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Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love
Mia Violet · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was 'trans enough' to be transgender, after years of knowing she was different but without... |
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Joshua Kurlantzick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans... |
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Edward Luce · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce... |
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Davis · Haymarket Books, 2015.
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality,... |
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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
Adrian Levy · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads.... |
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
David A Kaplan · Crown
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government - and how we've... |
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Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Hannah Palmer · Hub City Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
Celeste-Marie Bernier · Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 860
Format: Hardcover
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While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative - 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first... |
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower -- with global insights for today.An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years... |
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Mei Fong · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 250
Format: Print book
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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates... |
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Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself
AMANDA LITMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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From the email marketing director of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the co-founder of Run for Something comes an essential and inspiring guide that encourages and educates young progressives to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political... |
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
Dorothy Butler Gilliam · Center Street
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written... |
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