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By: Soltes, Eugene
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartWhat drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? Why They Do It is a breakthrough look at the dark side of the business world.
From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers- Author: Soltes, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774175
- Language: English
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By: Susan Williams
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartA revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brough- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541768302
- Language: English
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Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of S- Author: Garcia-Roberts, Gus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 3, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541730399
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report
$18.99PaperbackRead moreThis powerful report on what went wrong–and right–with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
Our national le- Author: Crisis Group, Covid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703804
- Language: English
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By: Helena Merriman
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
$19.99PaperbackRead moreBased on a hit podcast series, this book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall–the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.… [more below]
- Author: Merriman, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541788834
- Language: English
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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times Bestseller
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory — the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades — delivers a radically dif… [more below]- Author: Kelton, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541736192
- Language: English
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By: Ran Abramitzky
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
$29.00HardcoverRead moreForbes, Best Business Books of 2022
The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly m
Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022- Author: Abramitzky, Ran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541797833
- Language: English
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By: Duncan, Mike
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 154173033X
- Language: English
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By: Eric Liu
You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartIs this the America you want? If not, here’s how to claim the power to change your country.
We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing.- Author: Liu, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773667
- Language: English
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By: Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to pr… [more below]
- Author: Zuboff, Shoshana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1541758005
- Language: English
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By: Dave Kindred
My Home Team: A Sportswriter’s Life and the Redemptive Power of Small-Town Girls Basketball
$30.00HardcoverRead moreIn this poignant memoir, a legendary sports journalist writes about the team that changed his life: the Morton High School Lady Potters basketball team.
Dave Kindred has covered dozens of Super Bowls- Author: Kindred, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702204
- Language: English
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By: Beres, Derek
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartConspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia–peddling vaccine misinformation, tales … [more below]
- Author: Beres, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702980
- Language: English
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By: Sloan, Cliff
The Court at War: Fdr, His Justices, and the World They Made
$32.50HardcoverRead moreThe inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country–with consequences that endure today
By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presiden- Author: Sloan, Cliff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1541736486
- Language: English
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it
T- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Jul-23
- ISBN10: 1541701461
- Language: English
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By: Participant
Food, Inc. 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself and an essential companion book to the new documentary
America’s food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our heal- Author: Participant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 5-Dec-23
- ISBN10: 154170357X
- Language: English
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By: Mike Duncan
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1541724038
- Language: English
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By: Romeo, Nick
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartWinners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.
Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early- Author: Romeo, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 16-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1541701593
- Language: English
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By: Peter Gleick
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartA revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold–if we act now
From the very creation of the planet billions of ye- Author: Gleick, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702271
- Language: English
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By: Jonathan Taplin
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thie
- Author: Taplin, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703154
- Language: English
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By: Yaroslav Hrytsak
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
$34.00HardcoverAdd to cartA “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheelin- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704606
- Language: English















