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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane · Little a
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police - especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out of trouble with the law. In this timely, relevant, and pragmatic new book,... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE · Verso
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides... |
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Hope in The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilties
Rebecca Solnit · Nation Books
Pages: 150
Format: Print book
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Hope in the Dark is an exploration of optimism in an era of seeming defeat and cultural pessimism. When the worldwide movement against war in Iraq failed to persuade the Bush administration against military action, many activists felt that their actions had been futile, their voices ignored.... |
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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla · It Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can't do it' You don't have to! Adam has done it for you! Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world... |
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An American Family
Michael Galluccio · St. Martin's Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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What makes a family?Love makes a family.An American Family is the story of Jon and Michael Galluccio, two gay men who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby, born with the AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana, and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical... |
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Slippery slope : europe's troubled future
Giles Merritt · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery... |
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Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce · Polity; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration,... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper · Nation Books
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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