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23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Keramet Reiter - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors... |
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Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library
Ben Bizzle - Editions
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But this is how we've always done it! Objections to taking a fresh tack are about as common as budget shortfalls, and the two are more closely related than you might think. At the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas, Bizzle and his colleagues defied common practices... |
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals... |
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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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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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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
James L. Trainum - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly... |
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Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics
Ari Rabin-Havt - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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In Lies, Incorporated, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America unravel the distortions of truth that are transformed into "common knowledge" by a powerful network of special-interest groups and politicians.In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully... |
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The new librarianship field guide
R David Lankes - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship,... |
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the Worlds Best Writers
Joel Whitney - OR Books
Format: Hardcover
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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of Americas best-loved literary figures - including Peter Matthiessen,... |
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
John Stubbs - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique... |
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Decolonization: A Short History
Jan C Jansen - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more... |
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The Islamic Challenge and the United States: Global Security in an Age of Uncertainty
Mohammed E Ahrari - McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Print book
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On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden declared "global jihad" on the West. In response to the day's attacks, the United States has waged its own global war on terrorism, which the Pentagon has described as a generational conflict similar to the Cold War. In The Islamic Challenge... |
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Guns across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights
Robert Spitzer - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan - Knopf
Format: Book
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While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second... |
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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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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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Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate
Đình Trụ Trần - University of Hawaii Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years... |
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
John Palfrey - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues... |
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything
Thomas Lake - Melcher Media
Format: Print book
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Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles... |
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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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Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam 2016, Premium Edition
Tom Meltzer - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. In addition to all the great material in our classic Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Considering this question, two of our most celebrated political scientists trace the shocking ways in which governments have mobilized armies since... |
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's... |
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The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
Alexandra Brodsky - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback
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What do we want?In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinvents birth control, Sheila Bapat envisions an economy... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China
Scott Savitt - Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek... |
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A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
Nir Baram - Text Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"From horror to fatigue to indifference, an important look forward and back that provides a grass-roots sense... An honest and troubling snapshot of Israel - both Palestinian and Israeli - that reveals the creeping realization that a two-state solution may no longer be possible."... |
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Careers in Law Enforcement
Coy H Johnston - SAGE
Format: Print book
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Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing. Written in a concise and conversational tone, author Coy H. Johnston includes three main sections: planning a realistic path, selecting an appropriate... |
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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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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane - Little A
Format: Paperback
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An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police... |
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Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States
P. J. Crowley - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Over the past quarter century, four consecutive American presidents - two Democrat, two Republican - have spent more time, diplomatic capital, and military resources on Iraq than any other country in the world. Much as the Vietnam syndrome cast a long shadow over American security policy... |
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
Sheldon Whitehouse - New Press
Format: Print book
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In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their... |
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The Handbook for Storytellers
Caroline Feller Bauer - Amer Library Assn Editions; annotated edition edition
Format: Print book
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Ideal for both beginners and more experienced storytellers, this exhaustive primer includes everything adults need to start sharing the wonder of stories with children, from babies to tweens. The lively text imparts easy-to-follow guidelines and practical advice on how, when, where, and why to tell... |
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The Artist's Library: A Field Guide
Erinn Batykefer - Coffee House Press
Format: Hardcover
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Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making... |
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5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. Government & Politics 2017
Pamela K. Lamb - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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Get ready for your AP U.S. Government and Politics exam with this straightforward, easy-to-follow study guide The wildly popular test prep guide -- updated and enhanced for smartphone users -- 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. Government and Politics 2017 provides a proven strategy to achieving... |
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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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Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!
Donald J. Trump - Regnery Publishing; Updated edition
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestseller!2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has a plan to make America great again.President Obama has been a disaster for this country. He's wrecked our economy, opened our borders to violent criminals, saddled our children with debt, and gone... |
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Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America's most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders' warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes... |
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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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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal... |
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The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law
Jameel Jaffer - The New Press
Format: Print book
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The Drone Memos collects for the first time the legal and policy documents underlying the U.S. government's deeply controversial practice of "targeted killing" - the extrajudicial killing of suspected terrorists and militants, typically using remotely piloted aircraft or "drones."... |
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
ALI H SOUFAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,... |
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WHAT WE DO NOW: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America
Dennis Loy Johnson - Melville House
Format: Print book
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An inspiring handbook for people troubled by the election of Donald Trump, by some of the biggest names in progressive politics. Meant to give people heart and actual strategies about how to advance a variety of causes. |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE - ALFRED A KNOPF
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... |
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Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media
Nickie D Phillips - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence... |
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Status Anxiety
Alain De Botton - Pantheon Books
Format: Book
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"Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted. . . . The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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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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Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy
Jennifer Grayson - Harper
Format: Print book
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Since the rise of artificial formula, we have turned a biological process into a never-ending controversy: A mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son on the cover of Time magazine sets off a firestorm. Facebook takes down photos of women nursing, citing the content as "offensive."... |
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The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky - Brooklyn Arts Press
Format: Print book
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Following in the path of his acclaimed collections THE BOOK OF INTERFERING BODIES (Nightboat, 2011) and IN THE MURMURS OF THE ROTTEN CARCASS ECONOMY (Nightboat, 2015) , Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies... |
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Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War
Richard D Brown - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that "all men are created equal"How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this... |
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
Brittney C. Cooper - Feminist Press
Format: Print book
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For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted - relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership... |
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The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
BRIAN KLAAS - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington,... |
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National Geographic People of the World: Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity
Catherine Herbert Howell - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book
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From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world. Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, the book... |
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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
Matthew Parker - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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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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Plunder and deceit : big government's exploitation of young people and the future
Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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In each of his astounding #1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levin's overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy: The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most?In modern America, the civil society is being steadily... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks... |
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Democracy Betrayed: The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
William W. Keller - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Print book
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In the aftermath of 9/11, in collusion with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian form of governance is supplanting liberal democracy. The creation of the Security Industrial Complex - an "internal security state-within-the-state" fueled by tech companies,... |
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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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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Erwin Chemerinsky - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:... |
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Slippery slope : europe's troubled future
Giles Merritt - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's... |
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Democracy: A Case Study
David A Moss - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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To all who declare that American democracy is broken -- riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth -- history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation's founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is still standing.... |
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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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Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Aaron B O'Connell - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty... |
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The Soul of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored... |
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JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity
Lawrence Kudlow - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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The fascinating, suppressed history of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics.John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board. He was essentially the first supply-sider. Sadly, today's Democrats have ignored JFK's tax-cut legacy and have... |
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A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism
Carol Berkin - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Today the United States is the dominant power in world affairs, and that status seems assured. Yet in the decade following the ratification of the Constitution, the republic's existence was contingent and fragile, challenged by domestic rebellions, foreign interference, and the always-present... |
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ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State
Brian L. Steed - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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ISIS also referred to as ISIL, the Islamic State, or Daesh began to assert its power and gain recognition for its militant and terroristic activities in April 2013. After the coordinated attacks in Paris on November 13th, 2015, ISIS has captured the full attention of observers in the West.... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Scott Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent... |
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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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The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
John Hughes-Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A ground-breaking history of intelligence -- from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age -- that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional... |
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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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Why Don't Americans Vote?: Causes and Consequences
Bridgett A. King - ABC-CLIO
Format: Print book
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This timely book provides a thought-provoking discussion of issues that influence voter registration and turnout in contemporary America.* Provides readers with the historical context of registration and voting in the United States* Offers a broad overview of these issues today* Showcases... |
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Library technology buying strategies
Marshall Breeding - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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The prospect of a new automation system can be daunting. When do the benefits of moving to something new surpass the deficits of keeping the status quo? Can the products on the market deliver what libraries need to survive and prosper? Are those based on open source more flexible than proprietary... |
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Barry Friedman - Farrar
Format: Print book
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As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been erodedIn June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over... |
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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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