Current Affairs

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  Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future

  Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor

  Revised and Updated

  Paperback

  With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and Pacific Islander populations, race is both the most dynamic facet of American identity and the defining point of American disunity.

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  Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

  Saree Makdisi, Alice Walker

  Paperback

  “A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice.”—Desmond M. Tutu

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  The Big Short

  Michael Lewis

  Hardback

  The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.

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  Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

  Lester R. Brown

  Substantially Revised

  Paperback

  “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post

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  The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

  Jack Goldsmith

  Paperback

  A New York Times Bestseller
  
  A central player’s account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America.