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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist WorldRefusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror....
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The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and LiberationLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE"[A] tremendous new book." --The Boston Globe"Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion of a cinematic disaster flick." --The Washington PostThe deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink...
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Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial LiteracyAn eye-opening exploration of race in America In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they...
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Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of SpyingRevolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its...
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Freedom from Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Personal and National RecoveryOn the heels of Dr. Mark McDonald's bestselling book United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, the acclaimed author and psychiatrist follows up with a practical, personal, twelve-step recovery program to defeat fear addiction worldwide.The pandemic of fear...
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Among the ThugsWith an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence.Author: Bill BufordPublisher: VintagePublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h...
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The Young Lords: A Radical HistoryAgainst the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new...
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Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic TimesAbsolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom. A very well argued case for joyful militancy, and against the dead hand of puritanical revolution. Read it, live it "--John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel...
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From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America's FutureKentucky State Representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to a political career forging new alliances among forgotten communities across the New South and beyond. "Charles Booker is a rising leader in...
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The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In 1933 Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on...
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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough"Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience."--Viet Thanh Nguyen From the author of The Ungrateful Refugee--finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize--Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that...
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Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work DoneA Leader's Guide to Executing Change and Delivering Results.Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service: "Wedge issues may be great for making...
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Rocking the Boat: A Superintendent's 30 Year Career Fighting Institutional Racism'This book is critical to continue the conversation on Race, Discrimination, Black Lives, Culture and White Privilege. A Must Read!' - Lethepu Matshaba, Vice President, Unilever South AfricaRocking the Boat chronicles the career of a black police officer's extraordinary and unprecedented determination in challenging...
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging...
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Las Guerras de los Judíos y la Destrucción de Jerusalén: (7 Libros en 1, Impresión a Letra Grande)Un cl sico importante en la literatura cristiana debido a la veracidad del cumplimiento hist rico de la profec a predicha por Jes s en Mateo 24.Esta presente edici n "Las Guerras de los Jud os y la destrucci n de Jerusalen" contiene los...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary EditionPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs...
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Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin NetanyahuA deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all...
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We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be HeardA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan. After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in...
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Defending Rodinu: Volume 2 - Build-Up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1960-1989Having developed a major Air Defense Force (PVO) capable of covering the entire airspace of the USSR, and then fielded interceptors and surface-to-air missiles capable of effectively intercepting even high-flying foreign reconnaissance aircraft, during the early 1960s theoretically the Soviets had managed to seal...
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In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. ShultzThe definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global...
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