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by Phillip F. Tourney (Author), David R. Gahary (Author)On June 8, 1967, the virtually unarmed USS Liberty (AGTR-5), the U.S. Navy's most sophisticated spy ship, while monitoring communications in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean during the Six-Day War-to find out if the Soviet Union was assisting its Arab client states-was viciously attacked by unmarked Israeli jets and marked Israeli motor torpedo boats.The unprovoked, premeditated assault murdered 34 young American boys an...
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by Stuart E. Eizenstat (Author), Henry A. Kissinger (Foreword by), James a. Baker III (Preface by)A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. "A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history.... Grand in scope and grounded in decades of experience, The Art of Diplomacy is a compelling work of political history aimed at the diplomatic ...
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by Anne Kim (Author)A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookA devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"--the myriad businesses that profit from the poor Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs such as the earned income tax credit, Medicaid, and affordable housing vouchers and subsidies. States and local governments spend t...
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by Thomas More (Author), Gilbert Burnet (Translator), Henry Morley (Introduction by)Utopia, a term coined by Thomas More from the Greek meaning "nowhere," envisions an imaginary island where a perfect society flourishes. This groundbreaking work of socio-political satire, divided into two books, offers a detailed account of the customs, governance, and daily life within this ideal community.In Book One, More crafts a narrative through correspondence with real-life acquaintances he met across ...
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by Fatime Barbara Hegyi (Author)Our Cities, Our Future: A Data-Driven Path to Sustainability Cities face immense challenges but hold extraordinary potential for transformation. The Future of Cities: A Data-Driven Approach to Tackling Grand Challenges and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities explores how place leaders - mayors, urban visionaries, and catalysts - can harness data and citizen science to address critical issues and create thriving urban communities. Key insights include:
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by Jason D. Phillips (Editor), Jordan Ruud (Editor)Libraries, long tasked with defending intellectual freedom, find themselves under siege with threats of censorship for carrying gender/sexuality-related materials or holding LGBTQ-related events. Efforts to censor materials and control programming arguably threaten to have a chilling effect on libraries' ability to carry out their core missions. Censorship Is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Libraries pulls together cont...
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by Deena Ragless (Author)Growing up in Australia after arriving here at age five, my life did not differ from most others. Although half Jordanian and half Irish, I look more Irish than Jordanian due to my fair complexion. Of the nine first-cousin girls in my family, six look Middle Eastern, and the remaining three, of which I am one, do not. Many people encounter potentially debilitating changes and challenges throughout their lives, through no fault of their own. Wars, divorce, retirement, ...
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by Michael Specter (Author)"A superb and convincing work." -Malcolm Gladwell At a time when our planet is in dire peril, Americans mistrust science more than ever. Few journalists appreciate what is at stake better than Michael Specter, who has spent the last twenty years reporting on everything from the AIDS epidemic to the digital revolution. In Denialism, he eloquently shows how, in a world where protesters march against childhood vaccines and Africans starve to death rather than import...
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by Jonathan Malloy (Author)The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues that Parliament labours under two different "logics" of its purpose and primary role: one based on governance and decision-making and one based on representation and voice. This produces a paradox that is common to many legislatures, but Canada and Canadians particularly struggle to recog...
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by Jimam Lar (Editor), Gulleng Daskyes (Editor), Suchi Plangshak (Author)SECTION I: The Nigerian Security Sector: Conceptions, Composition, and Function Performance - Plangshak Musa Suchi.....Critical and Emerging Issues in Cybersecurity in Nigeria - Ndubuisi Philip... Transitional Justice As A Panacea For Peace In Africa - Hauwa Cathy Dowyaro...Sub-Culture of Violence and the Coming Crisis of Nigeria: Periscoping the Social Structural Tragedy of Our Time - Moses U. Ikoh... Security Sector Re...
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by Erald Kolasi (Author)A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order--which values our collective future over immediate economic gains The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature--for joy, for comfort, and for sheer survival. In his prescient new book, The Physics of Capitalism, Erald Kolasi explores the deep ecological physics of human existence by developing a new theoret...
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by Yaron Ezrahi (Author), Dana Blander (Editor)'Can Democracy Recover?' explores the roots of the contemporary democratic crisis. It scrutinizes the evolution and subsequent fragmentation of modern political epistemology, highlighting citizens increasing inability to make sense of the political universe in which they live, their loss of confidence in political causality, distinguishing facts from fiction and objective from partisan attitudes. The book culminates in a speculative discourse on ...
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by Vishal Mangalwadi (Author)Some politicians want to change the name "India." They are embarrassed by the fact that the name and the idea of "India" came from the Bible. In 1492, Columbus sailed and failed to find the sea route to "India." Vasco da Gama reached Calicut (Kerala) in 1497, to learn that no native called his land, India. The British and the Dutch established their East India Companies in 1600 and 1602 in order to trade with Indonesia [Indian Asia]! Back then, not even the Europe...
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by Thomas Gallagher (Author)A highly engaging, yet hearbreaking account of the Irish's plight due to the Great Potato Famine. Gallagher explains why and how the famine happened, but also details the agonizing human experience of life in Ireland and aboard devastatingly crowded ships in search of a better life in the U.S. Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrol...
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by Stephanie Grisham (Author)"Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)."--Laura Miller, Slate"Salacious and score-settling."--The Guardian"Part giddy travelogue, part belated apologia, part petty payback, all personal-therapy session."--New York TimesNow in paperback, the instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller that is the most frank and intimate port...
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by Dick Gregory (Author)Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory--the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and NAACP Image Award-winning author.In 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick G...
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by Jane McAlevey (Author)From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions.In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental a...
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by Melissa Del Bosque (Author)The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Trevi oDrugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the bu...
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by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author)Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.Today, she argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majo...
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by Conor Grennan (Author)"Funny, touching, tragic....A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land--and one man's extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents."--Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once ...
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by Howard Zehr (Author)Over 150,000-copies sold Author Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understanding of justice. Here Zehr proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. Restorative Justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a worldwide ...
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by Steven Davis (Author)For most Americans, state lands are the most readily accessible type of public land; however, despite their ubiquity, they remain largely terra incognita. The Other Public Lands is a primer on state public lands and the political dynamics that underlie their management. Offering a wide-angle overview, Steven Davis focuses on how states prioritize competing claims related to conservation, resource development, tourism, recreation, and finances. The Other Public Lands lo...
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by Erica Frantz (Author), Andrea Kendall-Taylor (Author), Joe Wright (Author)Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their lead...
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by James R. Otteson (Editor)What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? Are there moral reasons to support capitalism, or to oppose it? In this time of globalization and economic turbulence, these questions could not be more timely or more important. This book provides some answers through seminal readings on the nature, purpose, and effects of capitalism as understood by its most influential...
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by Mahmood Monshipouri (Author)Aimed at undergraduate-level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examination of the forces of stability, change, uncertainty, and progress in the region. Building on both historical and contemporary analysis, the chapters are timely, engaging, and provocative, covering topics such as:
Turmoil and transition in Middle Eastern politics
The Arab-Israeli conflict
The Persian Gulf and global se...
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by Ayebaesin Beredugo (Editor)But thank goodness. Rivers State has just been relieved of the most decadent administration in history, which frittered public resources, sold the State's valuable assets to cronies, increased the debt burden and crippled the State's economy.-Governor Nvesom Ezenwo WikeAs Justice Learned Hand rightly observed: "If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: thou shall not ration justice." Today, the people of Rivers State are beneficiaries of justice i...
