Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
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Author:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSummary: - Author:Belz, MindySummary:
"Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. Pay a...
- Author:Chayes, SarahSummary:
A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force. Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical turmoil....
- Author:Bollier, DavidSummary:
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and...
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Times are changing. Instead of obsessing about what they’re against, progressives have begun to think about what they’re for—to prepare once again to play their role as agents of bold ideas and political and social transformation....
- Author:Mykhalovskiy, Eric, Namaste, VivianeSummary:
Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and...
- Author:Judt, Tony, Snyder, TimothySummary:
Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas. Spanning the entire era and all currents of thought, this book restores clarity to the classics of...
- Author:Engler, Mark, Engler, PaulSummary:
There is a craft to uprising—and this craft can change the world
From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent...
- Author:Perlroth, NicoleSummary:
"Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding." - The New Yorker From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market—the most secretive, invisible,...
- Author:Pomerantsev, PeterSummary:
In his signature style, disinformation expert Peter Pomerantsev ventures behind the enemy lines of the endless, multinational information war and explores the contours of this new global order.
- Author:Tuckness, AlexSummary:
This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of...
- Author:Baier, BretSummary:
1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM The #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier reveals as never before Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War. In his...
- Author:Neuhaus, TomSummary:
Tibet in the Western Imagination offers a highly readable account of Western writings about Tibet and the Himalayas from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, situating them within a transnational framework. Focusing on British and German...
- Author:Bland, Douglas L., Butlin, BonnieSummary:
A look at how a major confrontation between Canada and the First Nations could erupt, and how it might be prevented. There are few greater tragedies than a war waged by a society against itself. As Time Bomb shows, a catastrophic...
- Author:Barnes, HannahSummary:
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up...
- Author:Baillargeon, Denyse, Roth, KätheSummary:
"When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted." Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women...
- Author:Baier, BretSummary:
The #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and...
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Major thinkers engage with King's less studied writing, arguing its marginalization has let King be drafted into projects he would not endorse.
- Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:
During the 17 years he was premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas changed the face of his province. He then served for 10 years as first leader of the federal New Democratic Party. Today he is recognized as the "father of medicare...
- Author:Moscrop, DavidSummary:
Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age.In an era overshadowed by income inequality,...
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