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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

Charlie Crist · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008...
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House

Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered...
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Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer

Sylvia Longmire · St Martins Pr
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes,...
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

Sady Doyle · Melville House Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From...
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The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History

Becca Stevens · Jericho Books
Format: Hardcover

What started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars....
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

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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All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power

Nomi Prins · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 521
Format: Print book

Who rules America?All the Presidents' Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents'...
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2011-2012 Official Congressional Directory, 112th Congress, Convened January 5, 2011

Joint Committee on Printing Congress (U.S.) (Editor) · Joint Committee on Printing
Format: Paperback

Contains biographies of Senators, members of Congress, and the Judiciary. Also includes committee assignments, maps of Congressional districts, a directory of officials of executive agencies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web addresses, and other information.
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Man, Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It

Philip Zimbardo · Conari Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called "The Demise of Guys," which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book...
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic — and How We Can End It

M.D. Deborah Cohen · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding...
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