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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution?and Why America Might Miss It
Susan Crawford · Yale University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we'll be able to send and receive through fiber?optic connections will enable... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg · Liveright
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic... |
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
Laurence J. Kotlikoff · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that took effect on April 29, 2016.Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with... |
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what... |
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Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Tony Platt · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of the American criminal justice system reveals how the past bleeds into the present. Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots... |
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The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
Michael Kaufman · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women's business. Of course, it's equally men's business and stops being such a struggle when it's seen that way. This reframing gives us a chance to understand violence against women as deeply... |
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Carrie Gibson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
Katherine S. Newman · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all.... |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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