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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight BackThe book the American Prospect calls "an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern," by America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian"An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the...
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Permanent RecordNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try...
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A New Kind of Power: Using Human-Centered Leadership to Drive Innovation, Equity and Belonging in Government InstitutionsMany government agencies still use a traditional model of management which relies on a strong top-down, factory-based approach to motivate employees. This worked well for a while, but research now shows this leadership can easily lead to a slew of human-related problems such as...
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People Over Politics: A Nonpartisan Analysis of the Issues that Matter Most"[Political parties] are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government..." - George WashingtonIn...
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A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-MéganticOn a summer night in 2013, a runaway train loaded with explosive oil derailed in the small town of Lac-MÃ(c)gantic, Quebec. One of the deadliest rail disasters in Canadian history, Lac-MÃ(c)gantic stands as a haunting narrative of how the powerful profit from collective tragedy.Who...
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman...
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The Best Presidential Writing: From 1789 to the PresentAuthor: Craig FehrmanPublisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30dISBN: 9781476788562
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The American Revolution: A HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME...
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Jerusalem: The BiographyThe epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs - "Impossible to put down.......
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Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and StagnationA set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country, regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As highlighted by the recent debate on 'secular stagnation, ' economic growth has...
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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our FaithA timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today's right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity,...
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American TragedyNew York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led...
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Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their VillagePalestinian youth and the fight for their village Silwan is a Palestinian village located just outside the ancient walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village is a moving story of a village and its people....
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A Companion to Marx's Capital: The Complete EditionThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economyIn recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in an effort to understand the origins of our current political and economic crisis.For nearly forty years, David Harvey has...
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Planet of SlumsThe "profound . . . brilliant" account of the rise of the world's slums and the failures of modern urbanization--by the world's leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning author) According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in...
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On Guerilla Warfare: Mao Tse-Tung On Guerilla Warfare2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. In 1937, Mao was in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist troops of Chiang Kai-shek. During this period, he wrote a succinct pamphlet that remains...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate ChangeA new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, irreplaceable (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning...
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What Are Foreign Relations?Although countries have interacted with each other throughout history, the field that we know today as "foreign relations" was not created until the beginning of the 20th century. The prevailing opinion of the past that a country's leaders were the only ones who needed...
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Thinking in an EmergencyIn Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: equality of survival. She reveals how regular citizens can reclaim the power to protect one another and our democratic principles....
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