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2017.
Description
If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?
From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it.
In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history--with fundamental consequences for everyone. A new world order is emerging: we might...
82) Sicko
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[2007]
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by U.S. health care insurance companies, companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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"Bill Bradley believes that America is at a teachable moment when we are compelled to reevaluate our political system, our leadership, our agenda as a nation, and ourselves as citizens. Bradley shows why the story we are being told now about who we are as a people is not true. He then offers a new story about our nation, based on America's rich heritage and his belief in the character of the American people. Bradley explores what changes need to be...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Why has America stopped winning wars?
For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan-exposing our inability to change course after battlefield setbacks.
In this provocative book, award-winning scholar Dominic Tierney...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the 'hockey stick,' a chart showing global temperature data over the past one thousand years. The hockey stick demonstrated that temperature had risen with the increase in industrialization and use of fossil fuels. The inescapable conclusion was that worldwide human activity since the industrial age had raised CO2 levels,...
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"From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and...
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
89) Vaccines
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the 1900s, nearly 300 million people died from the smallpox disease. By 1980, after millions of people received the smallpox vaccine, smallpox had disappeared from the world. Find out more in Vaccines, a title in the Debating the Issues series.
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
Fuelled by hate, incapable of listening to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, an yet commanded huge support and was able to exert powerful influence over those who encountered him. How Hitler became such a powerful figure is the core of this book.
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Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy. Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their ability to predict...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATION
Forty-years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Covers the history of vaccine controversies, the 2014 measles outbreak, and the balance between public safety and personal freedoms, studying how an accepted medical treatment has become a contentious issue in US society.
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Pub. Date
1993.
Description
A controversial and powerful work, this monumental history is the first to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, as well as on diaries and interviews, journalist-historian Tom Segev tells the dramatic story of how the yishuv - the Jewish community of pre-Israel Palestine - confronted the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and...