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Three African American Classics: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, The Souls of Black Folk"Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper editor. He was a great public speaker, who became a one-man crusade for black liberation." - Robert McCrum, The Guardian."It is difficult to think...
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Negotiating the New START TreatyWinner of the Douglas Dillon Award for a Book of Distinction on the Practice of American DiplomacyRose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty-and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation-delivers in this book an invaluable insider's account...
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The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of ExcellenceNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe FBI's former head of counterintelligence reveals the seven secrets of building and maintaining organizational excellence"A must read for serious leaders at every level." --General Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.)Frank Figliuzzi was the "Keeper of the Code," appointed the FBI's Chief Inspector by then-Director...
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Wannsee: The Road to the Final SolutionThe complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came...
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric GridWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders. Only the electricity customers will be surprised. Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problems because near-misses...
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Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of ProtestFrom Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest In seven interwoven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he...
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Le gouvernement mondial de l'antéchristEdition originale non censur e. "Plan" des illuminati. Article IV, paragraphe 2. Qui ou quoi est en position pour renverser une force invisible ? Et c'est pr cis ment ce qu'est notre Force. Leur but. Abolition de tous les gouvernements nationaux. Abolition de tout...
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American DemocracyHow the current epidemic of news deserts and ghost papers threatens democracy Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print newspaper outlets closed in the U.S. One...
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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the FutureA Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk...
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Historic Photos of Texas LawmenThe history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texas's days as part of the Spanish empire. After that Texas became a province of Mexico and for nearly a decade stood among the nations as an...
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on EarthHow will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would falter, and laptops fail. Tantalum is not alone. Rhodium. Osmium....
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the InternetThe internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that...
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Anatomy of the StateMurray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this book is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we...
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Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese PoliticsAuthor: Masao MaruyamaPublisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectPublished: 02/06/2006Pages: 432Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13dISBN: 9781597400831This title is not returnable
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It Was Never About a Hotdog and a CokeOn August 27, 1960, more than 200 whites with ax handles and baseball bats attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP in downtown Jacksonville who were sitting in at white lunch counters protesting racism and segregation. Referred to as Ax Handle Saturday, "It...
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Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and IranIn this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.Author: Dilip HiroPublisher: Harry N. AbramsPublished: 11/01/2011Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w...
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The Last Punisher: A Seal Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi"One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq," (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE...
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Killer in the KremlinA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the...
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Losing Our Elections: What I Learned Running for Congress, and How We Can Fix Our Broken PoliticsWhat is it really like to run for Congress? In 2015, Jim Spurlino decided to run for the congressional seat recently vacated by longtime Ohio congressman John Boehner. Though he had no political experience, he--like many other Americans--had been a passionate observer of national...
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The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr--and a daughter's quest for the truth about her father In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr....
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