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George F. Johnson and His Industrial Democracy - Paperback

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by William Inglis (Author)""George F. Johnson and His Industrial Democracy"" is a book written by William Inglis that explores the life and legacy of George F. Johnson, an American businessman who revolutionized the way companies treated their employees. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott-Johnson Corporation, a shoe manufacturing company that was one of the largest employers in the United States during the early 20th century. The book delves into Johnson's early life, his rise to success, ...

The St. Petersburg Connection: Russian-American Friendship from Revolution to Revolution - Paperback

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by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy (Author)A history of Russian-American relations from 1776 to 1917, when these two states, mostly antagonists since, were warm friends.A compelling account of Russian-American relations from the American Revolution of 1776 to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Long before the Cold War, there was a seemingly unlikely connection between the two countries -- one a champion of liberty and progress; the other an absolute monarchy and defender of tradition. Indeed, ...

Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America - Paperback

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by John Nichols (Author)A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again" Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power. And we need to know how to challenge their abuses. John Nichols, veteran political corre...

Rocket Man: Nuclear Madness and the Mind of Donald Trump - Hardcover

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by John Gartner (Editor), Steven Buser (Editor)Will President Trump destroy civilization or win the Nobel Peace Prize? Humankind's survival feels like a jump ball that could go either way. We are perched on a precipice, and the reason we are looking into an abyss of nuclear annihilation is that the American president has unencumbered, unilateral control over the nuclear codes. One thing we know for sure is that the mind of Donald Trump is currently in control of our fate. Never before have th...

Karl Marx: An Illustrated Biography - Paperback

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by Werner Blumenberg (Author), Gareth Stedman Jones (Foreword by)This classic biography of Karl Marx, complete with Gareth Stedman Jones' poignant introduction, is unlike any other account of its subject. Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks in detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence in addition to virtually every photograph i...

Andrew Tate: INNOCENT! - Why TOP G ended up in jail - The insider book with all the secret facts about the No.1 judicial scandal! - Paperback

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by Andreas Walter (Author)Finally clarity! This explosive book puts all the secret facts on the table for the first time worldwide! Andrew Tate has been in a Romanian prison since December 29, 2022. Without reasons. Without evidence. Without charge. He's innocent! And the media hides this. But now the truth is finally coming to light, because an insider unpacks! The investigative journalist Andreas Walter has been on the trail of the Romanian authorities and now presents the answers to all qu...

China's Self-Conception and the Security Environment in East Asia: Is There (Still) a Chance for Cooperative Security? - Paperback

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by Michael Staack (Author)China's economic, technological, political, scientific, and military rise has significant implications for both the international system and the regional dynamics in East Asia. The People's Republic views this development as a resurgence, a return to a leading global position. This study reflects on this process and discusses the concepts and strategies that the international community might adopt in response to China's growing self-confidence. Number of Pages: 45 Pu...

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How Fdr's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America - Paperback

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by Burton W. Folsom (Author)A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, econo Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.22 x 6.22 IN Publication Date: November 17, 2009

Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America - Paperback

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by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Editor)Since the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking connections between our current moment and the tumultuous interwar period in Europe. But others question if these connections really reflect our current political moment or if they are another example of Eurocentrism and American provincialism speaking over a much ...

Marx: Later Political Writings - Paperback

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by Karl Marx (Author), Terrell Carver (Editor)Marx: Later Political Writings brings together the most important texts in political philosophy written by Marx after 1848. All are in new translations, and the collection is introduced by the leading Marx scholar Terrell Carver. Unlike other collections, the works are presented complete, according to their earliest edition or manuscript text, and include the Manifesto of the Communist Party, and the little-known Notes on Adolph Wagner. These text...

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by Marguerite Harrison (Author), William Benton Whisenhunt (Editor)Soon after Marguerite Harrison's gripping autobiography was published, the New York Timescalled it the most interesting and valuable book available on contemporary Russia. Yet, inexplicably, the work has been out of print for 80 years. First published in 1921, just months after Harrison's release from a Bolshevik prison. Marooned in Moscow provides a fascinating account of her entry into war-torn Russia in early 1920, first-p...

Prussian Socialism and Other Essays - Hardcover

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by Oswald Spengler (Author), Kerry Bolton (Translator), Kerry Bolton (Annotations by)Oswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden forecast on the eclipse of Western Civilisation, The Decline of The West, struck a chord amidst a period of moral, cultural, social and economic decay, around which swirled increasingly violent forces of Left and Right. Yet if recalled at all today it is as a failed prophet, w...

Siete Ensayos de Interpretación de la Realidad Peruana - Paperback

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by José Carlos Mariategui (Author)Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana es un clásico en los estudios latinoamericanos sobre el colonialismo, el latifundio y los atavismos sociales poscoloniales. Es la obra principal del escritor peruano José Carlos Mariátegui. Siete ensayos se publicó en Lima, en 1928, y convirtió a Mariátegui en uno de los autores marxistas más conocidos de la lengua española.En Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana José Carlos Mariátegui r...

Sweden and national liberation in Southern Africa. Vol. 1. Formation of a popular opinion (1950-1970) - Paperback

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by Tor Sellstr?m (Author)In 1969, the Swedish parliament endorsed a policy of direct assistance to the liberation movements in Southern Africa. Sweden thus became the first Western country to enter into a relationship with organizations that elsewhere in the West were shunned as 'Communist' or 'terrorist'. This book traces the background to the relationship. Presenting the actors and the factors behind the support to MPLA of Angola, FRELIMO of Mozambique, SWAPO of Namibia, ZANU and ZAPU of Zi...

The Trump - Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report and the Report of Evidence in the Democrats' Impeachment Inquiry in the House of Representatives: Repor - Paperback

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by House Intelligence Committee (Author)" Impeachment is] the most formidable weapon for the purposes of dominant faction that ever was contrived. It would be the most effectual one for getting rid of any man whom they consider as dangerous to their views, and I do not know that we could count on one-third in an emergency."--Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 1798In December 2019, the US House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Democrat Adam Schiff, issued The Trump-Ukraine I...

The Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment - Paperback

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by Christopher J. Berry (Author)David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodo...

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Alena Ledeneva (Author)Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society's open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as 'ways of getting things done', these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven...

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada - Paperback

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by Jennifer Elrick (Author)In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada's immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bu...

An Outline History Of Tioga And Bradford Counties In Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins And Schuyler In New York - Paperback

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by John L. Sexton (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

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by Gene Moran (Author)By synthesizing his decades of sailing, military service and corporate experience, former Naval officer and lobbyist Gene Moran has created an entertaining and information-packed guide for those transitioning out of the military or through post-military life-or anybody facing a major career change. Make Your Move: Charting Your Post-Military Career chronicles Moran's experiences both in the Navy and his personal life. A personal light list of markers for achievement, Mak...

The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing - Paperback

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by Arif Hasan (Author)The Search for Shelter sheds light on the global population living in slums, which has increased from 1 billion in 2014 to 1.6 billion in 2018. The book also looks at the impact of neoliberalism on urban planning, the manner of organization and the struggles of the communities affected by these processes, the cultural and political decision-making processes of the State, and their repercussions on the form and life of the city. In this book, Arif Hasan discusses the conf...

Bridging the Gap: Islam's Challenge for America - Hardcover

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by Ashraf W. Nubani (Author)While collecting his thoughts on Islam, author Ashraf Nubani soon came to realize that while Islam has often been misunderstood in public discourse, it has a powerful message to offer in the marketplace of ideas. Bridging the Gap: Islam's Challenge for America is meant to do just what the title suggests: build a bridge between Islam and Western principles that leads to a bigger, much needed discussion.Through use of the tenets of Islam, Nubani wants to reframe West...

That's Not Canadian: A Search For Human Rights in A Global Pandemic - Hardcover

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by Dr Sharon Ryan (Author) Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 24, 2024

A Blueprint for a Modern Society: Redesigning Democracy, Novel Solutions for Consolidation of Power in Government, Fair Taxation, Election Fraud, Immi - Paperback

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by Rob Pendell (Author)Human society is amazingly complex. It represents the most complex social structure on the planet. Throughout history, there have been many forms of societal management and control. Kings, emperors, dictators, senates, republics, communes, democracies, etc.--all have tools, ideas, and methods of managing society. Such writings as Machiavelli's The Prince, Mao's Little Red Book, Marx and Engles's Communist Manifesto, Thoreau's Walden, and Jefferson's Declaration of Indep...

Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency - Hardcover

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by Mark Moyar (Author)In the United States you can elect any president you want, but a small group of people you've never heard of still run everything -- year after year, administration after administration. That's not democracy. It's oligarchy, and Mark Moyar explains exactly how it works. --Tucker CarlsonThis book tells a remarkable true story of bureaucratic assassination during the Trump presidency, revealing in vivid detail how career federal employees thwarted President Trump's efforts...

The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope Are Reshaping the World - Paperback

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by Dominique Moisi (Author)In the first book to investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization, Dominique Mo si shows how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a "clash of emotions." The West, he argues, is dominated and divided by fear. For Muslims and Arabs, a culture of humiliation is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Asia, on the other hand, has been able to concentrate on building a better future, so it is creating a new culture of hope. Mo si, a leading ...

Trumpism, Carl Schmitt, and the Threat of Anti-Liberalism in the United States - Hardcover

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by Roberta A. Adams (Author), Roberta Adams (Author)Trumpism, Carl Schmitt and the threat of Anti-liberalism in the United States: The Political Thought of Donald Trump and Trumpism examines the phenomenon of Trumpism as it intersects with political theory. Unlike many pundits who have been at a loss to explain Donald Trump, Trumpism, or its appeal, Roberta Adams does not dismiss Trump or Trumpists. She argues that they are neither ignorant nor inconsistent. The author argues that Trumpism re...

Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future - Paperback

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by Mark R. Levin (Author)#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin delivers a "bracing meditation" (National Review) on the ways our government has failed the next generation. In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that ...

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation - Paperback

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by Joseph N. Abraham (Author)Conquest is murder & theftConquerors are vicious criminalsVicious criminals become kingsKings designed civilization...and we are the products of civilization.Right wing movements are rising around the globe, but our attention is misdirected. The problem is not the authoritarian leader, but the blinkered supporters who unthinkingly follow him. Without them, the despot is irrelevant.Why do we attach ourselves to dictators & demagogues? Why do we defend even ...

The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic - A Retelling for Our Times - Paperback

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by Ross King (Author)The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Italian influence--and easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from a strong, stable peninsula, sure of its place in the world. In this breakneck history, bestselling author Ross King dismantles this assumption, uncovering the story of a land rife with inner uncertainty even as its influence spread. As the Italian tale unfol...

Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks - Paperback

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by Dianne Otto (Editor)This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human rights field to ensure respect for the rights of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, queer legal theory provides a means to examine the structural assum...

Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System - Hardcover

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by Ryan J. Reilly (Author)The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can't be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement--threatening the very idea of justice and its role in society. The attack on the Capitol building following the 2020 election was an extraordinarily large and brazen crime. Conspiracies were formed on social media in full public view, the law-breakers paraded on national television with undisg...