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by Peter Penz (Author), Jay Drydyk (Author), Pablo Bose (Author)For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ethics to determine the rights and re...

Labor Against the Regime: Workers' Mobilization in Egypt, 2004-2011 - Hardcover

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by Nadine Abdalla (Author)How do worker movements emerge and evolve under authoritarian regimes? What enables labor activists to overcome constraints and win concessions, and what leads to demobilization? Nadine Abdalla provides an inside look at two of Egypt's most significant worker protest movements in the years preceding the 2011 Arab uprisings. Through a fine-grained analysis of the labor movement at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra and the State Employees Mov...

The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco - Paperback

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by Randy Shaw (Author)Named for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest-grade beef, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood remains an island of primarily low-income, ethnically diverse residents in a city of every increasing wealth. How has it survived? Randy Shaw searches for answers in this powerful account of the Tenderloin from its post-quake rebuilding in 1907 through today.The Tenderloin fought back against the establishment time and time again. And often won. Shaw sh...

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by Mark Leonard (Author)An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself - from democracy to the idea of a peaceful rise'. It challenges all of our assumptions about China. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.44 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2008

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? - Paperback

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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...

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina's Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics - Paperback

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by Rob Christensen (Author)Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts-W. Kerr Scott, Robert Scott, and Meg Scott Phipps-held statewide office. Despite stereotypes about rural white southerners, the Scotts led a populist and progressive moveme...

Revolution and Counter-Revolution or Germany in 1848 - Paperback

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by Friedrich Engels (Author), Karl Marx (Author), Eleanor Aveling Marx (Editor)2014 Reprint of 1896 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In 1851Marx was asked to write a series of articles on the German Revolution of 1848. These articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx, who was then busy with his economic studies and felt, besides, that he had not yet attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Mancheste...

Curtis Yarvin & The Neoreactionary Canon, Made Simple - Paperback

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by Hugo Thornton Rowley (Author) Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 11, 2025

The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World - Paperback

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by Tim Marshall (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an "insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating" (Daily Express) book on today's space race--including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth. Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't scien...

Pink-Pilled: Women and the Far Right - Paperback

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by Lois Shearing (Author)A daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading ex...

Seven Things You Can't Say about China - Paperback

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by Tom Cotton (Author)Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America's most dangerous enemy. ""As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I'm often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no--it's worse than you can imagine." Seven Things You Can't Say About China is Tom Cotton's provocative expos? about the gravest threat to American freedom. The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Stree...

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by Judith Butler (Author)National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire."A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity." --Claudia RankineFrom a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world. Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender...

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too - Paperback

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by Ijeoma Oluo (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which whi...

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity - Hardcover

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by Yoni Appelbaum (Author)How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? We take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case. Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn't like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. Americans moved to new pla...

Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution - Hardcover

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by Christine Schliesser (Editor), Martin Leiner (Editor)In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly contributing to instability and violence, the study of alternative approaches has become imperative. Can forgiveness help heal relationships in post-apartheid South Africa? How can art assist dealing with 'unrememberable' events such as the genocide in Rwan...

Government Racket: 2000 and Beyond - Paperback

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by Martin L. Gross (Author)In 1992, Martin L. Gross shocked the nation with his New York Times bestseller, The Government Racket: Washington Waste A to Z, after whcih he testified before Congress five times on hidden catastrophic waste. Now he has returned to the scene of the crime and found that things have gotten even worse.He shows how the claim that the "era of a big government is over" is a blatant lie. With 2 percent inflation, federal spending rose 7 percent and is now more than $2 tri...

The Good Fight: Why Liberals---And Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again - Paperback

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by Peter Beinart (Author)In this passionate, provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a bold new vision and sounds the call for liberals to revive the spirit that once swept America and inspired the world. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.77 x 8.07 x 5.36 IN Publication Date: January 15, 2020

Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community - Paperback

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by Spencer Klaw (Author)Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America's most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York's Oneida Community (1848-1880). Founded by the charismatic Christian Perfectioniost John Humphrey Noyes, this remarkable society flourished for more than thirty years as a unique world where property was shared, men and women were equals, sex was free and open, work was to be joyous, and pleasure was felt to be "the very business that God set A...

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by Wenfang Tang (Author)Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to the continuity from the CCP's revolutionary experiences to its current g...

Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction - Hardcover

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by Graciana del Castillo (Author)Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace: Violence must give way to public security; lawlessness, political exclusion, and violation of human rights must give way to the rule of law and participatory government; ethnic, religious, ideological...

Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Leab (Author)Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. In Orwell Subverted, Daniel Leab gives an authoritative and well-documented account of the CIA's powerful influence on the film.Recently, a number of works have been written--notably, those by Frances Stoner Saunders and Tony Shaw--that make reference to the underlyi...

A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place - Paperback

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by Joshua Hammer (Author)Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple Mount. Sharon's trip ignited the worst violence the Middle East had seen in decades. Overnight, the peace process gave way to an ever-worsening cycle of attack, revenge, and retaliation, destabilizing the entire region, killing thousands, and culminating in Israel's reoccup...

From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America - Paperback

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by Jennifer S. Light (Author)During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a variety of problem-solving techniques, technologies, and institutions. From systems analysis to reconnaissance satellites to think tanks, these innovations did not remain exclusive accessories of the defense establishment. Instead, they readily found civilian applications in both the private and public sector. City planning and man...

Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics - Hardcover

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by Timothy Stewart-Winter (Author)In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively as a voting bloc--not least by campaigning in those same bars. Gays had acquired power and influence. They had clout. Tracing the gay movement's trajectory since th...

The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Hardcover

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by Steven T. Katz (Author), Richard Landes (Editor)An in-depth analysis of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, from its origins in the 20th century to its resurgence today The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical ant...

Teaching English for Reconciliation:: Pursuing Peace Through Transformed Relationships in Language Learning and Teaching - Paperback

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by Jan Edwards Dormer (Author), Cheryl Woelk (Author)Create space in an English class for reconciliation. How can an English class become a transformative space for both teachers and learners? When the teacher intentionally uses strategies and builds skills for peacebuilding and reconciliation, the classroom can be a place where relationships and communication transform people. This text encourages those engaged in the teaching of English as a second or foreign language to first consider why ...

A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament - Paperback

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by Thomas Erskine May (Author)'Erskine May', like 'Hansard', is a book recognised by its author's name much more readily than by its title; and, also like Hansard, it is closely connected to the work of the British Houses of Parliament. Thomas Erskine May (1815-86), clerk to the House of Commons, began his working life as assistant to the House of Commons librarian, and familiarised himself with constitutional history and parliamentary procedure during a long and distinguished career. This 18...

Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management: Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services - Paperback

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by Christine Owen (Editor)This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize their own research practice within the context of the international research literature. Therefore, while the research has occurred within Australia it will be of particular interest to scholars, students and practitioners in a number of other countries, particularly within the ...

El Tratado De Guadalupe Hidalgo: Definicion y lista de las concesiones de tierras comunitarias en Nuevo Mexico - Paperback

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by United States Government Accountability (Created by)The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills to the most recent Budget of the United States Government, the BiblioGov Project spans a wealth of government information. These works are now made ...

Occupied Corinth: The Contraband Camp and the First Alabama Regiment of African Descent, 1862-1865 - Paperback

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by National Park Service (Nps) (Created by)The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents each year about environmental issues, park safety, and specific parks around the country. These publications include titles like: Vegetation of Shark Sl...

Refugee Camp Planning and Construction Handbook - Paperback

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by U. S. Air Force (Created by)The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF was initially a part of the U.S. Army, but was formed as a separate branch of the military in 1947 under the National Security Act. Although it is the most recent branch of the U.S. Military to be formed, the USAF is the most technologically advanced air force in the world. The Air Force e-Publishing Library's mission is to provide documents for Ai...

Geology of the pegmatites and associated rocks of Maine, including feldspar, quartz, mica, and gem deposits: USGS Bulletin 445 - Paperback

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by Edson Sunderland Bastin (Author)The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor, and analyze data so that they have a better understanding of our problems. The USGS is dedicated to provide reliable, investigated information to enhance and protect our qu...