Parallax Views 2022

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Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing 3.65 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America 4.11 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
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Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (American Politics and Political Economy Series) 4.29 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Iran Divided: The Historical Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity, Culture, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Iran Divided: The Historical Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity, Culture, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Free the Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It
Free the Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Skin in the Game: Poor Kids and Patriots
Skin in the Game: Poor Kids and Patriots 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia
The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies 3.38 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right 3.73 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine 4.05 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Building a Just World Order
Building a Just World Order really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story
Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story 4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire
Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond
The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction 4.51 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance 4.39 avg rating — 281 ratings
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir 4.19 avg rating — 3,190 ratings
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The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam 4.20 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization
Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization 3.68 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good 4.18 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution 4.17 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression 4.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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War in the Age of Trump
War in the Age of Trump 3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin
Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Why The Vietnam War?: Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in Southeast Asia, 1945-1961
Why The Vietnam War?: Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in Southeast Asia, 1945-1961 4.12 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex
The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex 4.29 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe
Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Qatar and the Gulf Crisis
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy 4.11 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World 3.92 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents. 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire 4.24 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton 3.96 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden
Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden 4.03 avg rating — 442 ratings
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The Colonel and I: My Life with Gaddafi
The Colonel and I: My Life with Gaddafi 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy 4.33 avg rating — 3,092 ratings
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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business 4.12 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,407 ratings
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World 3.74 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World 3.34 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh 4.57 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Monarch
Monarch 3.69 avg rating — 894 ratings
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The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders
The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders 4.19 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Our Vision For Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out
Our Vision For Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out 4.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Ten Myths About Israel
Ten Myths About Israel 4.40 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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The Apocalypse and the End of History by Suzanne SchneiderThe Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
The Apocalypse and the End of History by Suzanne SchneiderThe Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism 4.22 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
by: Kim Kelly
4.19 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy
Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy 3.58 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism
The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West 4.19 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty 3.68 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy
Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America 3.97 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Atlantic Realists
The Atlantic Realists 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality
Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality 3.91 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life
The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post- Brexit Referendum Literature
BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post- Brexit Referendum Literature 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist: Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist: Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Eleventh Day: 9/11 - The Ultimate Account
The Eleventh Day: 9/11 - The Ultimate Account 4.10 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now 4.37 avg rating — 627 ratings
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On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union 4.25 avg rating — 429 ratings
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A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of America's Most Damaging Russian Spy and the Implications for National Security Today
A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of America's Most Damaging Russian Spy and the Implications for National Security Today
by: Lis Wiehl
3.80 avg rating — 541 ratings
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The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America
The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America 4.26 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate 4.01 avg rating — 255 ratings
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That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them
That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them 3.74 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic
Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy
Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror
The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror 4.32 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple 3.64 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry
Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties 4.22 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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The Algorithmic Society: Technology, Power, and Knowledge
The Algorithmic Society: Technology, Power, and Knowledge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics
Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking
Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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What Science Is and How It Really Works
What Science Is and How It Really Works 4.12 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The People's Spiral of US History: From Jigonsaseh to Solartopia… to Life after Trump
The People's Spiral of US History: From Jigonsaseh to Solartopia… to Life after Trump 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality 3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings