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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 Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five
GREG GUTFELD · Threshold Editions
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An interactive and annotated collection of Fox News star and New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld's sharp, hilarious monologues on everything from politics to pop culture - updated with new commentary for the current day."Wherever I go, I am hit repeatedly by the same question:... |
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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 harm,... |
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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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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
KATE ANDERSEN BROWER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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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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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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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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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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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Yasha Levine · PublicAffairs
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An investigative reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.With each passing year the internet becomes more and more a part of modern life. Despite story after story of hacks, malware, government surveillance,... |
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Internet Censorship: A Reference Handbook
Bernadette H. Schell Ph.D. · ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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Combining reference entries with perspective essays, this timely book undertakes an impartial exploration of Internet censorship, examining the two sides of the debate in depth. On the one side are those who believe censorship, to a greater or lesser degree, is acceptable; on the other... |
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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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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
VIRGINIA EUBANKS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary."Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read for everyone concerned about modern tools of inequality in America."Astra Taylor, author of The People's... |
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