Ralph Nader and his family share recipes inspired by his parents' commitment to the healthy diet of their homeland of Lebanon."Nader's parents owned and operated a restaurant called the Highland Arms
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Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding
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Updated with six more interviews and a new introduction, the expanded edition of We Owe You Nothing brings the definitive book of conversations with the underground’s greatest minds up to 2007. New in
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