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What Unites Us
Dan Rather · Algonquin Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books
Pages: 736
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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The Bride Price
Mai Neng Moua · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love and security from the groom's family. Mai Neng,... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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Union Jack: JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain
Christopher Sandford · ForeEdge
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theater, music, and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealized Englishness. In Union Jack, noted biographer... |
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Jessica Valenti · Seal Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Book
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Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism is a book that continues to embody the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com.Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter... |
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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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Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler · The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's... |
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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia
Aimee Groth · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Fearless gonzo journalism - an insider's look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh's leadership,... |
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch · Princeton University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal... |
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Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
Nicholas Eberstadt · Templeton Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession - lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong.... |
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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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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first... |
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter · Broadway Books
Format: Print book
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Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. In January... |
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