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The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America

Kristen Soltis Anderson · Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

The GOP's leading millennial pollster offers an eye-opening look at America's shifting demographics and reveals how these changes will affect future elections.The American electorate is undergoing a radical transformation. Cultural factors are reshaping how a new generation of voters...
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A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat

Matthew Kroenig · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Iran's advanced nuclear program may be the world's most important emerging international security challenge. If not stopped, a nuclear-capable Iran will mean an even more crisis-prone Middle East, a potential nuclear-arms race in the region and around the world, and an increased...
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The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM

Marcia A. Mardis Associate Professor · Libraries Unlimited
Format: Book

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development―where to begin? This book investigates these critical topics together to give you the power to transform your collection and practice and put your school library at the center of STEM.• Authored by a former school...
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Behold a Pale Farce: Cyberwar, Threat Inflation, & the Malware Industrial Complex

Bill Blunden · Trine Day
Format: Book

This book presents a data-driven message that exposes the cyberwar media campaign being directed by the Pentagon and its patronage networks. By demonstrating that the American public is being coerced by a threat that has been blown out of proportion—much like the run-up to the Gulf War or the global...
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Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year

Linda LeGarde Grover · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating...
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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Garry Kasparov · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed...
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Women as Global Leaders

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri · Information Age Publishing
Format: Paperback

A volume in Women and Leadership Research, Theory, and Practice Series Editors Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Susan R. Madsen, Karen A. Longman Women as Global Leaders is the second volume in the new Women and Leadership Research, Theory, and Practice book series published for the International...
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, "white...
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Bannon: Always the Rebel

Keith Koffler · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

White House reporter Keith Koffler penetrates the fog surrounding ousted White House advisor and Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, whose nationalist populist agenda and firebrand style drove President Donald Trump to his stunning electoral victory. Koffler traces Bannon's wild and distinctly...
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Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis

Nicholas Eberstadt · Templeton Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession - lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong....
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Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

David Leach · ECW Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary regionSay the word "Israel" today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts...
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Ben Carson · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's...
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An Insider's Guide to the UN: Third Edition

Linda Fasulo · Yale University Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

In this third edition, prominent news correspondent Linda Fasulo updates and revises her lively, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the United Nations, including candid insights from US and UN diplomats and officials as well as experts. Fasulo’s popular book carefully describes...
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