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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · Riverhead Books Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins · Princeton University Press Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
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A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives -- and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress... |
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Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Roger McNamee · Penguin Press Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
America Ferrera · Gallery Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War
J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda · Melville House Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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The perfect author on one of today's hottest topics-- an immigration reform lawyer's journalistic memoir of being on the front lines of deportation.NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL is a powerful document of one lawyer's fight for those seeking a better life in America against its ever-tightening... |
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Kara Dixon Vuic · Harvard University Press Pages: 340 Format: Hardcover
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The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort... |
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Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace
Laurence Leamer · Flatiron Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Where Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J. Trump it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite... |
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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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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land · Hachette Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper middle-class... |
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