It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
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Category: Politics
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety--completed revised and updated. New York Times ...Show more
Guest House for Young Widows - Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision- to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the Islamic State. In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the calip ...Show more
Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage & Fear in the Cyber Age by David E. Sanger
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Category: Politics
In the spring of 2016, North Korea's missiles started falling out of the sky, if they even made it that high. In test after test, Kim Jong-un's Musudan missile-the pride of his fleet-was exploding on the launch pad, crashing seconds after launch, or traveling a hundred miles or so before plunging premat ...Show more
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
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Category: Politics
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book" " A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic"This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take ...Show more
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
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Category: Politics
*The Sunday Times Bestseller*Economics is broken, and the planet is paying the price. Unforeseen financial crises. Extreme wealth inequality. Relentless pressure on the environment. Can we go on like this? Is there an alternative? In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth lays out the seven ...Show more
True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey TOOBIN
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Category: Politics
What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election. Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his National Security Advisor pleaded gu ...Show more
The Management of Savagery by MAX. BLUMENTHAL
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Category: Politics
THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultranationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enem ...Show more
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family by James Patterson
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Category: Politics
JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable...Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonym ...Show more
The Extreme Centre : A Second Warning by Tariq Ali
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Category: Politics
In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment acro ...Show more
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls by Tim Marshall
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Category: Politics
Description: New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography; We feel more divided than ever.; This riveting analysis tells you why.; Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected i ...Show more
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by FURTADO, PETER
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Category: Politics
Whether it's because their rhetoric--"liberty, fraternity, equality"--articulates those ideals to which we most aspire, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces that are unleashed when social conventions break down, revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. And while all r ...Show more
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
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Category: Politics
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness- everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eli ...Show more