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Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography - Paperback

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by Francis Wheen (Author)In vivid detail, Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867, to muted praise. But after Marx's death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of twentieth-ce...

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) - Paperback

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by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Author)"Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity acro...

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction - Paperback

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by Arundhati Roy (Author)Praise for Arundhati Roy: "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." --Howard Zinn"Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." --Naomi Klein"The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating." --The New York Times Book ReviewBookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things ...

The Rebel's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Resistance - Paperback

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by Lady Libertie (Author)The Rebel's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Resistance is your no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners manual for standing up to authoritarianism and keeping freedom alive. Forget doomscrolling and despair-this guide is packed with inspiring stories of badass women throughout history who stared fascism in the face and said, "Not today, dictator."But this isn't just a history lesson. It's a crash course in modern resistance, with practical advice and step-by-step checklists to hel...

State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American Statesâand the Nation - Paperback

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by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Author)Using a diverse array of original evidence, State Capture explains why and how conservatives developed cross-state political clout while progressives did not. Most Americans pay little attention to the massive number of elections that occur at the state level every year. Yet cumulatively, a party's success in state-level races across the country can produce major shifts in policymaking and governance. That is precisely what has happened in the US since 2...

Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan - Paperback

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by Jonathan Clements (Author)The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the last surviving enclave of the Republic of China, a lost colony of Japan, and claimed by Beijing as a rogue province--merely the latest chapters ...

Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics - Paperback

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by Georgina Waylen (Editor), Karen Celis (Editor), Johanna Kantola (Editor)As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.Author...

American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism - Paperback

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by Henry A. Giroux (Author), George Yancy (Foreword by)Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era?As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Are Americans willing to surrender their freedom and dignity, along with their ongoing struggle for equality, justice and mutual respect in the face of the rising tide...

As? Veo Las Cosas: Lo Que Nunca Te Cont? / The Way I See Things: What I Never Told You - Paperback

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by Jorge Ramos (Author), Isabel Allende (Prologue by)El libro más personal, íntimo y revelador de Jorge Ramos en casi cien columnas y tres puentes. "Jorge Ramos [...] es una persona íntegra y de esas hay muy pocas en este mundo. A leer estas páginas de su memoria me entero de algunos secretos, me entretengo, me conmuevo y me reencuentro con el amigo de siempre, con el periodista que me pone al día sobre el acontecer y me recuerda los valores morales que suelen perderse en el ruido de la exis...

Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia - Paperback

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by Z. Zane McNeill (Editor)Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we're queer and we're here to stay, cause we're every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees" echoing through the hills of Appalachia and into the boardrooms of every media outlet and opportunistic author seeking to define Appalachia from the outside for their own politi...

The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empire - Hardcover

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by Bruce Gilley (Author)The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan Burns was among them. In this lively and provocative work of history, Bruce Gilley vindicates Sir Alan's view that decolonization was poorly managed and too swiftly executed, a view based not on imperialist nostalgia but...

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by Michael Whitby (Commentaries by), Michael Whitby (Translator), Mary Whitby (Commentaries by)The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.6 IN Publication Date: February 01, 1989

Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe - Paperback

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by George Friedman (Author)A fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again--from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. For the past five hundred years, Europe has been the nexus of global culture and power. But throughout most of that history, most European countries have also been volatile and unstable--s...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning - Paperback

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by Rachel Weber (Editor), Randall Crane (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world. Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane, professors at two leading planning institutes in the United States, this handbook collects together over 45 noted field experts to discuss three key questions: Why plan? How and what do we plan? Who plans for whom? These three questi...

Vectors: Heroes, Villains, and Heartbreak on the Bridge of the U.S. Navy - Hardcover

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by Thomas B. Modly (Author)Thomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy where his career began. His experience, as chronicled in these pages, tells the story of Secretary Modly's quest to advance the Department of the Navy's preparedness for the challenges of this century. As Acting Secretary of the Navy he held fast to the mantra of "acting, not pretending," and thus advocated agg...

Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House - Hardcover

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by Deborah Willis (Author), Kevin Merida (Author)Celebrate--through stunning photographs--Kamala Harris's presidential run in one of the most consequential, surprising, and invigorating, campaigns in our nation's history, one of the most impactful ever of a candidate attempting to become the first woman president of the United States. Kamala is a beautiful tribute to Kamala Harris's remarkable rise from District Attorney in California to her historic presidential run in 2024. Curated by Debor...

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 - Hardcover

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by Rashid Khalidi (Author)A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending h...

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? - Paperback

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by Martin Luther King (Author), Coretta Scott King (Foreword by), Vincent Harding (Introduction by)In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and ...

Pocket Constitution (25 Pack): U.S. Constitution with Index & Declaration of Independence

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by National Center for Constitutional Studi (Compiled by) Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 2.3 x 6.5 x 3.3 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2005

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin - Paperback

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by Masha Gessen (Author)National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. "In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal "Thanks to fearless reporting and acute psychological insights, Masha Gessen has done the impossible in writing a hi...

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague - Paperback

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by Timothy Garton Ash (Author)The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory--or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton A...

Why Did Arno Breker Decide to Collaborate with the Nazi Cultural Programme?: Nazi Propaganda in Germany 1939-45 - Paperback

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by James Pinnock (Author)Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 72.0%, Durham University, language: English, abstract: According to Jonathan Petropoulos, Arno Breker was arguably the artist most admired by the Nazi leaders and most celebrated by the Nazi regime. As such, Arno Breker does not represent a simple cog in the National Socialist cultural machine, but rather occupies a position of almost unrivalled prominence and e...

Civil Service Exam Study Guide - Test Prep Secrets for Police Officer, Firefighter, Postal, and More, Over 400 Practice Questions, Step-by-Step Review - Paperback

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by Matthew Bowling (Editor)Mometrix Test Preparation's Civil Service Exam Study Guide - Test Prep Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Civil Service Examination. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: * Practice test questions with detailed answer explanations * Step-by-step video tutorials to help you master difficult concepts * Tips and strategies to help you get your best test pe...

Mi María: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico. - Paperback

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by Ricia Anne Chansky (Author), Marci Denesiuk (Editor)When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of deaths. The seventeen oral histories collec...

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America - Paperback

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by Sara Sinclair (Editor)How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.Author BiographySara Sinclair is an oral historian, writer, and educator of Cree-Ojibwe and settler descent. Sara teaches in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University. She has contributed to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research's Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Obama Presidency Oral History, and Robert Rauschen...

A Love Song, a Death Rattle, a Battle Cry - Paperback

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by Kyle Tran Myhre (Author)One part mixtape, one part disorientation guide, and one part career retrospective, Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre's debut looks you directly in the eye and doesn't let you flinch. Ranging from justice to love, community action to personal reflection, A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry is a dedication to craft. Clocking in before the rest of us are even awake, the book wastes no time. It does the work and beckons you to follow. A compilation of poems, lyrics and es...

Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional Government - Paperback

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by Jeffrey P. Crouch (Author), Mark J. Rozell (Author), Mitchel A. Sollenberger (Author)"I have an Article II," Donald Trump has announced, citing the US Constitution, "where I have the right to do whatever I want as president." Though this statement would have come as a shock to the framers of the Constitution, it fairly sums up the essence of "the unitary executive theory." This theory, which emerged during the Reagan administration and gathered strength with every subsequent presidency, co...

Portugal in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Nuno Monteiro (Editor), Patr?cia Silva (Editor), Pedro C. Magalh?es (Editor)Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.It examines and elucidates Portugal's recent trajectory, its current position, and the main challenges it faces through an examination of the principal dimensions of cultural, economic, political, and social development in the country. Bringing together some of the fo...

Using Force to Protect Civilians: Successes and Failures of United Nations Peace Operations in Africa - Hardcover

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by Stian Kjeksrud (Author)Using Force to Protect Civilians offers the first comprehensive analysis of United Nations military protection operations across time and UN missions, drawing on a novel dataset that covers 200 operations from ten UN peacekeeping missions in Africa from 1999 to 2017. Employing a mixed-methods research design, the book finds that Blue Helmets succeed as often as they fail when they employ force to protect, indicating that they can wield force effectively - under the r...

Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 - Hardcover

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by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (Author), Natalie Thomlinson (Author)Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national network of groups that some observers saw as an 'alternative welfare state', helping to keep the strike going for just under a year. This book is the first...

Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings - Paperback

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by Ghassan Kanafani (Author), Louis Brehony (Editor), Tahrir Hamdi (Editor)"No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani" Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, writer and journalist, author of Rifqa"I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine" Ilan Papp?, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"As relevant today as he was in the 1960s and 1970s" Ghassan Abu Sittah, award-winning surgeon, ...

The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics - Hardcover

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by Daniel Schlozman (Author), Sam Rosenfeld (Author)A major history of America's political parties from the Founding to our embittered present America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emer...