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Police State USA: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming our Reality
Cheryl K. Chumley · WND Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Founding Fathers wouldnt recognize America today. The God-given freedoms they championed in the Bill of Rights have been chipped away over the years by an ever-intrusive government bent on controlling all aspects of our lives in the name of safety and security. NSA wire-tapping and data... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling... |
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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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World Order
Henry Kissinger · Penguin Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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Walter Isaacson, Time:"Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book."Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era - advising... |
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So You Want To Be a Cop: What Everyone Should Know Before Entering a Law Enforcement Career
Alley Evola · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
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Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream their whole lives of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer, herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer. From recruitment, life... |
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
BOB SCHIEFFER · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism... |
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Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
Graham Allison · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains, in the past... |
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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Sara E. Gorman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science... |
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Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times
Marianne Cooper · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled-up safety nets, Marianne Cooper’s probing analysis explores what keeps Americans up at night.... |
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The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Mike Lofgren · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred, House of Cards-style exposé of who really wields power in Washington Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing... |
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea
Paul Ryan · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,... |
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Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition
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"During his yearlong tour of duty, Sergeant Joseph Hickman saw Guanta?namo from the inside--the chaotic prisons, the detainee abuse--and stumbled onto a mystery, a secret facility he and his fellow soldiers labeled "Camp No." When, on June 9, 2006, three prisoners died while... |
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