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Black MassFor the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas--most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But just...
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in AmericaA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015An NPR Best Book of 2015Countless books have been written...
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The 1001 Arabian NightsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Doing the Needful: The Dilemma of India's Population PolicyThis is a study of the social and cultural roots of the persistent failure of India's attempts to intervene in the realm of population control and related issues of social welfare. The book examines both public and private programmes and policies and concludes with...
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Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."--The Philadelphia InquirerSince his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style....
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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About ItToday the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a...
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Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and its Justices are Not JudgesSupreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and its Justices are Not Judges presents a detailed discussion of the Court's most important and controversial constitutional cases that demonstrates why it doesn't justify being labeled a court of law.Eric Segall, professor of...
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and RecoveryA fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have...
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The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and RwandaExamining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by talk of forgiveness, or through the more common recourse to forgetfulness As genocidal warfare engulfed the former Yugoslavia and...
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The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose...
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book...
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A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public ServiceHaving led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations--the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense--Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider's look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words...
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The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack ObamaA Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012In this follow-up to their national bestseller Cobra II, Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely reported but least understood war in American history. This stunning account...
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The Shadow Factory: The Nsa from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on AmericaJames Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency's existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public....
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Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City LandscapesFrederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their...
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Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy"A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as it is frightening. . . . Required reading for legislators and voters."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review From noted election law expert Rick Hasen comes a stark warning on the threats to American democracy in...
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The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked WorldFrom a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold...
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The Soul of the First AmendmentA lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in AmericaAuthor: Floyd AbramsPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 04/24/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9780300234206About the AuthorFloyd Abrams has litigated...
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Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice MovementAn urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association (ISA) "Should be required reading for the most committed Green New Dealers...
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Basic Income: A Guide for the Open-MindedShouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government...
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