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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked... |
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch · Princeton University Press Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · Liveright Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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Broken But Unbowed
Greg Abbott · Threshold Editions Pages: 275 Format: Print book
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Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich... |
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Heidi Boghosian · City Lights Publishers Format: Paperback
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"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies. . . . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance? Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian"--Bill... |
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
Ann Hagedorn · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only... |
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
BENJAMIN CARTER HETT · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf... |
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Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education
Jennifer De Leon · University of Nebraska Press Pages: 223 Format: Paperback
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College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay "Only Daughter," author Sandra Cisneros remarks, "After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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The making of Asian America : a history
Erika Lee · Simon & Schuster Pages: 519
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"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Pages: 259 Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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