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We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story - Hardcover

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by Frank W. Baker (Author), Tim E. Ogline (Artist)During Adolf Hitler's rule over Germany, there were over 40,000 Nazi concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti, and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Hitler's rise to power, the rise of antisemitism, and more. Yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of surviv...

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by Moritz Föllmer (Author)'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed intermingle in the culture of the Third Reich, racialist fantasies and spectacular propaganda set-pieces contributing to this atmosphere alongside more benign cultural offerings such as performances of classical music or popular film comedies. A cultural palette that catered to the tastes of the majority helped encourage acce...

1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon-The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies - Paperback

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by David Pietrusza (Author)Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign-the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents-LBJ, JFK, and Nixon.Author BiographyDavid Pietrusza's books include Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who F...

Marxists in the Face of Fascism: Writings by Marxists on Fascism from the Inter-War Period - Paperback

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by David Beetham (Editor)An unparalleled documentation of the most important Marxist analyses of fascism and the struggle to resist it.Author BiographyDavid Beetham is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 08, 2019

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by Noam Chomsky (Author), Anthony Arnove (Editor)The seminal one-volume collection of Noam Chomsky's thought, encompassing his best writings on politics, philosophy, and media theory "Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism." --Edward Said For fifty years, Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one...

The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust - Paperback

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by Rafael Medoff (Author)Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed proposals to use empty Lib...

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--And Start Again - Hardcover

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by Mariana Chilton (Author)A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on promoting government-funded nutrition assistance; well-meaning organizations try to get expired or wasted food to marginalized communities; and philanthropists donate their money to the cause and congratulate themselves for doing so. But few people ask about the structural ...

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation - Paperback

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by Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Author), Brenna Bhandar (Editor), Alberto Toscano (Editor)Author BiographyRuth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Honors include the American Studies Association Angela Y. Davis Award...

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover - Paperback

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by Ruth Marcus (Author)The Washington Post journalist and legal expert Ruth Marcus goes behind the scenes to document the inside story of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle and the Republican plot to take over the Supreme Court--thirty years in the making--in this "impressively reported, highly insightful, and rollicking good read" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 2018 the Kavanaugh drama unfolded so fast it seemed to come out of nowhere. With the power of the #MeToo mo...

Rocking the Boat: A Superintendent's 30 Year Career Fighting Institutional Racism - Paperback

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by Paul Wilson (Author)'This book is critical to continue the conversation on Race, Discrimination, Black Lives, Culture and White Privilege. A Must Read!' - Lethepu Matshaba, Vice President, Unilever South AfricaRocking the Boat chronicles the career of a black police officer's extraordinary and unprecedented determination in challenging a police occupational culture steeped in racism.In the year 2020, considerable attention was being paid to the issue of institutional racism in US law enfor...

Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges - Paperback

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by Jafar Suryomenggolo (Editor), Masaaki Okamoto (Editor)After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21st century fundamentally transformed Indonesia as a nation-state; and with a population of approximately 270 million as of 2020, Indonesia is the third largest democracy in the world. This book presents twelve original chapters to discuss the achievements and challenges of Indonesia's transfo...

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment - Paperback

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by Ahmet T. Kuru (Author)Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity, because Muslims were philosophically and socio-economically more developed than Western Europeans between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Nor was Western colonialism the cause: Muslims had already suffered political and socio-eco...

Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade - Paperback

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by Fred P. Hochberg (Author)"A sprightly and clear-eyed testimonial to the value of globalization" (The Wall Street Journal) as seen through six surprising everyday goods--the taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the banana, the iPhone, the college degree, and the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones. Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don't. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is r...

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times - Paperback

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by Carla Bergman (Author), Nick Montgomery (Author), Hari Alluri (Introduction by)Absolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom. A very well argued case for joyful militancy, and against the dead hand of puritanical revolution. Read it, live it "--John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed...

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry - Paperback

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by Wendell Berry (Author), Paul Kingsnorth (Introduction by)The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-E...

Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism - Hardcover

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by Raymond Holcomb (Author)FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on t...

Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group - Paperback

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by William Rosenau (Author)"A deeply-researched and well-written account of" (Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad) M19--the first and only domestic terrorist group founded and led by women--as they waged a violent war against racism, sexism, and imperialism in Ronald Reagan's America. 1981: Ronald Reagan declared that it is "morning in America" but a small band of well-educated women were planning to combat the status quo at any cost. Having spent their entire adult lives embroiled...

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote - Paperback

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by Craig Fehrman (Author)"One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years" (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting--a delightful new window into the public and private lives America's presidents as authors. Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln's famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Eman-cipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collection of speeches enti...

Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself - Paperback

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by Amanda Litman (Author), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Foreword by)The must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives. You've been depressed since the night of November 8, 2016. You wore black to work the next morning. You berated yourself for your complacency during the Obama years. You ranted on Twitter. You deleted Twitter. You sent emails to your friends saying, "How can we get more involved?"...

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape - Paperback

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by Rachel E. Lovell (Editor), Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (Editor)Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape. This book is the first to address the most critical topics related to untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together ...

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by Michael Russell (Author)AT WHAT POINT is it too late to rescue from collapse a nation given at birth the means to prevent collapse? Since the principles responsible for the creation of America have always been required in equal measure to sustain America, what force in America today is capable of restoring, as opposed to bandaging, the Republic of America?With original insight from an uncompromised perspective, The Unfounding repudiates charitable-bedside-manner diagnoses to describe Ameri...

Pathways of Settler Decolonization - Paperback

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by Lynne Davis (Editor), Jeffrey Denis (Editor), Raven Sinclair (Editor)Although settler colonialism is a deeply entrenched structural problem, Indigenous peoples have always resisted it and sought to protect their land, sovereignty, and treaties. Some settlers have aimed to support Indigenous peoples in these struggles. This book examines what happens when settlers engage with and attempt to transform settler colonial systems.What does 'decolonizing' action look like? What roles can settlers...

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps - Paperback

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by Ben Shapiro (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America itself means. "Disintegrationists" say we're stronger together, but thei...

The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America - Paperback

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by Jim Acosta (Author)A New York Times bestseller.From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth, featuring new material exclusive to the paperback edition. In Mr. Trump's campaign against what he calls "Fake News," CNN Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, is public enemy number one. From the moment Mr. Trump ...

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by Sterling Seagrave (Author)An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.Back JacketDescendants of a Chinese runaway who grew to in America under the protection of the Methodist church and who returned to his homeland to make a fortune selling Western Bibles, the Soong family became the principal rulers of China during the first half of the 20th century and won the support of the American government and press for ...

Theory and Methods in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies: Volume One - Paperback

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by Iris Geva-May (Editor), B. Guy Peters (Editor), Joselyn Muhleisen (Editor)Volume One of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, "Theory and Methods in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies" includes chapters that apply or further theory and methodology in the comparative study of public policy, in general, and policy analysis, in particular. Throughout the volume the chapters engage in theory building by assessing the relevance of theoretical approaches drawn from the social sciences, a...

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by Ruha Benjamin (Author)A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginat...

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by Alexis De Tocqueville (Author), Harvey C. Mansfield (Translator), Delba Winthrop (Translator)Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it...

More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well - Paperback

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by Walter E. Williams (Author)In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candor, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.Author BiographyWalter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is t...

Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays - Paperback

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by Thomas Sowell (Author)A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.Author BiographyThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, Late Talking Children, and Race and Culture. He has also published in both academic journals and the popular media including Newsweek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, a...

Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays - Paperback

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by Thomas Sowell (Author)Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.Author BiographyThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among his published works are Basic Economics, La...

Ever Wonder Why?: And Other Controversial Essays - Paperback

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by Thomas Sowell (Author)Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From gun control myths to mealy mouth media to free lunch medicine, Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unsparing candor.Author BiographyThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Insti...