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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...

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going - Hardcover

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by Vaclav Smil (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."--Bill Gates "Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil--accept or doubt his 'just the facts' posture--but you probably shouldn't ignore him."--The Washington Post An essential analysi...

Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement - Paperback

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by Marshall Ganz (Author)Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. In 1965, when some 800 Filipino grape workers began to strike under the aegis of the AFL-CIO, the UFW soon joined the action with 2,000 Mexican workers and turned the strike into a civi...

Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Stathis Kalyvas (Author)When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic hurdles, dictatorships, revolutions, and more reasons as to why their cur...

We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America - Paperback

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by Jennifer M. Silva (Author)A deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics. The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working-class tra...

The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--And How We Can Survive Them - Paperback

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by Jean Lipman-Blumen (Author)Toxic leaders, both political, like Slobodan Milosevic, and corporate, like Enron's Ken Lay, have always been with us, and many books have been written to explain what makes them tick. Here leadership scholar Jean Lipman-Blumen explains what makes the followers tick, exploring why people will tolerate--and remain loyal to--leaders who are destructive to their organizations, their employees, or their nations. Why do we knowingly follow, seldom unseat, frequently p...

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by Andreas Malm (Author)Property will cost us the earth The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest? In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and c...

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need - Paperback

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by Naomi Klein (Author)New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Longlist Publishers Weekly Best Books Donald Trump's takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda--including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy--will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment. “Klein ...

European Dictatorships 1918-1945 - Paperback

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by Stephen J. Lee (Author)European Dictatorships 1918-1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe's states to dictatorships between the first and the second world wars. From the notorious dictatorships of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin to less well-known states and leaders, Stephen J. Lee scrutinizes the experiences of Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern European states. This fourth edition has ...

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice - Paperback

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by Thomas Pogge (Author), Michelle Kosch (Translator)John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introduction (originally published in German) gives...

Japan and the Shackles of the Past - Paperback

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by R. Taggart Murphy (Author)Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals have made regular appearances from the feudal era to the present. Today, Japan is seen as a has-been with a sluggish economy, an aging population, dysfunctional poli...

The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review - Paperback

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by Larry D. Kramer (Author)In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions o...

American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship - Paperback

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by Niambi Michele Carter (Author)At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how ...

Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty - Paperback

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by Frank Baumgartner (Author), Marty Davidson (Author), Kaneesha Johnson (Author)In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The 1976 decision u...

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas - Paperback

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by Roberto Lovato (Author)An LA Times Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Pick - A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books - A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year"Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and DimedAn urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla...

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by Peter Schweizer (Author)In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they've earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer shows who is really behind those enormous payments.In his New York Times bestselling books Extortion and Throw Them All Out, Schweizer detailed patterns of official co...

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus - Paperback

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by Rick Perlstein (Author)Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly written, Befo...

Defeating Big Government Socialism - Paperback

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by Newt Gingrich (Author)In this national bestseller, former Speaker Newt Gingrich reveals how Big Government Socialism is crippling America--and offers strategies and insights for everyday citizens to overcome its influence. In communities across our country, Americans are debating Critical Race Theory, vaccine mandates, tax increases, rising inflation, online censorship, and a host of other important issues. We have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Do we want big ...

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of America's Secret Government - Paperback

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by David Talbot (Author)An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful--and secretive--colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials--including newly discovered U.S. government doc...

La Tercera Guerra Mundial YA Está Aquí - Paperback

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by Cristina Martín (Author)La crisis de la pandemia ha puesto de manifiesto en todo el mundo las debilidades de los sistemas económicos, sociales, sanitarios y políticos, sea cual sea la forma de gobierno. Siguiendo la estela de La verdad de la pandemia, que ya apuntaba el tipo de conflictos emergentes, la autora pone sobre la mesa que la Tercera Guerra Mundial ya ha empezado y que sus batallas no van a ser solo militares, sino que se van a centrar en las luchas de las élites por el poder, el...

Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development - Paperback

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by Gregory M. Fulkerson (Author)Fulkerson provides a contemporary, in-depth understanding of communities that is useful for research, planning, and development purposes. His approach incorporates and builds on the urban-rural dynamics approach centered on the urban-rural system concept, making it relevant to urban and rural scholars.Author BiographyGregory Fulkerson is professor and chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oneonta. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x ...

Oscar López Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance - Paperback

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by Luis Nieves Falcón (Editor), Oscar López Rivera (Author), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Foreword by)The story of Puerto Rican leader Oscar López Rivera is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. A decorated Viet Nam veteran and well-respected community activist, López Rivera now holds the distinction of being one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. Behind bars since 1981, López Rivera was convicted of the thought-crime of "seditious conspiracy," and never accused of causing anyo...

The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It - Hardcover

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by Mark Bowden (Author), Matthew Teague (Author)"A gripping ground-level narrative...a marvel of reporting: tightly wound... but also panoramic."--Washington Post"A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks."--New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, PresidentDonald Trump and...

Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations - Hardcover

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by Mikael Weissmann (Editor), Niklas Nilsson (Editor)International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology, geographical scope and multiple domains of warfighting. Few would question that land forces will be important also in the foreseeable future. However, given that the battlefield is in a state ...

James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. the Fire Next Time - Hardcover

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by James Baldwin (Author), Steve Schapiro (Photographer)First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the "l...

The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order - Paperback

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by Glenn Diesen (Author)Five hundred years of Western hegemony has ended, while the global majority's aspiration for a world order based on multipolarity and sovereign equality is rising. This incisive book addresses the demise of liberal hegemony, though pointing out that a multipolar Westphalian world order has not yet taken shape, leaving the world in a period of interregnum. A legal vacuum has emerged, in which the conflicting sides are competing to define the future order. NATO expansion...

Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba's Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Ospaaal) - Paperback

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by Interference Archive (Editor), Lani Hanna (Editor), Jen Hoyer (Editor)A stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for internationalism, solidarity, communication, and art among movements today.Armed by Design reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of OS...

Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment - Hardcover

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by Brian C. Kalt (Author)Since the election of President Donald Trump, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution-covering presidential incapacity-has been a frequent topic of public discussion. Meanwhile, Section 4 has become a mainstay in television dramas, which usually represents it inaccurately. The country needs this complicated but essential topic explained. Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is designed to educate and inform the public...

Civility Rules!: Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility - Hardcover

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by Shelby Joy Scarbrough (Author)While our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to live civilly-to appreciate our common humanity with empathy and humility-ironically dwindles daily. Civility Rules! offers an opportunity to learn about the history, substance, and significance of civility through the lens of George Washington's "Rules of Civility."Back JacketPraise for Civility Rules! "Civility Rules! is a must-read for leaders in any field. The timeless principles will inspire anyo...

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium - Hardcover

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by Martin Gurri (Author)How insurgencies--enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere--have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the sto...

From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics - Paperback

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by Jerome Drevon (Author) Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: September 10, 2024

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust - Paperback

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by Immaculee Ilibagiza (Author), Steve Erwin (Contribution by)Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in...