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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can't do it' You don't have to! Adam has done it for you! Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world... |
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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document
Mike Lee - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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The still-unfolding story of America's Constitution is a history of heroes and villains - the flawed visionaries who inspired and crafted liberty's safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. Those stories are known by few today.In Our Lost Constitution, Senator... |
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A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic and How We Can End It
Deborah Cohen - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding... |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions:... |
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The U.S. House of Representatives: Fundamentals of American Government
Matthew Spieler - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors... |
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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
John Micklethwait - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It's become a clich, and most of us are resigned to the fact that... |
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Don't tread on me : armed and angry in america
Alexander Zaitchik - Hot Books
Format: Print book
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The once unimaginable emergence of Donald Trump as the 2016 Republican nominee has left the country scrambling for answers and explanations. Of the questions driving anxious discussions in diners, news studios, and political strategy meetings, as many concern his loyal legions as do the candidate:... |
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Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The revelatory eyewitness account about Guantnamo Bay - detainees murdered, a secret CIA facility for torture, and the US government cover up - by the Staff Sergeant who felt honor-bound to uncover it.Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman was a loyal member of the armed forces and a proud American... |
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Frederic C Rich - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans." -- U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals... |
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Upheaval
Lou Dobbs - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation's most intractable problems.IF YOU DREAM OF A BETTER TOMORROW FOR AMERICA, FIRST FACE THE REALITIES OF TODAY. Expanding on his candid "Chalk Talks" that inform the popular... |
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Greg Gutfeld - Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,... |
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Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
Glenn Beck - Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts, 2014.
Format: Print book
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PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE. It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted itself into public education over the years, the worse... |
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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National... |
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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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: Hardcover
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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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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Henry Petroski - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race... |
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Ai-jen Poo - The New Press, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders.... |
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
Dana Loesch - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small... |
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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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After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Ronald Goldfarb - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend?And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath... |
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World Order
Henry Kissinger - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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There has never been a true "world order," Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural... |
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By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Charles Murray
Format: Book
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The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul... |
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Who We Be: A Hidden Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Jeff Chang - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first... |
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Revolution
Russell Brand - Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are. In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates... |
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The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden has had a prolific career as one of America's leading journalists and nonfiction writers. His new collection, The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories, features the best of his long-form pieces on war, as well as notable... |
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
Eric Metaxas - Viking
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin... |
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto... |
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Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution
Laurence Tribe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With the Supreme Court more influential than ever, this eye-opening book tells the story of how the Roberts Court is shaking the foundation of our nations lawsFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts... |
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This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
Anja Manuel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending.... |
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X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story
Eve Epstein - Abrams Image, an imprint of Abrams, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Seen through the eyes of siblings 14 years apart in age, X vs. Y is a smart, funny, stylish, and visually driven anthology that compiles and compares their two generational cultures. It's a story told through lists, infographics, essays, anecdotes, and images, with chapters devoted... |
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Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Shelby Steele - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The United States today is hopelessly polarized the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960swhen we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal... |
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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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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know
Aaron Klein - WND Books
Format: Hardcover
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Bigger than Watergate Bigger than Iran-Contra Ten times bigger than both said one representative The Bengahzi scandal may have been covered up by the White House but the truth is about to come out ThexARealxABenghazi StoryxAis a ground-breaking investigative work that finally exposes some... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Janette Sadik-Khan - Viking, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streetsAs New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's... |
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Russians: The People behind the Power
Gregory Feifer - Grand Central
Format: Hardcover
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From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. RUSSIANS explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling... |
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United
Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial
Kenji Yoshino - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry,the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equalitySpeak Nowtells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex... |
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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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The Sociology Book
Christopher Thorpe - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their... |
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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland - Blue Rider Press
Format: Paperback
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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist... |
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American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness
Dan DiMicco - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Print book
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American manufacturing is on life support -- at least, that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything that is built here requires specialized skills the average worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan DiMicco, chairman... |
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People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Robert W McChesney - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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The consequence of the technological revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people... |
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library - the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out! From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk.... |
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The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
Charlie Crist - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party's inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.After serving as a Republican governor - one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008... |
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Progressive Racism
David Horowitz - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism - the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes... |
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Breaking Through Power: Its Easier Than We Think (City Lights Open Media)
Ralph Nader - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"Naders assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but its his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essential reading. Written just before Donald Trumps Electoral College victory, Naders latest... |
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
James Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,... |
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Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government
Aneesh Chopra - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last twenty years, our economy and our society, from how we shop and pay our bills to how we communicate, have been completely revolutionized by technology. As Aneesh Chopra shows in Innovative State, once it became clear how much this would change America, a movement arose around... |
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Jeff Madrick - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theorieswhy theyre wrong, and how theyve been harming America and the world. Budget deficits are bad. A strong dollar is good. Controlling inflation is paramount. Pay reflects greater worker skills. A deregulated free market... |
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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How 401(k) s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions. Named one of PWs Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage - Center St
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century
Katherine S. Newman - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational trainingAfter decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete... |
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America
Rand Paul - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America.
In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting... |
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage.... |
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Success with Library Volunteers
Leslie Edmonds Holt - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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In these tough economic times, librarians must maximize the potential of their volunteer programs. This innovative guide not only provides readers with the practical information they need to recruit, manage, and retain effective volunteers, but also demonstrates how to create a dynamic... |
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Idiot's Guides: Social Security
Jan Yager - Alpha
Format: Print book
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Along with Medicare, Social Security is one of the "rites of passage" older Americans experience. After contributing funds to this program their entire working lives, people are anxious to start cashing in on their monthly benefits. Idiot's Guides: Social Security offers simple... |
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Convicting the Innocent: Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
Stanley Cohen - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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"A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written." Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyIn January 2000, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on state executions. Three years later, Ryan commuted all Illinois... |
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,... |
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The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy
Valerie M. Hudson - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy,... |
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift... |
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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
Bret Stephens - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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A world in which the leading liberal-democratic nation does not assume its role as world policeman will become a world in which dictatorships contend, or unite, to fill the breach. Americans seeking a return to an isolationist garden of Edenalone and undisturbed in the world, knowing neither... |
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
William MacAskill - Gotham Books
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions... |
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China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Howard W French - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year at * The Economist * The Guardian * Foreign AffairsChinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning... |
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Thomas Frank - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections,... |
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Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield
Tony Zinni - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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For the better part of the last half century the United States has been the Worlds Police claiming to defend ideologies allies and our national security through brute force But is military action always the most appropriate response Drawing on his vast experience from combat in Vietnam... |
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The American Book of Days
Hw Wilson - H.W. Wilson; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The American Book of Days features 850 essays marking important anniversaries and the birthdays of history-making Americans throughout the 366 days of the year. All American holidays and pivotal moments are noted as readers can delve into fascinating and often overlooked accounts connected... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra - Farrar
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting
John Shiffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Microchips. Gyroscopes. Radar-cloaking and night-vision technology. Developed and manufactured in the United States... |
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
Ann Hagedorn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs) ; there were only... |
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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Ben Carson M.D. - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Dear ReaderIn February I gave a speech at theNational Prayer Breakfast Standing afew feet from President Obama I warnedmy fellow citizens of the dangers facingour country and called for a return tothe principles that made America greatMany Americans heard and responded but ournations decline... |
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A Street Divided: Stories From Jerusalem's Alley of God
Dion Nissenbaum - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the scene of an unsolved international... |
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Drew Philp - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search of a place to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne CheneyThis majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world Among the Founding Fathers Madison... |
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein... |
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
David Banks - Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public... |
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
Juan Cole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole takes us inside the youth movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, showing us how activists used technology and social media to amplify their message and connect with like-minded citizens The New York Times in this rousing study of the Arab... |
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Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities
Steve Albrecht - ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Library work is really all about people. And the inclusive, welcoming nature of the library means that all kinds of people pass through its doors. Not all difficult patrons are dangerous, but some frighten staff and other library users, which can lead to situations that are distracting,... |
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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape Chinas Push for Global Power
Howard W. French - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of Chinas Second Continent, an incisive investigation of Chinas ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China... |
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
Julia Reynolds - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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The city of Salinas California is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia one of the most violent gangs in the United States Born in the prisons of California in the late s Nuestra Familia expanded... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security.... |
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Cyberphobia : identity, trust, security and the Internet
Edward Lucas - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Cybercrime is increasingly in the news. Stories about weaknesses in cybersecurity like the "Heartbleed" leak, or malicious software on the cash registers at your local Target have become alarmingly common. Even more alarming is the sheer number of victims associated with these... |
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The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Michael T Flynn - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing... |
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