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Sustaining U.S. Army Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Potential Roles of Allies and Partners

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Mazarr (Author), Duncan Long (Author), Derek Eaton (Author)Previous research has identified that logistics and sustainment shortfalls are a critical barrier to U.S. operational success in the Indo-Pacific. In this report, the authors identify five case countries (Australia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea) and assess their potential to support the logistics and sustainment activities that are critical to the success of military ope...

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier - Paperback

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by Ian Urbina (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, ...

Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Tompkins (Author)Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared ...

A History of the Ftaa: From Hegemony to Fragmentation in the Americas

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Report copyright infringementby Marcel Nelson (Author)Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s.Author BiographyMarcel Nelson teaches at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He received his P...

The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age

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Report copyright infringementby David Callahan (Author)An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes ...

Health Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Military Retirees: Rationalizing TRICARE for Life

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Schoenbaum (Author)Examines TRICARE for Life's potential benefits and costs for the Department of Defense, Medicare, beneficiaries, and taxpayers and summarizes issues and policy options for improving TFL in the future. Number of Pages: 125 Dimensions: 0.19 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2004

Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank

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Report copyright infringementby Galit Sarfaty (Author)The World Bank is the largest lender to developing countries, making loans worth over $20 billion per year to finance development projects around the globe. To guide its investments, the Bank has adopted a number of social and environmental policies, yet it has never instituted any overarching policy on human rights. Despite the potential human rights impact of Bank projects--the forced displacement of indigenous peoples resulting from a B...

The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade

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Report copyright infringementby Vinod Aggarwal (Editor), Joseph S. Tulchin (Editor), Ralph Espach (Editor)The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations. The argument of this volume is that this increasing divergence among the arrangements reflects fundamental and growing differences among their broader strategic perceptions and political and economic objectives. These, in turn, are grounde...

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Report copyright infringementby Jiyeoun Song (Author)The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labor markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In Inequality in the Workplace, Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets b...

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Report copyright infringementby James W. Hughes (Author)New Jersey has a long history of adapting to a changing economic climate. From its colonial origins to the present day, New Jersey's economy has continuously and successfully confronted the challenges and uncertainties of technological and demographic change, placing the state at the forefront of each national and global economic era. Based on James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca's nearly three-decade-long Rutgers Regional Report series,...

Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby C. Kyung-Sup (Editor), B. Fine (Editor), L. Weiss (Editor)Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. Includes case studies from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Uganda, South Korea, Ireland, Australia.Author BiographyPETER ABRAHAMSON Associate Professor of Soci...

Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby David Sirota (Author)Do you ever wonder if there's a connection between the corruption scandals in the news and the steady decline in the quality of life for millions of Americans? Do you ever wonder what corporations get for the millions of dollars they pour into the American political system? Do you ever think the government has been hijacked by forces hostile to average Americans? Do you ever want to fight back? Millions of Americans lack health care and mil...

The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning - Paperback

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by Peter J. Hotez (Author)Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.Shortlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards by the Non-Obvious CompanyDuring the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep...

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by Robert O. Paxton (Author)What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state," through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twenti...

Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs - Hardcover

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by Josh Hawley (Author)Nationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that the character of men and the male virtue that goes along with it is a necessary ingredient to a functioning society and a healthy, free republic. A free society that despises manhood will not remain free. The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues. Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In ...

Hit 'em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game - Hardcover

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by Rachel Bitecofer (Author), Aaron Murphy (With)A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation's democracy "Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats' status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections."--Michael Steele, former RNC chair Why do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winnin...

Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Trump (Author), Donald J. Trump (Foreword by)In this eye-opening memoir, Eric Trump relays surprising and gripping moments throughout his life and career as part of America's most powerful family. From his earliest memories of growing up as part of the Trump family to pivotal roles in the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections, spearheading strategies to combat lawfare, and leading the Trump Organization, Eric has been deeply invested in all aspects of his ...

Goetia illustrated with pathworkings: A modernized Lemegeton with demons' pathworks, arts and correspondences - 2nd edition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Spartacus (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.42 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: November 27, 2020

Slow Poison: IDI Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Mamdani (Author)A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin had forcefully cemented his rule. He soon expelled Uganda's Indian minority in hopes of fostering a natio...

Gold Bar Bob: The Downfall of the Most Corrupt Us Senator

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Vincent (Author), Thomas Jason Anderson (Author)"American politics at its sleaziest."--Publishers Weekly Power corrupts, and in the case of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, power--and boatloads of money--corrupted absolutely and led to the downfall of the Democratic Party. Senator Bob Menendez stands alone as the most corrupt US Senator in history. After corruption charges were dropped in a 2017 mistrial, he may have considered himself invincible. Bu...

Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Colangelo-Bryan (Author)An inspiring true story about an American attorney and his client confronting prejudice and persecution in a prison outside the law, as one fights for the other's freedom, and the other fights for his life. "We'll be watching," the sergeant said, pointing at a video monitor inside Camp Echo's guard booth. "For your protection." In 2004, attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan arrived at Guantanamo Bay to meet Jaber Mohammed, one of six B...

If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Johnson (Author)The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life."The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea," writes Theodore R. Johnson, "but Americans--even though we nod our heads to that assertion--do not agree on what that idea is, what it should...

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race - Paperback

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by Nicole Perlroth (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations) "Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. Zero-day: a software bug that allows a hacker to brea...

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown - Hardcover

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by Andreas Malm (Author), Wim Carton (Author)A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat-not now, but a few decades down the road. We're being told that we can return to liveable temperatures by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking incoming sunli...

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire - Paperback

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by Jehad Abusalim (Editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle fo...

Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America

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Report copyright infringementby Edward E. Andrews (Author)Newport Gardner's Anthem explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage and given a name that symbolized the power that his new city and new enslaver held over him: Newport Gardner. In this powerful book, Edwa...

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Report copyright infringementby Jasmine Ray (Author) Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 12, 2025

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by Rosa Luxemburg (Author)Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" away exploitation and economic crises. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1973

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Paperback

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by Kurt Andersen (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."--Lawrence O'Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today--this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through--is not something new, ...

The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish - Paperback

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by Bj Cummings (Author)Author BiographyBJ Cummings is founder of the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and previously served as executive director of Sustainable Seattle. Cummings is currently manager of community engagement for the Superfund Research Program at the University of Washington. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 11, 2022

The Underdog: A Veterinarian's Fight Against Racism and Injustice

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Report copyright infringementby Hakam Bhullar (Author)A true David and Goliath story-of courage, conviction, and the fight for justice.In 1995, Dr. Hakam Singh Bhullar became the first Indo-Canadian veterinarian to establish a low-cost clinic in Vancouver, with the goal of making quality animal care accessible to everyone.He offered affordable care, partnered with animal welfare groups, and mentored other immigrant veterinarians to do the same. But success came with a price. Dr. Bhullar's inc...

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Report copyright infringementby V. September McCrady (Editor), Kenneth Jp Stuczynski (Editor) Number of Pages: 498 Dimensions: 1.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2025