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Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
Art Cullen · Viking Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope.When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer... |
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Alisa Roth · Basic Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons... |
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DIY Resistance
ANTHONY ALVARADO · Seven Stories Press Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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An amalgam of political resistance and self-helpLike its predecessor, the effervescent, self-published phenom D.I.Y Magic, which dared to invite its readers into a brave new world of artistic expression and magical thinking, D.I.Y. Resistance focuses its attention on you, on us, and what... |
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Nine Lives: My time as the West's top spy inside al-Qaeda
AIMEN DEAN · Oneworld Publications Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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"A compelling and invaluable account of life inside al-Qaeda through the eyes of a first-rate spy. This unique narrative throws open the shutters of the secret worlds of terror." -- Lawrence Wright, bestselling author of The Looming TowerAs one of al-Qaeda's most respected... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES · Ballantine Books Pages: 233 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen on The Van Jones... |
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The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case
David Rudenstine · University of California Press Pages: 416 Format: Paperback
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This bold account provides an original perspective on one of the most significant legal struggles in American history: the Nixon administration's efforts to prohibit the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the 7,000-page, top-secret Pentagon Papers, which traced U.S.... |
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H Achen · Princeton University Press Pages: 390 Format: Print book
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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth... |
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Exploring and Understanding Careers in Criminal Justice: A Comprehensive Guide
Matthew J. Sheridan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Criminal justice careers typically fall into one of two categories: law enforcement or legal. But contrary to what many may know about the career opportunities in criminal justice, it is more than just becoming a cop or a lawyer. In Exploring and Understanding Careers and Opportunities... |
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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction
Mark Lilla · New York Review Books Pages: 168 Format: Paperback
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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone... |
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Shadi Hamid · St. Martin's Press Pages: 306 Format: Print book
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In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East.... |
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