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The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

by Manuel Ramos

Published: 2003-11-01

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This debut novel in the acclaimed Luis Montez series introduced a hero unique in detective fiction: a world-weary middle-aged lawyer steeped in the politics, history, and culture of the golden age of Chicano activism.Twenty years ago, a gang attacked four Chicano student activists and shot...

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The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home

by Sally Mott Freeman

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 608 pages

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The extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of their own.They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter ...

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U.S. Africa Policy beyond the Bush Years: Critical Choices for the Obama Administration (Significant Issues Series)

Published: 2009-04-10

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U.S. policy toward Africa underwent a dramatic expansion under the tenure of President George W. Bush, marked by unprecedented resource flows, a major diplomatic effort in Sudan, and the establishment of historic initiatives in health, development, and security. This volume critically asse...

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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)

by Andrew J. Bacevich

Published: 2009-04-27

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"Andrew Bacevich speaks truth to power, no matter who's in power, which may be why those of both the left and right listen to him."?Bill Moyers An immediate New York Times bestseller, The Limits of Power offers an unparalleled examination of the profound triple crisis facing America: an ec...

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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

by Peter Kornbluh

Published: 2013-09-11

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Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first made publicly available in the o...

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

by David Fromkin

Published: 2009-07-21

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Published with a new afterword from the author?the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts?including the hostilities between Arabs and Is...

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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

by Ted Steinberg

Published: 2008-03-25

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In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of the narrative. Now in a new edition, Down to Earth reenvisions the story of America...

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The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America

by Douglas Schoen, Michael Rowan

Published: 2009-01-06

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A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezu...

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Salvage

by Alexandra Duncan

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 544 pages

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Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and tho...

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights

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Published: 2016-01-22

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik | Summary & Highlights - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK Notorious RBG was co-authored by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. Irin is a journalist who interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsberg for MSNBC and Shana is the law stu...