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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Emily Dufton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,... |
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Fatwa: Hunted in America
Pamela Geller - Dangerous Books
Format: Hardcover
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Her critics have called her the most dangerous woman in America, far-right hate queen, and the anti-Muslim movements most visible and flamboyant figurehead. . Her admirers say she is the Joan of Arc of the counter-jihad movement, one of the top world experts in radical Islam, sharia, and Islamic... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts... |
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Gorsuch: The Judge Who Speaks for Himself
John Greenya - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Learn all about Neil Gorsuch, the youngest judge to be nominated to the Supreme Court in twenty-five years, with this comprehensive and fascinating biography.When forty-nine-year-old Neil Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, he was told by a senator, "We... |
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss - HC
Format: Paperback
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Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects.... |
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
JAMES BRIDLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In actual fact, we are lost... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National... |
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions - not to mention the president and his advisers - could benefit from reading." - The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United... |
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Evaluating Media Bias
Adam Joseph Schiffer - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades and it features prominently in the post-2016 political conversation. Yet, it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Evaluating Media Bias... |
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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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Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America
Michael Johnson - Firefly Books; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Review of the previous edition: "A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come." - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western... |
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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From the legendary journalist and creator of "Gonzo" journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern's 1972 presidential election.Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 remains a cornerstone... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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Arguments for Welfare: The Welfare State and Social Policy
Paul Spicker - Rowman & Littlefield International
Format: Hardcover
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This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare... |
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Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Dan Bortolotti - Firefly Books
Format: Print book
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Gripping accounts of medical workers who volunteer to serve in some of the world's most dangerous hotspots. The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, (also known as Mdecins Sans Frontires or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural... |
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
David Pilgrim - PM Press
Format: Paperback
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that undergird them. It features images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist... |
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel. . . ."For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues
Gus Martin - SAGE Publications, Inc
Format: Paperback
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"[Gus Martin] has expertly curated the most important topics and sources in the field and put them together in an ideal manner to assist students in understanding the breadth and complexity of modern-day terrorism. Coupled with the instructor and student resources, this text is a perfect... |
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
JIM STAVRIDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation - and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO - comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial... |
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The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Robert Aquinas McNally - Bison Books
Format: Hardcover
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On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native... |
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Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking
Beverly Cox - Stewart Tabori & Chang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The reissued James Beard and IACP award winner Spirit of the Harvest brings authentic Native American recipes into the modern home kitchen. This carefully researched cookbook presents 150 recipes from across the United States, incorporating many indigenous ingredients and traditional dishes... |
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements' greatest strengths and frequent challenges To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses... |
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Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America
THOMAS E CRONIN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America's most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran
Robert Spencer - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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The author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran. |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
Jonathan Smucker - AK Press
Format: Print book
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Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Hopeful about the potential of today's burgeoning movements, long-time grassroots organizer Jonathan Smucker nonetheless pulls no punches... |
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Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President
MICHAEL KRANISH - SCRIBNER
Format: Print book
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A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Year Hailed as "authoritative" and "essential," and based on the work of two dozen reporters and twenty hours of interviews with Trump, Trump Revealed is the indispensable and now updated biography of the 45th president of the United... |
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The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies
John R Lott - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that's accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate. In Lying to Steal Your Guns, economist and gun rights advocate John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded... |
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government
Mike Lee - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,... |
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
GREGG JARRETT - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook Year of Books SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Entertainment... |
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Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Richard Haass - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure,... |
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many... |
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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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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America
STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,... |
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
Jennifer Toth - Chicago Review Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground,... |
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The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Alvin Josephy Jr.'s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies. This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK. - DK
Format: Paperback
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From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today - Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more - The Politics Book clearly and simply... |
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right
George Hawley - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech... |
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The 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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Library Service to Spanish Speaking Patrons: A Practical Guide (Teacher Ideas Press)
Sharon Moller - Libraries Unlimited; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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If your library serves a Latino population, you'll want this book. It will help you better serve the needs of Spanish-speaking patrons of all ages. The author gives background information on various Hispanic groups, explaining some of the cultural differences that can lead to misunderstanding.... |
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
JEREMIAH MOSS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIRAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing... |
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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives
WESLEY LOWERY - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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LA Times winner for The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseA New York Times bestsellerA New York Times Editors' Choice"Essential reading."--Junot Diaz"Electric...so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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COURAGE COWARDS As we approach the most important presidential election in Americas history something has been lost among all of the debates attack ads and super- PACssomething that Americans used to hold in very high regard THE TRUTH Glenn Beck likes to say that the truth has no agendabut... |
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
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... |
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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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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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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Bruce Cannon Gibney - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book--written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) --Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Book
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"... |
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Library as Safe Haven: Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery
Shari C. Clifton - ALA Neal-Schuman
Format: Print book
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Libraries have always played a special role in times of disaster by continuing to provide information services. The Stafford Act of 2011 designates libraries as among the temporary facilities delivering essential services, so the federal government directive for a Continuity of Operations... |
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Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America
Enrique Krauze - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, awork which the Wall Street Journal calls "the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico," prize-winning author Enrique... |
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Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Clapham - Oxford University Press 2015.
Format: Print book
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Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly.This Very Short Introduction, in its second... |
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The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger - Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
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The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League... |
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In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
Payam Akhavan - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout... |
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
Phil Cushway - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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This stunning work illuminates today's black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets... |
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
Wally Lamb - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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What I hope is that people reading this book will bear in mind that we are human beings first, inmates second.--Bonnie ForeshawIn a stunning new work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding the humanity in the lost... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
C. Raja Mohan - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Format: Paperback
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Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are roiling the waters of the Indo-Pacific - the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia.Invoking a tale from Hindu mythology - Samudra... |
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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,... |
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The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration
Ben Shapiro - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro presents a comprehensive case against Barack Obamas abuses of power during his time in office. From the DOJ to the NSA, from the EPA to the Department of Health and Human Services, Barack Obamas administration has become a labyrinth of corruption... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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You'd Better Put Some Ice On That: How I Survived Being Raped by Bill Clinton
Juanita Broaddrick - CreateSpace
Format: Paperback
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In 1999, Juanita Broaddrick burst into the public consciousness when she accused President Bill Clinton on national television of raping her in 1978 as he ran for governor in Arkansas. It was a TV appearance she dreaded and never wanted, but felt compelled to squash the rumors: it was rape.... |
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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: Print book
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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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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Christopher Hitchens - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, Paine’s text is a passionate defense... |
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Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays
Christopher Hitchens - Nation Books
Format: Paperback
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"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other ‘profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading... |
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Miriam Horn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.. "Lush, gorgeously written ... A profoundly hopeful book." -- Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA Kirkus Best Book of 2016Many of the men and women doing todays... |
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Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
David R Dow - Twelve, 2014.
Format: Print book
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"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row.... |
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The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism
Simon Reeve - Northeastern
Format: Hardcover
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The first book on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, this New York Times bestseller warns of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism. According to ‘The New Jackals’ a group of several thousand men who fought against the Soviets during the 1980s Afghan War have since dominated international... |
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The Age of Longevity: Re-Imagining Tomorrow for Our New Long Lives
Rosalind C Barnett - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Long, productive lives are the destiny of most of us, not just the privilege of our great-grandchildren. The story of aging is not one of steady decline and decay; we need a new narrative based on solid research, not scare stories. Today Americans enjoy a new, healthy stage of life, between... |
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Peter Edelman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted... |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
Gore Vidal - Nation Books
Format: Paperback
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The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
YANIS VAROUFAKIS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political... |
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How Propaganda Works
Jason Stanley - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention. Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe... |
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The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living
Joseph M Marshall - Penguin Compass
Format: Book
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Joseph M. Marshall's thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path... |
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Better Ways to Live: Honoring Social Inventors, Exploring New Challenges
Craig Comstock - Willow Press
Format: Paperback
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Everybody knows what a physical invention is, but what is a social invention? On the community level, it can be as simple as a story-telling evening or an "abundance swap," both among the many examples described here. On the global level, the Peace Corps was a social invention.... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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We Are Aztln!: Chicanx Histories on the Northern Borderlands
Jerry García - Washington State Univ Pr
Format: Paperback
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"Mexican Americans/Chicana/os/Chicanx form a majority of the overall Latino population in the United States. In this collection, established and emerging Chicanx researchers diverge from the discipline's traditional Southwest focus to offer academic and non-academic perspectives... |
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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
Sean Sherman - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Here is real food - our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his breakout... |
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Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Frances Moore Lappé - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump's victory, What do we do now The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.With our democracy in crisis, many Americans are frightened and uncertain. So, the legendary activist and author... |
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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Every Day Is Extra
John Kerry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive... |
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Same-Sex Marriage: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
David E Newton - ABC-CLIO
Format: Print book
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According to Pew Research poll data, in 2001, the majority of Americans opposed same-sex marriage 57 percent against, 35 percent in support. As of 2015, a majority of Americans (55 percent) supported same-sex marriage, with 39 percent expressing opposition. The landmark Obergefell v. Hodges... |
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House Trade
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON... |
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Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Pamela J. Olson - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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For much of her life—like many Westerners—most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the realities of Palestinian life.Fast Times in Palestine... |
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Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency
Corey R. Lewandowski - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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LET TRUMP BE TRUMP: THE INSIDE STORY OF HIS PRESIDENCY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the greatest political... |
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The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections
Catherine M Shaw - Routledge
Format: Paperback
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Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents the must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This clear and concise handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a detailed, soup-to-nuts plan for organizing, funding, publicizing,... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling... |
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
BOB SCHIEFFER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR
BRUCE RIEDEL - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationshipSaudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors... |
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Death: An Oral History
Casey Jarman - Zest Books
Format: Print book
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In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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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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The Putin Interviews (Showtime Documentary Films)
Oliver Stone - Hot Books
Format: Paperback
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From Oscar-winner Oliver Stone comes a first-hand look at one of the most important, powerful, and controversial leaders in the world: Vladimir Putin of Russia. The companion to the news-breaking television series, this edition has substantial material not included in the documentary..... |
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United States Government Manual
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION. - Claitor's Pub Division
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Known as the Official handbook of the Federal Government. This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates,... |
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Against the Fascist Creep
Alexander Reid Ross - Ak Press
Format: Print book
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What are the origins of fascism's current rise in the US and around the world?What are its links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Kris Kobach, Ken Blackwell, and others in the new administration?How has Vladimir Putin used the global far right to increase his power and influence?Where... |
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