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The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It

Thom Hartmann · Twelve
Format: Hardcover

The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United...
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Life after College: Ten Steps to Build a Life You Love

Tori Randolph Terhune · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Whether employed or not upon completing their college degree, most people experience a significant “culture shock” while transitioning from student to professional life. In Life After College: Ten Steps to Build a Life You Love, authors Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy A. Hays...
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Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword

David K. Shipler · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical...
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A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties

Ben Carson · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why I ve beenspeaking out on controversial issues forthe last few years. They say I ve never heldpolitical office. I m not a constitutional scholar. I m not even a lawyer. All I can sayto that is Guilty as charged. It s true that I ve never voted for a budget...
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality

David Boies · Viking; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Proposition 8 - by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's...
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Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works

Rick Santorum · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

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The pivot : the future of American statecraft in Asia

Kurt M Campbell · Twelve
Pages: 399
Format: Print book

From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia. There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval...
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

Ron Miscavige · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting...
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

Amy Chua · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on - is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes....
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The Sociology Book

Christopher Thorpe · DK Publishing, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their...
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