21st Century
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: How the Working Poor Became Big Business
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries–the business of poverty. Bro… [more below]
- Author: Rivlin, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061733202
- Language: English
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The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an
- Author: Weiner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 125081622X
- Language: English
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
$18.99 Add to cartDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war–and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? U
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078928
- Language: English
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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
$21.95 Add to cartHistorians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 2020
- ISBN10: 082035774X
- Language: English
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The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel
$39.95 Add to cartIn The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding “neoconservatism,” its
meaning, and its influence as regards U.S. Middle East policy. Sniegoski’s book is also- Author: Sniegoski, Stephen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 13 2008
- ISBN10: 1932528172
- Language: English
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
$39.95 Add to cartLate one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo–China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08–and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 No
- Author: Link, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0231206348
- Language: English
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Silent Brotherhood: Inside America’s Racist Underground
$26.99 Read moreA chilling inside story of America’s racist underground–the most heinous domestic terror group in our nation’s history.
Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider’s account of the “s- Author: Flynn, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 14, 2018
- ISBN10: 1982107251
- Language: English
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Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change Second edition
$16.99 Add to cartSchool strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attent… [more below]
- Author: Engelfried, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986958422
- Language: English
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A Wall in Palestine
$20.00 Add to cartThe West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could
- Author: Backman, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312427816
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
$44.99 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the prese… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199683751
- Language: English
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What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
$16.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the Netflix film ‘Worth, ‘ starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to th… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1586484516
- Language: English
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
$17.99 Add to cartA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of moder- Author: McGreal, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541742753
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppres- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1668013738
- Language: English
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
$20.00 Add to cartIn this first collection of interviews since the
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating,
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 080507967X
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
$26.95 Add to cartIn 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or othe
- Author: Bixler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0820328839
- Language: English
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Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
$29.00 Read more“Amazing book! And will be an eye-opener for many.” -Margaret Atwood
This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guant?amo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unl
- Author: Adayfi, Mansoor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0306923866
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
$16.99 Add to cartFrom one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left — in America and beyond.
Following the sh
- Author: Lilla, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062697455
- Language: English
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A History of the United States in Five Crashes
$18.99 Add to cartIn this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC contributor, takes us on a journey through the five sign
- Author: Nations, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006246728X
- Language: English
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0
$18.99 Add to cart“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends h… [more below]
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340384
- Language: English
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All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
$19.99 Read moreAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.
In 2015, increasing numbers of re
- Author: Sachs, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276095
- Language: English
