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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
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In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more)

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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
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Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more)

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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele
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How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses—and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us   In The End of Big, Internet pioneer and Harvard Kennedy School... (read more)

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Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America
Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
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In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically... (read more)

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The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power
The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power
by Alison Pargeter
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Although the popular uprisings of 2011 were not driven by Islamist forces, it is the Islamist movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, that have filled the power vacuums that opened up with the collapse of the regimes of the region. How did... (read more)

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The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It
The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It
by Tom Diaz
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Newtown, Connecticut. Aurora, Colorado. Both have entered our collective memory as sites of unimaginable heartbreak and mass slaughter perpetrated by lone gunmen. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., are dealing with the painful... (read more)

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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other
Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other
by R. J. Martin, Jr. (edt)
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other is the follow-up to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, the groundbreaking anthology that appeared on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. "Eye... (read more)

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Conspiracies: The Facts, the Theories, the Evidence
Conspiracies: The Facts, the Theories, the Evidence
by Andy Thomas
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The Kennedy assassination. Princess Diana's death. The moon landing. Are official accounts of these events true—or is something nefarious going on? With trust in authorities at an all-time low, and the Internet always buzzing, conspiracy... (read more)

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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
by Jeremy Adelman
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"This is an exceptional book. Hirschman's intellectual and political journey is described with sharpness and perspicacity. Family life, cultural encounters, and the imprints of a lifetime highlight the importance and significance of one of the most... (read more)

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Beyond Human?: Science and the Changing Face of Humanity
Beyond Human?: Science and the Changing Face of Humanity
by John Bryant
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An exploration of what the most significant scientific advances of recent years mean for us as humans Recent scientific advances have made it possible to do the unthinkable—clone, design one's own babies, "genetically enhance" soldiers, and... (read more)

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The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on Meet the Press
The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on Meet the Press
by Solon Simmons
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Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable... (read more)

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Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
by Ben Hammersley
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In 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential guide to things we need to know for life in the 21st century. Explaining the effects of the changes in the... (read more)

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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
by Alfred Ryan Nerz
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Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He is also a longtime pot smoker who wanted to better understand the drugs use and abuse in the United States. Marijuanamerica is the story of his trek across the country, where he... (read more)

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Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town
Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town
by Rex J. Rowley
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Every year, more than thirty-five million people from all over the world visit Las Vegas; only two million call the city home. Everyday Las Vegas takes a close look at the lives of those who live in a place the rest of the world considers exotic, even... (read more)

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Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
by Rhoney Gissen Stanley
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Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s. Owsley "Bear" Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was still legal and he was the world's largest producer and distributor of LSD. Rhoney found... (read more)

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Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
by Robert M. Townsend
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andlt;Pandgt;Running since 1997 and continuing today, the Townsend Thai Project has tracked millions of observations about the economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most... (read more)

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A Long Day at the End of the World
A Long Day at the End of the World
by Brent Hendricks
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A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The... (read more)

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Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco
Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco
by Karl Beitel
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A history of the antigentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protests, Global Movements examines the ability of local urban movements to engage in meaningful contestation with private real estate capital and area governmental... (read more)

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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality
by Patrick Sharkey
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In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movements successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that... (read more)

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Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
by Judith Butler
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Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of... (read more)

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