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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...

Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong - Hardcover

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by Yukon Huang (Author)China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses widely accepted yet misguided views in the analysis of China's economy. He e...

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by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author)The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs - "Impossible to put down.... Vastly enjoyable." --The New York Times Book Review How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle Ea...

The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies - Paperback

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by Susan Jacoby (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies. The searing cultural history of the last half-century, The Age of American Unreason In A Culture of Lies focuses on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge ...

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail Leonard (Author)Abigail Leonard's page-turning narrative of four real women--Anna from Finland, Tsukasa from Japan, Sarah from the U.S., and Chelsea from Kenya--is a "deeply personal look at women worldwide grappling with the best and worst moments of their first year... eye-opening and cathartic, this is a love letter to parents and a clarion call for better policy." (Eve Rodsky, New York Times-bestselling author of Fair Play) Tsukasa in Japan grapple...

Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Randi Weingarten (Author)A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have long been a hallmark of fascist regimes: Throughout history, as many dictators rose to power they began banning books and controlling curriculum. Fascists fear teachers because teachers foster an educated and empowered population that can s...

Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher L. Eisgruber (Author)In this "forcefully persuasive book" (Joyce Carol Oates), the president of Princeton reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discourse and foster mutual respect Conversations about higher education teem with accusations that American colleges and universities are betraying free speech, indoctrinating students with left-wing dogma, and censoring civil discussions...

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

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Report copyright infringementby M?nica Guzm?n (Author)PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER "I can see this book helping estranged parties who are equally invested in bridging a gap--it could be assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner." --New York Times "Like all skills, these techniques take practice. But anyone who sincerely wants to bridge the gaps in understanding will appreciate this book. Guzm?n is emphatic about making an effort...

A New Era of Philanthropy: Ten Practices to Transform Wealth Into a More Just and Sustainable Future--How We Fund in Times of Crisis and Opportunity

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Report copyright infringementby Dimple Abichandani (Author)"A must-read for anyone in philanthropy, particularly those who question whether and how philanthropic resources can address the current, complex challenges our world faces." --Nick Tedesco, president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Family Philanthropy A blueprint for how wealth can be transformed into a more just and sustainable future in times of rapid change and crisis. On the cusp of the greatest wealth tran...