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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Martin Meredith - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew fortune-seekers, merchant-adventurers, and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other valuable... |
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
James Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Baz Dreisinger - Other Press,
Format: Print book
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Baz Dreisinger travels behind bars in nine countries to rethink the state of justice in a global context Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline,... |
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We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America
CHARLES PETERS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary editor who founded the Washington Monthly and pioneered explanatory journalism trains his keen, principled eye on the changes that have reshaped American politics and civic life beginning with the New Deal. "We Do Our Part" was the slogan of Franklin Delano... |
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Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield
Tony Zinni - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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For the better part of the last half century the United States has been the Worlds Police claiming to defend ideologies allies and our national security through brute force But is military action always the most appropriate response Drawing on his vast experience from combat in Vietnam... |
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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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Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America
Richard Parker - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and eye-opening look at the most explosive and controversial state in America, where everything is bigger, bolder—and shaping our nation's future in surprising waysTo most Americans, Texas has been that love-it-or-hate it slice of the country that has sparked controversy,... |
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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 Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National... |
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Jessica Valenti - Seal Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Book
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Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism is a book that continues to embody the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com.Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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Broken But Unbowed
Greg Abbott - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich... |
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
Glenn Beck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit... |
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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
Charlie Crist - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008... |
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A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples
Frederick Hertz - NOLO; Seventeenth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while its an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, its important that you take the proper legal steps... |
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Falling in Love with America Again
Jim DeMint - Center Street, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Serving within the supposed pinnacles of power as a respected and influential U. S. Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint often felt frustrated and powerless to fight against the frightening growth of the federal bureaucracy and refute the mistaken idea that ever-bigger government is the solution... |
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
Lawrence James - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship... |
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
Eric Metaxas - Viking
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin... |
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Henry Petroski - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally... |
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Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government
Aneesh Chopra - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last twenty years, our economy and our society, from how we shop and pay our bills to how we communicate, have been completely revolutionized by technology. As Aneesh Chopra shows in Innovative State, once it became clear how much this would change America, a movement arose around... |
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A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen
Basharat Peer - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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"A knowledgeable journalist astutely delineates a troubling global move toward the right wing."--Kirkus Reviews What happens when a democratically elected leader evolves into an authoritarian ruler, limiting press freedom, civil liberties, and religious and ethnic tolerance?... |
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
Wendy Ruderman - HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran... |
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Bart Moore-Gilbert - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting... |
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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 Case for Impeachment
ALLAN J LICHTMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." - The Hill"It is still striking to see the full argument unfold and realize that you don't have to be a zealot to imagine some version of it happening ... Lies. Abuse of power. Treason.... |
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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape Chinas Push for Global Power
Howard W. French - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of Chinas Second Continent, an incisive investigation of Chinas ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China... |
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The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
Frank Browning - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific... |
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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto
Jesse Ventura - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy on marijuana, and why he's always been in favor of legalization. Now, more than ever before, our country needs to see full legalization of medical/recreational marijuana and hemp.Any way you look at it, for whoever... |
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The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later
Tavis Smiley - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Print book
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In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal... |
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Dear White People
Justin Simien - Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (Indiewire) film of the same name, which “heralds a fresh and funny new voice” (Variety).Right out of college, Justin... |
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college... |
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift... |
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Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit - Haymarket Books; F First Edition Used edition
Format: Paperback
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In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect... |
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Allyson Hobbs - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history... |
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Format: Print book
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The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities) . However, the printed version was |
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U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency
Mike Earp - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earpa descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earpoffers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nations development for more than... |
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Psychiatrists-- the Men Behind Hitler: The Architects of Horror
Thomas Röder - Freedom Publ.
Format: Hardcover
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ADOLF HITLER-a man whose name will live forever in infamy, synonymous with racism, hatred and genocide. Over the years, much attention has been focused on this madman and his partners in crime. How could such a phenonmenon have come to be, and how could it possibly have brought an entire... |
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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson - St Martin'S Press
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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Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes
George Yancy professor of philosophy Emory University - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenges of raising black boys today. From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice, the list of young black men who have suffered racial violence continues to grow.... |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book
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2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,... |
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They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French
Piu Marie Eatwell - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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They Eat Horses, Dont TheyThe Truth About the French tells you what life in France is really like. Do the French eat horses Do French women bare all on the beach What is a bidet really used forIn this hilarious and informative book, Piu Marie Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five... |
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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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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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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western... |
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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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Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives
Joseph Heath - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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 Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousands of Nazis - from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich - came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. They had little... |
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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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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks
Richard X. Bove - Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Book
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Since the financial crisis, amid outrage at the likes of Citigroup and JPMorganChase and Washington’s rejiggering of the financial system, the banking industry has had one major defender: Richard X. Bove. Now he explains why big banks are the nation’s lifeline to success, and why financial... |
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The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Jack Shenker - The New Press
Format: Print book
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In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses... |
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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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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
Bret Stephens - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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A world in which the leading liberal-democratic nation does not assume its role as world policeman will become a world in which dictatorships contend, or unite, to fill the breach. Americans seeking a return to an isolationist garden of Edenalone and undisturbed in the world, knowing neither... |
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The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
Judith Rodin - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm,... |
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Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department
John Fund - Broadside Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Under Attorney General Eric Holder, the Department of Justice has become a politicized hotbed of left-wing legal activism.What is Eric Holder up to? When questioned by congressional committees on sensitive issues like the ATF gunwalking scandal or the surveillance of Fox News reporter James... |
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
Lisa Servon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An urgent, absorbing expos - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a highnetworth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have... |
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Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Joel Kurtzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Bob Herbert - Doubleday
Format: Book
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From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its wayIn his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle... |
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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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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein... |
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Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Thomas Geoghegan - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Is labors day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In his new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revivedbut differentlabor movement is the only way to stabilize the economy... |
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
Jang Jin-sung - Atria / 37 INK; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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THE STORY THEY COULDNT HACK In this rare insiders view into contemporary North Korea a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedomThe General will now enter the room Everyone turns to stone Not moving... |
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
Ann Hagedorn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only... |
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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
David Boies - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Proposition 8 - by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's... |
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Zen and the Art of Quilting: Finding Peace Through Piecework
Sandra Detrixhe - Adams Media
Format: Print book
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Bring balance to your life in the marriage of beauty and function!From selecting fabrics to threading the needle to piecing together your project, the steps you take to create a beautiful quilt will allow you to calm your mind and bring harmony to your life. Master quilter Sandra Detrixhe... |
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Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
Kevin Deutsch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation's... |
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United
Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
Christopher R. Hill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
Darrell M. West - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know. With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires... |
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Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer
James D Walsh - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Fascinating and groundbreaking: a talented young journalist goes undercover to work as a casino labor-union organizer in Florida in this rare, smart look at the ongoing struggle between the haves and the have-nots.Salting is a simple concept - get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were... |
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Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women
Katie Pavlich - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and FOX News contributor Katie Pavlich exposes the truth behind the real war on womenthe one being waged by Democrats. Assault and Flattery goes beyond the Democratic Partys rhetoric and exposes its shocking and sustained assault on American women that... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage - Center St
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
Wesley K. Clark - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of Americas sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently but its leaders objectives... |
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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away
Bob Shacochis - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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"Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured." - Washington PostBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was finalist... |
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
Chip Colwell - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 19711972
Douglas Brinkley - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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Between existentialism and Marxism
Jean Paul Sartre - Pantheon Books; First American Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama
Michael Savage - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last... |
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Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
Antonin Scalia - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost thirty years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering... |
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Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan
Heraldo MunÌ?oz - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a political family as important to Pakistani... |
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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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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson - New Press
Format: Print book
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In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous... |
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Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
David Cay Johnston - New Press
Format: Hardcover
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The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super-rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the 99 percent an indelible... |
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer - The New Press
Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Rosemary Mahoney - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree"This joyful, thoughtful book took me on an emotional... |
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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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