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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis
Joe Dolce - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant.Pot. Weed. Grass.... |
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The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism
Roger D. Hodge - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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A fearless and incisive manifesto that exposes the real causes of President Obama's failure to enact liberal reform, by the former editor of Harper's Magazine Americans find themselves in genuine confusion and dismay concerning the actions of President Obama's administration,... |
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing... |
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The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power
Jennifer M Rudolph - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.In only a few decades,... |
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizs Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does... |
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The Case For Impeaching Trump
Elizabeth Holtzman - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Elizabeth Holtzman has always been the first and the bravest, the smartest and most trusted. Now, she is the expert we need to deal with an accidental President who got there as a serial sexual harasser, a candidate who lost the popular vote, and an unsuccessful businessman who was born... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson
William Hazelgrove - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four... |
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Jerry Brotton - Viking
Format: Print book
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The gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's bold alliance with the Ottoman sultan by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsPublished in the UK as This Orient IsleLong before the Barbary Pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English... |
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Great Plains Indians
David J Wishart - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Vegas Tenold - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, when Vegas Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three white power groups in America -- the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist... |
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Poorer Richard's America: What Would Ben Say?
Tom Blair - Skyhorse Publishing
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For decades, Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack provided sage advice and commentary on eighteenth-century America. Now, a modern businessman reflects - writing as Benjamin Franklin - on what America has become. Federal and personal debt are ballooning beyond sustainable... |
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An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream
Julian Castro - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.. In the spirit of a young Barack Obamas Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling... |
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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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Montaigne: A Life
Philippe Desan - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world,... |
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The United States and Cuba: From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends
Francisco López Segrera - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the history of the long and contentious relationship, Francisco Lpez Segrera analyzes the pre-revolutionary... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President... |
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The American Revolution: A World War
David Allison - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple... |
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Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst
James G Blight - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world's foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual... |
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
Erwin Chemerinsky - Viking; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred years Most Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the countrys leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense... |
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Mao: The Man Who Made China
Philip Short - I. B. Tauris & Company
Format: Print book
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One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more... |
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The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today
Kevin Carrico - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic... |
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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
Mark Engler - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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There is a craft to uprising - and this craft can change the worldFrom protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When... |
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How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries
Carol Smallwood - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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In How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries, the contributors have provided a cornucopia of ideas on how libraries can engage youth in the crucial subjects of science, technology, engineering and math. The twenty-five chapters cover exciting ideas for this... |
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Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal
Dorje Dolma - Sentient Publications
Format: Paperback
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This unusual memoir immerses the reader in the fascinating story of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet, a place made known to the world in Peter Matthiesen's The Snow Leopard. Life above 13,000 feet in northern Dolpo -- often called the last... |
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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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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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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
Malcolm K Sparrow - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Print book
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The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform."Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at crime rates rather than community satisfaction." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn the past two years, America has witnessed incendiary milestones... |
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No way out : precarious living in the shadow of poverty and drug dealing
Waverly Duck - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
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In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced the death penalty, and Duck was there... |
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Pence: The Path to Power
ANDREA NEAL - Red Lightning Books
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to become the second-in-command of one of the most powerful countries in the world? Mike Pence's rise to the vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values, but to others, his ideals are the epitome... |
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Travis Jeppesen - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global headlines. But what is life there actually likeIn See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling,... |
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Marx and Marxism
Gregory Claeys - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere 11 mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed... |
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The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Flint Taylor - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO) , Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt... |
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How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance
L.A. Kauffman - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women's Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can't be seen in the moment.... |
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Race, Riots, and the Police
Howard Rahtz - Lynne Rienner Publishers
Format: Print book
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Reflected almost daily in headlines, the enormous rift between the police and the communities they serve -- especially African American communities -- remains one of the major challenges facing the United States. And race-related riots continue to be a violent manifestation of that rift.... |
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Red, White and Latina: Our American Identity
Cristina Pérez - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The very diversity that America was founded on now seems to be turning on itself. Instead of seeing our individual differences as a source of national strength, we're dispatching them as daggers in our American identity. America is steadily splitting along political, gender, color and cultural... |
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Running a Small Library, Second Edition: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
John Moorman - ALA Neal-Schuman; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Since running a small library public, academic, school, or special often means making do with little or no staff, this challenging task calls for its own set of skills and expertise. That s where Moorman s how-to manual comes in, offering guidance on every essential aspect of what it takes... |
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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarcerationand How to Achieve Real Reform
John F Pfaff - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformThe United States, home to about 5 percent of the world's population, holds nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. How did we get to this point?In Locked... |
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Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s
Stanley Nelson - Louisiana State University Press
Format: Print book
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After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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Revolution
Russell Brand - Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are. In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952 (American Presidential Elections)
John Robert Greene - University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Alex Williams - Verso
Format: Print book
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A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from workNeoliberalism isnt working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifest0... |
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The Cutting Four-piece: crime and tragedy in an era of prison overcrowding
Scott Thomas Anderson - Scott Thomas Anderson
Format: Print book
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Prison culture is an entity that feeds itself with rage, indifference and the force of addiction. It is a culture that's born in the streets, germinates behind bars, and then flows back into neighborhoods as ongoing cycles of victimization. The U.S. currently has the most overcrowded... |
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Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
Retha Powers - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient... |
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The Struggle for Iraq: A View from the Ground Up
Thomas M Renahan - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Struggle for Iraq is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Later he worked in Baghdad through the dark... |
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N Blain - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late... |
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Yasha Levine - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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An investigative reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.With each passing year the internet becomes more and more a part of modern life. Despite story after story of hacks, malware, government surveillance,... |
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Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues
edited by Marjorie Cohn - Olive Branch Pr
Format: Print book
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EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICEThe Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also... |
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Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam 2018, Premium Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - the best value on the market with 5 full-length tests at an affordable price.In addition to all the great... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not.'" Rogers's little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped... |
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Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
Dick J Reavis - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Reavis reported to a labor hall each morning hoping to “catch out,” or get job assignments. To supplement his savings for retirement, the sixty-two-year-old joined people dispatched by an agency to manual jobs for which they were paid at the end of each day. Reavis writes with... |
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The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
David Boaz - Simon & Schuster; Rev Upd edition
Format: Hardcover
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A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boazs classic book Libertarianism A Primer, which was praised as uniting history, philosophy, economics and lawspiced with just the right anecdotesto bring alive a vital tradition of American political thought that deserves to be honored... |
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right
George Hawley - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech... |
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Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers: Grades 6-9
Catherine Barr - Libraries Unlimited, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Format: Print book
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Now thoroughly updated to include the latest best books, this essential resource for middle school and junior high school libraries and public libraries supplies information on more than 11,000 in-print titles, most of which have been recommended in at least two reviewing journals. It retains... |
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America
Alan Axelrod - Abbeville
Format: Print book
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What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers.Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist... |
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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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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South"... |
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Living Like Indians: 1,001 Projects, Games, Activities, and Crafts
Allan A. Macfarlan - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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For children and adults alike, Living Like Indians is the essential guide to Native American recreation and activities. Written with recreation directors in mind, this wonderful field companion provides thoughtful learning activities along with a history of the Native Americans. Tracking,... |
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Forrest Stuart - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward... |
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Tom Burgis - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply... |
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Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era
Jorge Ramos - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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"There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it's not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many.... |
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Robert D Kaplan - Random House
Format: Print book
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A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, Earning the Rockies offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our foreign policy by examining the specific geography from which American power springs. As a boy, Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father... |
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Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
John G Palfrey - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microagressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks -- debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social... |
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The Last Days of Stalin
Joshua Rubenstein - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime.... |
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Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
Ezgi Başaran - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdoan promised to make... |
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Denise Brennan - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback
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Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from... |
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Social Security Handbook 2015: Overview of Social Security Programs
Social Security Administration - Bernan Press
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The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2015 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The handbook also contains information about related programs administered by agencies... |
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Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria
William Hall - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there... |
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne... |
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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
William E Leuchtenburg - Oxford University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents... |
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Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library
Aaron Schmidt - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book
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Useful, useable, desirable like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these its bound to wobble. Every decision you make affects how people experience your library. In this useful primer, user experience UX librarians Schmidt and Etches identify 19 crucial... |
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the daily violence at the hands of law enforcement agents... |
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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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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 17711965
Kelly Lytle Hernández - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence,... |
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
Stephen Coss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776.In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
Harvey Molotch - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don’t touch anything. Try not to smell.... |
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt - Picador
Format: Book
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Recommended by Carol McFarland, Youth Services.
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion is still a word that is said with outright... |
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life
Thomas Bailey - Foredge
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial,... |
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Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World
Birute Regine - Prometheus Books; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Paperback
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This inspiring and compelling narrative weaves together stories of sixty successful women from all walks of life and throughout the world. The author spent several years in eight countries interviewing dynamic female role models: businesswomen, CEOs, a Congresswoman, a governor, an ex-Prime... |
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Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Frederick A O Schwarz - The New Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief... |
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The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
BRUCE KATZ - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address... |
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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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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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What You Need to Know about Privacy Law: A Guide for Librarians and Educators
Gretchen McCord - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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U.S. privacy laws are confusing and hard to interpret. This book provides clear, substantive guidance to educators who work with minors in these rapidly changing, technological times.* Addresses the complicated topic of privacy law and specific issues for pre-K-12 educators in an easy-to-read,... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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Confronting Homelessness: Poverty, Politics, and the Failure of Social Policy
David Wagner - Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Whose fault is homelessness? Thirty years ago the problem exploded as a national crisis, drawing the attention of activists, the media, and policymakers at all levels -- yet the homeless population endures to this day, and arguably has grown. David Wagner offers a major reconsideration... |
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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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Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Myra MacDonald - Hurst
Format: Print book
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When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that... |
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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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The Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion, Fifth Edition: A Basic Guide for Library Staff
John Burke - Neal-Schuman, An imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In its new fifth edition, which has been completely updated and reorganized, this one-stop overview of all technologies used in libraries today is more comprehensive and compelling than ever. The perfect primer for LIS students, Burke's guide should also be at the top of the list for any current... |
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
Reuven Fenton - Tantor Media
Format: Print book
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"Reuven Fenton has written a vitally important book, "Stolen Years." We need these stories about this broken system, the death penalty, to change hearts." -Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of "Dead Man Walking" |
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Borderless: The Art of Luis Tapia
Luis Tapia - Museum of Latin American Art
Format: Hardcover
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Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1950, sculptor Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia's works speak to the complexity of Latino/Hispano/Chicano... |
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John McCain: American Maverick
ELAINE S POVICH - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated volume provides a compelling look at the life and career of Senator John McCain from his early years to today, exploring his legacy, his impact, and his place in American history. As of January 3, 2018, John Sidney McCain III, one of the most influential statesmen... |
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Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War
James Harkin - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi)... |
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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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Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence
Melvin A Goodman - City Lights Books
Format: Print book
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"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military . . . he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker"Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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Class Lives: Stories from across Our Economic Divide
Chuck Collins - ILR Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class,... |
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How to Talk about Videogames
Ian Bogost - University of Minnesota Press
Format: eBook
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Videogames! Aren't they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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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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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Alisa Roth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent expos of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons... |
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An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor
Malcolm Nance - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Osama Bin Laden is unquestionably the leader of the world’s most deadly terrorist cult. He has perverted the teachings of Islam to create a fringe religious ideology, Bin Ladenism, where only al-Qaeda speaks for God. In his cult, suicide bombing is the highest form of worship... |
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All I Want Is a Job!: Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System
Mary Lizabeth Gatta - Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025
Kim Leeder - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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With essays by Brett Bonfield, John Chrastka, Lesley Farmer, Dave Harmeyer, Megan Hodge, Ben Malczewski, Krisellen Maloney, and Hugh RundleIn an information environment where the only constant is change, many wonder where libraries are headed. This edited collection brings together library... |
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
BEN AUSTEN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most... |
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
JOSE ANDRES - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef Jos Andrs arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
Dorothy Butler Gilliam - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book
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When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,... |
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Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Monique W. Morris - The New Press
Format: Paperback
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Black Statsa comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americansis an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,... |
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Tom Dalzell - Routledge; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang... |
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La Cacería: Una historia de inmigración y violencia en Estados Unidos
Mirta Ojito - Vintage Espanol
Format: Book
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La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que transform un acogedor pueblo de Long Island en la zona cero de la guerra contra la inmigracin. En noviembre de 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete aos, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes... |
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Alice Goffman - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks,... |
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Trump's First Year
MICHAEL NELSON - University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback
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Donald Trump took office in January 2017 under mostly favorable conditions. He inherited neither a war nor an economic depression, and his party controlled both houses of Congress. He leveraged this successfully in some ways by delivering on his campaign promises to roll back regulations... |
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The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?
George Soros - PublicAffairs,
Format: Print book
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The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests... |
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Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
David Cay Johnston - New Press
Format: Hardcover
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The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super-rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the 99 percent an indelible... |
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What Is a Border?
Manlio Graziano - Stanford Briefs
Format: Paperback
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe - all seemed... |
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No Apology: The Case for American Greatness
Mitt Romney - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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On his first presidential visit to address the European nations, President Obama felt it necessary to apologize for America's international power. He repeated that apology when visiting Latin America, and again to Muslims worldwide in an interview broadcast on Al-Arabiya television.In... |
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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
Ted Stewart - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions. Today's Court affects every major area of American life, from health care to civil rights, from... |
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