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Badge 387

by Scott Neuffer

This gripping and timely portrait of a highly decorated police officer sheds light on the challenges of inner-city policing. In "Badge 387", Cleveland-based journalist Robert Sberna weaves skillful biography with gritty true-crime... Read More

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Blueprint for America

by Scott Neuffer

Edited by former US secretary of state George Shultz, "Blueprint for America" showcases center-right policy ideas from economists like John Cochrane and Michael Boskin, and foreign-policy bigwigs like Gen. James Mattis and Kori Schake.... Read More

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Atomic Geography

by Scott Neuffer

For a book about nuclear waste cleanup, paradox and irony figure prominently—"Atomic Geography" is an intelligent, probing, and strangely poetic read. Environmental engineer Melvin Adams spent more than two decades working at the... Read More

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Levi Strauss

by Scott Neuffer

Denim pants have never been so interesting as in Lynn Downey’s new biography of the very man who birthed blue jeans. "Levi Strauss" is a fresh, in-depth, groundbreaking look at an American icon. The first official historian for Levi... Read More

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Dangerous Years

by Scott Neuffer

Environmental policy wonk and sustainability pioneer David W. Orr pulls the proverbial fire alarm on American complacence and apathy in his rousing new polemic, "Dangerous Years". Front and center is the physical reality of climate... Read More

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Misreading Judas

by Scott Neuffer

This energetic work serves as a beguiling introduction to gnosticism. If a Dan Brown novel were turned into a dizzying, real-life unraveling of a newly revealed gnostic text, it might read something like Robert Wahler’s "Misreading... Read More

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