The beautiful and damned

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The Federalist Papers

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America "The Federalist Papers" had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed by Thomas Jefferson as 'the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written' "The Federalist Papers" make a powerful case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution that has endured largely unchanged for two hundred years.[]

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The Prince (AD Classic Library Edition)

Machiavelli draws on his extensive historical knowledge and experience as a statesman to examine the reasons that Kings Emperors Dukes and governments have thrived or crumbled while highlighting the principles that guided them. In each case Machiavelli suggests a set of principles that any leader would find difficult to follow but impossible to ignore. The Prince has had a profound influence on political thought over the past 500 years so much so that the term 'Machiavellian' is used to describe one who deceives and manipulates others. This is likely derived from Machiavelli's view that "it is often necessary to act against mercy against faith against humanity against frankness against religion in order to preserve the state." Machiavelli continues to provide an understanding of how world leaders think and why certain decisions are made. A must read for the politically inclined and those interested in world events and the affairs of state.[]

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

Ironically The Communist Manifesto first published in 1848 for the Communist League had little influence in its own day. Only after Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' other writings had made their views on socialism widely known did it become a standard text. For nearly century it was one of the most widely read - some would argue misread - texts in the world. Manifested in vivid prose the Manifesto continues to irk the capitalist world lingering as an eerie specter even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. Certainly the aim here is not create converts. Instead it is to help readers probe the writing with its distinct point of view so that we might understand the political and historical significance of the text while still maintaining a stance that allows us to think critically about the subject and form our own opinions.[]

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great unequal cities.
 
In this brilliantly written fast-paced book based on three years of uncompromising reporting a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
 
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport and as India starts to prosper Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck her sensitive beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians like Kalu a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
 
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion caste sex power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so too are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
 
With intelligence humor and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds and into the lives of people impossible to forget.[]

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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl born into a family that had known wealth and privileges was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.[]

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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a lost boy raised by animals in the wilds of India. Mowgli is a young boy in the jungle. He has no human parents or companions. But what he does have is a bear a panther and other creatures who advise and befriend him. Together they face many dangers and adventures as Mowgli finds himself in the clutches of the Monkey People and confronts the wrath of Shere Khan the tiger who separated him from his human family. Generating numerous stage and screen adaptations since it was written in the 1890s The Jungle Book is one of the best-known and best-loved works of fiction in the world.[]

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture they are still alive today though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer viruses and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization cloning and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small dying hometown of Clover Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters faith healings and voodoo—to East Baltimore today where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans the birth of bioethics and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister Elsie who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? 
          
Intimate in feeling astonishing in scope and impossible to put down The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery as well as its human consequences.[]

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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

“What was he like?”Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.What was he like this person whose own wife called him “that elusive unforgettable man”? The Jack Kennedy you discover here wanted never to be alone never to be bored. He loved courage hated war lived each day as if it were his last.Chris Matthews’s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O’Donnell and others documents from his years as a student at Choate and notes from Jacqueline Kennedy’s first interview after Dallas. You’ll learn the origins of his inaugural call to “Ask what you can do for your country.” You’ll discover his role in the genesis of the Peace Corps his stand on civil rights his push to put a man on the moon his ban on nuclear arms testing. You’ll get more than ever before to the root of the man including the unsettling aspects of his personal life. As Matthews writes “I found a fighting prince never free of pain never far from trouble never accepting the world he found never wanting to be his father’s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.”[]

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The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights (1895)

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