspend benefits or to choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits before these strategies disappear. Learn this...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating...
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III

ALAN STRAUSS-SCHOM · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians.Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)...
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