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SEAN SPICER · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sean Spicer takes readers behind the scenes of his turbulent tenure as President Trump's press secretary, shedding new light on the headline-grabbing controversies of the Trump administration's first year.
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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family

ROBERT F JR KENNEDY · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In this moving, thoughtful family history, the son and namesake of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shares memories of his turbulent childhood and the lessons that have shaped his enduring values.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the third of eleven children born to Bobby Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy,...
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African Americans in El Paso

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr. · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Paperback

El Paso's African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de Oñate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African...
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash

Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just...
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Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How It Changed the World

M&C Saatchi · St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

The principles of creativity in stunningly simple words and pictures by the man behind the world’s most successful advertising agency How did two wheels emancipate women? How can a pie save thousands of lives? How can a useless piece of fabric determine social status? How can you make...
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The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine – A Tale of Two Narratives

Padraig O'Malley · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful and enormously useful." - Kirkus, starred reviewDisputes over settlements, the right of return, the rise of Hamas, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and other intractable...
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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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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

Nina Munk · Doubleday
Format: Book

A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachss ambitious quest to end global poverty     The poor you will always have with you, to cite the Gospel of Matthew 2611. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential...
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Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business

Barbara Annis · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

Work With Me is the timely collaboration of two of the world's foremost authorities on gender relations. Barbara Annis, world-renowned expert on gender issues in the workplace, and John Gray, author of the number one relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus,...
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Anonymous. · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,...
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google

John Palfrey · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that...
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin...
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Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation

Ted Fishman · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of China, Inc. reports on the astounding economic and political ramifications of an aging world. The world’s population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be sixty-five or older. As the ratio of the old to the young...
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

KATE ANDERSEN BROWER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents...
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Eddie S Jr Glaude · Crown
Pages: 274
Format: Book

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling...
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