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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary's America, America, and Obama's America
What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? That conservatives—and President Donald Trump in particular—are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of "what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor."
But
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Series
Publisher
Alpha Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to American government and politics, discussing such topics as the responsibilities of each branch of government; the Constitution; political parties; and how economic, foreign, and defense policies are formulated.
44) Civics
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What does it take to run a country like the United States? What's the Constitution got to do with it? What are the three branches of government and how to they work together to do the right thing? Oh, and what role to U.S. citizens play to make society fairer--you know, everyday Americans like you? Step into the colorful world of Basher's Civics and meet the champions of U.S. democracy!"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins México
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"El afamado escritor, polit̤logo, y conferencista Agust̕n Laje presenta La batalla cultural: Reflexiones cr̕ticas para una Nueva Derecha - un manifiesto que informar̀, animar̀ y facultar̀ a los "guerrilleros culturales" para no bajar los brazos en la batalla que sigue perjudicando a nuestras familias y a la sociedad en general. En el mundo contempor̀neo, la sociedad y la cultura cambian a gran velocidad. La voluntad de dirigir esos cambios...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America.... Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author argues that the greatest threat facing the United States is the "totalitarian" faction of the Democratic party, such as the leaders of the Women's March and opponents of Brett Kavanuagh's Supreme Court nomination.
49) Six angry girls
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren't much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The editor of Current Affairs artfully and efficiently debunks a series of common right-wing arguments. Are taxes theft? Is abortion murder? Does regulation destroy jobs? Is white privilege a lie? Conservative talking points are everywhere, and through well-funded media like Fox News, Breitbart, and YouTube's "Prager University," the right has an impressive record of packaging its views for a general audience. Clearly, the left needs to do a better...
52) The presidency!
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A simple, fact-filled introduction for the smallest listeners on the executive branch of the government and how the president has a team of enforcers and advisors"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...
54) Not Russian
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's. The friendship between the two men evolved through periods...
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political thought remains underappreciated. In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry write that the...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of her bestselling book, The Daniel Prayer, Anne Graham Lotz unlocks a powerful pattern of prayer for claiming the promises of God. What is the secret to praying prayers that really "work"? In Storming the Gates of Heaven, a plan for praying effective prayers that God answers is presented through unpacking the ancient prayer of the prophet Daniel, a prayer that moved heaven and changed a nation and one that even today can deliver...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff,Dying for an iPhoneis a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn's drive to dominate...
58) State of play
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The murder of an ambitious politician's researcher leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover a complex thriller revealing the links between government and big business.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault--of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Jess lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her preppy, white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship--one...
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