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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more - it's never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby... |
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
John McWhorter · Bellevue Literary Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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"One of our sharpest explainers of linguistics." - Steven Pinker"In Talking Back, Talking Black, John McWhorter, the maestro at communicating linguistics to the public, succeeds in helping the reader to 'actually hear Black English in a new way,' while hipping linguists... |
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Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can
Michael Booth · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this... |
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
David A Morton · NOLO
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions. Learn how to match the medical... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 758
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
Judith Rodin · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm,... |
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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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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
LAWRENCE JAMES · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires -- and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James... |
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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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