Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United...
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Author:Heasley, LynneSummary: -
Author:Lewis, MichaelSummary:Lewis offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands--and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew--and burst--not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as...
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Author:Epstein, LitaSummary:Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any business owner, but it's also important to those who work with the business, such as investors, financial institutions and employees. Bookkeeping For Dummies provides the easy and...
- Author:Lepore, JillSummary:
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
- Author:Blumenthal, KarenSummary:
Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted months to tracing the footsteps of Bonnie and Clyde, unearthing new information and debunking many persistent myths. The result is an impeccably researched nonfiction tale of love, car...
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Author:Milloy, JeremySummary:Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But Blood, Sweat, and Fear demonstrates that workplace violence never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, Jeremy Milloy provides fresh and original insights into the...
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Author:Kilcullen, DavidSummary:2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
Alternate history author Turtledove offers a new vision of America after World War I. In 1920, as veterans question the very nation they fought for, socialist Upton Sinclair challenges Teddy Roosevelt for the presidency. And in the...
- Author:Makary, MartySummary:
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay - an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health. More...
- Author:Dickinson, BrianSummary:
Former Navy rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest when his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian with a difficult decision: should he continue to push for the summit, or...
- Author:Hairston, Ever LeeSummary:
As a child, Ever Lee Hairston faced one disappointment after the other. A product of share-cropping parents and raised on one of the biggest plantations in the South, Ever allowed those disappointments to diminish her self-confidence...
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Author:Clyburn, James E., Woodard, AlfreSummary:From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina to his prominence on the Washington, D.C. political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an...
- Author:Cosby, S. A.Summary:
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020. "Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling."—AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner. A...
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Author:Evans, M. StantonSummary:This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the US government.
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Author:Honey, Michael K.Summary:The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, the stories ask us to rethink the...
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Author:Greenidge, KerriSummary:William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black...
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Author:Griffin, John HowardSummary:Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment fifty years ago. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family,...
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Author:James, Valmore, Gallagher, JohnSummary:Val James received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday and by 16, he left his home in New York to play in Canada, where he was the only black person on his junior team and, often, in the whole town. While popular for his...
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Author:Hill Collins, PatriciaSummary:In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and...
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Author:Summary:Black Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across the country. From a spectrum of...
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