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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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Unleash Different: Achieving Business Success Through Disability
Rich Donovan · ECW Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world's population, would you act to invest in it? There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world's... |
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Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life
Nato Thompson · Melville House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising... |
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Carceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang · Semiotext
Pages: 359
Format: Paperback
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Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces,... |
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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Scott Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent... |
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Joshua Kurlantzick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans... |
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Pantsuit Nation
LIBBY CHAMBERLAIN · FLATIRON BOOKS
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From the fastest-growing private Facebook group in history -- now with nearly 4 million engaged and impassioned members -- a beautifully designed, inspiring collection of stories and photographs that capture what it means to live, work, struggle, love, and celebrate in our world. |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES · Ballantine Books
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen on The Van Jones... |
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
JANET DEWART BELL · The New Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights - many nearly lost to history - from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement,... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover
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Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today
Anna Feigenbaum · Verso
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
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The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging.... |
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Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death
Olivier Rolin · Counterpoint
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style "Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." -- Nature In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly... |
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of Americas Free Press
Richard Kluger · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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"Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." -- Bill Keller, New York Times Book ReviewThe liberty of expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning -- the United States was the first government to legalize free speech and a free... |
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