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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ...
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The Education of an Idealist

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by Samantha Power ...

A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREETJOURNAL**, AND** USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prizewinner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN SamanthaPower. Named one of the best books of the year:The New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The<b... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREETJOURNAL**, AND** USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prizewinner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN SamanthaPower. Named one of the best books of the year:The New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The<b...
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There Is Nothing for You Here

Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

by Fiona Hill ...

"This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.”—Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On TyrannyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity and economic inequality has set America on the grim path ... Read more

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"This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.”—Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On TyrannyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity and economic inequality has set America on the grim path
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Going Further

The Incomparable Clarence Thomas

by Ted Cruz ...

**INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law**For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme ... Read more

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**INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law**For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme
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Magnifica Humanitas

Encyclical on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

by Pope Leo XIV ...

**“A defense of human dignity in the era of A.I. . . . including a dramatic plea for guardrails to ensure that artificial intelligence eases — rather than exacerbates — inequality and poverty.” — The Washington PostA stirring call for humanity vs machines issued by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church . . .**Artificial intelligence encroaches on our lives more insidiously by the day, bent on ... Read more

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**“A defense of human dignity in the era of A.I. . . . including a dramatic plea for guardrails to ensure that artificial intelligence eases — rather than exacerbates — inequality and poverty.” — The Washington PostA stirring call for humanity vs machines issued by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church . . .**Artificial intelligence encroaches on our lives more insidiously by the day, bent on
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Creatures of Politics

Media, Message, and the American Presidency

by Michael Lempert, Michael Silverstein ...

This analysis of campaign messaging and image-making is "a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric" ( Publishers Weekly).It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores ... Read more

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This analysis of campaign messaging and image-making is "a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric" ( Publishers Weekly).It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores
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香港日記

The Hong Kong Diaries

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Translated by 陳榮彬, 徐嘉煜, 袁曼端, 黃瑜安, 林庭如, 沈函儀 ...

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香港末代總督日記以五年紀事悼念香港回歸25週年　　「擔任香港總督是我的公職生涯當中非常重要的一環，甚至可以說是我畢生擔任過最重要的職位。我認為未來幾年香港所發生的一切，對所有人都至關重要。我們必須持續關切香港，為香港發聲，表明我們認同香港市民為自由民主勇敢奮鬥的價值觀。正如同我們從香港發生的事情所得知的那樣，我們不可認為這些價值觀能繼續存在是理所當然的。香港為自由、個人權利和尊嚴而戰，這也是我們共同奮鬥的目標。」──彭定康　　一百多年前，英國以租借方式從清末中國手中獲得香港大部分的土地（即新界）。到了1992年7月，彭定康以末任英國派任總督的身分前往香港履新，準備在1997年將香港主權移交給中國，而非依循過去數十年其他英國處理殖民地的慣例讓其獨立。接下來五年內，彭定康在其港督任内撰寫這些日記，詳細描述香港作為英國殖民地的運作方式，以及隨著主權移交臨近之日所發生的各種事件。　 ... Read more

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香港末代總督日記以五年紀事悼念香港回歸25週年　　「擔任香港總督是我的公職生涯當中非常重要的一環，甚至可以說是我畢生擔任過最重要的職位。我認為未來幾年香港所發生的一切，對所有人都至關重要。我們必須持續關切香港，為香港發聲，表明我們認同香港市民為自由民主勇敢奮鬥的價值觀。正如同我們從香港發生的事情所得知的那樣，我們不可認為這些價值觀能繼續存在是理所當然的。香港為自由、個人權利和尊嚴而戰，這也是我們共同奮鬥的目標。」──彭定康　　一百多年前，英國以租借方式從清末中國手中獲得香港大部分的土地（即新界）。到了1992年7月，彭定康以末任英國派任總督的身分前往香港履新，準備在1997年將香港主權移交給中國，而非依循過去數十年其他英國處理殖民地的慣例讓其獨立。接下來五年內，彭定康在其港督任内撰寫這些日記，詳細描述香港作為英國殖民地的運作方式，以及隨著主權移交臨近之日所發生的各種事件。　
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American Scripture

Making the Declaration of Independence

by Pauline Maier ...

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself ... Read more

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Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself
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