Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves

Levin, Adam/ Friedlander, Beau (Get this book)
Useful advice on protecting your identity. In his first book, he provides readers with a realistic overview of the many ways one's identity can be snatched or stolen via the Internet, and he provides detailed information on how to counteract these kinds of attacks. Levin doesn't hype up the threats and doesn't gloss over the real dangers; he's genuinely concerned about the increasing risks of identity theft and wants to make sure people know how to protect themselves. Rock-solid evidence on the rise of identity theft and the multiple steps one can take to counteract an attack.--Kirkus

There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond

Toumani, Meline (Get this book)
Born in Iran and raised in the United States, Toumani always knew that she was first, an Armenian. Her childhood was punctuated by commemorations of the 1915 killing of Armenians by the Turkish government and resentment at Turkey's refusal to admit that this was an act of genocide. As Toumani enters adulthood, she begins to wonder if "there was a way to honor history without being suffocated by it." This leads to a two-year odyssey across Turkey in search of, not truth, but explanations. This is a powerful memoir with a message for all who were raised to see only one side of a story.--Publisher's Weekly

Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Wars

Bannerman, Stacy (Get this book)
Many of the soldiers in our voluntary force have served multiple deployments in the Middle East and are returning to wives and children whose own lives are altered by their anxiety and fear, according to Bannerman, the wife a returning serviceman. These veterans are often struggling with PTSD, depression, substance abuse, anger issues, and life-altering injuries. Bannerman, who has become an advocate for these families, interweaves her own personal story of coping with those of others she has met in veterans’ hospitals, online, and in person. She recounts tales of physical abuse, suicide attempts, divorces, frustrations, and isolation as the caregiving parents, wives, husbands, and children look for ways to understand the horrors these soldiers have witnessed.--Booklist

The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities

Breyer, Stephen (Get this book)
A liberal Supreme Court justice takes on a conservative bugbear. Associate Justice Breyer notes that consideration of the decisions of foreign courts in Supreme Court opinions has recently "sometimes evoked strongly adverse political reactions," even though references to foreign decisions appear from the court's earliest days. The author attempts to allay such concerns by placing the court's modern engagement with foreign law in the context of a global economy. "The objections of critics," he writes, "do not reflect the reality of today's federal court dockets….It is not the cosmopolitanism of some jurists that seeks this kind of engagement but the nature of the world itself that demands it." Breyer argues that as American government and business become more closely enmeshed with foreign governments and with international organizations and commercial interests, federal courts cannot function effectively without taking perceptive account of the decisions and underlying reasoning of other nations' courts. A carefully reasoned plea for a continuing engagement of the American judiciary in establishing a worldwide rule of law.--Library Journal

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Edin, Kathryn J./ Shaefer, H. Luke (Get this book)
An analysis of the growing portion of American poor who live on an average of $2 per day. Welfare in the United States has always been a divisive issue. Edin and Shaefer argue that this shift created a new class of poor in America that fights to survive on barely $2 per person per day because they cannot qualify for the new government aid programs or the assistance they receive is simply not enough to supplement their low-paying jobs.The authors share deeply human stories of the regular people trapped in poverty, typically through no fault of their own. Some are victims of abuse, others are forced to quit their low-paying jobs due to health concerns, and some simply cannot catch a break despite playing by the rules. An eye-opening account of t he lives ensnared in the new poverty cycle.--Kirkus

The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives

O'Malley, Padraig (Get this book)
A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm. In a work of impeccable research, featuring extensive footnotes and employing interviews of both Palestinians and Israelis, O'Malley addresses the sticking points on both sides that form the "addiction" by each to an "ethos of conflict": the omission of the Islamist, Gaza-based Hamas from the peacemaking process, thus ignoring the "elephant in the room"; Israel's refusal to allow Palestinian refugees or their descendants a "right to return" after the wars of 1947-1949; continued Israeli settlements by a ultraorthodox minority bent on "messianic zealotry"; a highly problematic economic sustainability in Palestine due to the "asymmetry of power" with Israel; and the "silently creeping, inexorably irreversible changes in Israel's demographic profiles"—namely, fewer Jews and more Palestinians. Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful and enormously useful. --Kirkus

The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

Grey, Stephen (Get this book)
Investigative journalist Grey has his finger on the pulse of all things espionage. While explaining the changes in the spying world since the end of the Cold War, he delves deeply into the strengths and weaknesses of the industry and discloses previously unknown events. The author has answers, but he also has many questions, all of them food for thought. A comprehensive, intelligent look at the evolving world of spies. --Kirkus