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Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar's Military Must Go Back to the Barracks - Hardcover

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by Oliver Slow (Author), Paul French (Editor)On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that shocked the world but were a familiar response from an institution that has ruled the country with violence and terror for decades. Return of the Junta is a detailed account of the ways that Myanmar's m...

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by Gerry Stoker (Author), Mark Evans (Author)Democracy is in crisis. Is there still time to save it?Democracies face external threat from aggressive authoritarian states. Internally, citizens have grown increasingly distrustful of politicians and more cynical about national and global governance institutions. The time is ripe for democracy to renew itself. This text offers a state-of-the art overview of democratic innovations today, moving beyond cries of the 'death' or 'end' of democracy to ...

Contesting Africa's New Green Revolution: Biotechnology and Philanthrocapitalist Development in Ghana - Paperback

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by Jacqueline A. Ignatova (Author)Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of 'new Green Revolution for Africa' interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of 'philanthrocapitalism, ' which a...

The Politics of Fear in South Sudan: Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict - Paperback

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by Daniel Akech Thiong (Author)When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thiong shows, it is this politics that lies at the heart of the country's seemingly intractable civil war.In this book, Akech Thiong explores the origins of South Sudan's politics of fear. W...

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy - Paperback

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by Jamie Raskin (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the 45 days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence “Unthinkable is not a work of emotional austerity; rather, it...

Judges & Generals in Pakistan: Volume I - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Inam R. Sehri (Author)'Judges & Generals in Pakistan-I' by Inam R Sehri is a collection of mostly his published articles; explaining diverse scenarios. This book evaluates certain conflicting news, editorials, opinions and criticisms on historical issues. No misleading intelligence story, no distracting investigative re-port, no concocted interview and no feed from the 'concerned ones' yet everything seems innovative; no fiction in this book but simple narr...

Remembering Histories of Trauma: North American Genocide and the Holocaust in Public Memory - Hardcover

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by Gideon Mailer (Author)Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material from both sides of the Atlantic, it examines the differences between ancestral experiences of genocide and the representation of those histories in public sites in the United States, Canada and Europe. Challenging the ways public bodies have used those histories to frame the cultural and political identity of regions, states,...

Cold War Berlin: Confrontations, Cultures, and Identities - Paperback

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by Scott H. Krause (Editor), Stephanie Eisenhuth (Editor), Konrad H. Jarausch (Editor)A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life. They explore not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin's unique status. An essential contribution to the study of Berli...

The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet - Hardcover

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by James Griffiths (Author)China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politi...

Action 1936 a Crucial Year in British Politics - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Oswald Mosley (Editor), Bob Carruthers (Introduction by), William Joyce (Contribution by)Action was published in 222 editions between February 1936 and June 1940 under the direction of Oswald Mosley. Action was one of a small group of ultra-nationalist publications produced in Britain in the thirties; only one complete set of Action survives today. The six complete editions reproduced here are all from 1936 and are taken from the master copy set retained by the...

No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Anderson (Author)The most comprehensive and gripping account of the Afghan war, by a BBC journalist. The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this powerful and shocking expos from the front lines in Helmand province, leading journalist and documentary-maker Ben Anderson (HBO, Panorama, and Dispatches) shows just how ba...

The Political Representation of Kurds in Turkey: New Actors and Modes of Participation in a Changing Society - Paperback

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by Cengiz Gunes (Author)Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Turkey relentlessly persecuted any form of Kurdish dissent. This led to the radicalisation of an increasing number of Kurds, the rise of the Kurdish national movement and the PKK's insurgency against Turkey. Political activism by the Kurds or around Kurdish-related political demands continues to be viewed with deep suspicions by Turkey's political establishment and severely restricted. Despite this, the pro-Kurdish democratic movement ha...

Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources: The Arctic and the Environment - Paperback

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by Lars Rowe (Author)In this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With specific focus on the local nickel industry of the region, Lars Rowe explores the interaction between commercial and state security concerns in the Soviet Union. Through the lens of this local industry a larger historical context is unravelled - the nature of Soviet-Finnish rela...

Putin's Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control over the Past - Paperback

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by Anton Weiss-Wendt (Author)This book provides a bold examination of the political use of history in contemporary Russia. Anton Weiss-Wendt argues that history is yet another discipline misappropriated by the Kremlin for the purpose of rallying the population. He explains how, since the pro-democracy protests in 2011-12, the Russian government has hamstrung independent research and aligned state institutions in the promotion of militant patriotism. The entire state machinery has been mobiliz...

The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy - Paperback

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by Yuichiro Shimizu (Author), Christopher Gerteis (Editor), Amin Ghadimi (Translator)What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a "kingdom of bureaucrats", but until now, no historian has fully explained the historical origins of the mammoth Japanese executive state. In this ground-breaking study, translated into English for the first time, Yuichiro Shimizu traces the rise of the modern Japanese bureaucracy from the Me...

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - Hardcover

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by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Author)To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument present...

The End of Empire in the Gulf: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates - Paperback

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by Tancred Bradshaw (Author)With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971. This work is a comprehensive history of British policy in the region during that period, situated for the first time in its broad historical and political context. Tancred Bradshaw - an academ...

On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Timothy Snyder (Author), Nora Krug (Illustrator)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug "Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future."--Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder's New York Ti...

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Paperback

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by Dina Nayeri (Author)A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence." --The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the 'feared swarms' . . . Her family's escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent condui...

The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in North/South Relations - Paperback

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by Robert Biel (Author)This major intellectual exploration seeks to deepen our understanding of the way in which modern capitalism works. The author argues, in particular, that it has always rested in part on the unremunerated labour of women, the non-sustainable extraction of natural resources and the racist exploitation of the non-European periphery. Robert Biel explains and illuminates how it has integrated the South into a Western-dominated system of exploitation and prevented it from mak...

Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America - Paperback

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by Ryan Busse (Author)A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist-all things that the firearms industry was built on-Ryan Busse chased a childhood dream and built a successful career selling millions of firearms for one of America's most popular gun companies. But blin...

Modern Brazil: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Anthony W. Pereira (Author)Brazil is associated in many people's minds with conviviality, sensuality, and natural beauty. Yet the country behind these images and associations is something of an enigma. It is alternately praised as the "country of the future," a rising power ready to take its place at the top tables of global governance, or written off as a perennial disappointment, a country forever failing to reach its potential, mired in corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence. The...

The Presidents Fact Book: The Achievements, Campaigns, and Legacies of Every President - Paperback

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by Roger Matuz (Author), Bill Harris (Author), Thomas J. Craughwell (Author)This in-depth history of our nation's 46 presidents is now fully revised and updated to include Donald Trump's eventful term in office, Joe Biden's presidency, and the results of the 2024 presidential election. The Presidents Fact Book is the complete compendium of all things presidential and a sweeping survey of American history through the biography of every president from George Washington to the current president...

The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources - Hardcover

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by Javier Blas (Author), Jack Farchy (Author)Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the Year The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider where they have come from. But we should. The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell...

When They Came for Me: The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner - Paperback

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by John R. Schlapobersky (Author) Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival. Those writings inform this exquisitely written book in which the autho...

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by Andrew Monaghan (Editor), Richard Connolly (Editor)This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power.Back JacketFor the first two decades after the Cold War, Russian naval power hardly featured in the Euro-Atlantic community's strategic thinking. This began to change in the mid-2010s, as the idea that the Russian navy poses a threat to NATO began to gain ground. That threat took shocking...

Defense of the West: Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition - Paperback

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by Stanley R. Sloan (Author), Lawrence Freedman (Foreword by)This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit.Front JacketA uniquely authoritative account of the alliance's history and the many challenges it must address. Sir Lawrence Freedman, ...

American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent - Paperback

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by Tamer Elnoury (Author), Kevin Maurer (Author)The explosive New York Times bestselling memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11, 2001. Its express purpose was to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals were to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way as possible. It was a furious race against the clock for Elnoury and his unit to stop them ...

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service - Paperback

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by Michael Bar-Zohar (Author), Nissim Mishal (Author)"This book tells what should have been known and isn't--that Israel's hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength."-- Israeli President Shimon Peres For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accou...

Shimon Peres: An Insider's Account of the Man and the Struggle for a New Middle East - Hardcover

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by Avi Gil (Author)The late Israeli Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres was a towering figure in Israeli and Middle Eastern politics. But what drove the hawkish statesman behind Israel's nuclear deterrence and early settlement policy to stake his political reputation on peace negotiations with the Arab world and the PLO, Israel's sworn enemy?In this insider's account, written by Avi Gil, Peres's closest confidant and adviser, we witness firsthand the tense moments duri...

Demolition Agenda: How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It - Hardcover

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by Thomas O. McGarity (Author)The first comprehensive account of the Trump administration's efforts to destroy our government institutions, by the man Ralph Nader says "writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others cover""Tom McGarity writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others cover." --Ralph NaderKoch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administration, largely to ensure con...

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education - Paperback

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by Henry A. Giroux (Author)Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.Author BiographyHenry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include: Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories and the Culture of Cruelty and Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future. Number of Pages: 256 ...