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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
John Palfrey · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that... |
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Fascism Old and New: American Politics at the Crossroads
Carl Boggs · Routledge
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
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Deep historical trends suggest the United States could be moving toward a distinctly novel form of fascism, embracing elements of the historical phenomenon as it appeared in such countries as Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain while departing in significant ways. A twenty-first century fascism... |
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The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
Colin Quinn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From former SNL "Weekend Update" host and legendary stand-up Colin Quinn comes a controversial and laugh-out-loud investigation into cultural and ethnic stereotypes.Colin Quinn has noticed a trend during his decades on the road-that Americans' increasing political correctness... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Erwin Chemerinsky · Yale University Press
Pages: 280
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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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM · One World
Pages: 320
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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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson... |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
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 her baby... |
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