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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
Betsy Hartmann · Haymarket Books
Pages: 488
Format: Print book
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With a new prologue by the author, this feminist classic is an important gateway into the controversial topic of population for students, activists, researchers and policymakers. It challenges the myth of overpopulation, uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation... |
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Slippery slope : europe's troubled future
Giles Merritt · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery... |
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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist... |
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss · Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook Year of Books SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Entertainment... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An explosive, alarming history that finally confronts how American governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide. Lauded by Ta-Nehisi Coates for his "brilliant" and "fine understanding of the machinery of government... |
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Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
Mike Marqusee · Verso
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali's political development in the sixtiesWhen Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not only a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade... |
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
ALI H SOUFAN · W W NORTON
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,... |
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The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed
Nate Anderson · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet.With a new afterword that brings the books stories up to date, including law enforcements dramatic seizure of the online black market Silk Road.Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape,... |
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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
Nahid Siamdoust · Stanford University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran-Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.President Carter was encouraged to write this book... |
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
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A Washington Post bestsellerWhile the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police... |
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