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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive... |
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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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I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
Kyle Schwartz - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book
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One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacherknew ." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results... |
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The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership
Ivo H. Daalder - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II convinced that global engagement and leadership were essential to prevent another global conflict and further... |
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Dan Rather - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather. "A tonic for our times . . . Rathers writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice... |
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama
Michael Savage - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last... |
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Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
TRITA PARSI - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
John Bicknell - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate.... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author,... |
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump
JEROME R CORSI - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump beat 16 Republican challengers and Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the presidency. Now he must beat the Deep State to keep his presidency. Here's how!#1 New York Times bestselling author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND and THE OBAMA NATION Jerome Corsi uncovers the secret conspiracy... |
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
GILBERT KING - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential... |
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The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
JOHN K DELANEY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American ideaThe son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible... |
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Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son
DIMITRI BONTINCK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rescued from ISIS is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man's journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam, and its surprising worldwide repercussions.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend,... |
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Afropessimism
Frank B. Wilderson III - Liveright
Format: Paperback
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"Wildersons thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge" -- Fred Moten Praised as "a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy" (Aaron Robertson,?Literary Hub) , Frank B. Wildersons... |
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No Day Shall Erase You: The Story of 9/11 as Told at the September 11 Museum
Alice M Greenwald - 9/11 Memorial
Format: Print book
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Published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, this book emphasizes the highlights of the museum's interpretation of this somber day. This book is the definitive, official companion volume to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. It provides visitors with a lasting... |
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American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
John McMillian
Format: Paperback
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A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever Just a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction being overlooked.... |
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
Laura Ingraham - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Americans didnt just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement... |
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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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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime,... |
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Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It
Jamil Jivani - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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Across the world, we see an explosion of unpredictable violence committed by alienated young men. Jamil Jivani recounts his experiences working as a youth activist throughout North America and the Middle East, drawing striking parallels between ISIS recruits, gangbangers, and Neo-Nazis... |
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Race Man: The Collected Works of Julian Bond, 1960-2015
Long, Michael G. - CITY LIGHTS
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Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Books of 2020!"This compilation of works by social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond should be required reading in 2020."... |
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
JIM STAVRIDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation - and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO - comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial... |
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
Philip F Gura - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness.... |
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The 1952 Presidential Election
Gary Donaldson - Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Format: Book
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"In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested... |
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Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Frances Moore Lappé - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump's victory, What do we do now The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.With our democracy in crisis, many Americans are frightened and uncertain. So, the legendary activist and author... |
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Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns
Igor Volsky - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after Columbine, a leading anti-gun activist offers a radical argument for the anti-gun movement our country desperately needsNinety-six people die from guns in America every single day. Twelve thousand Americans are murdered each year. The United States has more mass shootings,... |
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
Scott Anderson - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become... |
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How Do I Tax Thee?: A Field Guide to the Great American Rip-Off
KRISTIN TATE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Libertarian journalist Kristin Tate provides a look into the wild world of frivolous taxation, aimed at educating members of her own generation in the evils of big government. In How Do I Tax Thee? , libertarian commentator and rising media star Kristin Tate takes us on a tour of the ways... |
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The Complete Infidel's Guide to Free Speech
ROBERT SPENCER - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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From Robert Spencer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS, comes a bold defense of freedom of speech - the single most valuable freedom humanity has, a freedom now endangered world-wide. |
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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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Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography
Kate Bennett - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. historyMelania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating -- a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former... |
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Messing with the Enemy
CLINT WATTS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare - and how we can protect ourselves and our country against... |
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Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Ian Bremmer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author and TIME Magazine columnist Ian Bremmer, a definitive guide to understanding the global wave of populist nationalism.From political upheaval in Europe and the United States to an explosion of anger in the developing world, social and political turmoil has dominated... |
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
BOB SCHIEFFER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism... |
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The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century
Stein Ringen - Hong Kong University Press
Format: Print book
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The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, Stein Ringen... |
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Barron's Police Officer Exam, 10th Edition
Donald Schroeder Ph.D. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country. It includes:Four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explainedTwo official exams given by a large metropolitan... |
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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Six-time New York Times best-selling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession... |
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Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining President Trump
COREY R LEWANDOWSKI - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, the authors of the blockbuster, Let Trump Be Trump: the Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency, are back with their next New York Times bestseller. This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been... |
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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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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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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left
Kim R Holmes - Encounter Books
Format: Print book
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A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite - illiberalism - abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual... |
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Bannon: Always the Rebel
Keith Koffler - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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White House reporter Keith Koffler penetrates the fog surrounding ousted White House advisor and Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, whose nationalist populist agenda and firebrand style drove President Donald Trump to his stunning electoral victory. Koffler traces Bannon's wild and distinctly... |
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She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters
Robyn Ryle - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box... Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl -- and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton... |
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Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
Nikolaos van Dam - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Paperback
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Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone that operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements, including ISIS, as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history.In this book,... |
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Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
Monique W. Morris - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout "Monique Morris is a personal shero of mine and a respected expert in this space." - Ayanna Pressley, U.S. congresswoman and the first woman of color... |
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The Soul of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored... |
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Law & Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Bruce Chadwick - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times... |
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Running For Local Office For Dummies
Dummies - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Get ready to run for - and win - that local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community.... |
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Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
Kevin Tuerff - River Grove Books
Format: Paperback
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"Kevin Tuerff's firsthand account takes us inside a 9/11 story that is largely unknown and helps to restore our faith that human beings need not always be divided by our differences." - Wade Goodwyn, NPR "Kevin Tuerff tells a delightful and heartwarming story that... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution
Joel Pollak - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House until very late on Election Night 2016, media and pollsters kept insisting Trump wouldn't--couldn't--be president.But for Larry Schweikart-one of a ragtag group of amateur politicos called "the Deplorables"... |
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ASSAD, OR WE BURN THE COUNTRY : how one family's lust for power destroyed syria
SAM DAGHER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War that offers never-before published details about the origins and persistence of the 21st century's worst humanitarian disasterIn spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice... |
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The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror
Father Patrick Desbois - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Based on work first shown on 60 Minutes, a riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds.The massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than genocide. In refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, the authors brought a skilled team to interview... |
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Alexis Coe - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantvnamo detainee.. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantvnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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"With inventive, powerful prose, Nayeri demonstrates what should be obvious: that refugees give up everything in their native lands only when absolutely necessary . . . A unique, deeply thought-out refugee saga perfect for our moment." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)... |
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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
D. Watkins - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occuring about them. While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number... |
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The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
Jim Acosta - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth. In Mr. Trump's campaign against what he calls "Fake News,"... |
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The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
Michael Mandelbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart.... |
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Hacked: The Inside Story of Americas Struggle to Secure Cyberspace
Charlie Mitchell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: 1st Edition
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The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks of Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate America... |
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The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
Jill Wine-Banks - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment.... |
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Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Roger McNamee - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting... |
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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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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
TODD MILLER - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that a person is four times more likely to be forced to move due to environmental disaster than... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary... |
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War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
Benjamin R Teitelbaum - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon "the most dangerous political operative in America." Since then, he has grown... |
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Sierra Crane Murdoch - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged... |
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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What really happened in 1969?Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their... |
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The Case for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor... |
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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 Case for Impeachment
ALLAN J LICHTMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." - The Hill"It is still striking to see the full argument unfold and realize that you don't have to be a zealot to imagine some version of it happening ... Lies. Abuse of power. Treason.... |
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill... |
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk... |
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy...... |
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Preet Bharara - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara... |
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Real American: A Memoir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"Courageous, achingly honest." -- Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National... |
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How to Resolve Conflict: A Practical Mediation Manual
James E. Gilman - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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A guide to the practice of mediation as a means of resolving conflict, this short how-to manual includes all the resources needed to teach and train mediators in the skills of conflict resolution. It explains the conceptual framework of conflict and peacemaking, the stages and steps of the mediation... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous Books
Format: Audiobook
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel. . . ."For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's... |
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Edward J. Watts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's... |
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
Chris Wilson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance.Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn't leave the house without a gun.... |
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American Contempt for Liberty
Walter E. Williams - Hoover Institution Press
Format: Paperback
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Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights... |
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable... |
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal... |
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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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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Tom Mueller - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"'Unauthorized disclosures' by whistleblowers are the lifeblood of a republic. As many of Mueller's fascinating cases show, misplaced loyalty--exclusively to a boss or an organization or a president--can be betrayal: of the health of consumers, of an oath to the Constitution,... |
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Pantsuit Nation
LIBBY CHAMBERLAIN - FLATIRON BOOKS
Format: Print book
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From the fastest-growing private Facebook group in history -- now with nearly 4 million engaged and impassioned members -- a beautifully designed, inspiring collection of stories and photographs that capture what it means to live, work, struggle, love, and celebrate in our world. |
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The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 18941924
Benny Morris - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent... |
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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Ash Carter - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs... |
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Working with Winston: The Unsung Women Behind Britain's Greatest Statesman
Cita Stelzer - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original and insightful look at Winston Churchill through the eyes of those who knew him best -- the women who worked with him throughout his life.All politicians adopt a public persona that they believe contributes to electoral success. Though they might reflect the character of the politician,... |
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Josh Katz - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can reveal where you grew up? In December 2013,... |
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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
Anna Fifield - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.The Great Successor is an insightful quest to understand the life... |
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
JIM PROSER - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens,... |
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Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It's Too Late
Mary Rice Hasson J.D. - Gateway Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Should we stay or should we go? Millions of parents with children in public schools can't believe they're asking this question. But they are. And you should be asking it too. Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. And they are especially poisonous... |
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The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World
Richard A D'Aveni - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning look at what will happen to global industry as 3-D printing quickly becomes a worldwide phenomenon-and how this will influence our economic and geopolitical landscape. Bestselling author Richard D'Aveni contends that the advent of massive, industrialscale 3D printing is already... |
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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 Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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Power Grab: The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP, and Our Republic
Jason Chaffetz - Broadside e-books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller.How much damage will the Democrats do to our republic in the name of saving it?In the years he served on and eventually chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jason Chaffetz gained crucial insight into the inner workings... |
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Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Butter, Sugar, and Women's Voices
Gunst, Kathy - Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover
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50+ recipes, short essays, and quotes from some of the best bakers, activists, and outspoken women in our country today - this cookbook encourages women to use sugar and sass as a way to defend, resist, and protest. Since the 2016 election, many women across the country have felt rage,... |
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iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age
Bill Gertz - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist explains how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars.America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being... |
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
Jeffrey Sachs - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and "America first"... |
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization.... |
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U.S. Latinos and Criminal Injustice
Lupe S Salinas
Format: Print book
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Latinos in the United States encompass a broad range of racial, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical identities. Originating from the Caribbean, Spain, Central and South America, and Mexico, they have unique justice concerns. The ethnic group includes U.S. citizens, authorized reside |
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
John Stubbs - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review) .Jonathan Swift's world-famous books -- from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal -- are unparalleled in their piercing critique... |
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The CIA World Factbook 2019-2020
Central Intelligence Agency - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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From the worlds most sophisticated intelligence gathering organization, here is the CIAs official country-by-country data on nations around the world.. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2019-2020 offers complete and up-to-date information on the worlds nations. This comprehensive... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition
Nhất Hạnh ThiÌch - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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A new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat HanhThe Miracle of Mindfulness is a classic guide to meditation that has introduced generations of readers to the life-changing beauty of mindful... |
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
MICHAEL MCFAUL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the presentIn 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely... |
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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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Saving the Republic: The Fate of Freedom in the Age of the Administrative State
Roger Kimball - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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America is embroiled in ideological conflict, with the opposing partisan bulwarks of the Left and the Right widening a chasm that threatens the unity of our Republic. The tumult in Washington has radiated into our universities, homes, and relationships -- from constitutional threats;... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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Travel as a Political Act
Rick Steves - Rick Steves
Format: Paperback
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Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan,... |
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