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Guns 360: Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense Approaches to Firearms in America

Eric S. See - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control. Issues related to firearms cut across all dimensions of society and are a concern...
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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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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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Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Peter Schweizer - Harper
Format: Hardcover

It's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?If anyone...
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'...
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The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Rosalind Miles - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Now is the time for a new women's...
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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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Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (Gender and American Culture)

Katherine M. Marino - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast...
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The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party

Hunter Walker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An inside story of the Democratic Party at a moment of great peril.Even before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself -- yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration,...
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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot - from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. "This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding...
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