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Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
Christopher P Dum · Columbia University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans -- released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid,... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols
TIM MARSHALL · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard) , explains flags and their symbols - how their power is used... |
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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
James L. Trainum · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions... |
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935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
Charles Lewis · Public Affairs
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
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Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the people," requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between... |
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Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo
Lakhdar Boumediene · Redwood Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir lived quiet, peaceful lives - working for humanitarian organizations, raising young children, filling weekend afternoons with pick-up soccer games and coffee with friends.In October 2001, along with four other Algerian nationals, they were arrested... |
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America
Rand Paul · Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America.
In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting... |
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
Bettany Hughes · Da Capo Press
Pages: 856
Format: Hardcover
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, it has been the capital... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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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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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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