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The Nine
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Jeffrey Toobin |
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people wh… |
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Promises to keep
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Joseph R. Biden,Joseph R Biden |
"Nearly forty years after I first got involved, I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling. That's why I … |
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Robert Kennedy and his times
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life. |
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A time to dance
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Richard Nevell |
Portraits of New England, Southern Appalachian, and Western country-dance communities accompany the words of dancers, fiddlers, callers, and musicians, a history of country dancing, and a catalog of … |
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How democratic is the American Constitution?
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Robert Alan Dahl |
"In this book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses the question, "Why should we uphold our Constitution?" The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the prin… |
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Lesbian psychologies
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Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
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Split Second
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Catherine Coulter |
A serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead mons… |
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No Place to Hide
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Glenn Greenwald |
The story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the… |
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Kill chain
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Andrew Cockburn,Cockburn, Andrew |
"For the first time in our military history, how we wage war is being built around a single strategy: the tracking and elimination of "high value targets"--In other words, assassination by military d… |
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The U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court
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Steven Anzovin,Janet Podell |
A compilation of seventeen previously published articles on the topic of the Constitution and its relationship with the Supreme Court. |
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The authoritarian personality
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Theodor W. Adorno |
This monumental work, complete here in one volume, undertakes to determine scientifically what distinctive personality traits characterize the phenomenon of prejudice. The authors' purpose is to disc… |
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A revolutionary people at war
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Charles Royster |
Discusses the role of the Revolutionary War--with its demands on courage, discipline, and dedication to the cause of freedom--on the shaping of America's national character. |
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Public Enemies
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Bryan Burrough |
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in… |
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Killer Instinct
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situa… |
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White backlash
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Marisa Abrajano |
"White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears… |
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The naval war of 1812
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on … |
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Il faut tuer Ben Laden
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Mark Bowden |
Oussama Ben Laden est mort. La nouvelle, incroyable, se répand dans le monde entier. Les images défilent. Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre, l'homme le plus recherché de la planète, le survivant d… |
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The Civil War
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William C. Davis |
Recounts the epic conflict of the Civil War and provides a unique record of the commanders, the soldiers, and the battles which shaped the course of the war. |
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Being an American
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Claire McCaffery Griffin,Veronica Burchard |
These lessons focus "on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, civic values, and American heroes who embodied these values."--Preface |
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Legacy of Ashes
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Tim Weiner |
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse… |
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