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Crude: A Memoir
Pablo Fajardo
Format: Hardcover
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In 1972, the American oil company Texaco - subsequently merged with Chevron - extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador. By the time it pulled out of the region some twenty years later, Texaco had extracted oil from at least three hundred wells and left behind nearly... |
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Michelle Bowdler - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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She Said meets Lucky in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely univestigated.The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person... |
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Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Tyler Cowen - ?St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed... |
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Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later
Howard Zehr - ?The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Side-by-side, time-lapse photos and interviews, separated by twenty-five years, of people serving life sentences in prison, by the bestselling author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice"Shows the remarkable resilience of people sentenced to die in prison and raises profound questions... |
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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging... |
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Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define... |
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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
Henry Sanderson - Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.. 'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable... |
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