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Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Josh Ruebner - Verso
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President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues.” Contrast this gloomy assessment... |
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Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives
Joseph Heath - Harper
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The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us slow politics: promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debateWinner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingOver the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become... |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders.... |
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Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Timothy Garton Ash - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers:... |
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The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have
Aaron David Miller - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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The Presidency has always been an implausible--some might even say an impossible--job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the presidents capacity and power to deliver on what ails... |
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Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
J. Richard Hackman - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary and even inter-organizational teams are necessary to solve the really hard problems intelligence professionals face. Tragically,... |
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Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Karen Dawisha - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawishas brilliant Putins Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore... |
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The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?
George Soros - PublicAffairs,
Format: Print book
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The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests... |
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
Dana Loesch - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small... |
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The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea
Paul Ryan - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond,... |
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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward... |
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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions. Named one of PWs Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified... |
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935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
Charles Lewis - Public Affairs
Format: Hardcover
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Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the people," requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between... |
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Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World
Nick Licata - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book
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Recent waves of social activism like the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter show that you can fight city hall--or any other powerful entity for that matter. Now comes the playbook for citizen activists wanting to improve the world around them from Nick Licata, admired Seattle city councilmember... |
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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman - Verso; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets."Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella... |
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Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi
Kenneth R. Timmerman - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened - and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually... |
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Who We Be: A Hidden Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Jeff Chang - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first... |
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Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Monique W. Morris - The New Press
Format: Paperback
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Black Statsa comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americansis an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,... |
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic and How We Can End It
Deborah Cohen - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding... |
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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
John Paul Stevens - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more... |
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The new librarianship field guide
R David Lankes - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship,... |
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Carlotta Gall - Mariner Books; Reprint edition
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“An enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan.”—Financial Times Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical... |
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Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Amalia Pallares - Rutgers University Press
Format: Book
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During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized... |
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This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
Anja Manuel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending.... |
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids
Quanyu Huang - Prometheus
Format: Paperback
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Why do Asian and Asian-American students consistently perform so well on standardized tests? Why are students of Asian descent disproportionately admitted to Americas top colleges?This informative and entertainingly written comparison of educational methods in America and China answers... |
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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
Peter Dauvergne - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon... |
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Metaliteracy in Practice
Trudi E Jacobson - ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In their earlier book Metaliteracy, the authors offered an original framework for engaging learners as reflective and collaborative participants in today's complex information environments. Now, they move that comprehensive structure for information literacy firmly into real-world practice,... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga Taylor - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America.... |
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Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
Cora Daniels - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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When was the last time you said everything on your mind without holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America’s top hot-button issues, a journalist and a cultural anthropologist express opinions that are widely held in private—but rarely heard in public.Everyone... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy
Larry Doyle - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
David Bacon - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate... |
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Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
Glenn Beck - Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts, 2014.
Format: Print book
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PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE. It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted itself into public education over the years, the worse... |
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The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
Megan McArdle - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly, a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeedMost new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional... |
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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
Aviva Chomsky - Beacon Press,
Format: Paperback
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Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how "illegality" and "undocumentedness" are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With... |
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
David Banks - Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public... |
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The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
Philip K Howard - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: "What's the right thing to do?" What's wrong in Washington is deeper than you think. Yes, there's gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more... |
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting
John Shiffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Microchips. Gyroscopes. Radar-cloaking and night-vision technology. Developed and manufactured in the United States... |
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Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
Sue Johnson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. LOVE SENSE presents new scientific evidence... |
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World
Derek Chollet - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama's foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from the political reality in which leaders face choices and make decisions. Here, consummate... |
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library - the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out! From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk.... |
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroada road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
Adam Plantinga - Quill Driver Books
Format: Book
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How does it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to shoot someone? What do cops really think about the citizens they serve? Nearly everyone has wondered what it’s like to be a police officer, but no civilian really understands what happens on the job. “400... |
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Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Edmund Fawcett - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many... |
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde - Crossing Press
Format: Paperback(Reprint)
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsidercelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class,... |
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Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, with Recipes
Jennifer McLagan - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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The champion of uncelebrated foods including fat, offal, and bones, Jennifer McLagan turns her attention to a fascinating, underappreciated, and trending topic: bitterness. What do coffee, IPA beer, dark chocolate, and radicchio all have in common They're bitter. While some culinary... |
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Unspeakable
Chris Hedges - Hot Books
Format: Print book
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Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging... |
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Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin... |
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The New American Herbal
Stephen Orr - Clarkson Potter
Format: Paperback
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From modern garden master Stephen Orr comes a new, definitive book on herbs to finally replace the dusty and outdated classics. Here are entries on hundreds of plants that are extraordinarily useful in cooking, homeopathy, and more; dozens of recipes and DIY projects; and beautifully styled... |
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Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics... |
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Why government fails so often : and how it can do better
Peter H Schuck - Princeton University Press,
Format: Print book
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"From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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Love Unites Us: Winning the Freedom to Marry in America
Kevin M Cathcart - New Pressinc.
Format: Hardcover
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Victory may sometimes look like a sudden revolution when, in truth, it rests on years of struggle. The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites Us is the history of activists'... |
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Jeff Madrick - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theorieswhy theyre wrong, and how theyve been harming America and the world. Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free market... |
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Ctrl Z: The Right to Be Forgotten
Meg Leta Jones - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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This is going on your permanent record is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected,... |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Dominic Tierney - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam,... |
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H Achen - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy... |
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential
Daniel Beaty - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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Pain doesn’t last alwaysSometimes only for a nightTry not to resistIt hurts the more we fightOvercoming life’s difficulties is daunting. At times, it seems the burdens that we bear are too painful to overcome. They keep us from even trying to accomplish the things we want most.... |
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Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities
David Hammis - Brookes Publishing; Second Edition, New edition edition
Format: Paperback
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As self-employment becomes a viable option for more and more adults with significant disabilities, give them realistic, practical guidance and support with the NEW edition of this popular guidebook. Updated with a new and improved assessment approach, more self-employment success... |
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The NSA Report: Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Richard A Clarke - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake... |
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Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
Michele Stephenson - Speigel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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As seen on PBS's POVAn unprecedented guide to helping black boys achieve success at every stage of their lives - at home, at school, and in the world Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the "achievement gap":... |
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Election 2008: A Voter's Guide
Franklin Foer - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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Featuring the writers and editors of THE NEW REPUBLIC, this handbook for the 2008 presidential election contains information every citizen needs as we head into the primaries. THE NEW REPUBLIC'S Election 2008: A Voter's Guide includes deeply reported, psychologically rich profiles... |
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Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Juan Zarate - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official,... |
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Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy
Bonnie Burton - Quirk Books
Format: Print book
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This is what a feminist crafter looks like! Wear your ideology on your sleeve by creating feminist merit badges (like "started an all-girl band" or "rocked roller derby") . Prove that the political is personal with DIY power panties ("No means no") . Craft... |
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Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Barbara Klipper - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Those who understand the unique sensitivities of young people with autism spectrum disorder, now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, know that ordinary library programming guides are not up to the task of effectively serving these library users. Klipper... |
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Dayo Olopade - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves Africa is a continent on the move. It's often hard to notice, though - the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social... |
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Erwin Chemerinsky - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:... |
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Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
Paul Richards - Zed Book
Format: Print book
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In 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea and sending the international community into panic. By 2014, experts were grimly predicting that millions would be infected within months, and a huge... |
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Armageddon: THE BATTLE TO STOP OBAMA'S THIRD TERM
Dick Morris - Humanix Pub Llc
Format: Print book
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Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016... |
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