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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
Molly Smith - Verso
Format: Paperback
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How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective... |
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American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
Peter Vronsky
Format: Hardcover
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With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count... |
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
David Kilcullen - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon"... |
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The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
DUNYA MIKHAIL - New Directions
Format: Paperback
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The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from DaeshSince 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed... |
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JFK's Ghost: Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage
David R. Stokes - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I'd rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States," John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book Profiles in Courage was awarded the Pulitzer for biography--even... |
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The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego
Adam Witty - ForbesBooks
Format: Hardcover
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As a thought leader, industry expert or business professional, you are driven to make the biggest possible impact in your field.. But before you can reach an audience, you must earn their trust.. Unfortunately, far too many leaders rely on their corporate brand to connect with their target... |
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White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
Anthea Butler - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting... |
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Ted Kennedy: A Life
JOHN A FARRELL - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many yearsJohn A. Farrell's magnificent biography of Edward... |
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Monica Munoz Martinez - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas-Mexico borderlands.Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement -- including the renowned Texas Rangers -- killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent... |
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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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