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Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages

Edited by Lyle Campbell, Anna Belew ...

Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project.Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the ... Read more

$96.99 CAD

Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project.Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the
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Bring the War Home

The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

by Kathleen Belew ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and ... Read more

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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and
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The Agenda

How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

by Ian Millhiser ...

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII ...

Series series Columbia Global Reports
Unabridged

3 hours 42 min

From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid ... Read more

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From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid
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The Slave's Cause

A History of Abolition

by Manisha Sinha ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

30 hours 30 min

Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ... Read more

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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes
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Let the People Pick the President

The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College

by Jesse Wegman ...

Narrated by Jesse Wegman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 50 min

"People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one, at least in recent years, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in 'Let the People Pick the President.'" -- The New York Times Book ReviewThis program is read by the authorThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more ... Read more

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"People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one, at least in recent years, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in 'Let the People Pick the President.'" -- The New York Times Book ReviewThis program is read by the authorThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more
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Democracy in Chains

The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

by Nancy MacLean ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Unabridged

11 hours 32 min

**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all
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The Threat

How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

by Andrew G. McCabe ...

Narrated by Andrew G. McCabe ...

Unabridged

9 hours 25 min

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!This program is read by the author.A dramatic insider account by the former deputy director of the FBI detailing how law enforcement battles terror threats, Russian crime, and attacks by the White House itself on the US Constitution.On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!This program is read by the author.A dramatic insider account by the former deputy director of the FBI detailing how law enforcement battles terror threats, Russian crime, and attacks by the White House itself on the US Constitution.On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction
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Twilight of Democracy

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Anne Applebaum ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.**From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.**From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal
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Melania and Me

The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff ...

Narrated by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff ...

Unabridged

11 hours 22 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat Melania wants, Melania gets.The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond. As their friendship deepened over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat Melania wants, Melania gets.The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond. As their friendship deepened over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black
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Wayfarer's Handbook

A Field Guide for the Independent Traveler

by Evan S. Rice ...

An inventive and visually-appealing passport to the wide world of travel, The Wayfarer's Handbook doesn't tell readers to go anywhere, it shows them how to go everywhere.The Wayfarer's Handbook is a treasure trove of information about the art of travel that is specifically crafted for the modern adventurer. The book is an offbeat guide full of actionable advice, a worldwide exploration reference ... Read more

$15.19 CAD

An inventive and visually-appealing passport to the wide world of travel, The Wayfarer's Handbook doesn't tell readers to go anywhere, it shows them how to go everywhere.The Wayfarer's Handbook is a treasure trove of information about the art of travel that is specifically crafted for the modern adventurer. The book is an offbeat guide full of actionable advice, a worldwide exploration reference
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Welcome to Indonesian

A Beginner's Survey of the Language

by Stuart Robson ...

This is a concise and userfriendly introduction to the Indonesian languageThis concise book aims to introduce the reader to the Indonesian language not by creating a course, with grammar and exercises, but by describing it from various points of view, such as telling what it is related to and how it has developed, and on this basis saying where some of its words originate, as a means of ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

This is a concise and userfriendly introduction to the Indonesian languageThis concise book aims to introduce the reader to the Indonesian language not by creating a course, with grammar and exercises, but by describing it from various points of view, such as telling what it is related to and how it has developed, and on this basis saying where some of its words originate, as a means of
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Dying Words

Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

by Nicholas Evans ...

Series Book 22 - The Language Library
The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

$49.99 CAD

The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our
... Read more

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