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by Yuen Yuen Ang (Author)Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for t...

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe - Hardcover

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by Emily Greble (Author)Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been central to the continent's political development and the evolution of its traditions of equality and law. From 1878 into the period following World War II, over a million Ottoman Muslims became citizens of new European stat...

Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution - Hardcover

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by Peter Longerich (Author), Lesley Sharpe (Author), Jeremy Noakes (Author)The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. The exquisite position by the lake, the imposing driveway ...

The Rise and Demise of World Communism - Hardcover

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by George W. Breslauer (Author)A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China, had the world's largest population. At communism's high point, its adherents envisioned global triumph. Today, however, only five communist regimes remain in power. Why? In The Rise and Demise of Wo...

Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture - Hardcover

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by Gordon Braxton (Author)The role of men is critical when it comes to preventing sexual assault. Gordon Braxton was in his second year of college before anybody bothered to speak to him about sexual violence, despite the fact that he already knew friends and family members that had survived a sexual assault. Unfortunately, this is a common experience as many young men and boys, especially Black boys, do not have an opportunity to discuss their views on sexual violence and what role they migh...

Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement - Hardcover

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by Phoebe S. K. Young (Author)An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a shady spot in the great outdoors. For a modest fee, reserve the basic infrastructure--a picnic table, a parking spot, and a place to build a fire. Pitch the tent ...

Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech - Hardcover

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by Martha Minow (Author)A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. In Saving the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. She focuses on the extent to which our constitutional system is to blame for the current parlous state of affairs and on our government's responsibilities for alleviating the problem. As Minow shows,...

Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated - Hardcover

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by Katina Manko (Author)The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture. With their distinctive greeting at the homes across the country--Ding Dong! Avon Calling!--sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabled women ...

To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism - Hardcover

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by Chowdhury (Author)India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties anddemocratic...

Rethinking American Grand Strategy - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Borgwardt (Editor), Christopher McKnight Nichols (Editor), Andrew Preston (Editor)A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become almost an equivalent of "...

The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington - Hardcover

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by Donald A. Ritchie (Author)Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. A self-professed "keyhole peeper", Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low...

Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era - Hardcover

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by Jussi M. Hanhimäki (Author)A bold argument that tackles current trends, such as rising nationalism, arguing that they strengthen rather than undermine transatlantic ties. Is the West finished as a political idea? In recent years, observers have begun pointing to signs that this transatlantic community is eroding. When the European Union expanded, the classic European nation state was in decline. Now, nationalism is on the rise. Furthermore, nations within the EU are less willing to coopera...

Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East - Paperback

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by Thanassis Cambanis (Author), Dina Esfandiary (Author), Sima Ghaddar (Author)Influential armed groups continue to confound policymakers, diplomats, and analysts decades after their transformational arrival on the scene in the Middle East and North Africa. The most effective of these militias can most usefully be understood as hybrid actors, which simultaneously work through, with, and against the state.This joint report from The Century Foundation identifies the factors that make some hybri...

An Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait - Paperback

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by Jason Xidias (Author)Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the 20th century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of African Americans. King's 1964 book Why We Can't Wait creates strong, well-structured arguments as to why he and his followers chose to wage a nonviolent struggle in the fight to advance freedom and equa...

In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice - Paperback

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by Michael Fleming (Author)In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists as...

Miracles Through Hell: A True Story of Holocaust Survival and Intergenerational Healing - Hardcover

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by Jerry M. Elman (Author)Miracles Through Hell is an untold story of bravery, luck, guilt, redemption, intergenerational pain, and healing. Few Holocaust-related books have been written with such depth and insight. This book is hard to put down once started. Elman uncovers the details of his parents' lives before the Nazis took control of Poland. He leads us through the miracles and hell they experienced as the war raged on. The decisions and choices forced on them, the rebuilding of their l...

The Diary of a Young Girl Class 10th - Paperback

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by Unknown (Author)English-Hindi Edition Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl—stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. S...

Our Next Evolution: Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet's Future - Paperback

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by Laura Calandrella (Author)The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale. It will outpace us if we don't turn our attention to an even deeper concern regarding the future of humanity: we need to work together to create change. Our current approach to collaboration is outmoded. To transform our world, we must transform the way we lead. We collectively share the power and responsibility for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future. Leaders who hope to shape th...

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by Ángel J. Cappelletti (Author), Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (Translator)The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of ngel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is one of the few book-length regional histories ever published in English. With a foreword by the...

Black Influencers Who Changed the World: Biographies of Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, and Barack Obama - Paperback

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by Dillion Reed (Author)Discover the Black Influencers who changed the world History is filled with people who stood up for what they believed in, facing countless adversity but staying strong in their beliefs - and in the end, changing the world.Now, this biography uncovers the lives and legacies of some of the most famous and beloved black influencers, from the incredible Martin Luther King Jr. to Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. You'll discover the lives they lived, the hard...

Genocide Perspectives IV: Essays on Holocaust and Genocide - Paperback

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by Colin Tatz (Author)Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues: the need for a measuring scale that encompasses differences and similarities between seemingly divergent cases of the crime; the complicity of bureaucracies, the healing professions and the churches in t...

The Momentous Leap - Thriveable Transformation in the 21st Century: Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Planet - Paperback

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by Robin Lincoln Wood (Author)The Momentous Leap, the 7th book by award winning author Dr. Robin Lincoln Wood, explores the most exciting transition humanity has ever experienced. Right now, across our planet, people are developing worldcentric, systemic perspectives and capabilities that will not only resolve most of the challenges we currently face - they will also transform our species and what it means to be human. Imagine a world powered by renewable energy, where all human beings thrive...

An Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - Paperback

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by Lorenzo Fusaro (Author), Jason Xidias (Author)Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also because it shows his impressive analytical ability.First published in 1948, 11 years after Gramsci's death, Prison Notebooks ably demonstrates that the writer has an innate ability to understand the relationship between different parts of an argument. Th...

Irma Grese - The Holocaust: The Incredible Life Of Irma Grese And The Holocaust: The Intriguing Life And History Of The Blonde Beast - Paperback

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by Wilbur Chindler (Author)The Incredible Life Of Irma Grese And The Holocaust: The Intriguing Life And History Of The Blonde Beast The two World Wars were standing testimony of man's willingness to degenerate into cannibalistic beings; any attempt to justify a war is a useless one, if only because we cannot account for the millions of innocent people who lose their lives in the process. It isn't just the soldiers who die; from political prisoners to the innocent women and children who are no...

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by Philip S. Foner (Editor), Clayborne Carson (Introduction by), Barbara Ransby (Foreword by)A sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.Author BiographyPhilip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals. Shut out of academic employment for a quarter century because of his political affilia...

Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader - Hardcover

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by Troy Jackson (Author), Clayborne Carson (Introduction by)"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities." -- Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher -- this simple term describes the twenty-five-year-old Ph.D. in theology who arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, to become the pastor of Dexter Avenue B...

Sarinka: A Sephardic Holocaust Journey: From Yugoslavia To An Internment Camp in America - Paperback

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by F. Linda Cohen (Author)Sarinka is an evocative family memoir detailing the rarely heard Sephardic Jewish experience during the Shoah. What began as a daughter's hunger to faithfully recount as a family heirloom her parents' unique story of great love and great loss at the hands of the Nazis is now a gift to us all. With fastidious attention to detail and to history, Linda Cohen immerses us in the twists, turns, terrors and daily miracles of her hastily wed parents' harrowing flight from th...

Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Randy Shaw (Author)Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s. But left untold has been their ongoing impact on 21st century social justice movements. Beyond the Fields unearths this legacy, and describes how Chavez and the UFW's imprint can be found in the modern reshaping of the American labor movement, the building of Latino political power, the transformation ...

Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums - Paperback

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by Katrin Antweiler (Author) This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how, in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the citizen-...

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by Matthew Fuhrmann (Author)How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries armed with nuclear weapons, this volume puts the spotlight on those that have the technology to build nuclear bombs but choose not to. These weapons-capable countries, such as Brazil, Germany, and Japan, have what is known as nuclear latency, and they shape world politics in important ways. Offering a definitive account of nuclear latency, Matthew Fuhrmann navigates a...

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by Anne Frank (Author)The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people ...

Insider's Guide to Security Clearances: Get the Clearance and Land the Job - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey W. Bennett (Author)With a security clearance you can get a job or bid on classified government contracts with the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Department of Energy, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and so much more. In fact, people with security clearances earn up to 15% more than their non-security clearance counterparts.You know how government opportunities exist, but there are so many unanswered questions? Well Insider's Guide to Security Clearances not only a...