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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...

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Paperback

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by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - USA Today -Time - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Essence - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Week - Kirkus Reviews "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democrac...

10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College - Hardcover

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by Emily Schrader (Author), Blake Flayton (Author), Kimberly Brooks (Illustrator)The 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College: An Illustrated Guide is an essential reference guide for Jewish students navigating today's college campuses. Packed with concise, factual, and easy-to-reference insights on Jewish history, Israel, and geopolitics, this illustrated primer dismantles common misconceptions and provides a clear foundation of knowledge for students encountering complex di...

No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers - Hardcover

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by Robert Lighthizer (Author)America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it's too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and a...

Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque - Paperback

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by Eli Valley (Author)An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public d...

Doing Good Qualitative Research - Paperback

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by Jennifer Cyr (Editor), Sara Wallace Goodman (Editor)In Doing Good Qualitative Research, Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman bring together over forty experts to provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to using qualitative methods across the social sciences, from start to finish. Each chapter introduces the theoretical considerations and best practices involved in the application of qualitative data collection and analysis. Additionally, contributors provide first-person acco...

The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America - Paperback

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by Verlan Lewis (Author), Hyrum Lewis (Author)A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyr...

The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis - Paperback

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by Christiana Figueres (Author), Tom Rivett-Carnac (Author)A cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement's climate targets. In the other, they lay out w...

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions - Paperback

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by Valeria Luiselli (Author), Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by)"Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis--and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read." --Stephen S...

Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship - Paperback

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by Sophia Balakian (Author)Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families-more than 99% globally-as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent. But "fraud" as a category is not as self-evident as it may first appear. Nor is "the family." Based on long-term fieldwork between Nairobi, Kenya and Columbus, Ohio, Sophia Bala...

Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship - Hardcover

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The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations - Paperback

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by Kerry R. Bolton (Author)In The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations Bolton examines the manner by which "Enlightenment" doctrines shaped liberalism and the bloody progenies of Jacobinism and Bolshevism. Bolton demonstrates that the inevitable consequences of these doctrines being predicated on the fallacy of universal equality is the need for increasingly draconian laws, pervasive indoctrination, and, where these are insufficient, "color revolution" and war. Like ...

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by Matthew Desmond (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch."--The New Yorker ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus ReviewsThe ...

Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump - Paperback

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by George Papadopoulos (Author)"Wait till you read this book. It blew me away. . . . This is a must-read book. . . . This will be a movie." --Sean Hannity "George Papadopoulos was the whole reason for the Trump Russia investigation." --Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff A shocking account of international spy games and a disturbing eyewitness report on a secret double government--the Deep State--intent on destroying lives and a presidency George Papadopoulos became a national figure ...

Michael Cohen's House Testimony: The Complete Transcripts and Case Documents - Paperback

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by Diversion Books (Author)The Full Transcript of the Most Shocking Testimony of the Trump Era "I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump's illicit acts. . . . I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat." --from Michael Cohen's Opening Statement to the House Oversight Committee "Michael Cohen . . .was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in ord...

Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future - Hardcover

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by Reid Hoffman (Author), Greg Beato (Author)Tech visionary Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider's perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities. Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI's immense potential to increase individual agency and create better ou...

The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Taplin (Author)An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century--the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism--being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society. At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil...

The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 - Paperback

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by Anthony Summers (Author), Robbyn Swan (Author)FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation's history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day--from the first brutal actions of the hijackers to our government's flawed response; from the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials to the "elephant in t...

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency - Paperback

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by Richard Helms (Author), William Hood (Author), Henry a. Kissinger (Foreword by)A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon's attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States....

American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work - Paperback

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by Nick Taylor (Author)Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing accomplishments. The WPA is American history that could not be more current, from providing economic stimulus to renewing a broken infrastructure. Introduced in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression, when unemployment and...

Edge City: Life on the New Frontier - Paperback

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by Joel Garreau (Author)First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping changes in 100 years by moving their jobs out to where they live and shop. In this groundbreaking and highly readable book, the author chronicles this dramatic trend and sheds revealing light on who we are, how we got that way, and where we are headed.Front JacketFirst there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans laun...

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by Kate Andersen Brower (Author)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women--also a New York Times bestseller--comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy--now with a new afterwordAfter serving the highest office of American government, five men--Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill C...

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by Quentin Skinner (Author)What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into reality. Yet, with the Whig vision of a free state and civil society ...

World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics - Hardcover

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by Bruno Ma??es (Author)World politics has changed, claims Bruno Ma??es. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and ...

The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary - Paperback

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by Oscar Phillips (Author)This 352-page manifesto will put many other political books to shame. For its intriguing, enthralling assessments of the socialistic mindset and its detrimental hold on American society, The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary offers the reader an outrageously different, intellectually stimulating, iconoclastic, and sometimes wildly unpopular opinion. How can a person, like author Oscar Phillips, possessing a lack of credentials, create a book with such keen insight...

What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies - Paperback

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by Tim Urban (Author) Number of Pages: 496 Dimensions: 1.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 22, 2024

Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States - Paperback

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by Alexis Lerner (Author)For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region, Post-Soviet Graffit...

Seven Things You Can't Say about China - Hardcover

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by Tom Cotton (Author)Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America's most dangerous enemy. ""As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I'm often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no--it's worse than you can imagine." Seven Things You Can't Say About China is Tom Cotton's provocative expos? about the gravest threat to American freedom. The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Stree...

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by Lisa Anderson (Editor)Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model" questioned the conflation of the primary causes and sustaining conditions of democracy and democratization. Now this collection of essays by distinguished scholars responds to and...

Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble - Hardcover

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by Deesha Dyer (Author)Without credentials or connections, community college student and advocate Deesha Dyer navigated her imposter syndrome, landing one of the most exclusive positions in the White House. Michelle Obama calls Undiplomatic "smart, funny, and endlessly inspirational." From the most unlikely person to end up as a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama comes a candid, incredible, and inspiring story. Moved by the election of the country's first...

Measuring and Monitoring Absolute Poverty in the European Union - Hardcover

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by Balint Menyhert (Author), Zsombor Cseres-Gergely (Author), Virmantas Kvedaras (Author)This book sets out a new framework and methodology for the measuring and monitoring of absolute poverty in the European Union. A comparative needs-based analysis of poverty is presented that allows for cross-country examination. By comparing absolute poverty measurements with existing conventional measures, a new understanding of poverty within the European Union is explored, highlighting that poverty is ...

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Paperback

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by Clayborne Carson (Author), Kris Shepard (Author), Andrew Young (Other)A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Beyond Vietnam, a powerful plea to end the ongoing con...