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Appalachia: A HistoryInterweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both...
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How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracyvolume 15Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas...
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The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting ResilienceRather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself-that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives...
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The Retreat of Western LiberalismFrom Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism offers a sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed are now in danger, with a new afterword for the paperback. Luce argues that...
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Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical GeographyAuthor: David (Distinguished Professor o HarveyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9780748615414
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - New EditionDemocracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid,...
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The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model MinorityThe Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the...
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The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century - Updated EditionA gripping account of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Soviet Union The Limits of Partnership is a riveting narrative about U.S.-Russian relations from the Soviet collapse through the Ukraine crisis and the difficult challenges ahead. It reflects the unique perspective of an...
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working...
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The Other AmericaIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington's essays on poverty in the 1970s and '80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington's biographer, Maurice...
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The Essential MarxShortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Leon Trotsky -- one of Marx's most devoted converts and a key figure in the Russian Revolution -- made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this...
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God and the StateAmong the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Michael Bakunin (1814-76). Born into the Russian nobility, he renounced his hereditary rank in protest against Czarist oppression and fled to Western Europe. A colorful, charismatic personality, Bakunin quickly became central...
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The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear MasterMindAcclaim for the Bomb in My Garden This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq-and inside a tyrant's mind.-Fareed...
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Time's Monster: How History Makes HistoryA New Statesman Best Book of the Year "Powerful and radically important."--Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement "Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the future as much as the past."--Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books "An account of how the...
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Spycraft: The Secret History of the Cia's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-QaedaAn unprecedented history of the CIA's secret and amazing gadgetry behind the art of espionage In this look at the CIA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible, Spycraft tells gripping life-and-death stories about a group of spytechs--much of it never...
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesIn November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham's first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. - LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES "Both an American tragedy and [Grisham's] strongest legal thriller...
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for AfricaA national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate...
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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the TruthThe Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn't kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the...
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The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the WestA provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump. In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of...
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