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Mexico

1985

Alaska's magnificent parklands

1984
Describes the 13 parks, monuments, and preserves of Alaska.

A Day in the life of Ireland

1991
A selection color, captioned photos describe everyday life and scenery in Ireland.

Peril and promise

a commentary on America
1990
Assesses the crisis facing the United States as it approaches the twenty-first century and outlines what can be done to avoid it.

Trouble in our backyard

Central America and the United States in the eighties
1983

Revolution 2.0

the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir
2013
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google employee in the summer of 2010 when he protested the death of one Egyptian man through a Facebook page. The page's following quickly expanded and moved from online to a nonconfrontational movement and on January 25, 2011 Tahir Square in Egypt was crowded with people calling for change. As the revolution began in earnest, he was arrested and held for twelve days of interrogation. Upon his release he gave a speech on national television and four days later Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was gone.

Affluenza

the all-consuming epidemic
2005
Uses the metaphor of a disease to explore how society has been affected by Americans' obsessive quest for material gain.

The religious right

1989
A collection of essays which define "the religious right", discussing their attitudes regarding foreign policy, economic and social justice, homosexuality, and AIDS, from differing viewpoints. Includes a section on televangelists.

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