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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics

Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

Jean Guerrero - One World
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death Papi, dnde ests Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father,...
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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Emma Dabiri - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

A Kirkus Best Book of the YearStamped from the Beginning meets You Cant Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout...
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Jeffrey Ostler - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned...
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Love Is an Ex-Country

Randa Jarrar - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times) . As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across...
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Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses

David Buckmaster - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.American...
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

Richard A. Clarke - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

There is much to fear in the dark corners of cyberspace: we have entered an age in which online threats carry real-world consequences. But we do not have to let autocrats and criminals run amok in the digital realm. We now know a great deal about how to make cyberspace far less dangerous--and...
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,...
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

SHARYL ATTKISSON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind...
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