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    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/34964914-the-long-war   Book Synopsis : As troops pull out of Afghanistan at the end of America?s longest war, David Loyn's The Long War uncovers the failures at the start that set the scene for this prolonged conflict.Three American presidents tried to defeat the Taliban ? sending 150,000 international troops at the peak and spending a trillion dollars. But early policy mistakes that allowed Osama bin Laden to escape made the task far more difficult. Deceived by easy victories, they backed ruthless corrupt local allies and misspent aid. The story of The Long War is told by the generals who led it through the hardest years of combat as surges of international troops tried to turn the tide. Generals, which include David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Joe Dunford and John Allen, were tested in battle as never before. With the reputation of a ?warrior monk,? McChrystal was considered one of the most gifted military leaders...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56557019-orwell-s-roses   Book Synopsis : ?In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.? So begins Rebecca Solnit?s new book, a reflection on George Orwell?s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit?s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell?s life explores his writing and his actions?from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit?s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti?s...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/58085227-free   Book Synopsis : For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania?s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests.Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One?s ?biography??class status and other associations long in the past?put strict boundaries around one?s individual future. When Lea?s parents spoke of relatives going to ?university? or ?graduating,? they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ?90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the ?free market,? Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking.With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/57007964-say-their-names   Book Synopsis : An incisive, gripping exploration of the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd and a definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning.? For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine?minutes and twenty-nine?seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and intrapersonal changes that followed. It is a simple story, wherein white America finally witnessed enough brutality to move their collective consciousness. The only problem is that it isn't true. George Floyd was not the first Black man to be killed?by police?he wasn?t even the first to inspire nation-wide protests?yet his death came at a time when America was already at a tipping point.?In SAY THEIR NAMES, five seasoned journalists probe...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56268870-her-honor   Book Synopsis : In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts.Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible.Her Honor is an entertaining and provocative look into the hearts and minds of judges. Cordell takes you into her chambers where she haggles with prosecutors and defense attorneys and into the courtroom during jury selection and sentencing hearings. She use...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56912932-major-labels   Book Synopsis : One of the best books of its kind in decades. --The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and popKelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career's worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music--as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble.S...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/58145392-the-loneliest-americans   Book Synopsis : A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The New York Times Magazine that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country's demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang's parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of "Asian America" that was supposed to define them.The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West C...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56626177-becoming-abolitionists   Book Synopsis : Police can not be reformed. Derecka Purnell invites us to question why we think we need the police in the first place and imagine a world where the underlying structures that cause violence and harm are dismantled.For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. Louis, let alone the nation. But the polic...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/976.Deception_Point   Book Synopsis : A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory?a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery?a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, thei...

    Read/Download Visit : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/11125.Digital_Fortress   Book Synopsis : When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.(back cover) Book Detail : Author : Dan Brown Pages : 510 pages Publisher : Corgi books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 11125.Digital_Fortress ISBN-13 :     Tag : - Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Ebook PDF - Digital F...