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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism - Paperback

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by Thomas Nail (Author)Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and fo...

The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity - Paperback

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by Cristina Beltran (Author)Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino ...

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-And Misuses-Of History - Paperback

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by Barry Eichengreen (Author)The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert the worst. While their response prevented a financial collapse and ca...

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by John Bew (Author)Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world buffeted by uncertainty and rapid transformation. To others, it encapsulates an attitude of cynicism and cold calculation, a transparently self-justifying policy exercised by dominant nations over weaker. Remolded across generations and presupposed to its political and ideological mo...

No Sense of Place: The Electronic Media on Social Behavior - Paperback

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by Joshua Meyrowitz (Author)How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media have created new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" ...

Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy - Paperback

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by Hidetaka Hirota (Author)Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have, meanwhile, focused on Ellis Island, which opened in 1892. In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the origins of immigration restriction in the United...

The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors - Hardcover

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by John W. Compton (Author)When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast. Even for a community that had been tracking further and further right for decades, this support seemed decidedly out of step. How, after all, could an amoral, twice-divorced businessman from New York garner such devoted admiration from the most vociferous of "values voters?"...

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by Mark Paterson (Author) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2025

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence - Paperback

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by Nicholas Reynolds (Author)A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection"Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the origins of U.S. intelligence." --Michael Morell, former Deputy Director and Acting Director, CIAHistorian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory and its ...

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by Steven Levitsky (Author), Daniel Ziblatt (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late--from the authors of How Democracies Die "[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny."--The Washington PostONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS' TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR America is undergoing a massive ...

Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe - Paperback

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by Lorenz M. Lüthi (Author)What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the exclusive driving forces of the international system. Lorenz M. L thi offers a radically different account, restoring agency to regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national developments shaped the course of the global Cold War. Despite their ele...

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 - Paperback

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by Bret Baier (Author), Catherine Whitney (Author)#1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." --Douglas BrinkleyAn epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten electoral crisis that nearly fractured a reunited nation, Bret Baie...

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future - Hardcover

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by Stephen E. Hanson (Author), Jeffrey S. Kopstein (Author)What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces ...

La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América latina - Paperback

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by Jorge Majfud (Author)"La frontera salvaje es un libro monumental". Frederico Füllgraf"Simplemente, poderoso". Noam Chosmky"La frontera salvaje es un libro escrito con coraje y deslumbrante lucidez. De lo mejor que he leído en mi vida". Víctor Hugo Morales"A los cincuenta años de la publicación de Para leer al Pato Donald, me alegra leer un libro como La frontera salvaje que explora detalladamente las formas menos sutiles en que Estados Unidos, durante doscientos años, ha buscado influir y ...

Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Natural Disaster, New Orleans Flood, Government Corruption) - Paperback

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by Sandy Rosenthal (Author)Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corps of Engineers, went into full-time damage control mode, but in the chaotic aftermath, Sandy Rosenthal uncovered evidence that the Army Corps had made egregious design mistakes in their steel floodwalls fifteen years before they buc...

Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End - Hardcover

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by Daniel Gordis (Author)Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how. 2009 National Jewish Book Award winner Add...

Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence - Paperback

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by Alan Dershowitz (Author)In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "Creator and "Nature's God," on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right's goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States w...

Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow - Paperback

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by Jim Hightower (Author), Susan DeMarco (With)America's most irascible and hilarious curmudgeon turns a kind and benevolent eye toward brave, hardy, and hardworking souls around the country who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles; redefine success in business, politics, and life in general; and blaze new pathways toward a richer and happier way of life, from the farmers' cooperative that said "NO " to Wal-Mart and thrived to the economists who got into the coffee business ...

Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?: Washington on $2 Million a Day - Paperback

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by Micah Sifry (Author), Nancy Watzman (Author)"Get rich quick Read this book and learn how to invest in politicians for fun and profit Just don't leave this book where any regular voters can read it "-Arianna Huffington, author of Pigs at the TroughEvery day corporations and other wealthy special interests pump another $2 million into the coffers of our elected officials in Washington and their party committees. For their money they get an estimated $160 billion a year in tax breaks, subsi...

The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace - Hardcover

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by Alan Dershowitz (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel todayIn addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowtiz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders who would delegitimize Israel as an apartheid regime subject to the same fate as white South Africans; Israel's academic enemies, led by profess...

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Hardcover

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by Mark Fisher (Author), Matt Colquhoun (Editor)A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we reall...

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom' - Paperback

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by William F. Buckley (Author), Michael Knowles (Introduction by)Celebrate 70 years of the classic "For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work--a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias. In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsibl...

Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?: The Munk Debate on Geopolitics - Paperback

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by Niall Ferguson (Author), Fareed Zakaria (Author), Rudyard Griffiths (Editor)The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Niall Ferguson against Fareed Zakaria to debate the end of the liberal international order.Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by the increasing free movement of people and goods, international rules setting, and a broad appreciation of the mutual benefits of a more interdependent world. Together these factors defined the liberal international or...

The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) - Paperback

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by Niccolò Machiavelli (Author)The lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.The modern-day term "Machiavellian" is used to describe deception, dishonesty, and cruelty to meet a goal. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli was written as a guide for autocrats on how to govern using means that were meant to deceive and manipulate a government's constituency-to the extent of advocating the use ...

Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning: Greening Cities, Shaping Cities - Paperback

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by Israa H. Mahmoud (Editor), Eugenio Morello (Editor), Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira (Editor)Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes. This book provides insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance tools for successfully integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban planning practice. The selected contributions present real...

Tabernacle of Hate: Seduction Into Right-Wing Extremism, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Kerry Noble (Author)In the summer of 1984, Noble came within seconds of committing what would have been the largest domestic terrorist act in U.S. history at that time. As one of the founders of the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord (CSA), a cult paramilitary group, he carried a bomb into a gay-affirming church, intending to murder over seventy congregants. In Tabernacle of Hate, Noble provides an unprecedented first-person account of how a small spiritual community moved from mainstrea...

The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope - Paperback

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by Jonathan Alter (Author)This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, FDR used his cagey political ...

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by Toyin Falola (Author)This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day.Over the course of twenty seven short and engaging chapters, the book delves into the social, cultural, economic and political history of West Africa, through prehistory, revolutions, ancient empires, thriving trade networks, religious traditions, and then the devastating impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade a...

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Powe - Paperback

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by Danielle L. McGuire (Author)Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor--a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country." --The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Mont...

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea - Paperback

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by Mark Blyth (Author)Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from a...

Market Power Politics: War, Institutions, and Strategic Delay in World Politics - Paperback

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by Stephen E. Gent (Author), Mark J. C. Crescenzi (Author)A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.How are the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Russian incursions into Ukraine and Georgia, and China's occupation of islands in the South China Sea related? All three of these important moments in modern history were driven by the motivation to capture market power. Whether it was oil for Iraq, n...

The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities - Hardcover

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by Paula Braveman (Author)A growing body of knowledge has revealed the profound impact of the social determinants of health--the social, political, and economic factors apart from health care that influence health. The question is no longer if social factors are important influences on health, but rather how social factors operate and how to address them most effectively, efficiently, and equitably. Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is a comprehensive resource for students ...