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Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America

Bruce Barcott · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996...
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Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order

Nick Redfern · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

History is written by the winners - and the powerful - but how much of it is fiction? And who is really in control today? From the dawn of civilization to the 21st century, from ancient aliens to the New World Order, Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order...
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It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

Ben Bolling · McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
Pages: 206
Format: Print book

This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural...
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Stronger Together

Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer. Stronger Together presents that agenda in full, relating stories from the American people and outlining the Clinton/Kaine campaign's...
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Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

Andy Stern · Public Affairs
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways. But the price of this progress has been a decoupling of the engine of prosperity from jobs that have been the means by which...
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Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!

Donald J. Trump · Regnery Publishing; Updated edition

A New York Times bestseller!2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has a plan to make America great again.President Obama has been a disaster for this country. He's wrecked our economy, opened our borders to violent criminals, saddled our children with debt, and gone...
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Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works

Rick Santorum · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

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In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive

Peter Schwartz · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From childhood, we're taught one central, non-controversial idea about morality: self-sacrifice is a virtue. It is universally accepted that serving the needs of others, rather than our own, is the essence of morality. To be ethical -- it is believed -- is to be altruistic. Questioning...
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Start Your Own Child-Care Service: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback

START YOUR OWN CHILD-CARE SERVICE AND GET PAID TO CARE FOR KIDSAs the number of working parents grows the number of children who need quality childcare grows along with it. That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business...
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