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By: Derek W. Black

ISBN: 9781541788442
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A stirring and passionate defense of the central importance of public education to American democracy, vividly illustrating how the forces of reaction are chipping away at a constitutional right.


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By: Alex Berezow

ISBN: 9781610393218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"On many of the most critical issues of our time, the'progressive' perspective is often rooted in out-dated, anti-empirical junk science paradigms that threaten innovation... Read Science Left Behind. It's a clarion call for the empirically minded amongst us, regardless of your ideological persuasion."- Forbes


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By: Margee Kerr

ISBN: 9781610397162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The in-house sociologist at a nationally renowned haunted house explores the experience of fear -- what causes it, and why we seek it out.


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By: Ryan J. Reilly

ISBN: 9781541701809
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can't be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement--threatening the very idea of justice and its role in society.


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By: Mike Giglio

ISBN: 9781541742352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS - the most radical antagonist that has yet emerged in the Middle East - and the unlikely alliance of Iraqi special forces, Kurdish militia, and shadowy U.S. soldiers who came together to defeat it.


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By: Robert Bryce

ISBN: 9781610395250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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By: Robert Bryce

ISBN: 9781610395472
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"So what went wrong - or, rather, right Why is the human race in much better shape than it was 200, 100, or 50 years ago Robert Bryce reminds us of the answers in his sprightly new book and promises that even better times lie ahead. ... Bryce's new book is an enlightening stroll down the sunny side of the street." -Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe


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By: Susan Williams

ISBN: 9781610396547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The never-before-told story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War reveals one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war " America's efforts to secure enough uranium to build atomic bombs and to keep it out of the hands of Germany and Japan.


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By: Mychal Denzel Smith

ISBN: 9781568588735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past the crisis represented by Trump's presidency in order to re-envision a country that lives up to its promises of justice, equality, and freedom for all.


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By: Rick Wartzman

ISBN: 9781541757998
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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How Americas biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough.


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By: Tara Isabella Burton

ISBN: 9781541762534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.


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By: Samuel Schwartz

ISBN: 9781610395649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A leading transportation expert and former NY Traffic Commissioner explores how cars have shaped American cities, explains why more Americans are relying less on driving, and details exactly how our urban centres will need to adapt.


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By: Michael Schuman

ISBN: 9781541788343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to 'Make China Great Again.'


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By: David McKean

ISBN: 9781610392211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A stirring narrative history of the political manoeuvring and infighting that took place among the Founding Fathers, epitomized in the revolutionary life of Governor, Chief Justice, and last signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.


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By: Adam Levin

ISBN: 9781610397209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A smart, practical guide to managing your identity in a world of hackers, from one of the leading experts in the field.


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By: Dean-David Schillinger

ISBN: 9781541704206
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him and what they can teach us about health, empathy and healing.


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By: Elizabeth Bradley

ISBN: 9781610395489
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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By: Marc Lynch

ISBN: 9781610392358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The director of George Washington University's Institute for Middle East Studies recounts how a series of unremarkable protests exploded into the Arab Spring, why a new Cold War between revolution and counter-revolution is brewing, and what side America must take.


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By: Ram Charan

ISBN: 9781610394741
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The legendary business adviser and bestselling author shows how to go on the offensive to both shape and take advantage of the forces of uncertainty, turbulence, and strategic disruption that are creating new customer needs, market segments and ways to make money.


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By: Richard Breitman

ISBN: 9781541742161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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As the Nazis gained political power in Weimar Berlin, a US consul/diplomat observed their activities, interceded when they threatened American lives and developed the earliest and fullest appreciation of the horrors to come.


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By: Conor O'Clery

ISBN: 9781610393348
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2013
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The curious life of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, now substantially updated with a fascinating coda


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By: Anna-Lisa Cox

ISBN: 9781610398107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The story of America's forgotten black pioneers, who escaped slavery, settled the frontier, and proved that racial equality was possible even as the country headed toward civil war.


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By: Radley Balko

ISBN: 9781541774056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system and its devastating effect on innocent lives


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By: Radley Balko

ISBN: 9781610396912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Award winning-journalist Radley Balko illustrates the persistent and historic plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science on our criminal justice system through the story of two death row inmates finally freed after their wrongful conviction based on the testimony of a controversial medical examiner.

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