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Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Richard N. Haass · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’s Foreign Policy Begins at Home.A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran,... |
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Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World
Nick Licata · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 206
Format: Print book
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Recent waves of social activism like the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter show that you can fight city hall--or any other powerful entity for that matter. Now comes the playbook for citizen activists wanting to improve the world around them from Nick Licata, admired Seattle city councilmember... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
Steven Kerry Brown · ALPHA; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private... |
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Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College
Tori Randolph Terhune · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that dont fully use their skills... |
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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document
Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The still-unfolding story of America's Constitution is a history of heroes and villains - the flawed visionaries who inspired and crafted liberty's safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. Those stories are known by few today.In Our Lost Constitution, Senator... |
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The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Stephen Jimenez · Steerforth
Format: Hardcover
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What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without... |
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The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations
Neil Kagan · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history. From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz · Humanix Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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Do Facts Matter?: Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Jennifer L. Hochschild · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation - the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts... |
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Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts... |
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You Will Not Have My Hate
Antoine Leiris · Penguin Press
Pages: 129
Format: Print book
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris's wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending... |
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In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy
Elizabeth Palley · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families’ incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care—but although... |
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