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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary-and often overlooked-adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny"--
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends together create a moment like the one America faced during World War II: on the one hand, an existential threat calling for collective action; on the other, an opportunity...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Examines "how facts--shared truths--have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in 'alternative facts' and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts"--
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. They were restricted from owning property or transacting in real estate. Even well into the 20th century, women could not take out their own loans or own bank accounts without their husband's permission. They could be fired for getting married or pregnant, and if they still had a job, they could be kept from certain roles, restricted from working longer...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer providing a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Clearly showing how reproductive justice is a political movement of reproductive rights and social justice, the authors illuminate how, for example, a low-income, physically -disabled...
Publisher
Bernan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contains official, authoritative data collected and compiled from Social Security Administration sources about Social Security benefit programs. Published privately to fill the void created when the Administration discontinued its own print version.
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Publisher
Simon Element, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noa responds, 'Why are Jewish people history’s favorite scapegoat?' They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you’re anti-Zionist?...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed research to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were moore effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant and vivacious wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem,...
12) Cheyenne Lance
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zack Dobson left St. Louis as a camp helper with a trapping brigade. The boy soon became a trapper- and a man- in the harsh, unforgiving Rocky Mountains. But he became a legend when he sought vengeance against the Comanches who raided the Cheyenne village that had adopted him."--
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating gender identity from an acclaimed expert on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. Kids today are more gender fluent and expansive than ever before. Over 700,000 teenagers in America openly identify as transgender, a number that is rising each year. As it becomes increasingly common for us to encounter and know transgender kids, as well as kids with more expansive notions...
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Never before has anyone explored the mind, soul, and heart of Ronald Reagan. The Search for Reagan explores the challenges and controversies in Reagan's life and how he successfully dealt with each, depicting a man who was never as conservative as some conservatives wanted him to be, but rather as conservative as he was comfortable being--a man who wanted to win on his own terms and integrity"--
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Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, of The Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Texas to Korean immigrants, Eddie grew up working at his family’s store with the weighty expectations that their sacrifices would be paid off when he achieved the 'American Dream.' Years later after moving to San Francisco and earning a coveted law degree, he then does the unthinkable: he rejects a lucrative legal career to enter the nonprofit world. In carving his own path, Eddie defies his family’s notions of economic success, igniting...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
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Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in 2008, known as District of Columbia v. Heller, was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago. And in 2022 the Court radicalized its position even...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike's deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved city was attacked. From 9/11 onward, Mike's one and only mission was to save lives. After two tense combat...