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by Timothy Snyder (Author)A brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined. On Freedom offers fresh insight into essential aspects of human existence--the values and obligations inherent in every individual's life."--Ai Weiwei Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading...

Veiled Valour: War crimes allegations and the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan - Paperback

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by Tom Frame (Author)'Given the importance of ability, judgment, leadership and discipline to the effective performance of any military force, the nation faces a serious problem when the public begin to have doubts and politicians start to distrust, the capability of the defence force and the reliability of its members.'Tom Frame, one of Australia's most respected military affairs analysts, reveals the background to the war crimes allegedly committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanista...

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology - Paperback

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by Anu Bradford (Author)Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in EconomicsWinner of 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize The global battle among the three dominant digital powers--the United States, China, and the European Union--is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative follow-up to The Brussels Effect, Anu...

All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America - Paperback

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by Michael Wolff (Author)The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury delivers a breathtaking insider account of the 2024 Trump campaign--undoubtedly the wildest, most unpredictable campaign in U.S. history, including multiple criminal trials, two assassination attempts, and a sudden switch of opponents. All or Nothing takes readers on a journey accompanying Donald Trump on his return to power as only Michael Wolff, the foremost chronicler of the Trump era, can do it. As Trump cr...

Stand by Me: A Guide to Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving - Paperback

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by Allison J. Applebaum (Author)"Warm, compassionate, and brimming with wisdom and expert advice" (Kate Washington, author of Already Toast), Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the ...

Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care - Paperback

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by Nafis Hasan (Author)A bold rethinking of cancer as a biological phenomenon, an indictment of science that serves capitalism, and a radical vision of liberated health and well-being.More than fifty years after the declaration of the War on Cancer, we are nowhere closer to victory. The problem lies in the way cancer is understood and the "cancer-industrial complex" that has been established to address it. The cancer-industrial complex arises from the symbiosis of private corporations, nonpro...

Blue Helmet: My Year as a Un Peacekeeper in South Sudan - Hardcover

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by Edward H. Carpenter (Author), Apurba Kumar Bardalai (Foreword by)Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on the ground in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet. South Sudan is rich in natural resources, and its fertile soil could make it the breadbasket of East Africa. Yet it remains the poorest and most corrupt country in ...

My Side of the River: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez (Author)A New York Times Editor's PickA People Magazine Best Book to Read in FebruaryA Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2024 "My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border writing while embracing nature and familial history. There are moments one sees greatness appear. This is one of those moments." ―Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experienc...

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s - Paperback

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by Julia Alekseyeva (Author)Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking. Through careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agn?s Varda, Hani Susumu, an...

Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War - Paperback

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by Hilary N. Green (Author), Edda L. Fields-Black (Foreword by)Rediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silenced Unforgettable Sacrifice offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War, challenging conventional narratives and revealing a rich history preserved through oral traditions and communal efforts. Through extensive archival research and stories shared on the porches of African American families, Hilary Green provides...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq - Paperback

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by Steve Coll (Author)A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker - Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction "Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator's thinking about world politics, local power and his relationship to the United States than has been seen before." --The New York Times "Another triumph from one of our best journalists." --The Washington Post "Voluminously researched and compulsively...

Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments - Hardcover

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by Kenneth Roth (Author)From the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, the fascinating and inspiring story of taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the world In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more than 500, conducting investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses--and pressuring offending governments to stop them. Roth has grappled with the worst of humanity, taken on the biggest villains of our time, and pe...

Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter's Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy - Paperback

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by Ginanne Brownell (Author)A profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacyIn Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter's Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, embarks on a profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy that combines intimate memoir with rigorous journalism. This groundbreaking book delv...

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare - Hardcover

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by Edward Fishman (Author)"Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."-- Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable...One of the most important books on economic warfare ever written." -- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to take on a new authoritarian axis--Russia, China, and Iran. It used to be...

Eyes on Gaza: Witnessing Annihilation - Paperback

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by Khaled A. Beydoun (Author), Mohammad Sabaaneh (Artist)A powerful and impassioned collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time during the annihilation by a leading scholar of Islamophobia.All the world's eyes are now on Gaza and Palestine. Arab and Muslim-American law scholar and author Khaled A. Beydoun shares his expertise and his perspective on the conflict in essays he wrote during the year following October 2023, accompanied by over sixty pieces of...

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash - Hardcover

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by Alexander Clapp (Author)A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans...

All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America - Hardcover

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The Mantra Of Peaceful Politics-Seven Prescriptions By Dr. Calm - Paperback

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by Kiran Dintyala (Author)"Dr. Calm brings the world into manageable focus..." -Richard Wall, A Reviewer The stakes are high! The emotions are up for a roller-coaster ride. Election frenzy everywhere! If you want to: 1. Stay Calm in The Midst of Chaos2. Decide Who To Vote For3. Resolve Conflicts and Build Relationships 4. Guard Your Mind from Negativity5. Improve Your Mental Health6. Find peace of mind7. Be Happy and Prosperous No Matter WhatThen you must read this book! Number of Pages: 148 ...

Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump - Paperback

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by Corey Robin (Author)Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? In The Reacti...

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class - Hardcover

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by Joel Kotkin (Author)Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The ...

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - Paperback

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by Gerard Prunier (Author)The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's p...

The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History - Paperback

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by Lee Smith (Author)Investigative journalist Lee Smith uses his unprecedented access to Congressman Devin Nunes, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, to expose the deep state operation against the president -- and the American people.Investigative journalist Lee Smith's The Plot Against the Presidenttells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes dur...

Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya - Paperback

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by Juan Goytisolo (Author), Tariq Ali (Introduction by), Peter Bush (Translator)Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. From ...

The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America - Hardcover

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by Sara E. Gorman (Author)Author BiographySara Gorman, PhD, MPH, is a public health expert and author based in New York. She has written extensively about misinformation, science denial, and behavioral science. Her work has appeared in TIME, The New Yorker, Science, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and NPR, among others. Sara's first book, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016, a...

50 Things They Don't Want You to Know - Paperback

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by Jerome Hudson (Author)The Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestseller the New York Times refused to include on their list.Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide.If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia's election meddling, would you gues...

White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making - Hardcover

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by Nicholas Carnes (Author)Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than the people who elect them-- and does the social class divide between ci...

Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action - Essays, 1968-1986 - Paperback

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by Charlotte Bunch (Author)Essays discuss feminism, reform, lesbianism, education, the media, and the status of women around the world. Number of Pages: 372 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.72 IN Publication Date: December 19, 2001

The Political Economy of Prosperity - Paperback

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by Arthur M. Okun (Author) Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 11, 2008

Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution - Paperback

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by Robert C. Post (Author), Pamela S. Karlan (Contribution by), Lawrence Lessig (Contribution by)The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert Post offers a new constitutional...

Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory (PB) - Paperback

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by Mary G. Dietz (Editor)This volume explores, from a variety of perspectives, the political theory of the man who is arguably the greatest English political thinker. It is the first substantial collection of new, critical essays on Thomas Hobbes by leading scholars in over a decade. Hobbes's writings stirred debate in his own lifetime, for two centuries thereafter, and continue to do so in ours. They emerged in a period of intense political turmoil--a time of civil war and regicide, of purit...

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by Alain Touraine (Author)Today neoliberals argue that we should let ourselves be guided by market forces and that there is little we can do to stem the flow of economic globalization. On the other hand, thinkers on the left continue to denounce domination and claim to speak in the name of victims who are powerless to change the circumstances of their lives. Despite the differences between these two political positions, they suffer from a common weakness: they underestimate the role of autono...

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by Mark Tushnet (Editor)Marbury v. Madison, decided in 1803, is the foundation stone of the American doctrine of judicial review. Remarkably, the case was decided without the parties having presented an oral argument to the Supreme Court. This book begins with a unique transcript of an oral argument in the case, conducted before a bench of four distinguished federal judges. The transcript is followed by essays on Marburys intellectual background, its significance in U.S. constitutional histor...