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An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
Edwin Raymond - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform. Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing,... |
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Modern Warfare
Ashley Brown - ?Crescent; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Chronicles the developments in modern warfare since 1939, examining major conflicts of the Second World War, the Cold War and its associated conflicts, guerilla warfare, and terrorism |
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
Charlene Regester - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Paperback
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Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural... |
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If We Want to Win: A Latine Vision for a New American Democracy
Diana Campoamor - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, provocative collection of essays from Latinx thought leaders heralding a more inclusive vision of America's future Latinx people make up the second-largest ethnic and racial group in America, with a population of over sixty million. They have been integral to shaping the country's... |
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The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Portable Library)
Thomas Jefferson - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings. |
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Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Philip Stephens - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain's postwar search for its place in the world has vexed prime ministers and government since the nation's... |
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Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960
Irwin F. Gellman - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts... |
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You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech
Dennis Baron - Cambridge University Press
Format: New Edition
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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places... |
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The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
Dana Milbank - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist. "A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism."... |
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Julian Assange In His Own Words
Julian Assange - OR Books
Format: Paperback
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The WikiLeaks publisher and free speech campaigner Julian Assange has, since April 2019, been remanded at a maximum security prison in London facing extradition to the United States over WikiLeaks' groundbreaking 2010 publications. Now, in this crisp anthology, Assange's voice emerges... |
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