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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA

Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover

Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also...
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A Short History of the Russian Revolution

Geoff Swain · I.B.Tauris
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Arising out of proletariat discontent with the Tsarist autocracy and Lenin's proclaimed version of a Marxist...
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena,...
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Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump

Dick Morris · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

There is a looming and dangerous threat to our democracy. Anti-Trump partisans are scheming to overturn the will of the American electorate by paralyzing the Trump presidency.These partisan zealots have been secretly orchestrating an unprecedented undercover campaign to sabotage President...
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Conscience of a Conservative

ANONYMOUS. · Random House
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

An upcoming nonfiction book from Penguin Random House.
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The Great American Economy: How Inefficiency Broke It and What We Can Do to Fix It

Stephen L Slavin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 350
Format: eBook

Many Americans feel that the economy is no longer working for them and that "the American Dream" has become a sham. This book explains the underlying reasons for this gloomy outlook and lays out a clear plan for making the American economy work for everyone, not just the top 1 percent....
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United States Government Manual

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION. · Claitor's Pub Division

Known as the Official handbook of the Federal Government. This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates,...
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

Ilan Pappe? · Oneworld
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe turns his attention to the annexation and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, bringing us the first comprehensive critique of the Occupied Territories.Based...
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History of the Russian Revolution

LEON TROTSKY · Haymarket Books
Pages: 1040
Format: Hardcover

Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book, released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, reveals, from...
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary

WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln,...
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