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The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished RevolutionThe award-winning journalist and longtime Cairo resident delivers a "meticulous, passionate study" of the ongoing battle for contemporary Egypt (The Guardian). On January, 25, 2011, a revolution began in Egypt that succeeded in ousting the country's longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. In The Egyptians, journalist...
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Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American MajorityNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Despite the abundant evidence from Obama's victories proving that the U.S. population has fundamentally changed, many progressives and Democrats continue to waste millions of dollars chasing white swing voters. Explosive population growth of people of color in America over the...
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian RelationsIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped...
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Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment"A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law" from one of the nation's foremost civil liberties lawyers (The New York Times). Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've...
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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism"Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement" (Kirkus Reviews). At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century America--and when a new and virulent strain of right-wing...
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Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Transportation InciDoes the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines?...
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LBJ: The MasterMind of the JFK AssassinationLBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Lyndon B. Johnson's flawed personality...
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True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact SocietyWhy has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin...
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Statesman and Saint: The Principled Politics of William WilberforceGod has set before me two great objects: the abolition of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. These immortal words penned by William Wilberforce in 1787 were the beginning of his lifelong crusade as a Christian statesman and philanthropist. He became a...
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Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across AmericaLate one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which...
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of...
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The Community of the Ark: A Visit with Lanza del Vasto, His Fellow Disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, and Their Utopian Community in France (20th AnniFrance's Community of the Ark is one of the past century's most successful experiments in utopian living. Founded by Lanza del Vasto, a Christian disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, it offers an inspiring model for a nonviolent society. Mark Shepard shared the life of this...
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Gandhi Today: A Report on India's Gandhi Movement and Its Experiments in Nonviolence and Small Scale Alternatives (25th AnniversaryWhat became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent independent journalist...
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The Truth About FreemasonryRecommendations for Book "This book is a fair and accurate examination of the origins of Freemasonry. I learned a lot of things about Freemasonry I did not know before. Good book." Senator Jesse Helms from North Carolina (33rd degree Freemason, 10/18/1921 - 07/04/2008) "The...
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Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, the Mafia, and the CIAA groundbreaking investigation into the events of the Watergate Scandal, complete with fascinating new material, all "exhaustively researched" in the author's customary style (The New York Observer) While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established, what's truly remarkable is that after almost...
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An Angel Betrayed: How Wealth, Power and Corruption Destroyed the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Investigation Contact and Publish DavJonBenet Ramsey was six years old when she was murdered on Christmas night, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her killer has never been brought to justice, because the police, prosecutors, lawyers, and her own family were too focused on their own careers,...
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The Economic Consequences of the PeaceThe Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and...
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The Autobiography of Mother JonesMary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.Jones worked as...
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Natural Law in the Spiritual WorldNatural Law in the Spiritual World is a collection of essays not originally intended for publication but rather to help the writer get things clear in his own mind.Although written from the point of view of someone in the pay of a Scottish Presbyterian...
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Diplomatically SpeakingLloyd Griscom was born on November 4, 1872 at Riverton, New Jersey. He graduated in 1891 from the law department of University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Sigma Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Griscom continued his legal studies at the New...
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