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1) The hit
Author
Language
English
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Description
Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.
Crack-Up Capitalism follows the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A quarterback like Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers gambles with a Hail Mary pass at the end of a football game when he has nothing to lose - the risky throw might turn defeat into victory, or end in a meaningless interception. Rodgers may not realize it, but he has much in common with figures such as George Washington, Rosa Parks, Woodrow Wilson, and Adolph Hitler, all of whom changed the modern world with their risk-loving decisions. In The Power of Nothing...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Often hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy, the enemy of tyranny, and the gateway to enlightenment. Research reveals a strong correlation between freedom of speech and democracy, innovation, and advancements in human rights, as well as reductions in conflict, corruption, and discrimination. But for all its benefits, free speech remains a challenging, controversial, and often counterintuitive principle, easily subject...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
Publisher
One World
Language
English
Description
The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than...
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
5 MP3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, political disagreements have been ravaging our personal relationships like never before. This already widespread phenomenon will continue to grow unless we learn to fight it. From friends to relatives to lovers, no relationship is immune to this crisis. I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics draws from interviews with every type of politically mixed couple, as well as Dr. Safer’s own experiences as a die-hard...
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages
Language
English
Description
Taking readers beyond the candid daily briefings that became must-see TV across the globe, and providing a dramatic, day-by-day account of COVID-19 as it unfolded, American Crisis presents the intimate and inspiring thoughts of a leader at an unprecedented historical moment. In his own voice, Governor Cuomo chronicles the incredible ingenuity and sacrifice required of so many to fight the pandemic, sharing a gripping behind the scenes account of the...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to truth emerging as an endangered species in contemporary America. Kakutani identifies the trends that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values and offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States, even if he wasn’t recognized for it in his own lifetime, or since his death in 2003.
Then and now, people have misread Cash’s politics, usually accepting the idea of him as a “walking contradiction.” Cash...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a scorching hot day in July 1936, thousands of people cheered as the U.S. Olympic teams boarded the S.S. Manhattan, bound for Berlin. Among the athletes were the 14 players representing the first-ever U.S. Olympic basketball team. As thousands of supporters waved American flags on the docks, it was easy to miss the one courageous man holding a BOYCOTT NAZI GERMANY sign. But it was too late for a boycott now; the ship had already left the harbor.
1936...
14) What the fact?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Language
English
Description
Tracing the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape, a journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor gives readers the skills to identify and counter poorly sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. Teams wear camouflage jerseys to honor those who serve; police officers throw out first pitches; soldiers surprise their families with homecomings at half-time. Sports and politics are decidedly entwined.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 478 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sportswriter's indictment of how Trump's golf habits reflect his off-the-course ethics draws on personal experience and witness interviews to reveal how Trump lies, intimidates, and files lawsuits to get away with rampant cheating.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic issues, even national security, have become loud, violent flashpoints for political rivals in the government, in the media and on the streets. This collective derangement has a name: mass hysteria. In his new book, STOP MASS HYSTERIA, #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage not only deconstructs the Left's unhinged...