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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul - Paperback

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by Scott W. Berg (Author)WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city--told with the "the clarity--and tension--of a well-wrought military narrative" (Wall Street Journal) In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the "big one"--...

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by Timothy Snyder (Author)A brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined. On Freedom offers fresh insight into essential aspects of human existence--the values and obligations inherent in every individual's life."--Ai Weiwei Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Paperback

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by Jenny Odell (Author)** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public Library - The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."--Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 20...

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Mike Davis (Author), Robert Morrow (Photographer)This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker) No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of socia...

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism - Paperback

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by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Author)A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity--for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselve...

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies - Paperback

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by Jason Fagone (Author)National Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year"Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." --The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzz...

La Muerte Y La Doncella = Death and the Maiden - Paperback

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by Ariel Dorfman (Author)La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: " Como pueden los represores y los oprimidos cohabitar una misma tierra, compartir una misma mesa?" preguntas que hoy dîa siguen tan vigentes como cuando Dorfman escribia esta obra.Author BiographyARIEL DORFM...

Complete Flags of the World: The Ultimate Pocket Guide - Paperback

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by DK (Author)Explore the fascinating world of flags! Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols, cultural and national emblems, and how designs and meanings have evolved. This is the perfect guide to vexillology for anyone interested in the origin, history and symbolism of flags. Inside this flag book you'll find: - Highly detailed full-color flag illustrations for each main entry. - Co...

The Last Free Man in America: Meets the Synthetic Subversion - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Gatewood Galbraith (Author)"Every Generation Must Re-win Its Own Freedoms." And every generation must produce an individual who will insist that our freedoms under the Constitution and Bill of Rights remain unabridged by those in power. This generation has produced Gatewood Galbraith, activist, attorney, marijuana smoker, gun owner and the most successful Independent candidate for a major Office in America for several decades. Gatewood has defended individual r...

How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for its Life - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Dunt (Author)'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engaging.' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'Dunt's gift for making complicated issues comprehensible is second to none. Courageous.' - JAMES O'BRIEN, LBCNationalism has marched across the world. Wherever it goes, it seeks to destroy the liberal values that underpin Western civilisation.In this epic new book...

Cabanatuan: A Prisoner's Perspective - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Shelly E. McCandliss (Author), John F. Batcheler (Author)The Philippines during World War II held so many incredible stories of what men had to endure, from the Bataan Death March to the Great Raid. John F. Batcheler wrote a story of his own from his time as a prisoner of war in Camp 1, Cabanatuan. He survived almost three years contained there, fully mistreated, then liberated in one of the most successful rescue missions of all time. This little book has two ...

DRC Richest and Poorest Country - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby James Kazongo (Author) Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 13, 2016

Nightmare On Pennsylvania Avenue - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Randall Bannister (Author)THE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA. THE BIBLE (BOOK OF JUDGES) PROVES BARACK OBAMA IS THE MOST IMMORAL PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: June 24, 2014

The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Naseer Dashti (Author)Three thousand years ago, a group of Indo-Iranic tribes (called Balaschik at that time) settled in the northwestern Caspian region of Balashagan. Circumstances forced them to disperse and migrate towards south and eastern parts of Iranian plateau. In medieval times, they finally settled in present Balochistan where they became known as the Baloch. During their long and tortuous journey from Balashagan to Balochistan, the Baloch faced perse...

She's Dying in Our Sleep: How Our Government is Smothering Liberty and What We Must Do to Save Her - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby David Robinette Jr. (Author)Lady Liberty is America's greatest symbol of freedom. But soon Liberty may be dead and the freedom she stands for gone, destroyed by the very entity that was created to protect it-the United States Government. Our Constitution established a republic, a system in which government was to have strictly limited powers. Yet today, bureaucrats and politicians in Washington exercise control over virtually every aspect of our lives. Our gove...

Is George Bush the Antichrist? - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby R. Stephen Hanchett (Author)More than four years ago, and almost a year before the 2000 presidential election, I put up a website proposing that George W Bush was the Antichrist. Tragically, nobody listened. Now the World Trade Center has been hauled off for scrap and our nation is fighting a holy war in the Middle East. The question is: how can we achieve victory over the ultimate evil in the world (terrorism), without recognizing the kind of deception that is...

El Delfín de Fidel: La historia oculta tras el golpe del 4F - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos Penaloza (Author)El militar de carrera y general retirado Carlos Julio Pe aloza combati en los a os sesenta las guerrillas castro comunistas urbanas y rurales.En 1989 detiene a Hugo Ch vez por conspiraci n, pero el Presidente Carlos Andr s P rez ordena su libertad. Meses despu s Ch vez encabeza un fallido golpe de estado.En el primer libro, El imperio de Fidel cubri las injerencias de Fidel Castro en Venezuela, hasta 1968, en esta segunda entrega, es l...

True Gretch: What I've Learned about Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Gretchen Whitmer (Author)From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot. When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good i...

Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon McConnell-Sidorick (Author)The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who flooded into this booming i...

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Posobiec (Author), Joshua Lisec (Author), Stephen K. Bannon (Foreword by)If you don't understand communist revolutions, you aren't ready for what's coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed--to deplatform, debank, destroy. This is the daily news, yet none of it's new. Patterns from the p...

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by Martin Gilbert (Author)"The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published." -- The Sunday Telegraph"An epic history . . . a picture of an Israel that persevered and prevailed, that was determined to survive and was unwilling to trust its independence to others but sought peace whenever possible." -- Foreign AffairsIsrael is a small and relatively young country, but since the day of its creation more than half a century ago, its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the ...

Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate - Paperback

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by Daniel Beland (Author)Everyone agrees that Social Security's future is in jeopardy--or is it? Long viewed as the "third rail" of American politics, Social Security is a major political issue, and many experts and politicians would like to restructure this program. But too few of us, young and elderly alike, really understand the origins and workings of this popular program. Daniel Béland answers the call for objective information with a short history that provides context and clarity for t...

Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade - Paperback

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by Jeff Schuhrke (Author)How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade--and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to contr...

21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 - Paperback

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by Ben S. Bernanke (Author) Number of Pages: 528 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.25 x 5.56 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2023

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - Hardcover

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by Timothy Egan (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that...

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times - Hardcover

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by Robin Reames (Author)How rhetoric--the art of persuasion--can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the des...

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation - Paperback

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by Daniel Fischlin (Author), Ajay Heble (Author), George Lipsitz (Author)The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, imm...

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood - Paperback

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by Rashid Khalidi (Author)At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, one of the most respected historians and political observers of the Middle East, homes in on Palestinian politics and history. By drawing on a wealth of experience and scholarship, Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the...

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It - Paperback

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by Richard Hofstadter (Author)The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national ex...

Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks - Hardcover

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by Geoff White (Author)'Rinsed is a triumph. If you want to understand how the chaotic world around us really works, read this book!'MILES JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF CHASING SHADOWS 'A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolts of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals'FINANCIAL TIMES 'Gripping'THE ECONOMIST For as long as people have been stealing money, there has been an industry ready to wash it. But what happened when our economy went digital? How does the g...

Democracy at Risk: The Dangers of Project 2025 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby J. E. Fowlers (Author)In a time of major shifts and challenges in US politics, Democracy at Risk: The Dangers of Project 2025 takes a hard-hitting look at the controversial proposals of Project 2025 and their potential to reshape American society. This book is timely and essential, offering a detailed yet accessible analysis of the project's goals and the far-reaching implications for democracy, civil rights, and social equity that will impact every American. T...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Foley (Author)With at least 80% of children in orphanages having living parents, a crucial question arises: is the world facing an orphan problem or an orphanage problem?This question became all too real for Dale and Cathleen Jones in 1992. As the communists trickled out of Cambodia, the couple found themselves unexpectedly running an orphanage, navigating cultural challenges, corruption, and the care of hundreds of children. Through this experience, they ...