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Written by Bruce J. Dierenfield Edition: 2008 Format(s): PDF Language: English
The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary African-Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation, to exercise the right to vote [...]
The Civil Rights Movement_ Revised Edition - Bruce J. Dierenfield
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Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison - Jordan Belfort
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Written by Jordan Belfort Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
- Jordan Belfort (2011)
In this astounding account, Wall Street’s notorious bad boy—the original million-dollar-a-week stock chopper—leads us through a drama worthy of The Sopranos, from the FBI raid on [...]
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions - Ben Mezrich
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich (April 26, 2005)
Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League [...]
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The Slaughter_ Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem - Ethan Gutmann
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Written by Ethan Gutmann Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
The inside story of China’s organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong.
Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into [...]
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Community - Gerard Delanty
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Written by Gerard Delanty Edition: 2003 Format(s): PDF Language: English
The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics.
Gerard Delanty begins [...]
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Fair Trade from the Ground Up_ New Markets for Social Justice - April Linton
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Written by April Linton Edition: 2012 Format(s): PDF Language: English
Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:
- worldwide minimum prices for commodities
- support for democratically governed cooperatives
- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers
- training to help producers improved quality and develop business skills
- encouragement of [...]
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Strike Debt-The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual - Strike Debt
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Written by Strike Debt Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
For debtors everywhere who want to understand how the system really works, this handbook provides practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms. Over the last 30 years as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than [...]
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The Real Cost of Fracking_ How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food - - Michelle Bamberger, Robert Oswald, Sandra Steingraber
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Written by Michelle Bamberger, Robert Oswald, Sandra Steingraber Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”
Across the country, fracking—the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing—is being touted as the nation’s answer to energy [...]
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The Empire of Necessity_ Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World - Greg Grandin
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Written by Greg Grandin Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America’s struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, [...]
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Boomerang Travels In The New Third World - Michael Lewis
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Title: Boomerang: Travels In The New Third World
Author: Michael Lewis [Sept 4, 2012]
Summary:
“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”—Kyle Smith, Forbes
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was [...]
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Michael Lewis
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Written by Michael Lewis Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF TXT Language: English
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock [...]
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Liar’s Poker: Rising Through The Wreckage On Wall Street - Michael Lewis
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Written by Michael Lewis Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF TXT Language: English
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier [...]
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
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Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball book [...]
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
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Written by Michael Lewis Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF TXT Language: English
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery [...]
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Michael Lewis
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“Lewis has such a gift for storytelling… he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons.”–Janet Maslin, New York Times
When we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted [...]
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Michael Lewis
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Written by Michael Lewis Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF TXT Language: English
New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”—Time
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a [...]
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Shame - Alan Russel
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Written by Alan Russel Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Caleb Parker has been on the run from his past ever since his father, a serial murderer known by the name of Shame, was electrocuted by the state of Florida. Wishing for nothing more than to start life anew and away from the dark [...]
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Guardian: Book 6.5 (A Rylee Adamson Novella) - Shannon Mayer
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Written by Shannon Mayer Format(s): AWZ EPUB Language: English
*This is a Novella set between “Tracker” and “Veiled Threat” and is 30k words*
“My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker.”
When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I’m the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home [...]
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Dexter Collection - Jeff Lindsay
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Written by Jeff Lindsay Format(s): EPUB Language: English
With 1.7 million copies of the Dexter novels sold, and ever-increasing critical acclaim, Jeff Lindsay returns to his groundbreaking and beloved character with his most entertaining book yet. Get ready for a grisly send-up of Hollywood, and a full dose of dark Dexter wit.
Lights. Camera. [...]
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Idols (Icons series, Book 2) - Margaret Stohl
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Written by Margaret Stohl Format(s): AWZ EPUB LIT PDF Language: English
In this riveting sequel to Icons, filled with nonstop action and compelling romance, bestselling author Margaret Stohl explores what it means to be human and how our greatest weakness can be humanity’s strongest chance at survival.
The Icons came from the sky. They [...]
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