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Badge 387
This gripping and timely portrait of a highly decorated police officer sheds light on the challenges of inner-city policing. In "Badge 387", Cleveland-based journalist Robert Sberna weaves skillful biography with gritty true-crime...
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Blueprint for America
Edited by former US secretary of state George Shultz, "Blueprint for America" showcases center-right policy ideas from economists like John Cochrane and Michael Boskin, and foreign-policy bigwigs like Gen. James Mattis and Kori Schake....
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Nobody Rich or Famous
In his new memoir, "Nobody Rich or Famous", poet Richard Shelton doesn’t so much tug on the heartstrings as play an entire set upon them. Rightly subtitled “a family memoir,” the book mixes social history with lyrical vignettes....
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature
"Coming of Age at the End of Nature" ushers in a new wave of millennial thought on the environment, climate change, and the art of living. This groundbreaking collection of essays, with a foreword by Bill McKibben, features twenty-two...
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Atomic Geography
For a book about nuclear waste cleanup, paradox and irony figure prominently—"Atomic Geography" is an intelligent, probing, and strangely poetic read. Environmental engineer Melvin Adams spent more than two decades working at the...
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Levi Strauss
Denim pants have never been so interesting as in Lynn Downey’s new biography of the very man who birthed blue jeans. "Levi Strauss" is a fresh, in-depth, groundbreaking look at an American icon. The first official historian for Levi...
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Dangerous Years
Environmental policy wonk and sustainability pioneer David W. Orr pulls the proverbial fire alarm on American complacence and apathy in his rousing new polemic, "Dangerous Years". Front and center is the physical reality of climate...
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Misreading Judas
This energetic work serves as a beguiling introduction to gnosticism. If a Dan Brown novel were turned into a dizzying, real-life unraveling of a newly revealed gnostic text, it might read something like Robert Wahler’s "Misreading...