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The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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**Named one of Esquire's most anticipated books of 2019**
THIS IS A WITCH HUNT. WE'RE WITCHES, AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch... |
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Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell · The MIT Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death... |
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The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Shaun Walker · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again.
Shaun... |
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Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
Safwan M Masri · Columbia University Press
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover
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The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution,... |
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Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
Susan Eva Landau · Yale University Press
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
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A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst's urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers? New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your... |
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
Marty Makary M.D. · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system. One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."
- New York Times Book Review
"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment."
- The Washington Post
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Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America's Extremist Heart
Daryl Johnson · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A former Department of Homeland Security analyst takes a long view on the domestic terrorism threat from radicalized individuals and hate groups of various ideologies.
America is a land in which extremism no longer belongs to the country's shadowy fringes, but comfortably exists... |
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The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger · Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Pages: 371
Format: Paperback
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The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League... |
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What American Government Does
Stan Luger · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 385
Format: Paperback
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It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives... |
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House built on ashes : a memoir
Jose? Antonio Rodri?guez · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 189
Format: Print book
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"Told through a series of vignettes, Rodri?guez recalls his family's migration from La Sierrita, Mexico to McAllen, Texas and his search for belonging, both as a resident alien and as a young man marked by childhood trauma and poverty struggling with the societal condemnation... |
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Ultimate Insiders: White House Photographers and How They Shape History
Kenneth T. Walsh · Routledge
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Virtually unknown to the public or historians, White House photographers have developed amazing access to the Presidents of the United States over the past half-century. In this book, long-time White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh tells their stories, emphasizing observations about... |
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
CHARLES J SYKES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Once at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.
In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply... |
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