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Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars

Douglass Houghton - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Long War collects provocative essays from American military veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, offering firsthand...
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Putin

PHILIP SHORT - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear...
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Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

Valena Beety - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbs - a woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientation - innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena H. Beety examines the failures in America's...
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Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market

Ying Zhu - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of today's movie industry, from the leading media scholarChina surpassed North America to become the world 's largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of exotic fascination in the golden...
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Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches Online and in the Library

David Hitchcock - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Understand the patentability of your invention and avoid expensive patent-searching fees with this step-by-step guide. With Patent Searching Made Easy, you can:Get the best answer to the inventor's all-important question when it comes to profiting from an idea: "Am I the first?"quickly...
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Rough Draft: A Memoir

Katy Tur - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a shocking and deeply personal memoir about a life spent chasing the news. "By the time I was two years old, I knew to yell 'Story! Story!' at the squawks of my parents' police scanner. By four, I could hold...
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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

PETER ZEIHAN - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America...
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide

MARCIA STEWART - ‎NOLO; Sixteenth edition
Format: Sixteenth Edition

The legal forms and state rules every landlord and property manager needs To keep up with the law and make money as a residential landlord, you need a guide you can trust: Every Landlord's Legal Guide. From move-in to move-out, here's help with legal, financial, and day-to-day...
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

MNolan Gray - Island Press
Format: Paperback

What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development? It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner...
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

Joel Kotkin - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years...
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