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The Manipulators: Google, Facebook, and Silicon Valley's War on Conservatives
Hasson, Peter - REGNERY PUB INC
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For better or for worse, Google and social media--"Big Tech," collectively--have become the new public square. Unfortunately, this public square has a watchful referee standing behind them, ready and waiting to blow the whistle if they veer too far from the preferred narrative.... |
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The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right
Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists... |
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Taking Children: A History of American Terror
Laura Briggs - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows,... |
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The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland
Ali Winston - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the Polk Award-winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.No municipality has been under court oversight to reform... |
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Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Melissa Adler - Fordham University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemologies of the Closet... |
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The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy
Federico Finchelstein - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political... |
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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
Mark Gevisser - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers... |
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The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society
Emily Tamkin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A seasoned journalist probes one of the right-wing's favorite targets, Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros, to explore the genesis of his influence and the truth of the conspiracies that surround him.For years, hedge fund tycoon George Soros has been demonized... |
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