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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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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
James L. Trainum - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions... |
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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman G Finkelstein - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating "operations" against Gaza's largely defenseless... |
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil S. Amrith - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers,... |
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The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya
Frederic Wehrey - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic... |
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost... |
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback
Newt Gingrich - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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No one understands the Make America Great Again effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994... |
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The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness
Barbara Johns - University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
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Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic... |
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Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy
JEFF PEGUES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A CBS correspondent presents an in-depth examination of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and measures to protect US voting systems against future cyber attacks.In this compelling account of how the Russians hacked the 2016 election, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security... |
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Bloomsbury Circus
Format: Hardcover
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'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA... |
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How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
Akiba Solomon - Bold Type Books
Format: Paperback
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This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice-and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're... |
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World War Trump: The Risks of America's New Nationalism
HALL GARDNER - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on global politics details the dangers of Trump's nationalist agenda and its destabilizing effects on the world.How will Donald Trump's "America First" policy impact international stability? This sobering book argues that it will put the country on a path toward war.... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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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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A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
DEBORAH CAMPBELL - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Freedom to Read AwardWinner of the Hubert Evans PrizeIn the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide... |
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Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?
Chelsea Clinton - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks... |
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
CAROL ANDERSON - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious... |
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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Mark Thompson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson... |
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Armenia's Future, Relations with Turkey, and the Karabagh Conflict
Lévon Ter-Pétrossian - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia. Additionally, it discusses the ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan, and the Armenian government's... |
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide
Alexis Herr - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This important reference work offers students an accessible overview of the Rwandan Genocide, with more than 100 detailed articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and 20 key primary source documents. * Elucidates the many factors, from economic motivations to international... |
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The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation
GLENN HARCOURT - DoppelHouse Press
Format: Hardcover
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This hybrid book examines the art and politics of "The Nude" in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art pirated and either digitally- or hand-censored in Iran by anonymous government workers. Author Glenn Harcourt uses several case studies brought to the fore... |
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
FRANKLIN FOER - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge... |
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice... |
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Ceramics and Globalization: Staffordshire Ceramics, Made in China
Neil Ewins - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
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Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.Although many manufacturers such as Wedgwood initially moved production to cheaper labour markets... |
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions - not to mention the president and his advisers - could benefit from reading." - The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United... |
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Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents
Monica Sharma - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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Monica Sharma draws on more than twenty years of working for the United Nations to present a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage--not just analysts and policy makers. Demonstrating that we all can be architects... |
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A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols
TIM MARSHALL - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard) , explains flags and their symbols - how their power is used... |
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DIY Resistance
ANTHONY ALVARADO - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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An amalgam of political resistance and self-helpLike its predecessor, the effervescent, self-published phenom D.I.Y Magic, which dared to invite its readers into a brave new world of artistic expression and magical thinking, D.I.Y. Resistance focuses its attention on you, on us, and what... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts... |
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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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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history... |
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Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition
Chris McNickle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory... |
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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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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
David Stephen Heidler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possibleAndrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute... |
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Harry R Rubenstein - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core... |
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Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
Art Cullen - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope.When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann Mcelhinney - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran... |
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Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart... |
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer - The New Press
Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan
SHEILA TATE - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated... |
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
JANET DEWART BELL - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights - many nearly lost to history - from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement,... |
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The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
Brian P Klaas - Hot Books
Format: Paperback
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An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world's dictators explains Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American democracy. Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot's Apprentice, an understudy... |
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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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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
Ted Stewart - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at how much power the Supreme Court actually has and how far-reaching the consequences of some of their decisions can be. What do bakers' working hours have to do with abortion rights? What role did the Supreme Court play in sanctioning racism, in moving power away... |
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history.On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year,... |
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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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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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The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival
Robert Jay Lifton - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton... |
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Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America
Jeff Pegues - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues... |
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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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Gorsuch: The Judge Who Speaks for Himself
John Greenya - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Learn all about Neil Gorsuch, the youngest judge to be nominated to the Supreme Court in twenty-five years, with this comprehensive and fascinating biography.When forty-nine-year-old Neil Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, he was told by a senator, "We... |
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Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals
Holly Barnet-Sánchez - University of New Mexico Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chicanismo, the idea of what it means to be Chicano, was born in the 1970s, when grassroots activists, academics, and artists joined forces in the civil rights movimiento that spread new ideas about Mexican American history and identity. The community murals those artists painted in the barrios... |
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Fascism
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,... |
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California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader
DAVID VOGEL - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved... |
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Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey
Avedis Hadjian - I. B. Tauris
Format: Hardcover
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It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be called the Armenian Genocide, those who survived in Anatolia were assimilated as Muslims, with most losing all traces of their Christian identity. In fact,... |
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center... |
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Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
Robert H Latiff - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous... |
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
Ilan PappeÌ - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Israeli expat historian Pappe ... boldly and persuasively argues for understanding the occupied territories as the world's 'largest ever mega-prison..... Pappe's conclusions won't be welcome in all quarters but this detailed history is rigorously supported by primary sources." -- Publishers... |
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Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas
Bill Kelley, Jr. - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Format: Paperback
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Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas is the first publication to bring together scholarship, critical essays, and documentation of collaborative community-based art making by researchers from across the American hemisphere. The comprehensive volume is a compendium... |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
MICHAEL IDOV - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside -- and closely observing -- the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer... |
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
STEVE KORNACKI - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt... |
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch... |
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Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
Graham Allison - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains, in the past... |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"Ben Fountain's BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN is the bravest, boldest, most bracing political book of the year." -Bill MoyersIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration... |
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
TAMER ELNOURY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing... |
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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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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
D D'SOUZA - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." - RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence,... |
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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Genocide
AZEEM IBRAHIM - Hurst
Format: Paperback
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According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have... |
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King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
BLAINE HARDEN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the shocking, gripping account of the most powerful American spy you've never heard of, whose role at the center of the Korean War - which gave rise to the North Korean regime - is essential to understanding... |
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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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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
WILLIAM F PEPPER - Verso
Format: Paperback
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On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers’ strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers had been paid to remove the gun after the fatal shot was fired. When the dust had settled,... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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Basic Facts about the United Nations
United Nations. Department of Public Information. - United Nations
Format: Paperback
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Official handbook for the use by the general public provides comprehensive information on the structure of the United Nations, how the Organization works, the main issues it addresses and its importance for people worldwide. The volume specifies various roles played by principle UN organs... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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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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One Long Night
Andrea Pitzer - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernitys greatest tragedy: concentration camps.For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope... |
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The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
Guy Laron - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain... |
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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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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why
Sady Doyle - Melville House
Format: Book
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She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From... |
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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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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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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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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Kellie Jones - Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural... |
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
BRITTNEY COOPER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come... |
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Supercharged Storytimes: An Early Literacy Planning and Assessment Guide
Kathleen Campana - Amer Library Association, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Based on the groundbreaking research of VIEWS2 the first systematic study of storytimes done to date this book recommends simple interactive ways to emphasize early literacy techniques and encourage children to use and practice their pre-reading skills while preserving the delight inherent... |
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House
SETH HETTENA - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated investigative... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd - Twelve
Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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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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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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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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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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Baca: Art, Collaboration & Mural Making
Mario Ontiveros - Angel City Press
Format: Hardcover
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Scholars from across America join forces to study Judith F. Baca and The Great Wall, analyzing the why of its inception and the how of its creation. Edited by Mario Ontiveros, BACA: Art, Collaboration & Mural Making shares how Judith F. Baca was inspired by the work of Los Tres Grandes... |
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Therefore, God Must Be Armenian!
John M Evans - Gomidas Institute
Format: Print book
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Sixteen Talks on Armenian Issues (2007-2012) by John M. Evans, Former U.S. Ambassador to ArmeniaThis publication complements Truth Held Hostage: America and the Armenian Genocide - What then? What Now? (Gomidas Institute, 2016) , the memoir of John Marshall Evans, the former United States... |
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
MAX BOOT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion... |
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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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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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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Chris Myers Asch - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often... |
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
Jefferson Morley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly... |
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
ALI H SOUFAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City
Andrew J Diamond - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present
Pablo Mitchell - Greenwood
Format: Paperback
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This Latino history textbook is an outstanding reference source that covers many different Latinos groups within a single comprehensive narrative.* Provides information that is accessible to a general student audience, supplying a comprehensive narrative history that covers various Latino... |
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Separate and Unequal
Steven M Gillon - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times best-selling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National... |
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