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Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice - Hardcover

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by Edward T. Chambers (Author)Roots for Radicals is a distillation of the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) philosophy and its unique approach to community organizing. The IAF is the oldest and largest institution for community organizing in the United States. For sixty years, its mission has been to train people to take responsibility for solving the problems in their own communities and to renew the interest of citizens in public life. The IAF, now headed by the author, Edward T. Chambers, ...

The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Revised) - Paperback

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by James Gelvin (Author)Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and assesses their historical and global significance. Gelvin begins with an overview-What were the conditions in the Arab world that led to the uprisings? Where did the demands for human and democratic rights ...

Masonry in the Formation of Our Government 1761-1799 - Paperback

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by Philip A. Roth (Author)""Masonry in the Formation of Our Government 1761-1799"" is a book written by Philip A. Roth that explores the influence of Freemasonry on the formation of the United States government during the period of 1761-1799. The author delves into the role of Masonic lodges and their members, who were prominent figures in the American Revolution and the drafting of the US Constitution. The book examines the Masonic principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity and how they...

Societal Impact of Spaceflight, Introduction - Paperback

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by Steven J. Dick (Author), Roger D. Launius (Author), National Aeronautics and Space Administr (Created by)The purpose of this volume is to examine the effects of spaceflight on society through scholarly research, making use especially of the tools of the historian and the broader social sciences and humanities. Has the Space Age indeed had a significant effect on society? If so, what are those influences? What do we mean by an "impact" on society? And what parts of society? Conversely, has ...

AR 635-200: Active Duty Enlisted Administrative Separations - Paperback

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by United States Department of the Army (Created by)The United States Army Publishing Directorate is the Army's leader in publishing and delivering informational products worldwide. Their main mission is to supply official authenticated information to enhance the readiness of the total force. Some product topics include: Army Regulations, Engineering Technical Manuals, Administrative Publications, Circulars and Pamphlets. This is one of their documents. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.32 x...

Competition in the Airline Industry - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by United States Congress House of Represen (Created by) 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work...

The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism - Paperback

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by Stephen Schwartz (Author)Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa'uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism--a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism, vigorously exported with the help of Saudi oil money, is what incites Palestinian suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden, and other Islamic terrorists throughout the world....

Men Of Wealth: The Story Of Twelve Significant Fortunes From The Renaissance To The Present Day - Paperback

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by John T. Flynn (Author)Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day is a book written by John T. Flynn. The book tells the stories of twelve men who amassed great wealth throughout history, from the Renaissance to the present day. Each chapter of the book focuses on a different man and his fortune, including figures such as Cosimo de Medici, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller. The book explores the factors that led to their success, i...

Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice - Paperback

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by Peter Somerville (Author)This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes a more critical look at the literature on community, community development and the politics of community, and applies this critical approach to themes introduced in the first edition on economic development, learning, health and social care, housing, and policing, taking into account...

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by Mario Ra S. Nchez (Author), Mario Raul Mijares Sanchez (Author)El presente libro sobre Formas de Gobierno, contiene el conjunto de temas del universo de la teoría política clásica, moderna y contemporánea, además contiene las herramientas de análisis, con los cuales se logra identificar los paradigmas de saber político en las culturas tanto oriental como occidental pues responden puntualmente a la concepción de la autoridad y el poder en todos los tiempos. Es un texto que nos da la referen...

American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 - Hardcover

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by Jeanne Sheehan (Author)This book analyzes the roots of widespread disenchantment with American government. While blame often falls on the individuals in office, they are not operating in isolation. Rather they are working within a system designed by the Framers with one goal in mind, protectionism. Although the Framers got much right, their commitment to protection of liberty led them to design a system replete with divisions of power. Whatever its merits at the founding, the government to...

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Hardcover

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by Anne Applebaum (Author)From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little...

How to Read the Constitution--And Why - Paperback

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by Kim Wehle (Author)"A must-read for this era."--Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes--essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the constantly breaking news about the backbone of American government.The Constitution is the most significant document in America. B...

Congressman Steve Rothman: A Political History with Photographs - Paperback

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by Steven R. Rothman (Author)Congressman Rothman has a strong and independent voice in Congress..... He also has a strong reputation for integrity and ethics, ...a proven record of serving the district well, and has the advantage of seniority on committees in the House.... Rothman is level-headed and measured in his thinking. And he has demonstrated his commitment to serving the needs of the 9th District.... It's hard to find a reason not to endorse Rep. Steve Rothman for re-election." From T...

The Ritual Animal: Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity - Hardcover

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by Harvey Whitehouse (Author)A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour (rituals) has allowed cultural groups to proliferate over time and s...

Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States - Paperback

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by Henry J. Abraham (Author), Barbara A. Perry (Author)Since its original publication in 1967, Freedom and the Court has become the standard text on civil liberties law, with more than 100,000 copies in print. This classic is now updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through 2003 and address essential questions of how to reconcile civil liberties--especially personal privacy--with national security in the aftermath of 9/11. Henry J. Abraham and Barbara A. Perry continue to portray the intr...

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism - Paperback

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by Orfeo Fioretos (Editor), Tulia G. Falleti (Editor), Adam Sheingate (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events influence the origin and transformation of institutions that govern political and economic relations, historical institutionalism has grown considerably in the last two ...

Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission - Hardcover

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by Casey Sherman (Author), Michael J. Tougias (Author)From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program. On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, st...

Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future - Paperback

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by Lucie Greene (Author)Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Winner of the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping in to fill the gap. With outsize supplies of cash, talent, and ambition, a small group of corporations have been gradually seizing leadership--and consumer confidence--around the world. In Silicon States, renowned futurist a...

Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror - Hardcover

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by Stewart L. Winger (Editor), Jonathan W. White (Editor)At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning--as they were in Indiana. Far from being a relic ...

Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy - Paperback

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by Hyung-A Kim (Author), Clark W. Sorensen (Editor)South Korea's triumphant development has catapulted the country's economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea's highly disciplined, technologically competent skilled workers who built these brands have become known only for their successful labor-union militancy, which in recent decades has been cr...

The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good through Activism in the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human Rights and Social Movement - Hardcover

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by Catherine Fleming Bruce (Author)WINNER OF THE 2017 HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOOK PRIZE, University of Mary Washington Named one of "15 Essential African American History Books" by National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2017 This updated and revised second edition of the full color pictorial book provides a space where social actors in transformative times will find connection between servant-leaders like John Lewis, Modjeska Simkins, Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, who themselves have hallowed...

DONALD J. TRUMP President of the United States: Another Flawed Man Chosen by God - Paperback

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by Julian C. Long (Author)America's Founding Fathers believed in God and His correct way to survive and thrive. God chose them (with flaws) to draft the U.S. Constitution and show citizens the way to greatness. They warned citizens to not allow domineering politicians and bureaucrats to rule them. Now, Suicidal Misplaced Faith (in man, not in God) has the U.S.A. in a man-made mess that America's "brightest" can't fix. On life support since praying believers prompted God to help defeat Hillary...

The Complete Q-anon: Q-anon, Summarized, Analyzed, and With a Firsthand Account of Cabal's Ground Intelligence Operations - Hardcover

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by Anonymous Conservative (Author)For years, an anonymous internet personality calling himself "Q" has posted messages offering inside information about a hidden global struggle for control over the entire world. It was a struggle occurring between a criminal conspiracy of ultra-wealthy elites who used their wealth to corrupt intelligence agencies and governments, and a select group of Military Intelligence professionals and assorted patriots. As he has posted, a rapidly growing coterie of fo...

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by Nick Cheesman (Author)Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia. This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution. Contention over these and other ideas, it shows, does not reflect the political world in which Myanm...

Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power - Hardcover

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by David Dayen (Author)From the airlines we fly to the food we eat, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives--by one of our most intrepid and accomplished journalists If you're looking for a book . . . that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why we're in these fights--add this one to your list. --Senator Elizabeth Warren on David Dayen's Chain of Title Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our oppo...

Debt and Taxes: Defusing America's Debt Bomb - Paperback

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by Howard Mick (Author)America's $34 trillion national debt is more than just a number-it's a ticking time bomb. With the debt ratio now exceeding the nation's gross domestic product by 26 percent, Howard Mick offers a crucial exploration of how we got here and what it means for our future.Drawing on government data and the insights of influential economists, Mick takes readers on a journey through the history of America's fiscal policies, revealing how even well-meaning decisions have contri...

American Exception: Empire and the Deep State - Hardcover

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by Aaron Good (Author), Peter Phillips (Foreword by)American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those political practices that are typically repressed in ...

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - Paperback

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by Tanya Talaga (Author)The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrou...

Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer - Hardcover

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by Christopher A. Cooper (Author)North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural divide--these issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State. For that reason, North Carolina politics and government are increasingly of interest not just to North Carolina citizens but to journalists, political observers, and people across the coun...

Politics After Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World - Paperback

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by David Vandrunen (Author)For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian--ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians lived in Christendom. But in a gradual process beginning a few hundred years ago, Christendom weakened and finally crumbled. Today, most Christians in the world live in pluralistic political communities. And Christians t...

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering - Hardcover

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by Laura Quintana (Editor), Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Editor), María Inés Fernández Álvarez (Contribution by)This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.Author BiographyLaura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes.Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of...