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Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Andrew Finkel (Author)Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as The Economist and Time magazine, unravels Turkey's complexities. He sets t...

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by Michael Bloomberg (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens--and even, someday, by Washington. "Climat...

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Paperback

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by Daniel Immerwahr (Author)Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipela...

The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Valerie Hudson (Author), Patricia Leidl (Author), Swanee Hunt (Foreword by)Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and internationa...

The Open Society and Its Enemies - Paperback

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by Karl Popper (Author), Vaclav Havel (Preface by), E. H. Gombrich (Foreword by) 'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.'- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945...

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by George Frost Kennan (Author), Frank Costigliola (Foreword by)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917-1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations When the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917, American diplomats in St. Petersburg and Moscow were thrown into a bewildering situation. Should the new regime be recognized...

The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It - Paperback

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by Malcolm Nance (Author)***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***An Explosive, Revelatory Assessment of the Greatest Betrayal in American History, Newly Revised and UpdatedWilliam Barr - Paul Manafort - Michael Cohen - Steve Bannon - Rudy Giuliani - Mitch McConnell - Roger Stone - George Papadopoulos - Jeff Sessions - And More! "Impressive... a persuasive whodunit narrative." -Washington Post In The Plot to Betray America, New York Times bestselling author and renowned intelligence expert Malcolm Nanc...

Becoming DADS: A Mission to Restore Absent Fathers - Paperback

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by Charles Marvin (Author)Most child advocates agree that fatherlessness goes beyond the boundaries of race and socio-economic status--and is the root of almost every social ill faced by children in our society. Children from fatherless homes are more likely to live in poverty, become involved in drugs, alcohol abuse, and crime, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems. Without any real, lasting intervention, this cycle continues and expands from generation to generat...

Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years - Paperback

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by D. L. Hughley (Author)New York Times Bestseller (Humor)"The book everyone is laughing about!"--Joe Scarborough, Morning JoeFor two centuries, presidents hoping to secure their legacies have sought out biographers. But who could possibly capture the inspiring yet bizarre reality of the first black man to call the White House his crib, a tenure that brought hope, change, and health care to millions, but also spawned birthers, backlash, and the bewildering rise of Donald Trump? Thankfully, as...

Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal interactions. This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive and acce...

Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control - Paperback

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by Sally Hubbard (Author)An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck "lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dream--and why it's more important than ever to take action" (David Cicilline). Something's not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only get harder. When your expenses keep going up but your income stays flat, when you're price-gouged buying medicine for your child's life-threatening allergy, when you live in a h...

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by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Author)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation."Karla's book sheds light on people's personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard."--Selena Gomez FINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIM...

The Economics of Crime: An Introduction to Rational Crime Analysis - Paperback

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by Harold Winter (Author)The Economics of Crime presents a review of economic scholarly research in the ever-growing field of crime and punishment. Without using graphs or mathematical equations, Winter combines theory and empirical evidence relating to public policy concerns over a wide range of controversial topics such as the death penalty, racial bias in the criminal justice system, gun control, the war on drugs, fines versus imprisonment, policing tactics, and shaming punishments.In addi...

Global Environmental Politics: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies - Paperback

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by Gabriela Kütting (Editor), Kyle Herman (Editor)Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. This fully revised and updated new edition combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing environmental problems.Features and benefits of the book: Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics; Introduces envi...

Analysing the Israel Effect in Canada: A Critical AutoEthnography - Paperback

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by Peter Eglin (Author)This documents and analyzes the discursive and organizational methods by which public criticism of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians is silenced in Canada, as experienced through ten episodes in the life of the author over a thirty-year period from 1990-2020 in interaction with his university and local-national Canadian news media. Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9.69 x 6.85 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 19, 2024

Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America - Paperback

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by Charles Derber (Author), Yale R. Magrass (Author)This book uniquely reverses today's MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real "deeper state" is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.Class and caste-based elites and their political allies have held dominant power in the US. Large corporations, Wall Street, and other sectors of the capitalist class outsource day-to-day governance to the mainstream political parties, which can co...

The Postcolonial Studies Reader - Paperback

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by Bill Ashcroft (Editor), Gareth Griffiths (Editor), Helen Tiffin (Editor)The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field.Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. As in the first two edi...

Women, Peace and Security: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Joan Johnson-Freese (Author)This book offers an accessible overview of the issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda. This new edition has been updated and includes new chapters on WPS and Environmental Change and on WPS in Regional and Security Organizations.Author BiographyJoan Johnson-Freese is Senior Fellow, Women in International Security and Professor Emeritus, Naval War College, Faculty, Harvard Extension & Summer Schools. She is author of several book...

What Lies Ahead? Canada's Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians - Paperback

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by Jeremy Wildeman (Editor), Emma Swan (Editor)This edited volume explores Canada's foreign policy relationship with the Palestinians and broader Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). Canada was intensively involved from 1992 to 2000 in peacebuilding as a mediator in the multilateral part of the MEPP.Author BiographyJeremy Wildeman, PhD (Exon), is Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, and adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies...

Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa - Paperback

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by Carlos Nunes Silva (Editor)This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities ...

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction - Paperback

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by Adam Jones (Author)Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines, it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers.Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of g...

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by Aristotle A. Kallis (Editor)A fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of Fascism as both ideology and practice Number of Pages: 544 Dimensions: 1.17 x 9.64 x 6.88 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2002

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by Stephen M. Gardiner (Editor), Catriona McKinnon (Editor), Augustin Fragnière (Editor)This book gathers contributions from leading political philosophers on the justice and legitimacy of engineering the planet on a global scale. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journals: Ethics, Policy and the Environment and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Author BiographyStephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washingt...

Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism - Paperback

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by Alex Callinicos (Editor), Stathis Kouvelakis (Editor), Lucia Pradella (Editor)In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in 2007-8. It intersects with the emergence of Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, Chanta...

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics - Paperback

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by Günseli Berik (Editor), Ebru Kongar (Editor)The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions of feminist economics to the discipline of economics and beyond. Each chapter situates the topic within the history of the field, reflects upon current debates, and looks forward to identify cutting-edge research. Author BiographyGünseli Berik is Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA. Her research and teaching are in the fields of d...

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation - Paperback

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by H. Kumarasingham (Editor) Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building. The book covers multiple regions and issues concerning the British Empire and the Commonwealth, in particular the period ranging from the late-nineteenth century to the late- twentieth century. Original intellectual contributions are off...

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Contemporary Evaluation - Paperback

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by Damien Short (Editor), Corinne Lennox (Editor), Julian Burger (Editor)This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and challenges that indigenous peoples have faced in securing the implementation of UNDRIP, as well as its normative impact, at both the national and international levels. Author BiographyDamien Short is Co-Director of the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK and a Professor in Human Rights. He ...

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job - Paperback

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by Gavin Mueller (Author)An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimat...

The Beirut Call: Harnessing Creativity for Change - Hardcover

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by Roula Salibi (Editor), Pamela Chrabieh (Editor), Elyssar Press (Producer)The Beirut Call brings together individuals who think, do and create to inspire and communicate diverse approaches in facing wars, crises, instability, and despair; people who are turning to the arts and culture as a way to engage audiences through deep and emotional connections to bring about change, and who are imbuing their work with social and political messaging to advance the issues about which they feel most pa...

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by Robert Timberg (Author)Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle. A riveting tale that illuminates the flip side of the fab...

Blue Beam Project A Zionists-Illuminatis Advanced Weapon In the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Mohamed Cherif (Author)In the contrary of the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies eras were the mainstream media try to discredits all the sightings and information about extraterrestrials, unidentified flight objects, for years now and for a future ones, you see and you'll see mainstream media talks about aliens sightings and incidents, NASA talking about discovering new planets and new possibilities of life on them, you'll see high definition documentaries, you'll see Hollywood produ...

A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century - Paperback

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by Paul Kengor (Author)Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor changes that. In this fascinating book, he reveals a singular bond--which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president--that drove the two men to confront what they kn...