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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts... |
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Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from Our Culture of Contempt
Arthur C. Brooks - HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The New York Times bestselling author says America is being ripped apart by bitterness and contempt, fomented by public bullies and self-interested leaders--but following the plan in this book, we can fight back to reunite the nation around principles of respect, kindness, and dignity.Battered... |
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My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
Bakari Sellers - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men and women.Part... |
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Cassie Chambers - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill women" who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region - an uplifting and eye-opening memoir for readers of Hillbilly... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right
Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists... |
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Death on Blackheath: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Anne Perry - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAnne Perry's superb New York Times bestselling novels set in the glorious reign of Victoria are loved by readers far and wide. Now, with this new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery, Perry returns us to that charmed era, when wealth and power rule - but where, alas,... |
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there... |
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A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples
Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Paperback
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Protect your rights -- protect your relationship! Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives... |
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizs Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does... |
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
Andrea Bernstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families.... |
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The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst
Robert Blecker - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers’... |
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Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
Roger Biles - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged... |
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
Thomas Maier - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever... |
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
Edward Ball - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Named a best book of the summer by Literary Hub
The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award-winner Edward Ball
Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause... |
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Modern Conflict in the Greater Middle East: A Country-by-Country Guide
Spencer C Tucker - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This reference work covers the history of Middle East nations, addressing military, political, diplomatic, and ideological trends in each respective country and enabling readers to better understand the factors behind the crises shaping the Middle East today.* Provides a detailed overview... |
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Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers
John W. Dean - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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John Dean, of Watergate fame, knows what it's like to work for a strong-willed, vindictive president. But even Richard Nixon, says Dean, didn't have the raw lust for power that Donald Trump has. Nor the lack of skill. Nor the deep, willful ignorance of our democracy. So how did such... |
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Barry Friedman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been erodedIn June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over... |
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Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
Jamie K McCallum - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives... |
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Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
BESS WILLIAMSON - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of design that is often overlooked -- until we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from... |
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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
Pankaj Mishra - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Decades of violence and chaos have produced a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about an Islamic threat to Western civilization that has affected even the most liberal of American and British writers.In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
Ahmet Altan
Format: Paperback
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A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await... |
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in
MORGAN JERKINS - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black... |
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The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Michael T Flynn - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing... |
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right
George Hawley - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech... |
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The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un
Chung Min Lee - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take?Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: The People's Republic of North Korea. The Kim family has clung to power for three... |
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Fascism
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,... |
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The Age of Walls
TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations.The globe has always been a world of walls,... |
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Arguing with Socialists
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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In Arguing With Socialists, New York Times bestselling author Glenn Beck arms readers to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to goWith his trademark humor, Beck lampoons... |
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
Jesse Wegman - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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A radical spirit of change has overtaken American politics, making once-unthinkable reforms -- like abolishing the Electoral College -- seem possible.Two of the last five elections were won by candidates who lost the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire electoral system into... |
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.Elliott... |
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane - Little A
Format: Paperback
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An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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United States Government Manual
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION. - Claitor's Pub Division
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Known as the Official handbook of the Federal Government. This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates,... |
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 193345
Milton Mayer - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
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"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition... |
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Almanac of American Politics 2020
Columbia Books Inc - Columbia Books. Inc.
Format: Paperback
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The 2020 Almanac of American Politics remains the gold standard of accessible political information, relied on by everyone involved, invested or interested in politics in America. Highly regarded for its in-depth analysis and comprehensive profiles of every congressional district, state,... |
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Trump
Alain Badiou - Polity
Format: Hardcover
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The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make... |
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
Caitlin Moscatello - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms. After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and, finally,... |
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Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
RICHARD MCGREGOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s - and the potential crisis that awaits themRichard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"Ben Fountain's BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN is the bravest, boldest, most bracing political book of the year." -Bill MoyersIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration... |
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Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding the Plot to Unmake America
Michelle Malkin - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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You already know that we have an immigration crisis in America. You know that our southern border isn't a border at all - it's an open migrant highway. Now, in this gripping expos from #1 national bestselling author Michelle Malkin, you'll discover that the immigration crisis is no accident.... |
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Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary
Jonathan M. Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors, scouring... |
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower,... |
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We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom
Joel Simon - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then... |
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
Margaret Sullivan - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance."--Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyAn Epidemic of News Deserts and Ghost PapersGhosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time:... |
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Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
Monique Villa - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking.Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies and souls resisted an enterprise of total... |
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Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade
Niko Vorobyov - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this irreverent ode to gonzo journalism, one writer travels the globe to explore the use of recreational drugs in cultures around the world.After I got out of jail, I was determined to find out more about how the issue of drugs not only landed me there, but has shaped the entire world:... |
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
JAMES CRABTREE - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
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... |
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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
Shayla Lawson - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture -- for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You don't know who she is. Yet.... |
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Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
June Diane Raphael - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"Over the last few years we've seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking the leap."... |
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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War: The Year Germany Lost the War
Andrew Nagorski - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitlers miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany. . In early 1941, Hitlers armies ruled most of Europe. Churchills... |
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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
Joshua Yaffa - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule "Unforgettable. . . . This is a book about Putin's Russia that is unlike any other."... |
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Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama
David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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As Americans, liberty is an inalienable right that is granted to us by God, protected by the Constitution, and upheld by our government. Yet, Barack Obama doesn't seem to share that view. To him, liberty is a threat to the government's power and something to be squashed by any means... |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
GAIL LUKASIK - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow... |
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When I Was White: A Memoir
Sarah Valentine - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks... |
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics - from the award-winning author of Americanah . "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." - MediumIn this personal, eloquently-argued essay... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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From Fascism to Populism in History
Finchelstein, Federico - UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
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What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Ch vez, Juan... |
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not.'" Rogers's little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped... |
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The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation
Peggy Wallace Kennedy - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book
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From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate--and illuminates her journey towards redemption
Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the "symbol of racial reconciliation"... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence,... |
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Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy
Bill Gertz - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the hope of producing a benign People's... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely." - New York Times Book Review"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." - The Washington PostDonald Trump's presidency... |
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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"With inventive, powerful prose, Nayeri demonstrates what should be obvious: that refugees give up everything in their native lands only when absolutely necessary . . . A unique, deeply thought-out refugee saga perfect for our moment." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)... |
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After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
Renata Adler - New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. As a staff writer at The New Yorker. Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; the wars in Biafra, and the Middle East; the Nixon impeachment inquiry;... |
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The Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages: A LITA Guide
Beth Thomsett-Scott - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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The Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages presents case studies and practicalapplications for using the top programming languages in library and information settings. Whilethere are books and Web sites devoted to teaching programming, there are few works thataddress multiple... |
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
James P P Horn - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course... |
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Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind
Richard Whitmire - AMACOM; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Boys are falling behind in school. The world has become more verbal boys havent. Even in their traditionally strong subjects of science and math, boys are hit at a young age with new educational approaches, stressing high-level reading and writing goals that they are developmentally unable... |
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Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writersTen years into researching a book about... |
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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
Mark Gevisser - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers... |
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Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy
JEFF PEGUES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A CBS correspondent presents an in-depth examination of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and measures to protect US voting systems against future cyber attacks.In this compelling account of how the Russians hacked the 2016 election, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security... |
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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 19712017
Simon Reid-Henry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jeff Sharlet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A visionary work of radical empathy.Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us.This work began when his father... |
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states.Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond,... |
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The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide
Rebecca Vnuk - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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No! We can t rid of that! Vnuk, author of the popular Weeding Tips column on BOOKLIST Online, is here to show you that yes, you can. A library is an ever-changing organism; when done the right way, weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection... |
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Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
David K. Johnson - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands -- the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements,... |
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Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025
Kim Leeder - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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With essays by Brett Bonfield, John Chrastka, Lesley Farmer, Dave Harmeyer, Megan Hodge, Ben Malczewski, Krisellen Maloney, and Hugh RundleIn an information environment where the only constant is change, many wonder where libraries are headed. This edited collection brings together library... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
Bradley W Hart - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular... |
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The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It
NICHOLAS CARNES - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this... |
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Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable
Tomi Lahren - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Fox Nation host, Fox News contributor, and social media master argues that it's time to square your shoulders, stand your ground and speak the truth.The conventional wisdom is that we need more civility and fewer arguments. If you have a controversial option, keep it to yourself. Tomi... |
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid... |
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We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered
MARK ANDERSEN - Akashic Books
Format: Paperback
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"When did the Clash quit being 'the only band that matters'? This fascinating book faces a challenge: documenting the final years of the British band that its record label had promoted with that slogan...The band may no longer have mattered, but its legacy mattered to the authors,... |
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The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising
Krystal Ball - Strong Arm Press
Format: Paperback
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Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti are co-hosts of Rising at The Hill TV, one of the fastest growing political shows in America. Theirs is the only book that fuses the populist right and populist left to explain the rise of the Trump and Sanders movements. The authors curate an essential collection... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's... |
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Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein - Verso, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History
Blair Imani - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond.With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern... |
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The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
John Hughes-Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A ground-breaking history of intelligence -- from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age -- that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional... |
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Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook at Home
Marcus Samuelsson - Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning celebrity chef and New York Times best-selling author unwinds at home, sharing 150 relaxed, multicultural dishes |
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial... |
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM - One World
Format: Hardcover
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation... |
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Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
ROGER SCRUTON - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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A brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain's leading intellectuals.In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries.... |
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Darkness over Germany: A Warning from History
E AMY BULLER - Interlink Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A lesson from history that is needed today more than ever. Darkness over Germany delivers a stark warning from history of how a man with little political experience rose up as a voice of the people, a voice for the disenfranchised who were suffering the injustices of social inequality and unemployment.... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:... |
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