The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What...
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Author:Leonnig, Carol, Rucker, PhilipSummary: - Author:Akunyili-Parr, ChidiogoSummary:
Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A...
- Author:Yousafzai, MalalaSummary:
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took...
- Author:Horowitz, DavidSummary:
Despite its claim to be an "inclusive and spacious movement," David Horowitz argues that Black Lives Matter divides Americans by race, class, and party in pursuit of a radical agenda that would impoverish and degrade everyone...
- Author:Holland, Sarah StewartSummary:
Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems...
- Author:Bernauer, Warren, Hicks, Jack, Scottie, JoanSummary:
Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community...
- Author:Gretton, DanSummary:
Dan Gretton presents an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
- Author:Hoggan, James, Litwin, GraniaSummary:
The environment can be polluted, as can public discourse. I'm Right and You're an Idiot examines the state of today's public square, showing how polarized conversations discourage people from taking action on issues such as climate...
- Author:Besco, RandySummary:
Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that self-...
- Author:Jedwab, Jack, Kincaid, JohnSummary:
To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various orders of government and contribute to cohesion in federalist systems? Do cohesive...
- Author:Shinkle, PeterSummary:
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the...
- Author:Poitras, JacquesSummary:
Shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Once, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between...
- Author:Kapuściński, RyszardSummary:
Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This is Kapuscinski's vivid, compelling and personal...
- Author:Kaiser-Derrick, ElspethSummary:
Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of...
- Author:Gordis, DanielSummary:
WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE A nuanced examination of the Israel's past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book...
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"Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a...
- Author:Fergusson, JamesSummary:
A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via...
- Author:Blum, HowardSummary:
Howard Blum illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable...
- Author:Estulin, DanielSummary:
On November 8, 2016, the seemingly impossible became real: Donald Trump---billionaire tycoon with fundamentally xenopobic, savage, and populist speech---won the presidency and began endangering values like democracy and world peace....
- Author:McCoy, Alfred W.Summary:
In a new analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar...
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