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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Tarleton (Author)A tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops' struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant options for an affordable place to live. With home valued more than ever as a commodity, even social housing ...

On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

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by Timothy Snyder (Author), Nora Krug (Illustrator)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug "Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future."--Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder's New York Ti...

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by Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Author), Artie Vierkant (Author)A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel" In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health. Written by co-hosts of the hit "Death Panel" podcast and longtime disability ...

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear - Paperback

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by Paul Rogat Loeb (Author)More relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world In today's turbulent world it's hard not to feel like we're going backwards; after decades of striving, justice and equality still seem like far off goals. What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly ...

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Paperback

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by Charlene Carruthers (Author)A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more q...

No Way but Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip - Hardcover

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by Brian K. Barber (Author)What is life really like in the disparaged Gaza Strip? No Way but Forward takes you there via a set of deeply human accounts of three ordinary young Palestinian men over the past thirty years, including the year following October 7, 2023. Their lives have been riddled with oppressive military constraint, violence, humiliation, and loss. Yet along with their parents, wives, and children, they have persevered in making an honorable life for themselves. These narrative...

By Any Dreams Necessary: Anti-Racist Strategies for Sustainability, Resilience and Environmental Justice in African American Communities. - Hardcover

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by Bruce W. Strouble (Author)"By Any Dreams Necessary" is a transformative guide that offers a strategic vision for enhancing sustainability, building resilience, and achieving environmental justice in African American communities. Dr. Bruce Strouble delivers a strategic plan for African Americans to address systemic racial oppression, economic disenfranchisement, and environmental injustice and turn them into opportunities for empowerment through practical solutions and strategic action.This...

Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon - Paperback

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by Jane Anna Gordon (Author)Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they ...

Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations - Paperback

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by Didier Fassin (Editor), Axel Honneth (Editor)The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture--a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of--and challenge--our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves? Instead of diagnosing emergenc...

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End - Hardcover

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by Neil Howe (Author)The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will look like once it has. Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a d...

The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government - Paperback

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by Tyler O'Neil (Author)The same left-wing dark money foundations that supported the anti-Israel protests are funding a radical cabal, manipulating the administrative state on education, unions, transgender orthodoxy, elections, and the weaponization of law enforcement to silence their critics. Why did the Biden White House celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday? Why is the bureaucracy prioritizing electric vehicles and less reliable forms of energy when Americans struggle t...

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Paperback

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by Jane Mayer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist LA Times Book Prize Finalist PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group. “With such turmoi...

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age - Hardcover

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by John Lithgow (Author)New York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproa...

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by Giacomo Rugge (Author)The events of the last ten years have shaken the "permissive consensus" that kept the European integration process going for many years. 'Output democracy', as based on decisions presumably meeting the needs of the citizens, is no longer enough to obtain public support. Never before has a process-oriented approach to European democracy been more urgent. This book aims to address this urgency, by providing an account of the European legislative process that is less con...

Achieving Regulatory Excellence - Paperback

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by Cary Coglianese (Editor)"Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging "sharing" economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them. Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and evaluate success. Achieving Regulatory Excellence provides that direction ...

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes - Paperback

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by Andrea Kendall-Taylor (Author), Natasha Lindstaedt (Author), Erica Frantz (Author)Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing challenges to it. Comprehensive coverage of the full spectrum of political systems enhances students' understanding of the relevance of contemporary global trend...

Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology - Paperback

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by Kenneth A. Gould (Author), Tammy L. Lewis (Author)Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the topic in an innovative way. Instead of compiling articles from professional journals, this reader presents twenty classroom-tested "lessons" from dedicated, experienced teachers and researchers in the field. Building the collection on the model of a successful undergraduate classroom experience, the coeditors asked the contributors to choose a topic, match it with th...

Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice - Paperback

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by Chanelle Gallant (Author), Elene Lam (Author), Harsha Walia (Foreword by)A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the "anti-trafficking industry"-and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves. In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name o...

Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered - Hardcover

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by Paul W. Schroeder (Author), Perry Anderson (Introduction by)Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy Stealing Horses to Great Applause presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes the systemic crisis engulfing the ...

Shelbyville - Murders and Mob Justice in a Small Town - Paperback

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by Terry Lee Coats (Author)When the No.5 left Nashville, little did anyone know the events of February 10, 1912, would take an ugly turn. Three NC&St.L Railway employees, brothers Wat Greer and David Neal, and a third man, Charles Dane Bomar, would be charged with the murder of S.W. Everson, a railroad detective, and within two weeks, two of these three men would be dead at the hands of a lynch mob.In the winter of 1911, Shelbyville, Tennessee, a town that had not seen significant crime i...

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy - Paperback

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by Jacob Soboroff (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The seminal book on the child-separation policy." --Rachel MaddowNow in paperback, featuring updated reporting and a new afterword: The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America's systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist American Book Award Winner American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn June 2018, Donald Trump's most notorious decis...

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by Joseph Zárate (Author), Annie McDermott (Translator)When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape ...

The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement - Hardcover

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by Hajar Yazdiha (Author)How the misuses of Martin Luther King's legacy divide us and undermine democracy In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women's rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from family values coalitions to the alt-right, now claim the collective memory of civil rights to...

The Politics of Disease: An American History from Columbus to Covid - Paperback

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by David R. Petriello (Author) Even a pandemic is subject to politics. Disease has always been a catalyst for change, influencing wars, the rise and fall of leaders, economics, religion, art, and, most certainly, people's lives. Disease, as Covid demonstrates, can be politicized as well. While the pandemic that erupted in 2019 may be the most politicized in American history, it is far from the only one. Indeed, disease has afflicted the United States since the beginning, and it has been explo...

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop - Hardcover

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by Serene Khader (Author)For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism An incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded--and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism, political philosopher Serene Khader advocates for another feminism--one that doesn't overwhelmingly serve white, affluent #girlbosses. With empathy...

Conditionality & Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe - Paperback

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by Isabela Mares (Author), Lauren E. Young (Author)In many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using illegal strategies to influence voters. In Hungary and Romania, local actors including mayors and bureaucrats offer access to social policy benefits to voters who offer to support their preferred candidates, and they threaten others with the loss of a range of policy and private benefits for voting the "wrong" way. These quid pro quo exchanges are often called clientelism. How ca...

Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River - Paperback

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by Jim O'Donnell (Author)Jim O'Donnell sets off from his childhood home in Pueblo, Colorado exploring the history, ecology, and commodification of Fountain Creek--challenging us to reexamine how we relate to the world around us and how we might break free to a brighter future."Every stream in the American West deserves a biographer as affectionate, thorough, and lyrical as Jim O'Donnell."--BEN GOLDFARB, Crossings From its headwaters high up Colorado's legendary Pike's Peak to suburban concret...

Leadership Under Fire: A Ranking of the Performance of the Presidents with Respect to the Principles Presented in the Declaration of Independence and - Paperback

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by G. Preston Jr. Burns (Author)ADAM SMITH was a Scottish philosopher who developed a theory of government that would promote his free market capitalistic ideas. This system, if followed carefully would create the wealthiest and most successful country ever. His book called The Wealth of Nations, which described his proposed system, was published in 1776. Our founding fathers read and studied his writings over the next ten to twelve years, melded it with our Declaration of Independence and pr...

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by Angela Y. Davis (Author)With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system o...

An Introduction to International Relations - Paperback

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by Richard Devetak (Editor), Daniel R. McCarthy (Editor)International Relations is a dynamic discipline, evolving in response to contemporary world politics. An Introduction to International Relations offers a foundational explanation of the theories, systems, actors and events that shape external relations between nations in today's global society. This edition retains the existing structure, grouping chapters on theories, international history and the 'traditional' and 'new' agendas, while ...

Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste - Hardcover

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by Marcelle Trote Martins (Author)Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste analyzes the political mobilization of images of wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict societies. The book goes beyond traditional analyses of visual politics to offer a new perspective on the construction of affective imageries by considering the importance of poems, photographs and artworks, and calling attention to other ways in which bodies can be affected by conflicts beyond the...