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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. It is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies when it comes to high speed internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, or even consumer goods like toothpaste.

Döstädning, or the art of death cleaning, is a Swedish phenomenon by which the elderly and their families set their affairs in order. Whether it's sorting the family heirlooms from the junk, downsizing to a smaller place, or setting up a system to help you stop misplacing your keys, death cleaning gives us the chance to make the later years of our lives as comfortable and stress-free as possible. Whatever your age, Swedish death cleaning can be used to help you de-clutter your life, and take stock of what's important.

Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican/Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA 'lost' its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, and consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7/7 bombs detonated. Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean that they aren't out to conspire against you.

The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz, written by Auschwitz Kommandant SS Rudolf Hoss as he awaited execution for his crimes. Including his psychological interviews at Nuremberg.

This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.

Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this succinct volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights Primer is an authoritative guide to all American freedoms. Uncluttered and well-organized, this audiobook is perfect for those who want to study up on the Bill of Rights without needing a law degree to do so.

For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action, 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through those frightful days, it is possible something redemptive is emerging from the tragedy of Gaza

Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox argue that, contrary to the aspirations of activists on both the right and the left, incremental reform is the best path forward.

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist’s most important works. Spanning the personal, political, and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today’s populist movements on the future of global democracy - this is the most profound work yet by the legendary writer and thinker.

Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription.

The definitive refutation of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, this volume includes original essays, lectures, and interviews with historians. Topics addressed include the complex development of slavery in the New World, the American Revolution, the sectional crisis over slavery and the Civil War, the struggle for social equality in the 20th century, and the class politics of racial identity in the present.

Welcome to the Manchester University Press podcast, ‘One Book at a Time’. The idea of the podcast is to encourage people to slow down and consider important social issues and histories, which we think reflects one of the major benefits of reading a university press book; packed full of carefully considered arguments, frontline thinking, and original voices. We hope the podcast offers an experience equivalent to exercising your brain in the open air, rather than the 100-metre mad dash of internet skimming. The podcast’s aim, and name, also speaks to our wider mission of changing the world...

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters

"magic is simply reality made real with our own power never grow so old an cynical you don't believe in your own power for you destroy your magic"we began predicting the war but wrong side and yeah theres a stint where i trick you. but ukraine have always been right even if i haven't. i can only hope future actions and words make up for this'our memories are more important than our income'yours faithfully a man of letters