Special Interest


Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Circe
In a Sunburned Country
Outliers: The Story of Success
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Becoming
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Colleen Hitchcock
Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again.
Colleen Hitchcock

Tom C.W. Lin
This longstanding bipartisan revolving door between government and business reflects the inconvenient realities of life in a capitalistic democratic republic. On the one hand, when work- ing well, this revolving door allows businesses and government to draw on talented, ethical individuals from the private and public sectors to serve the interests of both shareholders and citizens. On the other hand, this revolving door can lead to corrosive cronyism and corruption that eats away at the integrit ...more
Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

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