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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause... |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium
Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco · Praeger
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
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Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world -- including in the United States. This book exposes both well-known... |
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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Beth Lew-Williams · Harvard University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American... |
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Why We Fight: Recovering America's Will to Win
Sebastian Gorka · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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America needs a clear, unifying doctrine if we are to succeed in the war on terror says security, strategy, and counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, author of national bestseller Defeating Jihad and former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States. |
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North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence
Sung Chull Kim · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be close,... |
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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
Nahid Siamdoust · Stanford University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran-Iraq war. Over time music provided an important political space where artists... |
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Every Day Is Extra
John Kerry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important... |
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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.
As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what you think... |
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI · Harper
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation... |
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This America: The Case for the Nation
Jill Lepore · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation... |
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#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests
Sheila Pree Bright · Chronicle Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives... |
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Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe
DIMITAR BECHEV · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West... |
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The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
James E Lewis · Princeton University Press
Pages: 728
Format: Hardcover
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A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which... |
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After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings
Thomas P. Kapsidelis · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In what has become the era of the mass shooting, we are routinely taken to scenes of terrible violence. Often neglected, however, is the long aftermath, including the efforts to effect change in the wake of such tragedies. On April 16, 2007, thirty-two Virginia Tech students and professors... |
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