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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg Mitman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent... |
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Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and peacemaking in the Middle East
Abdel Monem Said Aly - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
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Lasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the conflict's durability.. A distinguished... |
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Pashtana Durrani - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive... |
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Harold Holzer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States,... |
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'... |
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Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
Jared Cohen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States. Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's departure after two terms... |
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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told - and told ourselves - in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Allen C. Guelzo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today - by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy... |
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Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Ruha Benjamin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life... |
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