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by John P. Sullivan (Editor), Nathan P. Jones (Editor), Daniel Weisz Argomedo (Editor)"This informative book could not be more timely...this volume addresses...the complex challenges seen today in Ukraine, Haiti, Venezuela, Gaza, and in places that will feature in tomorrow's headlines." - Brian M. Jenkins, Senior Adviser to the President of the RAND Corporation"Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict is essential reading for academics, policy makers, and security professionals alike." - Se...
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by Robert Bows (Author)This sequel to 7 Steps to Global Economic and Spiritual Transformation, Volume I, Access to Tools, illustrates how to apply the tools introduced in that initial work to analyze the global power structure and key hot spots where the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and the Sino-Russian coalition are vying for influence.Much of the text in this volume was originally published online (August 10-December 9, 2019). We have updated the information where necessary prior to t...
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by Edmonton Stroll of Poets Society (Author), Gary Garrison (Editor), Janis Dow Durnin (Cover Design by)Move beyond routine land acknowledgements toward real reconciliation with Canada's Indigenous peoples.Learn from 37 examples of personal statements in poetry and prose that show how to use the space at meetings now filled with land acknowledgement lip-service to step into actual reconciliation instead. The foreword, by Indigenous Edmonton City Councillor Aaron Paquette, and the introduction...
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by David L. Raby (Author)A 'new Mexican revolution' in the time of TrumpIn Mexico in Transformation, David Raby argues that since 2018 Mexico has undergone a process of change which no-one anticipated and which is nothing short of revolutionary. The 2018 victory of Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, usually known by his initials AMLO, and his Morena movement began a multi-dimensional programme of social change, referred to as the Fourth Transformation. This has been cemented by the subsequent victo...
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by Glauco Maggi (Author)There was no evidence to prove the accusations that Trump had been robbed of victory in 2020, and on January 6, 2021, he hit the lowest point of his exceptional human and political journey.A surprise winner of the White House in 2016 after a lifetime as a businessman in real estate and on television, Trump refused to accept the verdict of the ballot box four years later and failed to do enough to prevent protests by his most fervent supporters. This culminated in the a...
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by Iskra Books (Created by)Spark: An Iskra Retrospective and Catalog is an annual publication showcasing the groundbreaking work of Iskra Books, a radical nonprofit publisher dedicated to empowering organizers, activists, and scholars. This retrospective provides a comprehensive look at the achievements of the press, including an updated catalog of Iskra's publications with ordering information, featured articles, essays, and exclusive artwork from Iskra.Designed as both a resource and a reco...
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by Hayes (Author)Only at the precipice do we find the will to change.Following the 2020 Presidential election, many Americans lost hope that our country, and the world could be saved. Inflation soared, social media censors gained the upper hand, and we teetered on the brink of world war. Then, in November 2024, Donald Trump was re-elected by winning the electoral college vote with a solid margin, and the world now waits to see if the United States can be brought back from the brink of destruc...
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by Kristin Ross (Author)Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross's highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's concerns--internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice--frame and inform her carefully r...
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by Gustavo Baquero (Author), Moisés Naím (Preface by), Leopoldo López (Author)Venezuela energética de Leopoldo López y Gustavo Baquero, insiste en la importancia de estudiar a profundidad los primeros 100 años de historia petrolera venezolana.Para los autores plantearse alcanzar esa mejor Venezuela a la que tanto aspiran millones de venezolanos sin considerar, estudiar y comprender seriamente el tema petrolero es una inmensa irresponsabilidad. La industria petrolera ha sido y seguirá siendo e...
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by Boff Whalley (Author)Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much. Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life's not like that, is it? Life is not neat and tidy, it doesn't obey the rules. Life's stories--like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary--are pu...
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by Debanjana Nag (Author)Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas. Globalization and the Transitional Cultures: An Eastern Perspective takes different cases from various perspectives, such as gender, modernity and the middle-class, to understand the impact of globalization on Eastern societies. Globalization and the Transitional Cultures: An Eastern Perspective engages with a range o...
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by J. M. Rock (Author)This book is a philosophical and pragmatic insight into the methods and disguises of socialism. It offers a set of remedies and an urgent call-to-action in response to the unique forms of socialism evolving today within the United States. The book combines historical and economic truths with a scientific approach to analyzing the tenets and the tragedy of socialism.Every year, there is a list of the world's top causes of death. The list ordinarily includes heart disease,...
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by Jonn Elledge (Author)People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does--and about human folly. From the...
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by Alex Himelfarb (Editor), Jordan Himelfarb (Editor)Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it's about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political "no-go zone" and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the...
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by Rodney E. Walker (Author)Bill Goines followed his dream to become a Navy Frogman in the Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT21) in the 1950s. After intense evaluations he was invited to join SEAL TEAM 2, a new commando unit in unconventional warfare formed by President John F. Kennedy. He became the first black Navy SEAL.Bill Goines is an American hero with an exceptional life story-they say it's destined for the Big Screen. He completed three tours in Vietnam fighting the Communist Viet Cong ...
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by Peter Orner (Editor), Annie Holmes (Editor), Brian Chikwava (Foreword by)This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This book asks the question: How did a country with so much promise--a stellar education system, a growing middle class of professionals, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, and an independent judiciary--go so wrong?Author BiographyPeter Orner is th...
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by Scott M. Moore (Author)From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging technologies are changing China's relationship with the world, and what it means for governments, companies, and organizations across the globe. Ever since China began its ascendancy to great-power status in the 1980s, observers have focused on its growing economic, military, and diplomatic power. But in recent years, Chin...
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by Vron Ware (Author), Antonia Lucia Dawes (Author), Mitra Pariyar (Author)This is the first book to portray what it is like to live next to a British Army base. Investigating the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, it draws on voices from both sides of the divide.Back Jacket'In this revealing, important and timely study, the authors open a window on to a neglected world.'Richard Norton-Taylor, author of The State of Secrecy 'Exposes the remarkable extent to which militarisation i...
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by Amit Ranjan (Editor), Asif Shuja (Editor)This book examines the impact of chokepoints in Middle East geopolitics. In the last few years, as the number of conflicts and political tensions in the Arab world and countries surrounding the Gulf has increased, chokepoints as a tactic to hinder the "enemy" have become more prominent. To evade the chance of getting "choked", regional actors with the support of extra-regional countries are investing in new port infrastructures such as at Duqm, Gwad...
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by Eric Blanc (Author)A riveting account of labor's bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely. After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing--from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories--has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, We Are the Union makes a case ...
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by Joshua P. Darr (Author), Sean Whyard (Author)Since Barack Obama's historic and unprecedented field operations in 2008 and 2012, campaigns have centralized their voter contact operations within field offices: storefronts rented in strategically chosen communities. That model was upended in 2020: Joe Biden won the election without any offices (due to COVID-19), while Donald Trump's campaign opened over 300. Using two decades of data on office locations and interviews with campaign staffers, ...
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by Dexter Hodgener (Author)Uncover the hidden world of media manipulation orchestrated by intelligence agencies in "The Invisible Puppet Masters." This compelling expos? delves into the intricate and often controversial relationship between intelligence agencies, like the CIA, and the media. Through detailed analysis and historical context, the book reveals how these agencies have shaped public perception and manipulated narratives to serve their agendas.Explore the sophisticated psychologica...
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by Simon Winlow (Author)For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Electoral systems seem incapable of driving positive change. What is there to be optimistic about? A multiplicity of escalating pressures and a growing fear of the future encoura...
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by Sergio Torrej?n P?rez (Editor), Enrique Fern?ndez-Mac?as (Editor), John Hurley (Editor)This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading and polar...
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by Joseph Goebbels (Author)Germany's short-lived "Weimar Republic" appears in the historical record as little more than an interregnum between Germany's defeat in the First World War and the rise of Adolf Hitler's new order in 1933. While often overlooked, the situation on the ground in the 20's and 30's was anything but lacking excitement. The weak and unpopular Republic was unable to prevent radical groups of every stripe from battling it out for control of the country, sometimes with propa...
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by Jason Hickel (Author)More than four billion people--some 60 percent of humanity--live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the development ladder. It insists that if poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they c...
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by Robert D. Kaplan (Author)An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography "Provocative and wide-ranging . . . can be read slowly to savour its complexities and historical resonances or in one sitting, as I first read it, compelled by the force of its arguments."--The Sunday Times (UK) One of Finan...
