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by Chong-Un Ch'oe (Author), Choi Jung-Woon (Author), Jung-Woon Choi (Author)The book explores the implications of the democratic movement that took place in Gwangju, a southwestern city of Korea, in May 1980 when military paratroopers brutally crushed a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doo-hwan, who was about to become the country's president. Because of the event now known as the Gwangju Uprising, 191 people perished and 852 were wounded. In The Gwangju Uprising, Cho...

Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study - Paperback

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by Henry Hakam?ki (Foreword by), Adnan Husain (Foreword by), Breht O'Shea (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2024

That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them - Paperback

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by Matt Sienkiewicz (Author), Nick Marx (Author)A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to ass...

War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future - Paperback

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by Roberto J. González (Author)A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software...

Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War - Hardcover

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by Lochlainn Seabrook (Author)The mainstream version of the American Civil War has always been nonsensical and irrational. Why? Because it was written by Liberals with an extreme anti-South bias and little or no knowledge of the history of America's two party system. For example, if the Confederacy's Democratic leaders were truly "Liberals," as we've been taught, why did they maintain that they were fighting for the Constitution, a document that Liberals have traditionally treated with scorn ...

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by Abdussabur Kirke (Author)Empoymentism is an essay exploring from a Muslim point of view the predominance of salaried employment in the modern age, and its limited compatibility with freedom, authentic leadership and positive social change. Number of Pages: 22 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8.86 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: July 07, 2024

The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with Itself - Hardcover

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by Nick Bryant (Author)From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America's past, present and future - as a country which is forever at war with itself. The Forever War tells the story of how America's extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled and unresolved past. As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American expe...

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by Lisa Leitz (Editor)Fulfilling a need for innovative research that derives from multiple countries and time periods, Volume 48 of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change offers a collection of cutting-edge scholarship on protest politics, effects of activism, and rights and equality based social movements.Split into separate parts on strategies and outcomes, chapters analyze the mobilization, organization, tactics, diffusion, repression, and successes/failures of social movements...

Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age - Hardcover

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by Frank H. McCourt (Author), Michael J. Casey (With)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet--before it's too late. "In the spirit of Thomas Paine's Revolution-era Common Sense, this manifesto challenges us to create new digital architectures to safeguard democracy."--Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk It was once a utopian dream. But...

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country - Hardcover

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by Patricia Evangelista (Author)TIME'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A "riveting" (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as "a journalistic masterpiece" (The New Yorker) "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story."--Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC L...

American Warlord: A True Story - Paperback

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by Johnny Dwyer (Author)The incredible true story of Chucky Taylor, the only American ever convicted of torture. Chucky Taylor was an average American teenager, until he got a call from his father, a man who would become the infamous dictator of Liberia. Arriving in West Africa and reunited with his father, Chucky soon found himself leading a murderous militia group tasked with carrying out the president's vendettas. Young and drunk on power, and with no real training beyond watching action ...

The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents - Hardcover

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by Gregg Jarrett (Author)PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! A collection of some of the most important documents and speeches that have shaped America, with commentary and insights from Fox News star and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax, Gregg Jarrett.In this volume, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are brought together with dozens of other historic documents and speeches which shaped the destiny of the United States of America. Also include...

The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary - Paperback

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by Oscar Phillips (Author)This 352-page manifesto will put many other political books to shame. For its intriguing, enthralling assessments of the socialistic mindset and its detrimental hold on American society, The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary offers the reader an outrageously different, intellectually stimulating, iconoclastic, and sometimes wildly unpopular opinion. How can a person, like author Oscar Phillips, possessing a lack of credentials, create a book with such keen insight...

Security Integration in the Post-Soviet Space and Collective Security Treaty Organization: Roadmap for Future Cooperation - Hardcover

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by Ramakrushna Pradhan (Author), Sukanya Kakoty (Author)This book explores the role of the Central Security Council (CSTO) in ensuring regional security, analyzing the evolution of cooperation between post-Soviet states since the Soviet Union's demise. It focuses on the establishment of the CSTO as a regional organization since 2002, with six out of 11 CIS members. The book fills a gap in existing research on the security paradigm in post-Soviet space and the collective security mechanism of ...

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by J. M. Rock (Author)This book is a philosophical and pragmatic insight into the methods and disguises of socialism. It offers a set of remedies and an urgent call-to-action in response to the unique forms of socialism evolving today within the United States. The book combines historical and economic truths with a scientific approach to analyzing the tenets and the tragedy of socialism.Every year, there is a list of the world's top causes of death. The list ordinarily includes heart disease,...

On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought One Person, One Vote to the United States - Paperback

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by J. Douglas Smith (Author)Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal GovernmentA Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Slate Best Book of 2014The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States As chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Earl Warren is most often remembered for landmark rulings in favor of desegregation and the rights of the accused. But Warren himself identified a lesser known group of case...

Don Dada: Assessing the Socio-Economic and Political Power of Jamaica's Mafia Bosses - Paperback

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by Damion Keith Blake (Author)In DonDada: Assessingthe Socio-economic and Political Power of Jamaica's Mafia Bosses, Damion Blake takes on acontroversial subject: the Jamaican don. The Jamaican don is a non-state actor, a male figure, usually from the community in which he plays a leadership role, and who wields considerable power and control inside that nation's garrisoncommunities. Garrisons in Jamaica are poor inner city communities characterizedby homogeneous voting patterns for one of J...

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by Helena Silverstein (Author)This accessible guide to the U.S. Supreme Court explains the Court's history and authority, its structure and processes, its most important and enduring legal decisions, and its place in the U.S. political system. A 2018 Pew Research Center poll found that while 78 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents believed that the Supreme Court should base its decisions on the "modern" meaning of the Constitution, 67 percent of Republicans and Republican-...

Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith - Hardcover

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by April Ajoy (Author)A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn't have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song "America Say Jesus" on the Jim Bakker show, or when she participated in Jesus Marches across America, or when she posted cringe-worthy videos on YouTube to campaign for Mitt Romney. April just considered herself a good Christian: faithful, Republican, and determined to mak...

Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let's Talk Wealtherty - Hardcover

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by Sarah Kerr (Author)The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scrutinised, those of the rich are ignored or enabled. In this book, Sarah Kerr suggests that we live in a state of 'wealtherty', characterised by the hyper-concentration of wealth and a stark distinction between the rich and the rest. Drawing on evidence from the 1500s onwards, she reveals a long history of government scrutiny of ...

Challenging Inequality: Variation across Postindustrial Societies - Hardcover

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by Evelyne Huber (Author), John D. Stephens (Author)A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies. Not all countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same degree. In Challenging Inequality, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens analyze different patterns of increasing income inequality in post-industrial societies since the 1980s, assessing the policies and social structures best able to mitigate against the worst ef...

Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe - Hardcover

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by Derek Hook (Author), Leswin Laubscher (Author), Robert Sobukwe (Author)A collection of Robert Sobukwe's political writings, speeches and court testimonies There are several accounts of Robert Sobukwe's courageous role in contesting South Africa's system of apartheid and of his incarceration on Robben Island after the Anti-Pass Campaign that led to the tragic events of Sharpeville in March 1960. Far less attention has been paid to the years the leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress spent in...

Bombing to Provoke: Rockets, Missiles, and Drones as Instruments of Fear and Coercion - Paperback

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by Jaganath Sankaran (Author) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9.26 x 6.28 IN Publication Date: October 24, 2024

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by Austin Jersild (Author)In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets.Jersild zeros in on the ground-level exper...

Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos - Hardcover

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by Audrea Lim (Author)An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.Climate change, gentrification, racial inequity, and corporate greed are some of the most urgent problems facing our society. They are traditionally treated as unrelated issues, but they all share a common root: the commodification of land. Environmental journalist Audrea Lim began to notice these connec...

The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial - Paperback

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by Philippe Denis (Author)Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists. Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between April and July 1994? What prevented the churches' acceptance that they may have had some responsibility? ...

The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World - Hardcover

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by Stuart E. Eizenstat (Author), Henry A. Kissinger (Foreword by), James a. Baker III (Preface by)A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. "A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history.... Grand in scope and grounded in decades of experience, The Art of Diplomacy is a compelling work of political history aimed at the diplomatic ...

Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Justin Hart (Author)Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educational exchanges, cultural exhibits, overseas libraries, and domestic public relations. Drawing upon exhaustive research in official government records and the private papers of top officials in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including newly declassified material, Jus...

The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 - Hardcover

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by Conor McCabe (Editor) Number of Pages: 436 Dimensions: 1.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 15, 2024

Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics - Hardcover

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by Rui Lopes (Editor), Natalia Telepneva (Editor)Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography.With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles, its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of decolonisation. In this open access book, a group of established and up-and-coming historians of Lusophone Africa bring much-needed coherence to this in...

Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in S?o Paulo and Johannesburg - Hardcover

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by Benjamin H. Bradlow (Author)Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life--including adequate housing, accessible sanitation, and reliable transportation--are largely unavailable. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment? In...

Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy - Hardcover

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by Milan Vaishnav (Author)In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's economic development has steadily progressed, so too have its foreign policy and security ambitions. However, India's ability to sustain high rates of economic growth at home and project power overseas rests on unsteady state capacities. Despite widespread concerns over the severe institutional constraints that India faces, th...