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The History of Russia: From the Mongol Invasion to the Fall of the Soviet EmpireA fascinating, lively, and wide-ranging history of Russia, from the Mongol invasions to the present day. From monarchy to the world's first socialist state, from communism to capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe's new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the...
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All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid CrisisAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat...
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The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella FrazierMartin Luther King used news cameras as a means of exposing anti-Black violence by white mobs in the 1950s and 60s. Darnella Frazier used her phone to record and post the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin in May 2020. These are just...
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Social Security Made Simple: Social Security Retirement Benefits and Related Planning Topics Explained in 100 Pages or LessFind all of the following, explained in plain-English: How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security How to decide...
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Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social JusticeScience, not politics, can take us beyond the hype and headlines to forge a realistic green new deal.Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly debated, often using partisan characterizations that critique it as...
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Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of BipartisanshipIf greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive interviews. This is the dramatic story of a conservative champion who shaped modern America--by...
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of CapitalismLegendary economist, investor, tech philosopher, and public treasure George Gilder argues that a hard-driving culture of entrepreneurial ideas is now in conflict with a growing mindset of government regulation combined with a total surrender of the individual imagination. The winner of this battle may...
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Democracy's Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It MattersDemocracy's Meanings challenges conventional wisdom regarding how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and more than 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation....
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Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign PolicyFreedom of press is a cornerstone of our democratic political system. But reporters, pundits, and editors face intense pressure to serve as propagandists rather than journalists in their coverage of U.S. foreign policy. Too many members of the news media seem unable to make...
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King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.In King's Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King's vocal timbre, Wallace shows how...
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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the BombAtomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest...
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Making Space: Women and the Manmade EnvironmentTimely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architectureMaking Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a...
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Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind"In terrifying detail, Unholy illustrates how a vast network of white Christian nationalists plotted the authoritarian takeover of the American democratic system. There is no more timely book than this one."--Janet Reitman, author of Inside Scientology Why did so many evangelicals turn out to...
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The Way Things Ought to Be#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with "talent on loan from God" entertained, provoked, and persuaded...
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Antifascism: The Course of a CrusadeA conservative take on the antifascist movementAntifascism argues that current self-described antifascists are not struggling against a reappearance of interwar fascism, and that the Left that claims to be opposing fascism has little in common with any earlier Left, except for some overlap with...
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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our AncestorsA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have...
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The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War MachineWhy does the United States go to war?--a leading Harper's commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine--for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has...
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The Thin Blue Lie: An Honest Cop Vs the FBIIn this gripping whistleblower account of FBI corruption and malfeasance, Greg Dillon--veteran state investigator and former FBI agent--finds himself caught up in an FBI misconduct scandal resulting in coverups, retaliation, a federal trial, and a landmark court ruling. When Greg Dillon is assigned to...
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Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about HimAuthor: Barbara a. ResPublisher: Graymalkin MediaPublished: 04/19/2022Pages: 16Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9781631683053
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The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human ConditionHannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while insisting on human dignity, providing...
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