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  Wage Theft in America - Why...

  Kim Bobo

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  “This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed   In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible $19 billion in unpaid overtime. The scope of these abuses is staggering, but activists, unions, and policymakers—along with everyday Americans in congregations and towns across the country—have begun to take notice.   While the first edition of Wage Theft In America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft.   Citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this updated edition of Wage Theft In America offers concrete solutions and a roadmap for putting an end to this insidious practice.

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  The Party Is Over - How...

  Mike Lofgren

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  There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk-they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties-those halcyon, post-Nixonian glory days-for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill-but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected.Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.

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  Will He Go? - Trump and the...

  Lawrence Douglas

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  In advance of the 2020 election, legal scholar Lawrence Douglas prepares listeners for a less-than-peaceful transition of power. 
   
  It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less disturbing to imagine Trump still insisting that he is the rightful leader of the nation. With millions of diehard supporters firmly believing that their revered president has been toppled by malignant forces of the Deep State, Trump could remain a force of constitutional chaos for years to come. Will Trump Go? addresses such questions as:
  
  How might Trump engineer his refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat? What legal and extra-legal paths could he pursue in mobilizing a challenge to the electoral outcome?
  What legal, political, institutional, and popular mechanisms can be used to stop him?
  What would be the fallout of a failure to remove him from office? What would be the fallout of a successful effort to unseat him?
  Can our democracy snap back from Trump?
  
   
  Trump himself has essentially told the nation he will never accept electoral defeat. A book that prepares us for Trump's refusal to concede, then, is hardly speculative; it is a necessary precaution against a coming crisis.

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  The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught

  Charles C. Nott

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  A fascinating and comprehensive study of an equally fascinating historical text (the Pinckney Draught) posing the penetrating question: what if Charles Pinckney was the author of the U.S. Constitution? And if so: why did nothing come of it? Was there foul play behind shut doors...?

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  Air-Conditioned Nation...

  Cherian George

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  "Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual autonomy, and at the risk of unsustainability." 
   
  Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000), on the country's politics of comfort and control, and from Singapore, Incomplete (2017), on its underdeveloped democracy. Updated for the impending transition to a new generation of leaders, this 20th anniversary edition of Air-Conditioned Nation offers critical reflections on continuity and change in Singapore’s unique political culture.

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  The Eve of the Revolution - A...

  Carl Lotus Becker

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  "The Eve of the Revolution" is not a classic history book about the American Revolution and its heroes. Author's main goal is to convey the sense of how America's Founding Fathers thought and felt about their accomplishments. This book will help you perceive the full picture of the events which lead to the American independence through observing the great ideas in their genesis. 
  The Eve of the Revolution 
  A Patriot Of 1763
  The Burden Of Empire
  The Rights Of A Nation
  Defining The Issue
  A Little Discreet Conduct
  Testing The Issue

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