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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth - Paperback

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by Vandana Shiva (Author), Ronnie Cummins (Foreword by)Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many p...

The Prince: The Classic Analysis of Statesmanship and Power - Paperback

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by Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Regina Barreca (Afterword by)Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, The Prince is Machiavelli's classic analysis of statesmanship and power. "It is best to be both feared and loved, however, if one cannot be both, it is better to be feared than loved."--MachiavelliFor over four hundred years, The Prince has been the basic handbook of politics, statesmanship, and power. Written by a Florentine nobleman whose name has become a synonym for crafty plotting, it...

Close Protection: Luxury & Hostile Environments - Paperback

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by Orlando Wilson (Author)Close Protection: Luxury & Hostile EnvironmentsThe contents of this book are drawn from my experiences in the close protection, security and investigations industry over the last 30 years. What I am providing here is the real-world perspective, not the classroom or perfect world perspective. I have always questioned what I have been taught, which has got me into plenty of arguments over the years, but without questioning things how they can be improved and refine...

In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Paperback

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by Richard Iton (Author)Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the ma...

Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Charles D. Ferguson (Author)Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980s. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's negative image. Yet in the decade prior to the Japanese nuclear cri...

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism - Paperback

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by David Harvey (Author)For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from investment in industrial production at home toward the higher returns that fin...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Leonie Huddy (Editor), David O. Sears (Editor), Jack S. Levy (Editor)Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology gathers together a distinguished group of scholars from around the world to shed l...

The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System - Paperback

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by David Skarbek (Author)When most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs. Few people think of gangs as sophisticated organizations (often with elaborate written constitutions) that regulate the prison black market, adjudicate conflicts, and strategically balance the competing demands of inmates, gang members, and correctional officers. Yet as David Skarbek argues, gangs form to create order among outlaws, producing alternative governance institutio...

Political Economy Italy Decline P - Paperback

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by Capussela (Author)Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic and democratic development. The Political Economy of Italy's Decline explain...

Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939 - Hardcover

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by Donal Hassett (Author)Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all ethnic, religious, social, and political backgrounds contributed to the imperial war effort. Mobilising Memory is the first study to explore how the mass mobilisation of Algerian society during the Firs...

The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism - Paperback

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by Catherine Rottenberg (Author)From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyoncé, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as feminists in the mainstream media. In the past few years feminism has indeed gained increasing visibility and even urgency. Yet, in her analysis of recent bestselling feminist manifestos, well-trafficked mommy blogs, and television series such as The Good Wife, Catherine Rottenberg reveals that a particular variant of...

The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy - Hardcover

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by Scott Burris (Author), Micah L. Berman (Author), Matthew Penn (Author)Public health law isn't just for lawyers. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Originally published in 2018, The New Public Health Law was the first textbook to arm lawyers and public health professionals of any background with the tools to fully exploit the potential of law to improve public health. This refreshed second edition furthers the transdisciplinary approach of the first edition with key updates to case law and ...

Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity - Paperback

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by Massimiliano Tomba (Author)Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among human rights advocates, is exhausted. It's long past time to reconsider ...

The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation - Paperback

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by Nilay Saiya (Author)A unique, timely, and wide-ranging book that formulates and applies an ethic of Jesus to the realm of global politics. Since the fourth century, Christians have wrestled with how they should interact with political authority. The most common view holds that while their ultimate loyalty rightfully belongs to God, Christians also have allegiance to their countries and a moral responsibility to transform their political systems. In The Global Politics of Jesus, Nilay Saiya...

Orbit: The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military - Hardcover

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by Laurence J. Alison (Author), Emily Alison (Author), Neil Shortland (Author)ORBIT (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques) is an approach to interviewing high-value detainees, encompassing not only analysis and research into the methodology, but also a framework for training. ORBIT: The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military offers comprehensive treatment of ORBIT's unique perspective on human rapport and the role it plays in the interrog...

American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David A. Gerber (Author)An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. In this Very Short Introduction, historian David A. Gerber captures the histories of dozens...

Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement - Paperback

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by Neil M. Maher (Author)The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politi...

Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track - Paperback

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by Thomas E. Mann (Author), Norman J. Ornstein (Author)The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nation's most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 4...

A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State - Paperback

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by Max M. Edling (Author)In this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war-making and resource-extraction from the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century 'fiscal-military states.'A strong centr...

Guided by the Mountains: Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance - Paperback

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by Michael Lerma (Author)What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the challenges faced by Indigenous nations in building political institutions that address contemporary problems and enact "good governance." Specifically, it looks at Navajo, or Diné, political thought, focusing on tra...

The Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) - Paperback

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by Rood (Author)Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Pacific galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by late-arriving imperial powers like the United States and Japan, it has been a focal point of economic and military rivalry too. Decolonized in 1946, this enormously diverse country is ruled today by a classic modern authoritarian,...

Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution - Paperback

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by Amanda Hollis-Brusky (Author)There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. It claims 40,000 members, including five Supreme Court Justices, ...

51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey S. Sutton (Author)51Imperfect Solutions argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal constitution, in protecting our individual liberties. An underappreciation of state constitutional law has hurt state and federal law and has undermined the appropriate balance between state and federal courts in protecting individual liberty. The book corrects this imbalance and ill...

China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong - Hardcover

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by Jude Blanchette (Author)Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. As Jude Blanchette details in China's New Red Guards, contemporary Chin...

Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance - Hardcover

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by Steven Feldstein (Author)The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrentlydeveloped a formidable array of technological capabilities to constrain and repress their citizens. In The Rise of Digital Repression, Steven Feldstein documents how the emergen...

Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe V. Wade - Paperback

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by Daniel K. Williams (Author)On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture warriors. In Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams reveals the hidden history of the pro-life movement in America, showing that a...

Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance - Paperback

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by Theda Skocpol (Editor), Caroline Tervo (Editor)The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending American Politics offers a fresh perspective on rece...

Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism - Paperback

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by Theda Skocpol (Author), Vanessa Williamson (Author)This revised edition features a new afterword, updated through the 2016 election. On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing "losers" who could not pay their mortgages, Santelli called for "Tea Party" protests. Over the next two years, conservative activists took to the streets and ...

Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory - Paperback

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by Julian Go (Author)Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible with postcolonial thought, this book argues that the two are mutually benefi...

Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor - Paperback

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by Uri Bar-Joseph (Author), Rose McDermott (Author)The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale military failures often stem from defective information-processing systems. Intelligence Success and Failure challenges this common assertion that catastrophic surprise attacks are the unmist...

Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars - Hardcover

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by Helen Fry (Author)A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Wh...

The Freelancer's Guide to Lifelong Learning - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ayaan Khurana (Author)For self-employed individuals negotiating the ever-changing gig economy, Ayaan Khurana's "The Freelancer's Guide to Lifelong Learning" provides an exhaustive and illuminating road map. Drawing on his extensive background as a freelancer, Khurana sheds light on the importance of lifelong learning in this comprehensive guide. With the freelance industry changing at such a rapid pace, Khurana delves into the importance of a dedication to life...