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We gon' be alright : notes on race, culture, and resegregation.
Jeff Chang · Picador Usa Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST) In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country.... |
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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Bryant Simon · The New Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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For decades the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1980s, it had become post-industrial backwater, a magnet for businesses looking for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Foods,... |
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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Daniel L. Hatcher · New York University Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Government aid doesn t always go where it s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor... |
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
Carolina De Robertis · Vintage Pages: 272 Format: Paperback
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Radical Hope is a collection of letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical... |
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Law & Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Bruce Chadwick · St Martin'S Press Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times... |
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Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid
Miriam Laugesen · Harvard University Press Pages: 271 Format: Print book
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Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians... |
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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
Howard French · Alfred A Knopf Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978,... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER · Tim Duggan Books Pages: 126 Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim St Germain · Harper Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause - until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti,... |
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How Civility Works
Keith J Bybee · Stanford Briefs Pages: 80 Format: Print book
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Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall · Metropolitan Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad · Basic Books Pages: 720 Format: Hardcover
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming... |
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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West
WILLIAM DROZDIAK · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart... |
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk... |
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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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