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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives
Helen Pearson · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet,... |
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The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
Juan Cole · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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Renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole takes us inside the youth movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, showing us how activists used technology and social media to amplify their message and connect with like-minded citizens The New York Times in this rousing study of the Arab... |
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Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin
Marc Bennetts · Pgw
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback |
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As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow's freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia - Vladimir Putin's party - amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines... |
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
Karen Greenberg · Crown Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security. The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the Attorney General with preventing another terrorist attack... |
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Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore
Jay Sekulow · Howard Books; annotated edition edition |
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THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of Americas most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.Recently,... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book |
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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