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Israel's Single-Handed War on Islamic Terrorism: The Simultaneous Eight-Front Enduring War - Paperback

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by Raphael Israeli (Author)During the prolonged war that eight Arab and Muslim fronts launched against Israel on October 7, 2023, tiny Israel, backed actively by only the U.S., has been determined to defend itself by counter attacking.The initial war effort's intent, headed and financed by Iran, was to harass Israel by occupying Israel's military, while Iran could develop its nuclear technology, with the goal to "erase Israel off the map."President Joe Biden's Administration, which has limite...

Where Colors Meet: A Tapestry of Black & White - Stories of Courage, Connection & Transformation - Paperback

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by Karen C. Flaherty (Author), Gina Barclay-McLaughlin (Author), Lester L. Barclay (Foreword by)"This book will foster an environment for a healthy discussion on a sensitive topic. Highly recommend.""SIS is trying to create bridges, not only to each other, but hopefully to our society.""The stories will both break your heart and fill you with hope for the future.""The Black American story as a group is an American story woven into the fabric of America.""What truly stands out is the book's ab...

Mexico: Political, Social and Economic Evolution - Paperback

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by Nora Hamilton (Author)Mexico: Political, Social and Economic Evolution provides a compelling overview of the profound changes that have taken place within Mexico over the past twenty-five years. Offering a multifaceted take on the evolution of contemporary Mexico, the text analyzes the relationship between Mexico's past and present; the connections between its economic, political and social trajectories; and the interaction between domestic and international forces. Unlike most texts on Me...

Suppliers' Acquisition Costs for Albuterol Sulfate - Paperback

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by June Gibbs Brown (Author), Office of Inspector General (Oig) (Created by), Us Department of Health and Human Servic (Created by)The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the ...

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by Alexander Dugin (Author)All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted.The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality - one in which the values of liberalism ...

The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Barrett (Editor), Avril Alba (Editor), Dirk Moses (Editor)Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continents--Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America--this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and memorializing histories of genocide ...

ATP 3-18.1 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare - Hardcover

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by Headquarters Department of the Army (Author), Conflict Research Group (Prepared by)ATP 3-18.1 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare (2019 Edition)The official U.S. Army guide to understanding, planning, and executing unconventional warfare operations.This comprehensive reprint of ATP 3-18.1 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare serves as the definitive resource for military professionals, historians, and anyone interested in modern conflict strategies. Prepared for publication by Conflict ...

An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen - Paperback

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by Peter L. W. Osnos (Author)In more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time. As a young journalist for I.F.Stone's Weekly, one of the leading publications of the turbulent 1960s and in 18 years at The Washington Post, he covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, the Soviet Union at the height of Kremlin power, Washington D.C. as National ...

Feminism and the Cinema of Experience - Hardcover

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by Lori Jo Marso (Author)From popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe--these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Lori Jo Marso examines how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political c...

Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin's Russia - Hardcover

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by Helge Blakkisrud (Editor), P?l Kolst? (Editor)Since Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency in 2012, protection and promotion of so-called 'traditional values' has played a prominent role in the Kremlin's propaganda campaigns. From the large-scale demonstrations in 2011-2012 to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conservative social values have been mobilised to justify the Kremlin's policy choices. In the case of the invasion, for example, Putin argued that the allegedly...

Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World - Paperback

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by Chih-Yu Shih (Author)Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author ...

Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words - Paperback

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by Lynn Sherr (Author)Juxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays, the words of this legendary suffragist reveal Susan B. Anthony as a loyal, caring friend, and an eloquent, humorous crusader. "More than a collection of well-arranged quotations, the work informs, inspires, and gives historical perspective".--The Houston Post. 33 photos & illustrations.Front JacketJuxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays, the words of this legendary suffragist reveal Su...

Beyond Checks & Halos: Insights to Elevate Partnerships and Achieve the Improbable - Hardcover

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by Cynthia Eads Currence (Author)"Whether you work in the non-profit or the commercial space, the perspectives in this book provide a practical roadmap for building extraordinary partnerships . . . a must-read for all executives working in the partnership arena." - Vicki Escarra, former CMO, Delta Air Lines, and former CEO, Feeding AmericaWe think we know how this works: Nonprofits solicit support from corporate partners and expect them to pony up checks. In turn, the company benefits from it...

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by Volha Charnysh (Author)Each year, millions of people are uprooted from their homes by wars, repression, natural disasters, and climate change. In Uprooted, Volha Charnysh presents a fresh perspective on the developmental consequences of mass displacement, arguing that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen receiving states and benefit local economies. Drawing on extensive research on post-WWII Poland and West Germany, Charnysh shows that the rupture of social ties and increa...

Feminismos en América Latina - Paperback

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by Gisela Zaremberg (Author), Debora Rezende de Almeida (Author)Este Element analiza las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras. Para ello, nos enfocamos específicamente en el movimiento proaborto frente al contramovimiento antiaborto en México y Brasil. Para analizar los efectos potenciales de los movimientos ofrecemos un enfoque relacional que abarca tanto la dinámica dentro del propio campo feminista, como en...

Local Peace, International Builders - Paperback

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by William G. Nomikos (Author)Communal disputes over local issues such as land use, cattle herding, and access to scarce resources are a leading cause of conflict across the world. In the coming decades, climate change, forced migration, and violent extremism will exacerbate such disputes in places that are ill equipped to handle them. Local Peace, International Builders examines the conditions under which international interventions mitigate communal violence. The book argues that civilian p...

Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects - Paperback

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by Seyla Benhabib (Editor), Ayelet Shachar (Editor) Number of Pages: 374 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 09, 2025

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by Tatah Mbuy (Author)In Fons of Traditional Bamenda, Tatah Mbuy critically examines the predicament of traditional leaders in the Cameroon Grasslands in the wake of the civil unrest that has regrettably evolved into armed conflict in the territories that constituted the former Southern Cameroons. Drawing on his ethnographic knowledge of this region, Mbuy argues that chieftaincy in the Grasslands was historically perceived as a sacred institution, the locus of neutrality and justice and the c...

Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy - Paperback

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by Stephen F. Knott (Author)Stephen F. Knott has spent his life grappling with the legacy of President John F. Kennedy: JFK was the first president Knott remembers, he worked for Ted Kennedy's Senate campaign in 1976, and later he worked at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. Moreover, Knott's scholarly work on the American presidency has wrestled with Kennedy's time in office and whether his presidency was ultimately a positive or negative one for the country. After initially being a stro...

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by Antoine J. Banks (Author), Ismail K. White (Author)In The Anger Rule, Antoine J. Banks and Ismail K. White examine how Black politicians are uniquely penalized for expressing anger, especially anger related to race. Drawing on social psychology and philosophy, Banks and White demonstrate how this anger penalty helps sustain racial inequality. They argue that anger infers power because it propels individuals to change the status quo. When Black politicians are constrained from expressing an...

Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies - Hardcover

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by Michelle H. S. Ho (Author)In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female and female-to-male crossdressing is prevalent, Ho shows how their owners, employees, and customers creatively innovate what she calls emergent genders-new practi...

Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024: Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation - Paperback

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by Anita Engels (Editor), Jochem Marotzke (Editor), Beate Ratter (Editor)Many countries, communities, and social actors around the world are struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change in a sustainable manner involves a huge collective effort and is barely happening. How can sustainable climate change adaptation become plausible? The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the context conditions for susta...

Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 - Paperback

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by Alyx Mark (Author)The COVID-19 pandemic changed the work practices of nearly every industry around the globe, forcing institutions to quickly adapt to the evolving public health emergency. The state court systems in the United States-from trial courts all the way up the hierarchy to state supreme courts-were no exception. In response to the crisis, they were forced to make dramatic changes to the way they processed cases. The alterations ranged from selecting which types of cases should be...

The Oxford Handbook of Fascism - Paperback

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by R. J. B. Bosworth (Editor)The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the 'first Fascist nation', the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its suc...

Rebooting Canada: A Fresh Start - Hardcover

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by Richard W. Makinen (Author)People often complain about current Canadian governmental structures. They believe we are stuck with this system, fearing that change is impossible. But we can enhance the quality of life for all members of our Canadian society.In Rebooting Canada: A Fresh Start, author and accountant Richard W. Makinen lays out the straightforward and practical ways Canada can streamline our governments to create real efficiencies, governing in accordance with society's establis...

Submarine Warfare Of Today: How The Submarine Menace Was Met And Vanquished (1920) - Paperback

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by Charles William Domville-Fife (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0....

Free Internet Access as a Human Right - Hardcover

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by Merten Reglitz (Author)Merten Reglitz proposes a new human right that ensures Internet access for those who cannot afford it and protects that right from arbitrary interferences by those that would exploit it for harm. The first part of the book justifies the claim for this new right by showing how Internet access is vital for the enjoyment of human rights around the globe. In the second part, Reglitz specifies the content of this right, assessing today's standard threats to Internet acces...

The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought - Paperback

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by Melvin L. Rogers (Author)A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America's democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward so...

The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right - Hardcover

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by Th?o Aiolfi (Author)Through a comparative case study analysing the 2016 and 2017 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, The Populist Style examines the links between far-right ideology and populism. Adopting an interdisciplinary framework combining political science and performance studies, this book develops a critical definition of populism as a style, that is, as a repertoire of political performances that shapes and is given shape by ideological content. The book arg...

Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics - Paperback

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by Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Joe L. Kincheloe (Other), Michael W. Apple (Editor)Because globalization is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting...

Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement - Paperback

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by Rolando V. del Carmen (Author), Jeffery T. Walker (Author)This resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have reference for police officers to stay up-to-date and have a strong understanding of the law and their function within it. All cases are briefed in a common format to allow for comparisons among cases and include facts, relevant issues, and the Court's decision and reasoning. The significance ...

The Founders' Speech To Save America - Paperback

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by Steven Rabb (Author)The faith that sustained them...the families they held on to...the God-given rights they fought for... and how they won. The Founders' Speech To Save America gives readers a front-row seat to hear firsthand how the Founding Fathers defeated the greatest empire the world had yet known. The work serves as an instruction manual for patriots today to stand for and defend their rights, a call to organize and defeat those who seek to destroy them, and a reminder that we must ...