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The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Allen 1922- Rutland (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

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by William Cooper (Author)Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs.Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing ro...

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics - Paperback

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by Helena Cobban (Author), Edmund III Burke (Editor), Michael C. Hudson (Editor)This is a comprehensive political analysis of the PLO. A correspondent in Beirut from 1976 to 1981, Helena Cobban has been able to study developments at close quarters and use documentary sources and first-hand recollections which have never been included in previous Western analyses of the movement. The book maintains that one key to understanding the development of the PLO is an examination of the development of...

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by David McLellan (Editor)This selection from the major writings of the most influential Marxist thinkers provides easy and direct access to the sources of the 20th century's most important ideology. Those who are baffled by the ramifications of Marxism will find here the major statements of classical and contemporary Marxist theory from Marx himself, through Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to Mao, Marcuse, Guevara, and Cabral. Together these texts give us a comprehensive view both of the ...

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by Kenneth Conboy (Author), James Morrison (Author)Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America's Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet's revolt against China--and eventually came to control its fledgling resistan...

Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands - Paperback

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by John C. Fisher (Author)As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastati...

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible - Paperback

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by Charles E. Cobb (Author)Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama, home as "an arsenal." Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection--yet this crucial dimension o...

E.D. Nixon: The Unsung Father of the Montgomery Bus Boycott - Paperback

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by Michael Escoffery (Illustrator), Michael Eaddy (Author)Before Dr. Martin Luther King, E.D. Nixon was the principal black leader in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped sparked the Civil Rights Movement and bailed imprisoned civil rights icon, Rosa Parks out of jail. Mr. Nixon's contributions in civil rights, voter registration, leadership, and social justice was paramount in the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advancing the civil rights movement. A true story about the man behind the m...

Rooted in Palestine: Palestinian Christians and the Struggle for National Liberation 1917-2004 - Paperback

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by Feda Abdelhady (Foreword by), Xavier Abu Eid (Author)The book research the role of the Palestinian Christians in the struggle for national liberation from WWI through WWII and especially after the Israeli occupation in 1967. The role of the Palestinian Christians in resisting the Britisch mandate and Israeli occupation is highlighted. The contribution of the Christian churches in Palestine to diplomacy, education, social services as well armed as well as non-violent resistance is highlight...

The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Paperback

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by Mother Jones (Author)Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 187...

U.S. Militarism, Corporate Interests and World War III: The Pentagon and CIA: Soldiers of the Corporatocracy - Paperback

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by Charles Johnston (Author)Flanked on the east and west by the world's two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonetheless, the U.S. military had early expanded far beyond what was needed to insure security from external threats. Concomitant with the rapid growth of U.S. industry the military forcefully facilitated commercial agreements and resource capture in distant locations during the 1800s. The annexation of Hawaii was achieved through r...

Western Civilization Bites Back - Paperback

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by Jonathan Bowden (Author), Greg Johnson (Editor)Western Civilization has suffered an astonishing series of reversals in the last century. On the eve of the Great War, whites controlled virtually the entire globe. Today, whites do not even control their own homelands. A century ago, Western culture as the inspiration and envy of the globe. Today, it is synonymous with hamburgers, pop music, and porn. Oppressed from above by alien and deracinated elites, demographically and culturally swamped...

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by United States Congress House of Represen (Created by)The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills to the most recent Budget of the United States Government, the BiblioGov Project spans a wealth of government information. These works are now made...

Free Palestine: End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide - Paperback

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by Gideon Polya (Author)For a century, the Palestinian people have endured the brutal consequences of Western-backed Zionist settler colonialism. From relentless ethnic cleansing to mass population expulsions, the ancient land of Palestine has witnessed unspeakable horrors at the hands of Zionists. At the heart of this turmoil lies the Gaza concentration camp, where a densely populated community is being reduced to rubble by Apartheid Israel.The world watches in silence despite over 100,000 p...

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by Smedley D. Butler (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speec...

The Private Investigator Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Protect Yourself, Get Justice, or Get Even - Paperback

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by Chuck Chambers (Author)Chuck Chambers has seen it all in his 22 years as a P.I., working thousands of cases. His hands-on experience and hard-nosed detective work has made him one of the most sought-after private investigators in the business.Here, Chambers shares his insider expertise, with true case histories from his files, tricks of the trade, and step-by-step advice to help readers be able to: - Catch a cheating spouse- Uncover hidden assets, monetary malfeasance, and fraud- Tail and ...

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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

The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care - Hardcover

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by Dan Kovalik (Author), George Galloway (Foreword by)In 1948, the State of Israel was founded. While the philosophy of Zionism that advocated for a Jewish homeland in what was then known as Palestine dates back to 1897, the creation of Israel in 1948 was justified by the terrible crime of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany during WWII. Many defenders of Israel would like us to believe that the creation of Israel was a peaceful process on a barely populated land, however, this is far fro...

89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

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Report copyright infringementby Milan Kundera (Author), Matt Reeck (Translator)Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.Translating a work from its original language can be complicated; it's a complex art that can easily mar and twist the intent and meaning of a writer's words. Precise translations were of particular importance to Milan Kundera, who did not live to see all his books pu...

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher William Blackwell (Author), Deborah Zalesne (Author), Kwaneta Harris (With)"These compelling reﬂections by people who have been entrapped within the tortures of solitary, should rekindle our abolitionist impulses at an especially critical moment in our history" - Angela Y. Davis "Oﬀers an indispensable tool to campaigns for abolition everywhere" - Juan E. Méndez, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture "Powerful...These excruciating accounts from pr...

13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven't Read)

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher J. Scalia (Author)A discussion of 13 works of literary fiction in the context of their relevance to conservative beliefs. Great novels are a remarkable confluence of complex characters, powerful storytelling, and beautiful language. They ask important questions and explore major ideas that can reflect a culture--and shape it. Yet if you talk to right-of-center readers about literary fiction that considers ideas of particular interest to conservativ...

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Report copyright infringementby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Editor)This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected i...

Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System

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Report copyright infringementby Brando Simeo Starkey (Author)A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court--even more than the presidency or Congress--aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. T...

The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It

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Report copyright infringementby Katharina Pistor (Author)A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take Even though capitalism has been conventionally described as an economic system, it is actually a deeply entrenched legal regime. Law provides the material for coding simple objects, promises, and ideas as capital assets. It also provides the means for avoiding the legal constraints that societies have freque...

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Litman (Author)Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back. With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman brings her signature wit to the question of what's gone wrong at One First Street. In Lawless, she a...

Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Vance (Author)A political manifesto for our present moment--part history lesson, part call to save the Republic "Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness." --Mary L. Trump We're in this together. For the past several years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, "Civil Discourse", with these four words. In that time, she has guided readers through a continued erosion of demo...

Diversity without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World

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Report copyright infringementby Carol M. Swain (Author), Mike Towle (Author)Political scientist and former law professor Carol Swain warned in 2023 that the Supreme Court's decision that year to end race-based college admissions spelled doom for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative action in the workplace. What had been unthinkable for many Americans occurred on January 20-21, 2025, when President Donald Trump signed executive orders jettisoning DEI in federal progr...

Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

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Report copyright infringementby William D. Lopez (Author), Nicole L. Novak (Foreword by)Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids--and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These worksite raids fracture families, devastate local economies, and spread fear and trauma t...

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Lepore (Author)The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Gugliotta (Author)Grant's Enforcer offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Grant's attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a former Georgia slaveholder and the only Southerner to serve in a Reconstruction cabinet, was the first federal lawman to propose using the Fourteenth Amendment to prosecute civil rights violations. In 1871 Akerman and his allies brought the KKK to ...

Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Akhil Reed Amar (Author)From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women's suffrage In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal, the...