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Conversation with a Dictator: A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Alan E. Clements (Author)CONVERSATION WITH A DICTATORA Challenge to the Authoritarian AssaultA Fictional Dialogue with Myanmar's Senior GeneralAn Illustrated Novel Art as Activism A Call to Free Aung San Suu KyiIn the wake of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, democracy was decimated. Thousands of citizens-including poets, monks, students, mothers-have been imprisoned, tortured, or killed. Among the silenced is Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, once the face of...

Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918 - Paperback

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by Vahé Tachjian (Author) Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Sy...

Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality - Paperback

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by Jelena Tosic (Editor), Andreas Streinzer (Editor)Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and system...

After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America - Paperback

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by Marina Gold (Editor), Alessandro Zagato (Editor) The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues t...

Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations - Paperback

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by Anna Meeuwisse (Editor), Roberto Scaramuzzino (Editor) Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, an...

Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines - Paperback

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by Norman J. W. Goda (Editor) Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such v...

A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus - Paperback

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by Ronan Hervouet (Author) Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner as an authoritarian regime. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime's ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book immerses the reader in the depths of the Belarusian countryside, among the kolkhozes and rural communities at the heart of this authoritarian regime under Alexander Lukashenko, and offers vivid...

Anarchy in the Big Easy: A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence

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Report copyright infringementby Max Cafard (Author), Vulpes (Illustrator)Anarchy in the Big Easy is an anarchist graphic history of the quest for freedom in radical and revolutionary New Orleans.The story begins with the anarchic forces of nature creating the land and the cooperative indigenous communities that thrived before the European conquest. Next we see the revolt against domination through the Enslaved Peoples' Uprising of 1811, the rise of maroon communities, the work of figures such...

Violent but True Bedtime Stories: Volume 4 - Maj. Pierre J Ortiz, USMC

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Jensen (Author)Violent But True Bedtime Stories: Maj. Pierre J. Ortiz, USMC is an action-packed graphic novel that tells the extraordinary life story of one of America's most fearless WWII heroes. Pierre Ortiz was a man who lived life on his own terms-fluent in ten languages, equally comfortable in glamorous European caf?s or gritty battlefields. From his early days in the French Foreign Legion, where he earned countless promotions and accolades, to his dar...

Power Game: How Washington Works - Paperback

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by Hedrick Smith (Author)Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith goes inside America's power center in Washington, DC to reveal how the game of governing was played in the 1980s.Author BiographyHedrick Smith is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and Emmy Award-winning producer. His books The Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. As a reporter at The New York Times, Smith shared a Pulitzer for the Pentago...

TrumpLaw: Dissecting America's Most Lawless President

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Report copyright infringementby Felipe Galindo Feggo (Author), Henry Kaufman (Author)TrumpLaw is the sequel to TrumpTruth -- another hard-hitting collection of political cartoons -- this time focusing on the myriad legal entanglements of the former president and embattled candidate. It's a funny and insightful series of nearly 90 graphic judgments on the cavalcade of Trump's courtroom dramas linked to both his bent business empire and his lawless presidency. Trump harassed Lady Justice as he ...

The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism - Hardcover

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by Joe Conason (Author), George T. Conway (Contribution by)A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise - and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right's moral decay. The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including ...

Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Coney Barrett (Author)From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution Since her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice Amy Coney Barrett with questions. How has she adjusted to the Court? What is it like to be a Supreme Court justice with school-age children? Do the justices get along? What does her normal day look like? How does the Court get its cases? Ho...

The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Malm (Author), Wim Carton (Author)A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot The world is crossing the 1.5 C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2 C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later dat...

Navigating Societal Change Through Design: Leading Missions for a Prosperous Future

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Gry Striegler (Author), Julie Hjort (Author)The social and environmental challenges we face today are complex and interdependent. Leaders and experts worldwide acknowledge that we cannot address them in isolation and that to keep doing so is to intensify the problem. This book connects the dots between a group of diverse, but overlapping, professional domains: design, mission-oriented innovation, foresight and futures design, system innovation and leaders...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Brevik (Author)"IF YOU'RE READING THIS, YOU'RE ALREADY STARTING TO WAKE UP."The UNITED STATES is not a country.It's a corporation-and you've been tricked into becoming one too.Through fraud and legal wordplay, your name in ALL CAPS turned you into a fictional entity, a corporate slave with no rights-only privileges they can take away.You're told you're free, but you're fined for traveling.You "own" property, but still pay taxes.You "vote," but the game i...

Housing Mix for Urban Inclusion: China's Policies and Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Mingjie Dai (Author)Urban segregation caused by housing differentiation has always been a hot issue of urban development, especially in the period of rapid urbanization in China. Drawing upon housing mixed neighborhoods as the platform, the concept of housing mix has been prevalent as a policy intervention to foster an inclusive urbanization. This book endeavors to root the theoretical propositions underpinning housing mix in the Chinese context. It follows the...

80 Years After Bretton Woods: Relaunching Multilateralism Through Regional Monetary Unions

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Report copyright infringementby Elisabetta Tarasco (Editor), Fabio Masini (Volume Editor)2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference, where the foundations of a new international economic and monetary order were laid down. After the end of the fixed exchange-rates regime between 1971 and 1973, the US dollar hegemony was strengthened while the international system was dominated by increasing global imbalances and greater vulnerability of the world economy. This was mainly d...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Adams (Author)The politics of corruption?With just a little sleaze.Walk the corridors of power. And some interesting back-alleys.The combined novels Corrupt and Sleaze as a single anthology"Electrifying""A crash course in manipulation""I worry about this...all the time""Accelerates past star ratings""Jake, Clare, Bigsy, Christina...They are all here!" Number of Pages: 900 Dimensions: 2.23 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Da...

Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Swann (Author)From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignited a re-emergence of participatory democracy as a political ideal within organizations. This pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies to explore the continuing development of this radical idea. With a focus on communication and how alternative social media platforms present new challenges and opport...

Bought and Paid For: The Hidden Relationship Between Wall Street and Washington

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Gasparino (Author)A top reporter exposes the deep ties between the Obama administration and the big banks that are bankrupting our country. As the recession continues, President Obama has chastised the "fat cats" who feast off government bailout money while unemployment remains high and smaller businesses struggle. But according to Gasparino, Obama is faking his outrage, and his calls for new policies to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" are j...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Baldry (Author), P. Bain (Author), P. Taylor (Author)This book analyzes the multiple levels of meaning which people attach to work today, and the role of work in people's lives. By looking at call centres and software development, the book evaluates some of the claims made for the knowledge economy and argues that defining the work-life boundary is a constant problem for many workersAuthor BiographyCHRIS BALDRY is Head of Management and Organization Departme...

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Report copyright infringementby United States Office of St Services (Author)Uncover the secrets of wartime disruption with the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual," a fascinating glimpse into the world of espionage and resistance during World War II. Originally created by the Strategic Services (OSS), this manual provides a unique perspective on the techniques of sabotage employed to undermine enemy efforts. Explore the methods and strategies devised to disrupt operations, damage morale, and impede...

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Report copyright infringementby Ning Leng (Author)The Chinese state has never granted businesses full autonomy, even amid efforts to establish market-supporting institutions. Instead, the state and its officials view business as primarily political actors, demanding political services from firms to advance political objectives. Politicizing Business demonstrates that the politicization of firms is rooted in authoritarianism, often harming business interests and undermining China's efforts to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cordray (Author)The necessary story of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became a powerful force for good in the lives of everyday Americans after the 2008 financial crash. Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall when they challenge the financial companies. People are fed up, but few have the resources or expert...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Collier (Author)Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deep...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Short (Author), Charles Marohn (Foreword by)The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Author Ryan Short introduces a new framework for shaping more resilient, equitable, and loveable places that is rooted in identity, values, and a triple bottom line.Drawing from years of experience working with cit...

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Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions

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Report copyright infringementby James Workman (Author), Amanda Leland (Author)Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen-along with some unlikely allies-helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of.Exploring a victory for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like in other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries w...

Leading Health: How You and 30,000 Kansans Help Communities Thrive

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Report copyright infringementby Ed O'Malley (Author)When you think about health, what comes up? Doctors and hospitals. Physical therapy and cancer screenings. Maybe exercise and diet. In Leading Health, Ed O'Malley, the CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation, wants to expand your definition of Health. Did you know that voter participation, elementary school literacy rates, and broadband access are all predictors of community health and life expectancy? And did you know that Kansas' Health rankin...

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

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Report copyright infringementby Brian P. Luskey (Author)When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day," he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union's war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called "intelligence offices," in...

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Report copyright infringementby Niccolo Machiavelli (Author)"Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion." - Machiavelli, The Prince."Contemporary Americans, perhaps more than anyone else, could learn a lesson or two from Machiavelli." - John T. Scott, Robert Zaretsky and Michael Gonchar, The New York Times. "Machiavelli's The Prince is one of those rare brain-children with which all respectable minds clai...