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- The birds that Audubon missed : discovery and desire in the American wilderness / by Kaufman, Kenn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"--- Subjects: Birds; Ornithology;
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- Death of the liberal class / by Hedges, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Liberalism; Liberalism; Political culture;
- © 2010., Knopf Canada,
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- Last summer on State Street : a novel / by Wolfe, Toya,author.;
"For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer. Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. It's the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence. But when Fe Fe welcomes a mysterious new friend, Tonya, into their fold, the dynamics shift, upending the lives of all four girls. As their beloved neighborhood falls down around them, so too do their friendships and the structures of the four girls' families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later, as she remembers that fateful summer--just before her home was demolished, her life uprooted, and community forever changed--Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left. Profound, reverent, and uplifting, Last Summer on State Street explores the risk of connection against the backdrop of racist institutions, the restorative power of knowing and claiming one's own past, and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives. Interweaving moments of reckoning and sustaining grace, debut author Toya Wolfe has crafted an era-defining story of finding a home--both in one's history and in one's self."--- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Robert Taylor Homes; Robert Taylor Homes; African American families; African American teenagers; African American women; African Americans; Apartment houses; Families; Female friendship; Home; Racism;
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- The big hurt : a memoir / by Schickel, Erika,author.;
"Ericka Schickel's memoir of growing up in the shadow of her writer father and neglectful mother in 1970s and '80s Manhattan, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and the mid-life consequences which include leaving her marriage for a notorious crime writer"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Schickel, Erika.; Actors; Journalists; Essayists;
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- The socialist manifesto : the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality / by Sunkara, Bhaskar,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today. With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system in America look like? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's history since the mid-1800s and presents a realistic vision for its future. The editor of Jacobin magazine, Sunkara shows that socialism, though often seen primarily as an economic system, in fact offers the means to fight all forms of oppression, including racism and sexism. The ultimate goal is not Soviet-style planning, but to win rights to healthcare, education, and housing, and to create new democratic institutions in workplaces and communities. A primer on socialism for the 21st century, this is a book for anyone seeking an end to the vast inequities of our age.- Subjects: Socialism.; Socialism; Equality.; Equality;
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- Flash boys : a Wall Street revolt / by Lewis, Michael(Michael M.);
LSC- Subjects: Stockbrokers; Finance; Securities industry;
- © c2014., W.W. Norton & Company,
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- 22 accessible road trips : driving vacations for wheelers and slow walkers / by Harrington, Candy.; Pannell, Charles.;
Includes Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: People with disabilities; Automobile travel;
- © c2012., Demos Health,
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- National Geographic complete birds of North America / by Alderfer, Jonathan K.; National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Birds; Birds;
- © c2005., National Geographic,
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- The secrets of the FBI / by Kessler, Ronald,1943-;
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- Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Criminal investigation; Official secrets;
- © c2011., Crown,
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- Capitalism in America : a history / by Greenspan, Alan,1926-author.; Wooldridge, Adrian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible moral failings. Every crucial debate is here -- from the role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact of FDR's New Deal to America's violent mood swings in its openness to global trade and its impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have driven this country to unprecedented heights of power and prosperity. At heart, the authors argue, America's genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations past. A sense of justice and human decency demands that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be protected, but America has always accepted more pain for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There's no better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most pressing question we face"--- Subjects: Capitalism; Economic history.;
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