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Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq
Morgan Lerette - Knox Press Format: Hardcover
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Guns, Girls, and Greed is an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the scathing and dangerous life of mercenaries at war in Iraq.. Experience the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall... |
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Sacred Soldier: The Dangers of Worshiping Warriors
Robert F. Keeler - Interlink Books Format: Paperback
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and military veteran examines both the realities of our military and the worshipful attitude of Americans toward it. . How can our nation stop fighting needless wars, if we keep worshiping the warriors? Why do presidents so easily fool us by using "support... |
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. . Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more... |
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta - Brazos Press Format: Paperback
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"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly
The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices.... |
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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman - Recorded Books Format: Hardcover
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A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar... |
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Matt Strassler - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all
In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human... |
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