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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States - Paperback

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by Pauline Maier (Introduction by)Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history form the enduring legacy of America's Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be ...

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War - Hardcover

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by Jim Sciutto (Author)Instant New York Times Bestseller "An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today's world." -New York Times Book Review The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with rep...

The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History - Paperback

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by Jamie MacKay (Author)Whether you're vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region's rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean's enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilizati...

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Ioffe (Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow--only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up--d...

Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines

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Report copyright infringementby Karine Jean-Pierre (Author)A groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America's broken two-party system. Rachel Maddow calls it "a brave firecracker of a book." In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris administration, shares why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents. Jean-Pierre didn't come to her decision to be an Inde...

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America - Paperback

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by Rick Perlstein (Author)"Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling." --Los Angeles Times "Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics." --Jon Meacham "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know--American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972--into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative." --Jef...

The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Schneider (Author)Consider your surroundings. Maybe you're in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you're at a desk in an office building, or in a café looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is not simply the backdrop to your life. It determines, to a remarkable degree, what kind of life you're able to live. Today, the horizons of American life are constrained by a built environment that has not significantly changed since the 1...

Today's African Woman!: Human Rights Champion and Single Mother

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Jambo (Author)Suzanne's story is one of constant, unrelenting struggle against a tide of discrimination, greed and corruption. At a young age, she finds herself labelled as being religiously and racially "incorrect."This sparks her lifetime quest to champion the cause of human rights. It is a journey that sets her against not only the ruling powers of Sudan at the time, but also finds her opposing the practices of the South Sudanese LiberationMovement.T...

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Report copyright infringementby Claude Lewenz (Author), Stewart Udall (Contribution by), Michael Henderson (Contribution by)Sometimes the most effective way to talk about a good idea is to write a story. This book tells the story of Ed Rice, a semi-retired senior town planner who spent 50 years planning the suburban developments of the town of Blandville, the place that could be anywhere. When the judge takes away his drivers license, he discovered what an absolute mess he and his peers creat...

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Paperback

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by Anne Applebaum (Author)From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little...

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans - Paperback

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by James Stavridis (Author)From one of the most admired admirals of his generation--and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO--comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is ofte...

The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens - Hardcover

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by Richard Haass (Author)A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if American democracy is to survive The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics. The greatest peril to the country, however, comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bil...

Constitution of the United States - Hardcover

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by Founding Fathers (Created by)The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal Government, as well as the basic rights of the citizens of the United States. This beautiful gift edition contains the complete text of the Unite...

Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order - Hardcover

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by Yuan Yang (Author)"As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary." --Vogue A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers--women born during China's turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, desp...

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town - Hardcover

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by Charles L. Marohn (Author)Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - and how to make it work for your community In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr. delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to b...

The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--And How to Fix It - Paperback

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by Marty Makary (Author)New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small busin...

The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006 - Paperback

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by Edward W. Said (Author), Moustafa Bayoumi (Editor), Andrew Rubin (Editor)The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said's books, includin...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations - Hardcover

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by Ronen Bergman (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject." WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist - The New York Times Book Review - BBC History Magazine - ...

Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination - Paperback

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by David Graeber (Author)Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can't imagine an altern...

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Report copyright infringementby Heiwai Tang (Editor), Brian Wong Yue Shun (Editor)Economic powerhouse or geopolitical experiment? A critical look at BRICS+ in the twenty-first century. As the BRICS bloc expands beyond its original five members to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the UAE--with Saudi Arabia invited to join--the influence of BRICS+ in global trade and geopolitics is growing. The question remains: what does this shifting balance of power mean for the world? Towards ...

Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions

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Report copyright infringementby James Workman (Author), Amanda Leland (Author)Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen-along with some unlikely allies-helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of.Exploring a victory for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like in other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries w...

A Long Silence: Memories of a German Refugee Child, 1941-1958

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Report copyright infringementby Sabina de Werth Neu (Author)After more than sixty years, the nightmarish sufferings of so many victims of Germany's Nazi regime have been documented extensively. Rarely, however, does one hear about the experiences of German children during World War II. Coming of age amidst the chaos, brutality, and destruction of war in their homeland, they had no understanding of what was happening around them and often suffered severe trauma and physical abuse. This hauntin...

Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Brandus (Author)"Like taking a tour of the White House with a gifted storyteller at your side!" 1.Why, in the minutes before John F. Kennedy was murdered, was a blood-red carpet installed in the Oval Office? 2.If Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, where did he sleep? 3.Why was one president nearly killed in the White House on inauguration day-and another secretly sworn in? 4.What really happened in the Situation Room on September 11, 2001?...

Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 - Paperback

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by Nick Land (Author), Robin MacKay (Introduction by), Ray Brassier (Introduction by)A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as "rabid nihilism," "mad black deleuzianism," and "cybergothic," developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of "continental philosophy" --a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. Ho...

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by Hannah Arendt (Author)Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, "Some Questions of Moral Philosophy," in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral "truths" as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to...

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by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale" (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who created the world's greatest empire--and then lost it all. "An essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Russian history." --The New York Times Book Review The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family t...

America's Achilles Heel: How to Protect Your Family When America Loses the Reserve Currency

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Report copyright infringementby Elliott J. Schuchardt (Author)Sixty years ago, economist Robert Triffin warned that the U.S. dollar could suddenly drop in value, if the United States used the dollar as the world's reserve currency. America's leaders, determined to obtain as much power as possible, insisted on internationalizing the dollar. They flooded world markets with dollars, initially backed by gold. When they ran out of gold, the United States backed the dollar by means of oil from the ...

Hélène Smith: Occultism and the Discovery of the Unconscious - Paperback

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by Claudie Massicotte (Author)In 1896, a young Genevan medium named Hélène Smith perceived in trance the following words from a Martian inhabitant: "michma michtmon mimini thouainenm mimatchineg." Those attending her séance dutifully transcribed these words and the event marked the beginning of a series of occult experiences that transported her to the red planet. In her state of trance, Smith came to produce foreign conversations, a new alphabet, and paintings of the Martian surroundings tha...

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III - Paperback

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by Robert A. Caro (Author)Master of the Senate, Book 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Joh...

From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics - Paperback

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by Adam B. Lerner (Author)In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn resilience of traumatic memory. From the transnational Black Lives Matter movement's calls for reckoning with the legacy of slavery and racial oppression, to continued efforts to secure recognition of the Armenian genocide or Imperial Japan's human rights abuses, international politics is replete with examples of past viole...

Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers - Paperback

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by David Scott Fitzgerald (Author)Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or ambivalent about granting asylum. They fear that asylum-seekers will impose economic and cultural costs and pose security threats to nationals. Consequently, governments of rich, democratic countries attempt to limit who can approach their borders, which often leads to refugees b...

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle - Paperback

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by Silvia Federici (Author)Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain--to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in "alienated labor" is an explosive ground zero for r...