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Author
Series
Kindom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers a secret that could take down Kindom, the ruling power of the galaxy, occasional thief Jun Ironway is hunted by the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom while a ghost from their shared pasts, known only as Six, tracks all three.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, Raquel feels herself an outsider. Students of color, like Raquel, are the minority there, and the pressure to work...
5) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Language
English
Description
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...
Author
Publisher
AEI Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vii, 164 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet answered this question. In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the Right defends our founding document, the Left argues that it's an antiquated plan of government that goes against basic principles of democratic...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu's village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile-her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn't been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human...
9) Instruments of empire: colonial elites and U.S. governance in early national Louisiana, 1803-1815
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Beauchamp's "Instruments of Empire" is an examination of the challenges posed to U.S. territorial expansion by the Louisiana Purchase, a development that transferred the sovereignty of a territory with a population who by birth, language, and religion differed substantially from the inhabitants of the United States, but who had been guaranteed the rights of full citizens. Beauchamp suggests that the subsequent process of gradual accommodation...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Matt Lewis exposes the ludicrous nature of money in politics and offers readers a better path forward for keeping their elected leaders accountable to the people they are supposed to be representing.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters from an American explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy--and how we can turn back.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope about...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery" --
"Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways...
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