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Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World--And the Future - Hardcover

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by Cass R. Sunstein (Author)The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of--and what it means. If you're injuring someone, you should stop--and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the...

Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the Us in the Middle East - Hardcover

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by Mohsen M. Milani (Author)The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States - former fast friends. Despite the US's relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Its newfound status not only frustrates the US but has swiftly become a thorn in the side of Israel and Saudi Arabia. How did Iran rise so rapidly? And as it faces ever increasing pressure at home and abroad, can it hold onto its p...

Radio Treason: The Trials of Lord Haw-Haw, the British Voice of Nazi Germany - Paperback

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by Rebecca West (Author), Katie Roiphe (Foreword by)The gripping courtroom drama of a Brooklyn-born Englishman who became the voice of Nazi Germany, by "one of the most brilliant and erudite journalists of the century" (The New York Times). In 1945, The New Yorker commissioned star reporter Rebecca West to cover the London trial of William Joyce, who stood accused by the British government of aiding the Third Reich. Captured by British forces in Germany, Joyce was alleged to have hosted a rad...

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource - Paperback

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by Chris Hayes (Author)From the NYT-bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in...

I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience - Hardcover

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by Tamika D. Mallory (Author)A powerful and heartfelt memoir of perseverance and triumph over tragedy from Tamika D. Mallory, trailblazing social justice leader and cofounder of the Women's March. In this candid and defiant memoir, a follow-up to her "masterful" (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) response to the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, State of Emergency, Tamika D. Mallory holds nothing back as she shares hers, the activist's life. From early days as da...

The World After Gaza: A History - Hardcover

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by Pankaj Mishra (Author)"Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding." --Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger "This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers." --Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return and My Friends Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Guardian, Bustle, Foreign Policy, and Literary Hub From one of our foremost public intellec...

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America - Hardcover

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by Kim Christensen (Author)From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the shocking rise and fall of an American institution. Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than 100 million Americans have been Boy Scouts, from Bill Gates to Martin Luther King Jr. Today, however, Scouting faces an existential threat of its own making: more than 82,000 former Scouts have filed claims alleging they we...

The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances - Hardcover

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by Kevin Fagan (Author)In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope. Kevin Fagan's The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco--one of the wealthiest cities in America--takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what's behind the homelessness epidemic. An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades and spent extensive time on...

Mickey and the Teamsters: A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney - Paperback

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by Mike Schneider (Author)A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Disney's character performers and their struggles for union democracy Behind the costumes, life isn't always magic and fairy dust for the people who play the iconic characters of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Cinderella at Walt Disney World. In a surprising tale of corruption alongside activism, Mickey and the Teamsters reveals the little-known story of Teamsters Local 385, the union that represents these performers. It spotlight...

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? - Hardcover

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by Kelly Weinersmith (Author), Zach Weinersmith (Author)* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific American's #1 Book for 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 * "Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy to live on this planet -- a good thing, because you're not leaving anytime soon." --New York Times Book Review From the bestselling authors of Soo...

The AI Commander: Centaur Teaming, Command, and Ethical Dilemmas - Paperback

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by James Johnson (Author)What does AI mean for the role of humans in war? The AI Commander addresses the largely neglected question of how the fusion of machines into the war machine will affect the human condition of warfare. James Johnson emphasizes the "mind" - both human and machine - and the mechanisms of thought (intelligence, consciousness, emotion, memory, experience, etc.) to consider the effects of AI and autonomy on the human condition of war. Johnson investigates the vexing and mi...

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race - Paperback

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by Barbara Diggs-Brown (Author), Leonard Steinhorn (Author)Author BiographyBarbara Diggs-Brown is an associate professor of public communication at the American University School of Communication. She writes and lectures on cultural diversity in the media and has served as a media and press adviser for political campaigns, public officials, and advocacy groups. She lives outside of Washington, D.C. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.75 x 7.97 x 5.35 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2000

There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, the Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood - Hardcover

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by Sara Martucci (Author)Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In 2005, the city's decision to rezone the Williamsburg waterfront for high-rise housing led to a profound alteration of the physical, cultural, and social landscape. The result was the rapid influx of thousands of new residents, many ...

Fault Lines in the Faith: How Events of 1979 Shaped the Islamic World - Paperback

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by Iqbal S. Hasnain (Author) 'What if an ideology, which is meant to impart wisdom and guidance to humanity, itself loses all its control and causes serious woes to the entire world?' In the last few decades, an extremely anti-pluralistic, visibly misogynistic and terribly intolerant strain of Islam has taken control of the Arabian heartland and systematically spread out to other countries, eventually wreaking havoc across the world. Covering the expansion of political Islam in the modern ...

Metaphysics of Cooperation: Edward Abramowski's Social Philosophy. with a Selection of His Writings - Paperback

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by Edward Abramowski (Author), Bartlomiej Blesznowski (Editor), Cezary Rudnicki (Editor)The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Abramowski. The volume is divided into five sections, each of them containing an analysis of the Polish philosopher's work according to the issues he dealt with: sociology, ethics, politics, cooperativism, and psychology. Each part also contains a selection of his...

Christian Cosmopolitanism: Faith Communities Talk Immigration - Hardcover

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by Felipe Amin Filomeno (Author)While religious institutions have been gateways for immigrants into local communities, religion has also coalesced with nationalism to discriminate against foreigners. Felipe Amin Filomeno asks, can "deliberative dialogues" about immigration in Christian congregations play a cosmopolitan role and bridge differences of nationality, race, and culture regarding immigration? To find the answer, he visited numerous Christian congregations in Baltimore with varying d...

Weaponizing Conspiracy Theories - Paperback

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by Eirikur Bergmann (Author)This book analyses the discursive weaponization of conspiracy theories.In an era where truth and fiction converge, nativist populist leaders wield conspiracy theories as political weapons. This text examines the interplay between populism and conspiracism, probing their impact on democratic processes and exploring their broader political implications. The work dissects three predominant conspiracy theories: The Eurabia theory in Europe, the Deep State in the United...

Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline - Hardcover

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by Setha Low (Editor)Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use. Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and na...

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by Patricia Roberts-Miller (Author)This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways. "Politics is war" is not always just a figure of speech, but often a sincere expression of how people see disagreement--they mean it literally--and they use it to evade the responsibilities of rhetoric. This book takes the metaphor seriously. Using a series of case studies ranging from the 432 BCE "Debat...

International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics - Paperback

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by T. V. Paul (Editor), Anders Wivel (Editor), Kai He (Editor)International organizations play an important, if imperfect, role in world politics, solving collective action problems in security, economic, environmental, and global health among others. While many believe that international organisations have formed critical pillars of global governance, sceptics contend that they reflect the power politics of the day and the interests of hegemonic powers. This volume examines whether internati...

Women, Power, and Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation - Paperback

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by Bonnie Stabile (Author), Juliet Williams (Editor), Aubrey Leigh Grant (Author)Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power. The election of Donald Trump precipitated one of the largest outpourings of political protest on a single day in U.S. history with the 2017 March for Women. The emboldened #MeToo a...

Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality - Hardcover

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by Geoff M. Boucher (Author)The worldwide resurgence of authoritarianism has sparked renewed interest in the Frankfurt School theory of the authoritarian personality, not as a topic of academic debate but as an urgent political factor. Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality brings Theodor Adorno's critique up-to-date in light of new forms of authoritarian politics, recent kinds of authoritarian propaganda and current findings about authoritarian personalities. Drawing on the work o...

EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order - Hardcover

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by Oriol Costa (Editor), Eduard Soler I. Lecha (Editor), Martijn C. Vlaskamp (Editor)This open access book delves into the responses of EU actors, such as member states, institutions, and political groups in the European Parliament, to the fragmentation of the liberal international order (LIO). The analytical framework adopted in this volume explores the diverse interpretations of this phenomenon and the various political initiatives associated with them. Among these interpretations is the co...

Perceptions of a Pandemic: A Cross-Continental Comparison of Citizen Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors During Covid-19 - Hardcover

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by James Hawdon (Editor), Donna Sedgwick (Editor), C. Cozette Comer (Editor)While responses to the Covid-19 pandemic varied based on the timing of the onset of cases and the severity of the disease, Perceptions of a Pandemic analyzes and compares the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in the US and Finland during the pandemic's early stages and relates these to health and wellbeing outcomes after the pandemic ended. With findings based on rich survey data from 1,500 Americans and 1,500 Fi...

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by Paul Morrow (Editor), Amy Sodaro (Editor), Leora Kahn (Editor)Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time, it directs attention to the pe...

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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 1920s and 1930s 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...

FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM and Having Fun - Paperback

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by Dana Rohrabacher (Author)The story behind the story of, "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall." The world is different today because of that speech. Meet Congressman Dana Rohrabacher who spent three decades on the front line of the fight for freedom in the US House of Representatives. Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher is an American former politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019. A Republican, he represented California's 48th congressional district for the last thre...

Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities - Hardcover

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by Ken Bernstein (Author), Stephen Schafer (Photographer)Ken Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and how other cities can do the same with his Los Angeles Times bestseller.2021 Foreword Indies, GOLD: RegionalLos Angeles has an image as the "City of the Future"--a city always at the cutting edge of change--but also as a "throwaway metropolis" that car...

FSOT Study Guide - FSOT Prep Secrets, Full-Length Practice Exam, Step-by-Step Review Video Tutorials for the Foreign Service Officer Test: [4th Editio - Hardcover

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by Mometrix (Editor) Mometrix Test Preparation's FSOT Study Guide - FSOT Prep Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Foreign Service Officer Test. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: * Practice test questions with detailed answer explanations * Step-by-step video tutorials to help you master difficult concepts * Tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance * A com...

The Congress of Vienna and Its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy After Napoleon - Paperback

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by Mark Jarrett (Author)**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title** In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna after two decades of revolution and war. Their task was to redraw continental borders following the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire. Inevitably, all of the major decisions were made by the leading statesmen of the five 'great powers'-Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand, Hardenberg and Tsar Alexander of Russia. The territorial reconstruction of Europ...

Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American Politics - Paperback

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by Jason Gainous (Author), Kevin M. Wagner (Author)Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage in politics. Gainous and Wagner propose that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity for a new information flow that is no lo...

Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools - Paperback

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by David L. Kirp (Author)No school district can be all charismatic leaders and super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all its teachers and principals when students do poorly. Great charter schools can only serve a tiny minority of students. Whether we like it or not, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in mainstream public schools. The good news, as David L. Kirp reveals in Improbable Scholars, is that there's a sensible way to rebuild public education...