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Trash: A Poor White Journey

Cedar Monroe - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs to end. Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe writes indelibly about and for poor...
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order

Saleha Mohsin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America's most invincible institutions - the Treasury - has used the U.S. dollar to define America's role in the world, and our economic future.. In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next...
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Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on America Reveals about America and Democracy

John Rennie Short - Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback

A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as the nation looks ahead to another tumultuous presidential election in 2024. Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington,...
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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom

Arash Azizi - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

The first major book on the new Iranian revolution. On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway - the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced...
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America

James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic...
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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Geraldine DeRuiter - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves."...
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama...
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Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia

Paul Starobin - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback

The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country's deeds, by personal hatred for the Czar-like Putin,...
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

Pashtana Durrani - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive...
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free

Tricia Rose - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives. In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate...
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