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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women...
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Pea In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Pea and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge...
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

John Stubbs - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

JOSEPH MATTHEWS - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits are changing. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government...
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Heather Cox Richardson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward...
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us

Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history...
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American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000

Peter Vronsky
Format: Hardcover

With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count...
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To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents

James M. McPherson - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Hardcover

A compelling, richly illustrated look at the forty-two men who have served as President of the United States describes the campaigns, elections, administration, events, and legacy of each of America's leaders, from Washington to Clinton, accompanied by thoroughly annotated period photographs...
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Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of His Extraordinary First Year in Office

MAJOR GARRETT - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover

A chronicle of the Trump administration's first year, from the inside perspective of a White House press correspondent.
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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unknown Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Max Allan Collins - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Devil in the White City, Furious Hours, and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case -- his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer...
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