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New Nonfiction ebooks April 2020
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While we remain closed, here are our New Nonfiction EBOOKS – digital resources FREE and AVAILABLE to you. HOLDS are permitted. If you need help getting started or placing holds, email us at refdesk@beltiblibrary.org . Our Librarians will assist you 7 days a week.
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Conversations in black : on power, politics, and leadership by Ed GordonA collection of conversations with such notables as Stacey Abrams, Harry Belafonte, Michael Eric Dyson, Jemele Hill, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters and others offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America.
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Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the Internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up.
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The nation city : why mayors are now running the world
by Rahm Emanuel
The former Chicago mayor and White House Chief of Staff counsels progressives and centrists on how to get things done in today’s America, outlining working examples of how to improve local-level education, job conditions, environmental policy and more.
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Appeasement : Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war by Tim BouverieA narrative history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich before World War II draws on previously unseen archival resources to identify the indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe.
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Apple, tree : writers on their parents
by Lise Funderburg
Twenty-five writers—including Laura van den Berg, S. Bear Bergman, Ann Patchett and Daniel Mendelsohn—explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects the lives they lead today, and how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self.
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The away game : the epic search for soccer's next superstars
by Sebastian Abbot
Traces the audacious scouting program known as Football Dreams that for the past decade has strategically recruited young African boys to become the sport's future elites, describing the experiences of a group of talented hopefuls who train, compete and pursue their fortunes at Europe's top clubs.
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Beaten down, worked up : the past, present, and future of American labor by Steven GreenhouseThe award-winning labor correspondent and author of The Big Squeeze examines the income inequalities and declining social mobility endured by today’s workers, contrasting decades of worker power reductions against the increases of political and economic control by the wealthy.
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Bottle of lies : the inside story of the generic drug boom by Katherine EbanA narrative investigation into the generic drug boom by an award-winning Fortune reporter draws on exclusive accounts and extensive confidential FDA documents to expose life-threatening practices of global fraud, data manipulation and unsafe medicine production.
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