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"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of...
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Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein--scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars--shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting worse and how, if we keep our heads, we can seize the opportunity to make it better. She reveals how Trump is not a freakish aberration, but an extension of the most powerful...
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Eos
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2002.
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English
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An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship...
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PublicAffairs
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[2009]
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English
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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year--most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens...
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Chelsea Green Publishing
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[2016]
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English
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The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels. When Charles and Perrine Herve-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been circumnavigating the globe by sail, operating a floating school that taught students about ecology and indigenous...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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2018.
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English
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The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. As state violations of political rights garnered attention, a commitment to material equality disappeared and market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant economic force. Samuel Moyn asks why we chose not to challenge wealth and neglected the demands of a broader social and economic justice--
10) World enough
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Severn House
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2017.
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English
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"The Boston rock music scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs; the world she's been part of for the last twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home. With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not quite right about Frank's supposedly accidental death. When she asks questions, she begins to uncover some disturbing truths about...
11) World enough
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2010.
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English
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In World Enough, Maureen N. McLane maps a universe of feeling and thought via skyscapes, city strolls, lunar vistas, and passages through environments given and built. These poems explore how we come to know ourselves-sensually, intellectually, politically, biologically, historically, and anthropologically. Moving from the most delicate address to the broadest salutation, World Enough takes us from New England to New York to France to the moon. McLane...
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"James Bond is back. An oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard, who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent, is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from a research scientist, Dr. Christmas Jones who witnesses the action which happens when Bond meets up with Renard, but Bond becomes suspicious about Elektra King, especially when Bond's boss, M goes missing. Bond must...
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DC Comics
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[2019]
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English
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"The next chapter of Bruce Wayne's life is in full swing, and just as expected, it's a bumpy ride! What challenges lie ahead for the Dark Knight? One thing is for sure, when it is all said and done, Batman's life will be altered forever! The question is whether it's for better or worse."--
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Bauhan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Making room for creativity is not about squeezing yet another activity into an already overflowing schedule or tossing another ball into a deluge of obligations. It's about scheduling fewer activities, dropping some of the balls, and slowing down--creating what Christian McEwen so eloquently describes as 'a rich sufficiency of time.' In World Enough & Time, McEwen quotes widely from literary and spiritual thinkers to explore the fruits of life lived...
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Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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English
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When British oil tycoon and M's friend, Sir Robert King, is killed in a bombing at the MI6 headquarters, it becomes James Bond's new assignment to protect his daughter and heir, Elektra, from further harm. But Bond's real mission is to keep an eye on a new enemy named Renard. He is a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Elektra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it's path. Now...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This fresh biography of Ian Fleming presents an illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first in-depth exploration of the process of Ian Fleming's writing, his wartime intelligence work, and the strong women in his life, concluding with a thorough analysis of the James Bond films and Fleming's legacy"--
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