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In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy

Larry Doyle · St Martins Pr
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover

The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees, and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight facing Wall Street. But the average American still fails to fully grasp what was -- and still is -- happening: that the inmates continue to run the asylum....
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Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

Bill O'Reilly · Crown Archetype

O'Reilly offers a classic collection of the most memorable writings from his previous books and columns, topped off with a new introduction, and looks back at how his opinions and ideas have been proven right or wrong by the passage of time.
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Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare

Lloyd C. Gardner · The New Press
Format: Hardcover

With Obamas election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States leadership...
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Entering the Shift Age: The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation

David Houle · Sourcebooks

Praise for David Houle "Houle breaks down big ideas into easily digestible, entertaining small bites...Crack this book open whenever globalization's gotten you down."-Slate.com. "The Shift Age lifts us out of the rapids of techno-change and helps us see the course of the river...
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Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests

Cynthia Orr · Libraries Unlimited; 7 edition

For readers' advisory librarians with patrons looking for their next great read, professors teaching readers' advisory service, or even enthusiastic readers who prefer to help themselves, Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests serves all of their needs. A new introductory...
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town

Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration   In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked...
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Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army

Benjamin Hall · Center Street; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A year ago, few people had heard of ISIS-- today, they are a major terrorist threat.
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Robert M. Edsel · Center Street
Pages: 473
Format: Hardcover

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate"...
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Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

Matt Barreto , · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican...
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