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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S Wood - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much... |
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Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Thomas Travisano - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life - and for poetry - than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals... |
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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today
James M. Banner - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." - from the introduction to the 1974 edition by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historianThe historic 1974 report for the House... |
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The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
Miranda Aldhouse-Green - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully produced guide to the world of Celtic mythology, bringing together archaeology, history, and fantastical stories to paint a vivid picture of Celtic heritage From gods, heroes, and monsters to Druids, sorcerers, and talking animals, TheCeltic Myths explores every aspect of Irish... |
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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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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
NOT AVAILABLE. - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this well-rounded, deeply-investigated biography, the first full look at the vice president, two award-winning journalists unmask the real Mike Pence. Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence -- who proclaims himself a Christian first,... |
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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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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
Greg Berman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bold agenda for criminal justice reform based on equal parts pragmatism and idealism, from the visionary director of the Center for Court Innovation, a leader of the reform movement Everyone knows that the United States leads the world in incarceration, and that our political process... |
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Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga
Michael Day - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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People from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,... |
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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Susan Rice - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice - National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations - reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor. Mother, wife,... |
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The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives
Brian Lamb - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their... |
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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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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
JAMES COMEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.... |
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
HISHAM MATAR - RANDOM House
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed memoir of a son's search for the truth behind his father's disappearance - one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins... |
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Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land
Pieter van Dokkum - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect's... |
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In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped
Peter Kurie - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Chocolate We Trust takes readers inside modern-day Hershey, Pennsylvania, headquarters of the iconic Hershey brand. A destination for chocolate enthusiasts since the early 1900s, Hershey has transformed from a model industrial town into a multifaceted suburbia powered by philanthropy.... |
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The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey
Soner Çaǧaptay - I.B.Tauris
Format: Hardcover
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In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan. Since 2002, Erdoan has consolidated... |
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Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Christian Picciolini - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning exploration of how to heal a nation reeling from extremist violence from a viral TED speaker and onetime white-supremacist leader who now work as a peace activist disengaging hateful radicals.At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged... |
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Preparing for the United States Naturalization Test: A Pocket Study Guide
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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A reference manual for all immigrants looking to become citizensThis pocket study guide will help you prepare for the naturalization test. If you were not born in the United States, naturalization is the way that you can voluntarily become a US citizen. To become a naturalized U.S. citizen,... |
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On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer
Antonin Scalia - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice... |
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer - The New Press
Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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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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Why You Should Be a Socialist
Nathan J. Robinson - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America,... |
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Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City
Javier Auyero - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material... |
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
Thomas Maier - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever... |
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The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics
Barton Swaim - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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Barton Swaim was struggling to find an academic jobhed recently received a PhD in Englishwhen he sent his resume to Mark Sanford, the conservative and controversial governor of South Carolina. He thought he could improve the governors writing and speeches. On the surface, this is the story... |
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A Gift from Darkness
Patience Ibrahim - Other Press
Format: Paperback
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The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several... |
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World War Trump: The Risks of America's New Nationalism
HALL GARDNER - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on global politics details the dangers of Trump's nationalist agenda and its destabilizing effects on the world.How will Donald Trump's "America First" policy impact international stability? This sobering book argues that it will put the country on a path toward war.... |
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
Alexis Clark - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A "New & Noteworthy" selection of The New York Times Book Review . "Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history." - Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci "[A]n irresistible human story. . . . Clarks voice... |
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place,... |
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Impeachment: An American History
Jeffrey A. Engel - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
Benjamin Carter Hett - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War -- a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them... |
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Madison in the Sixties
Stuart D. Levitan - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Paperback
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Madison made history in the sixties. Landmark civil rights laws were passed. Pivotal campus protests were waged. A spring block party turned into a three-night riot. Factor in urban renewal troubles, a bitter battle over efforts to build Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace, and the expanding... |
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Don't Label Me: An Unusual Conversation for Divided Times
Irshad Manji - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the New York Times bestselling author, Oprah "Chutzpah" award-winner, and founder of the Moral Courage Project In these United States, discord has hit emergency levels. Civility isn't the reason... |
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The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
Robin Pogrebin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." - Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post. "...Generous but also damning." - Hanna Rosin, The New York TimesFrom two New York Times reporters,... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
JANET DEWART BELL - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights - many nearly lost to history - from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement,... |
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Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Eileen Truax - Beacon Press (MA)
Format: Paperback
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Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children - and now fighting to live here legally Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,... |
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey - Penguin Publishing Group
Format: eBook
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An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels,... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life... |
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women... |
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
Nick Estes - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access PipelineIt is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake, crossing the Missouri... |
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The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence Is Reshaping the World
Tyler Maroney - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye.Todays world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat... |
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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Builds on the author's March 2017 "How to Build an Autocracy" column in The Atlantic to explain how Donald Trump has undermined America's most important institutions as part of a carefully crafted plan to institute authoritarianism, in an account that explains how ongoing... |
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Michael Dobbs - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also... |
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
NELSON MANDELA - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long... |
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Joshua Kurlantzick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of how Americas secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever... |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding... |
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
ANDREW C MCCARTHY - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted... |
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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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The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality
Ganesh Sitaraman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A solution to inequalities wherever we look -- in health care, secure retirement, education -- is as close as the public library. Or the post office, community pool, or local elementary school. Public options -- reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options... |
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what... |
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How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
Haroon Moghul - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A searing portrait of Muslim life in the West, this "profound and intimate" memoir captures one mans struggle to forge an American Muslim identity (Washington Post) . Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York Universitys... |
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The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid
Walid Phares - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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One of the greatest unanswered questions after the massive and violent changes that hit the Middle East in 2011, known to some as the "Arab Spring" and to others as the "Islamist Winter," is how the West failed to predict both cataclysmic seasons in world affairs and to meet... |
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What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights
JUAN WILLIAMS - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. Unsympathetic, ambiguous, and openly racist remarks are a hallmark of Donald Trump's public life.... |
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The Snowden Reader
David P. Fidler - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts... |
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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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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Glenn Beck, #1 bestselling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.WHY DO WE ACCEPT THE LIES? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill;... |
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Children of Katrina
Alice Fothergill - University of Texas Press
Format: eBook
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When children experience upheaval and trauma, adults often view them as either vulnerable and helpless or as resilient and able to easily "bounce back." But the reality is far more complex for the children and youth whose lives are suddenly upended by disaster. How are children... |
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Dear White People
Justin Simien - Atria / 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (Indiewire) film of the same name, which “heralds a fresh and funny new voice” (Variety).Right out of college, Justin... |
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The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
William J. Perry - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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The President has the power to end the world in minutes. Right now, no one can stop him. Since the Truman administration, America has been one "push of a button" away from nuclear war - a decision that rests solely in the hands of the President. Without waiting for approval from... |
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Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
Robert H Latiff - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous... |
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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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Ronald Reagan: New Deal Republican
Henry Olsen - Broadside Books
Format: Print book
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Preface by Jon MeachamIn this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.Conventional... |
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We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
Leah Greenberg - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"The breakout star of the new activists." - The Economist "If Democrats are able to retake the House in 2018, it will be a victory built from Greenberg and Levin's blueprint." - Politico "One of the biggest successes so far this year...Indivisible... |
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY "Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe "Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet." - The... |
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Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
CHRIS STIREWALT - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From Fox News' politics editor Chris Stirewalt -- a fun and lively account of America's populist tradition, from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke:... |
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Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War
Orde F Kittrie - Oxford University Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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International military interventions endanger soldier and civilian lives, can be financially costly, and risk spiraling out of control. One incident which exemplified the risks involved a US and UK wish to stop a Russian ship from delivering helicopter gunships to the Assad regime in Syria... |
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
Stephanie Schroeder - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces... |
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A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America
Calvin Baker - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves... |
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many... |
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Witch Hunt: The Plot to Destroy Trump and Undo His Election
Gregg Jarrett - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the number-one New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax picks up where that book ended with this hard-hitting, well-reasoned examination of the latest findings about "collusion" between the Trump Administration and the Russians, offering further proof that Special... |
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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Mohsin Hamid - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From "one of his generations most inventive and gifted writers" (The New York Times) , intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror." Mohsin Hamids brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international... |
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Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians
Katherine Pennavaria - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Commercials for the largest subscription database indicate that the process of genealogy is simple - you just "plug in" what you know, and the database does the rest! Those ads might sell subscriptions, but they are misleading. Getting beyond that "low-hanging fruit"... |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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Untitled Louise Lobo
Louise Lobo - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"You have replaced 'advice and consent' with 'search and destroy.'" - BRETT KAVANAUGH In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's... |
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40 New Revenue Sources for Libraries and Nonprofits
Edmund A Rossman III - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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In recent years, levies, grants, and other traditional sources of library funding have stagnated or even been scaled back. But as they've already done in other areas, libraries can take an innovative, proactive approach to funding. Change creates opportunities, and the ability to see and exploit... |
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Jean Guerrero - One World
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death Papi, dnde ests Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father,... |
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New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe
Pallavi Aiyar - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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After several years documenting the rise of China, award-winning Indian journalist Pallavi Aiyar moved to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, to discover a Europe plagued by a financial crisis, and unsure of its place in a world where new Asian challengers are eroding its old and comfortable... |
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Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
Kenneth Scheve - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens--and their answers may surprise... |
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminismToday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki... |
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The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
Jake Sherman - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the battle to control Congress and the unsparing fight for advantage in the 2018 midterm electionsWith control of both the House and Senate up for grabs in 2018 and the direction of the nation resting on the outcome, never has a more savage, unrelenting fight been waged... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs,... |
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
BRITTNEY COOPER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come... |
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Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West
Walter Laqueur - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: eBook
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There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian governments treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions.... |
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson... |
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Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today
David S. Brown - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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The fierce polarization of contemporary politics has encouraged Americans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual ideological struggle between liberals and conservatives. However, in this timely book, David S. Brown advances an original interpretation that stresses the critical... |
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Autism Breakthrough: The Groundbreaking Method That Has Helped Families All Over the World
Raun Kahlil Kaufman - St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate autism expert... |
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower -- with global insights for today.An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years... |
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Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI
Josh Campbell - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"An indispensable and riveting insider's account of one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in the history of the FBI. Crossfire Hurricane is a must-read for all Americans." - Daniel Silva, New York Times bestselling author "Campbell speaks both... |
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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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In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State"
David Rohde - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state.A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American... |
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Shall Not Be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment
David A. Keene - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shall Not be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment is a history of the relatively short gun control debate in America and a revealing description of how those hostile to the Second Amendment use polls, studies, and numbers to confuse the public. Expert pro-gun advocates David... |
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Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition
Chris McNickle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory... |
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The Virtue of Nationalism
Yoram Hazony - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world todayNationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial... |
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Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client
Alan M. Dershowitz - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz recounts stories from his many years of defending the state of Israel. Alan Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client" -- the state of Israel -- both publicly and in private meetings with high level international... |
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Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump
Mark Lasswell - PublicAffairs
Format: Paperback
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Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy---reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord.Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism,... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling... |
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Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them
Susan Delacourt - Douglas & McIntyre
Format: Print book
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This second edition offers an insightful and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing in Canada - and what this means about the state of our democracy in the twenty-first century - from a leading political commentator.Inside the political backrooms of Ottawa, the Mad Men of Canadian... |
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Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America
Karine Jean-Pierre - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, inspiring political memoir and progressive call to arms from the chief public affairs officer for moveon.org, chronicling her own experiences - from growing up in New York's Haitian community to working in the Obama White House and charting a path for others to help change the face... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Ezekiel J Emanuel - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1-not... |
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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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Smashing the DC Monopoly
Tom Coburn - WND Books
Format: Hardcover
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Pork-barrel projects like the $452 million bridge to nowhere and Keynesian economic debacles like the $840 billion stimulus package that saved as few as 600,000 jobs ($1.4 million per job) have led to a staggering $20 trillion in national debt (about $150,000 per citizen) . With most members... |
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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
Alison Flowers - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United... |
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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
BRUCE SCHNEIER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now. From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet now has direct... |
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story... |
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Neil Gorsuch - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong. As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly asked what kind of government... |
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The Future of Crime and Punishment: Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money
William R. Kelly - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today,... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics
Timothy Stanley - Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars promoting their pet causes, whether defending marijuana legalization or Second Amendment rights. There's some truth in that stereotype, and in this book you'll find the close personal friends of Fidel Castro,... |
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael... |
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The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: The World of Slavery at Sea-A Graphic Memoir
Vannak Anan Prum - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover
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Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was hostaged on the vessel for four years... |
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Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood
Nicholas Schou - Hot Books
Format: Print book
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The American people depend on a free press to keep a close and impartial watch on the national security operations that are carried out in our name. But in many cases, this trust is sadly misplaced, as leading journalists are seduced and manipulated by the secretive agencies they cover.While... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces... |
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Peter Linebaugh - Pm Pr
Format: Print book
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An essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st, the international May Day holiday May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole - a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth,... |
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