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Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East

Yonah Jeremy Bob - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar - and diplomacy - to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons, in the process reshaping the Middle East.. Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage...
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Las desheredadas (Spanish Edition)

Ángeles Caso - LUMEN
Format: Hardcover

Tras el éxito deLas olvidadas,con más de medio millón de ejemplares vendidos,vuelve Ángeles Caso, ganadora delos premiosPlanetay Fernando Lara y traducida a quinceidiomas, con un proyecto unicoUn libro que nos desvela alas grandes mujeres creadoras de lossiglosXVIIIyXIXque quedaron...
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Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn

Jonathan Zimmerman - City of Light Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In America we like to think we live in a land of liberty, where everyone can say whatever they want. Throughout our history, however, we have also been quick to censor people who offend or frighten us. We talk a good game about freedom of speech, then we turn around and deny it to others....
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A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

Rachel Ida Buff
Format: Paperback

As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia have led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circus obscures both histories of migration and longstanding definitions of words...
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Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership

Ed Gordon - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what...
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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

Maureen Quilligan - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century.Library Journal * "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021"Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization...
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Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policingIn recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention...
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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

Terry Golway - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America's greatest politicians - a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times.... Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians - on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially...
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

Kenya Hunt - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing...
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The Most Dangerous President in History

Nick Adams - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

President Biden is the most dangerous president in American history.. Many Americans still think of Joe Biden as an average guy who supports the working class. But in reality, he has carried out a destructive agenda against our entire system of freedom. He has fully embraced the Green New Deal...
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