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The Codex of the Endangered Species Act, Volume II: The Next Fifty Years - Hardcover

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by Lowell E. Baier (Editor), John F. Organ (Editor), Representative Debbie Dingell (Foreword by)The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation's species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.In this volume, leading Endangered Species Act experts interpret and propose legislative a...

Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times - Paperback

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by Leon R. Kass (Author)Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea--regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders...

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up - Hardcover

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by Abigail Shrier (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, ...

Making a Mark: Becoming a Public Purpose Community Developer

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Tigan (Author) Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Tigan (Author) Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2025

Pragmatist Semantics: A Use-Based Approach to Linguistic Representation - Hardcover

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by José L. Zalabardo (Author)José L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of what grounds the meaning of central semantic discourses--ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. He argues that it is the procedures that regulate acceptance and rejection that give the sentences of these discourses their meanings, and explores the application of the pragmatist template to ethical discourse. The pragmatist approach is presented as an alternative to representationalist ac...

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society - Paperback

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by Manning Marable (Author), Leith Mullings (Foreword by)Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.Author BiographyManning Marable (1950-2011) was a professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable authored fifteen books including Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History.Leith Mullings (1945-2020) was a distinguished...

Boundless Brothers: Two Warriors from the Heartland, One Mission for the Homeland - Hardcover

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by Ronald A. Lambrecht (Author), Steven S. Lambrecht (Author)Fans of Top Gun, The Hunt for Red October, and Forrest Gump will love this epic tale of struggle, tenacity, and heroism.Separated in age by eighteen years, Ron and Steve Lambrecht lived under the same farmhouse roof for only six months-yet both left the Minnesota cornfields of their birth for distinctly different roads of military achievement.Their joint memoir, Boundless Brothers: Two Warriors from the Heartland, One Mission for th...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Cheung (Author)A boldly rendered--and deeply intimate--account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. "[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes."--The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the...

Autobiography of Mother Jones(Polis & Praxis Red Series)(Annotated)

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Harris Jones (Author), Mary Field Parton (Editor), Clarence Darrow (Introduction by)The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Polis & Praxis Red Series)"I am not a humanitarian. I am a hell-raiser." - Mother JonesMary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837-1930) was once branded the most dangerous woman in America-and she wore the name proudly. From the coal mines of West Virginia to the mills of Pennsylvania, she gave voice to the working class, rallied striking labore...

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Report copyright infringementby Yellaboy (Author)Fred Hampton: The Man. The Myth. The Legend.He was only 21 when they killed him-but Fred Hampton's words still shake the foundation of a system built on lies. This book isn't just a biography-it's a battle cry. From the streets of Chicago to the soul of a revolution, this is Fred through the eyes of a freedom fighter who sees the game for what it is. Yellaboy tells it raw, unfiltered, and straight to the heart-because you can kill a revolutiona...

Anarchy And Anarchists: A History Of The Red Terror And The Social Revolution In America And Europe. Communism, Socialism, And Nihilism

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Schaack (Author)Anarchy And Anarchists: A History Of The Red Terror And The Social Revolution In America And Europe. Communism, Socialism, And Nihilism In Doctrine And In Deed. The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy, And The Detection And Trial Of The Conspirators. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the ori...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Franklin (Author), William MacDonald (Author)"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America's most influential figures. Written with wit and candor, Franklin recounts his journey from humble beginnings as a printer's apprentice to becoming a renowned scientist, inventor, diplomat, and statesman. This edition, first printed in England from the full and authentic text, provides readers with an unadul...

The Foroughi Paradox Vision, Reform, and Resistance in Modern Iran

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Report copyright infringementby Ali R. Rahimi (Author)In the heart of early 20th-century Iran, amid the tremors of revolution, reform, and resistance, stood a towering figure-Mohammad Ali Foroughi. Statesman, scholar, and visionary, Foroughi sought to bridge the chasm between Iran's rich Islamic heritage and the urgent demands of modernity. The Foroughi Paradox traces his turbulent journey through political upheaval, his fraught alliance with Reza Shah, and his courageous push for a democrati...

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Driver (Author)Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a "startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers" (The New York Times Book Review) and those who had the courage to fight back. On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The comp...

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Report copyright infringementby B. Strawser (Author)Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he argues is sound: that bin Laden was liable to be killed as a necessary and proportionate act of defensive harm on behalf of innocent people.Author BiographyDr. Bradley J. Strawser is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA, and Research Associate with Oxford Univer...

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Report copyright infringementby Reality Winner (Author)The story of a patriot who dreamed of serving her country--and was nearly destroyed by it.Reality Winner was a twenty-five-year-old translator for the NSA when she read a classified document revealing what she assumed would make headlines during a time of unprecedented leaking: After blatant lies by the Trump administration and public silence by the NSA, there had in fact been foreign interference in the 2016 US election. In a breach of N...

Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Women Writers Reflect on the Candidate and What Her Campaign Meant

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Morrison (Author)No one else in the political arena inspires as wide a range of passionate feelings as Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cold or competent, overachiever or pioneer, too radical or too moderate, she continues to overturn the assumptions we make about her. In Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison has compiled a timely collection of original pieces by America's most notable women writers. The result is a dazzling and revea...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaar Adams (Author)Weaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of discovery through the clandestine queer communities of the Gulf States, and into the very nature of home and belongingWhen journalist Gaar Adams first arrives in the Gulf States--where four out of five residents are non-citizens, and where the penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture, and death--he approaches the LGBTQ+ immigra...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Manchin (Author), Nick Saban (Contribution by)A memoir--and a manifesto--like no other, by a true maverick in American politics With a foreword by Nick Saban Dead Center: It is where Senator Joe Manchin III has stood his entire life. For him, it's where the real solutions lie, if we are ever going to tame the anger, bitterness, intolerance, and tribalism that have infected our political system. Through 43 years in politics, and 15 years in the Senate, Joe M...

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the Cia, Unmasked

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Report copyright infringementby Jonna Mendez (Author)In this "extraordinarily brave and entertaining book" (Sonia Purnell, New York Times-bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance), the bestselling coauthor of Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his per...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven E. Mayer (Author) Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2025

On Thin Ice: An LAPD Veteran's Journey to Reimagine Policing

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Wenninger (Author)"POLICING IS ON THIN ICE. It's up to us to reimagine what happens next." -Jeff WenningerOn Thin Ice delivers an unflinching look inside the American law enforcement from a voice who's lived it. With over 30 years in the LAPD and direct oversight of more than 700 use-of-force cases, nationally recognized expert Jeff Wenninger exposes the toxic culture, outdated training, and leadership failures that continue to shape modern policing.Drawin...

Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Kheriaty (Author)There is a cure for medicine's ills, but it's going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis. Making the Cut is about what's going on in the house of medicine. Medicine got sick. One in three people now distrust the healthcare system. Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public. We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic ...

The Charlie Kirk Effect (A New Era of Political Activism): How One Man's Vision for Free Speech Reshaped the Future of Conservative Politics

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Report copyright infringement Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 12, 2025

Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Turner (Author)Is a diplomat's life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d'état in Turkey? Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who held posts in Ukraine, Turkey and Austria. In this witty globe-trotting adventure through one of the most intriguing careers a person can have, Leigh relates his interactions with royalty of both the aristocratic and celebrity kinds, and with brilliant and extraordinary people who bestowed val...

Pursuing Peace and Justice: A Memoir...of Sorts

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Shor (Author)As the subtitle, A Memoir...of Sorts, suggests, this is not a traditional rendering of a memoir, filled with all the names and events that defined a singular life. Instead, the focus is on those movements, organizations and institutions through which I attempted to pursue peace and justice. Thus, the chapters and contents are arranged to highlight what led me to that involvement. Also integral to each chapter are the ways in which certain h...

Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Bernd Reiter (Editor), John Antón Sánchez (Editor)This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.Author BiographyBernd Reiter is a professor for the department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. His publications include Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2021), Legal Duty and Upper Limits (2020), Constructing the Pluriverse (2018), among others. He s...

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Report copyright infringementby George W. Bush (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biograph...

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Us Imperial Project in the Philippines

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Jean S. Martinez (Author)During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a proje...

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Justin McGuirk (Author)Author BiographyJustin McGuirk is a writer and curator, and has worked as the Guardian's design columnist and the editor of Icon magazine. He is also the director of Strelka Press and the design consultant to Domus, and his writing has appeared in the Observer, the Times, Disegno, Art Review, Condé Nast Traveller, Form, the Architects Journal, Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Arc...

A Seat at the Table: An Inside Account of Trump's Global Economic Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Mitchell A. Silk (Author)"From the trade negotiations with China to implementing the CARES Act during the pandemic, Mitchell Silk played a critical role during some of the most challenging economic moments in recent history." --Steven T. Mnuchin, 77th Secretary of the US Treasury From his earliest beginnings as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant to his work in international law and finance, Mitchell Silk's story illustrates how perseverance and divine provide...