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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and doctor’s offices.”
—Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River
“The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with how our bodies pay the...
—Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River
“The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with how our bodies pay the...
3) Society
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Publisher
So Press
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Français
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Society est un news quinzomadaire ! Il raconte le monde dans lequel nous vivons avec pour mots d’ordre, plaisir, exigence et liberté. Sa périodicité (un jeudi sur deux) lui donne une distance bienvenue par rapport à l’actualité et place le récit au centre de sa politique éditoriale. Politique, économie, sciences, culture, sport, faits divers... Le ton est léger et d'aujourd'hui, jamais professoral,
...4) SO GOOD
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So Press
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Français
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Lancé par Ulule & So Press en juin 2020, le magazine So good raconte les histoires de celles et ceux qui rendent le monde meilleur, enfin moins pire. Des activistes, des artistes, des politiques, des associations, des entrepreneurs, des scientifiques, des citoyens, qui tous à leur manière apportent des solutions aux défis sociaux et environnementaux, et qui bien souvent passent sous le radar des médias. L’idée
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble."
In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces...
For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble."
In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces...
7) VSD
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VSD Publishing
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Français
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Le nouveau rendez-vous mensuel de l’actualité, des révélations, des découvertes et de l’aventure.1278
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English
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"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban...
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.
The color of one’s skin...
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.
The color of one’s skin...
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Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A Ms. Magazine Pick for Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023
"Pashtana's story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope readers will be inspired by her mission to give every girl the education she deserves and the opportunity to pursue her dreams."—Malala Yousafzai
In the spirit of I am Malala and Our House is On Fire by Greta Thunberg, this...
"Pashtana's story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope readers will be inspired by her mission to give every girl the education she deserves and the opportunity to pursue her dreams."—Malala Yousafzai
In the spirit of I am Malala and Our House is On Fire by Greta Thunberg, this...
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