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The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
David Bacon · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate... |
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Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
ZAK DYCHTWALD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou -- the generation born after 1990.A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything... |
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Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life
Donald Rumsfeld · Broadside Books
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The legendary leadership guide, distilled from a lifetime of wisdom and experience in government and businessThroughout his long and distinguished career—as a naval aviator, a U.S. Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, a high-level diplomat, a CEO of two Fortune 500 companies,... |
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The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
Emma Sky · PublicAffairs
Format: Kindle Edition
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When Emma Sky, an intrepid young British woman, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, she had little idea what she was letting herself in for a tour that would last over a decade, longer than that of any senior military of political official. As the only... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populists vs. The Establishment from Reagan to Trump
ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement... |
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Trump, the Blue-Collar President
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci writes his story about Trump and his administration. TRUMP, THE BLUE-COLLAR PRESIDENT is the comeback story for America and Americans. Both Wall Street and Main... |
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Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City
Javier Auyero · University of Texas Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance... |
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When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Jeffrey A Engel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history - the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international... |
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