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From Russia With Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladamir Putin's Secret War on the West

Heidi Blake - Mulholland Books
Format: Book

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one,...

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The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

John E. Douglas - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation...

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Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

Blair Imani - Ten Speed Press
Format: Book

A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop.Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better...

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Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War

Joseph Weisberg - PublicAffairs
Format: Book

Coming of age in America in the 1970s and 80s, Joe Weisberg was a Cold Warrior. After briefly studying Russian in Leningrad, he joined the CIA in 1990--just in time to watch the Soviet Union collapse. But less than a decade after the first Cold War ended, a new one broke out. Russia...

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The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller - Bold Type Books
Format: Book

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate...

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When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations

BRENT STEEL - Praeger
Format: Book

This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus -- and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well...

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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer

Ahmet Altan
Format: Paperback

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...

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The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

Egil "Bud" Krogh - ?St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise.On July 17, 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door...

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