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A Century of Votes for Women - Paperback

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by Christina Wolbrecht (Author), J. Kevin Corder (Author)How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into...

Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Author)How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces also raided the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center and trucked its complete library to Israel. Palestinian activists and supporters protested loudly t...

Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party - Hardcover

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by Lainey Newman (Author), Theda Skocpol (Author)In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members--mostly men--and their families and neighbors. They conveyed fundamental worldviews, making blue-collar unionists into loyal Democrats who saw the party as on the side of the working man. Today, unions play a much less significant role in American l...

1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America - Paperback

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by David Pietrusza (Author)The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. "Outstanding. . . . by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Coherent, compelling. . . . A skillful, authoritative investigation." --Kirkus Reviews Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections--DE...

You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen - Paperback

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by Eric Liu (Author)Is this the America you want? If not, here's how to claim the power to change your country. We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread of grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and $15 Now, people across the country and across the political spectrum are reclaiming power. Are you ready for this age of bottom-u...

One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future - Paperback

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by Ben Carson (Author), Candy Carson (Contribution by)Now in paperback - Dr. Carson's acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller. "In light of the economic stagnation, swelling debt, out-of-control bureaucracy, and moral decline facing America today, Dr. Ben Carson's One Nation is about the most optimistic book you will find at your local bookstore. Brimming with confidence about America's ability to come to a consensus on such issues as debt, welfare, and gay marriage, Carson provides a hopeful...

The Economics of Child Labour: Education, Fertility, and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries - Paperback

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by Alessandro Cigno (Author), Furio C. Rosati (Author)Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in the home, to morally or physically dangerous ones. Many forms of child labour have valuable learning-by-doing elements, but they all conflict with formal education. If the family is credit constrained, child labour relaxes the liquidity constraint and may be neces...

The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists - Paperback

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by Roy W. Spencer (Author)The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth's climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon d...

Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America - Paperback

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by Mike Bedenbaugh (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 24, 2024

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by Joel Joseph (Author)The book explains the harm caused by plastics on oceans, lakes, streams, humans and animals. The book proposes solutions to plastic pollution, including legislation in the United States and an international treaty. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2023

A People's History of the United States - Paperback

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by Howard Zinn (Author)THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, a...

The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran - Hardcover

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by Denise Natali (Author)In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, Denise Natali shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes. Rather, Kurdish nationalism has been shaped by the development of nation-states in the region. Although Kurdish communities have maintained some shared sense of Kurdishness, Kurdayeti (the mobilization of Kurdish identity) is interwoven with a much larger...

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by Ezra Klein (Author)ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's "5 books to read this summer," this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this "superbly researched" (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us--and how we are polarizing it--with disastrous results. "The American political s...

At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope - Paperback

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by Edward Curtin (Author)At the Lost and Found is a dazzling exploration of the most important issues of our time, written in a style that defies categorization. Open it at any chapter and you will be hooked by themes and sentences that are a moveable feast for head, heart, and spirit. Each chapter is like a river journey that will twist and turn your mind down unexpected tributaries that you never thought to follow. And when you reach the end, you will realize you have been traveling one mig...

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power - Hardcover

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by Sergey Radchenko (Author)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution....

U.S. Alliance and Partner Networks - Paperback

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by King Mallory (Author), Luke J. Matthews (Author), Michael J. McNerney (Author)To determine how much the United States can rely on its network of allies and partners, researchers compared global networks of diplomatic, military, and economic elements of national power in 1989, 2000, and 2017 on a variety of factors. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2024

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice - Paperback

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by Treva B. Lindsey (Author)One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."--Publishers Weekly A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogy...

The Jack Smith Report: Final Report on Efforts to Interfere with the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by Donald Trump - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)The full, unexpurgated final report of special prosecutor Jack Smith, regarding his two-year investigation of Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The evidence from the investigation includes grand jury testimony from 55 witnesses, interviews by Smith's criminal investigators with over 250 people, photographs, information from electronic devices and online records--including Trump's social media account--and more. "Our wo...

When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail - Paperback

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by Eric Jay Dolin (Author)Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and beche-...

Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era - Hardcover

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by Clarence Taylor (Author)Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in New York City were contestedin many ways, beginning long before the 1960s, and across many groups with a surprisingly wide range of political perspectives. Civil Rights i...

Ancient Maya Political Dynamics - Paperback

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by Antonia E. Foias (Author)"An impressive overview of recent scholarship coupled with the results of a long-term research project at the site and region of Motul de San José. It contributes significantly to the anthropological literature on politics and power." --Daniela Triadan, coeditor of Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca "A long overdue and particularly welcome piece of scholarly work. It synthesizes, digests, and makes available the results of the tremendous boom in politi...

Living Lives in Quiet Desperation: ...the pain of homelessness - Paperback

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by Marilyn Reitz-Pustejovsky (Author) Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Amlo: El pacto silencioso con los pueblos originarios - Paperback

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by Acic Oklahoma (Author)CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO, PROYECTOS MÚLTIPLES DE INFRAESTRUCTURA, PARIDAD PESO DÓLAR A LA BAJA, EQUILIBRIO MACROECONÓMICO, CERO DEUDA, POPULARIDAD POLÍTICA SOSTENIDA... Qué inspira a AMLO? Cuál es la clave de su éxito político? Cuál es el origen de la mística de su lucha?Desde hace muchos años se barajea la idea de un posible despertar del México Profundo. Despertar los verdaderos valores de la antigua sabiduría, de aquella filosofía que antaño diera fama y gloria al ...

Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts - Paperback

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by Mark Bowden (Author)Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, brings readers into the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work offers a selection of the best of his award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his trenchant pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate one of the largest cocaine rings in history, or to the Luang...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Paperback

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by Malcolm X (Author), Alex Haley (With)ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citize...

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy - Hardcover

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by Katherine Stewart (Author)"An indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America."-Congressman Jamie Raskin "Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."-Kristin Kobes Du Mez The acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers exposes the inner workings of the "engine of unreason" roiling American culture and politics. Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspir...

American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy - Paperback

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by David Corn (Author)The Instant New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback! #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party's decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia. A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers readers a ...

Cherokee Nation Citizenship: A Political History - Hardcover

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by Aaron Kushner (Author)For the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, citizenship is an active way of life. In this, Aaron Kushner contends, it differs from the general American understanding of citizenship as a statement. Cherokee Nation Citizenship is Kushner's exploration of legal citizenship in the Cherokee Nation, how the law has developed and changed over time, and what lessons this living idea and its history hold for Americans, Native and non-Native alike. The first political history of Chero...

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought - Paperback

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by Daniel Brennan (Editor), Marieke Borren (Contribution by), Paul Dahlgren (Contribution by)Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt's relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt's w...

Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism - Hardcover

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by Maurice Isserman (Author)"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR After generations in the shadows, socialism is making headlines in the United States, following the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and the election of several democratic ...

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance - Paperback

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by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Author)Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and...

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Daniel Treisman (Author), Sergei Guriev (Author)How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by disto...