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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
Ann Hagedorn · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only... |
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The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy
Erick Stakelbeck · Regnery Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, has engaged in terrorism, assassinations, and anti-Western, anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence for almost a century - yet few Americans realize how powerful they really are. While we focus on al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, it's actually the Muslim... |
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
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2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked... |
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
William M. Arkin · Little, Brown and Company
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UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.Drones, however, are only part of the problem.... |
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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"Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the Duke's... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress
Olympia Snowe · Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover |
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An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels... |
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