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"Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! Thisedition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!"--
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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x, 410 pages : map ; 24 cm
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"For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat to their power, and that of the Chinese Communist Party, came not from abroad but from within--a conclusion cemented by the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2023.
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330 pages ; 24 cm
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"Esto es y no es una novela, porque la ficci̤n a veces se desliza en sus p̀ginas. Es tambǐn una cr̤nica autobiogr̀fica que arranca con un nįo de cuatro ąos vestido con una chamarra amarilla, que pasa por un joven al que le disparan un 10 de junio y que termina en un hombre de setenta ąos que conversa con L̤pez Obrador sobre los posibles futuros de los libros en M̌xico. Pero es mucho m̀s que eso, porque adem̀s es la cr̤nica de una generaci̤n...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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vii, 201 pages ; 25 cm
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"The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot...
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2022.
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275 pages : illustrations, portraits (all black and white) ; 23 cm
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"¡Este libro no lo tiene ni Obama! El dúo bizarro está de regreso. ¿Qué tienen en común un científico antivacunas disfrazado de secretario de Salud, una precandidata a la presidencia disfrazada de jefa de Gobierno y un acosador disfrazado de diputado? Sencillo: todos pertenecen a la clase política que está transformando a México. Morena ha resultado ser un catálogo de los perfiles políticos más patéticos de nuestro país, dando lugar...
8) A republic of scoundrels: the Schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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xx, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2024].
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x, 306 pages ; 24 cm
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"Even before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but effective coalition that stalled Trumpism at the ballot box and enacted a raft of consequential legislation. But how long can the uneasy peace hold, and can Biden win again?" --
10) 2054: a novel
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2024.
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"Military fiction that imagines a geopolitical conflict in the year 2054"--
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
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"An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xii, 873 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The...
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