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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the ... activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience: she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
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Series
Revisioning American history volume 3
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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Publisher
Firefly Books
Language
English
Description
"As NightWatch, Terence Dickinson's classic stargazing guide, heads toward its 40th anniversary, Dickinson has been working with a small group of trusted colleagues to give this groundbreaking reference an overhaul that will take it deep into the 21st century. Longtime astronomy writer and sky observer Ken Hewitt-White leads the editorial team. A central aspect to this new edition is the subtle improvements to the unique seasonal star charts that...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault...
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