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10 Costly Medicare Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make - Paperback

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by Danielle Kunkle Roberts (Author)Don't make decisions about your Medicare coverage without reading this book #1 Best Selling Book in Less than 48-HoursAfter Reading This Book, You Will: Know what Medicare pitfalls exist and how to expertly avoid them Be ready to make the major Medicare decisions Be knowledgeable on the costly penalties and how to steer clear Who This Book is For: ✓ New to Medicare - This book will help anyone approaching Medicare eligibility at age 65 who needs to learn th...

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by Stephen M. Walt (Author)"The Origins of Alliances offers a different way of thinking about our security and thus about our diplomacy. It ought to be read by anyone with a serious interest in understanding why our foreign policy is so often self-defeating."―New RepublicHow are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperat...

Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present - Paperback

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by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (Author), Eric M. B. Becker (Translator)How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violence Brazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society. A closer look at the nation's heritage, however, reveals a far more troubling story. In Brazilian Authoritarianism, esteemed anthropologist and historian Lilia Schwarcz presents a provocativ...

A Simulation of the United States Senate: An In-Class Manual - Paperback

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by Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod (Author)This book serves as a manual for students enrolled in semester-long US Senate simulations. The simulation tasks students with representing a particular state while inheriting a particular Senator's voting history. Students then engage with their peers to write, introduce, mark up, debate, and adopt legislation, within an environment where the instructional staff play the key roles of the House of Representatives, the President, the Press, and public interest gr...

Stop the Steal: Martial Law in South Korea - Paperback

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by Yeong Hwan Choi (Author)"Beyond the Truth: The Crisis of South Korea's Democracy" In December 2024, South Korea stands at an unprecedented crossroads. The declaration of martial law marks a chilling turning point. Is it the resurrection of dictatorship, or the last line of defense for freedom? As international relations around the Korean Peninsula remain volatile, the political cartel within the country weaves a web of deceit and manipulation. In the midst of this turmoil, the public is di...

Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and Covid-19 - Hardcover

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by Alyx Mark (Author)A groundbreaking new study based on extensive and original data that examines court policies and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic to uncover the realities of power, procedure, and reform in state civil courts.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 to state supreme courts-...

The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy - Hardcover

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by Van Jackson (Author), Michael Brenes (Author)How the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity--and how a saner approach is possible For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will "eat our lunch," in the words of Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China's military power and economic growth. Van Jackson and Michael B...

Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline - Paperback

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by Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox (Editor)Nineteen Black women in political science share their personal and professional journeys, shedding light on the state of the discipline-and how it needs to change.This volume brings to the fore Black women's experiences of, and contributions to, political science-a field that never intended to view them as subjects worthy of study and certainly not as professors. Disrupting Political Science demonstrates how Black women blend creative resistance and self...

The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain - Paperback

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by Tingyang Zhao (Author), Edmund Ryden (Translator)In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of China was not due to the lures of expansionist behavior but to the offerings of the surrounding contenders as they were constantly being pulled into a whirlpool of growth and amalgamation. The peoples surrounding China on all four sides sought to win the greatest material benefits and greatest spir...

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by Bernard J. Bulkin (Author)Why are there rich countries and poor countries? Here is one reason: for more than two millennia, nations and regions that could transform raw materials into manufactured materials have achieved competitive advantage. In this book, renowned scientist and educator Bernie Bulkin takes you on a whirlwind journey through the history of paper, textiles, food packaging, buildings, transport and electricity, with stories that show why and how competitive advantage happen...

The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk - Hardcover

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by Dennis Kneale (Author)An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked about man in America who isn't running for president (yet!). In The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, veteran business journalist Dennis Kneale chronicles Musk's extraordinary journey, presenting him as a beacon of inspiration. Musk's unparalleled success as an innovator and entrepreneur is not jus...

Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future - Hardcover

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by Kerry Brown (Author)Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists won and took China's mainland; Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story:...

Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Haslam (Author)A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine--and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea, but its origins are visible as far back as the afterm...

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by Prem Rawat (Author)Bring peace into your present moment through the power of breath with Global Peace Ambassador Prem RawatBreath - it marks the beginning and end of life, it is the one thing shared by all human beings, and yet it is one of the most overlooked aspects of the human experience. What we take for granted actually forms the basis of our shared reality. Each breath we take signals triumph over death, our defiant presence in the world, our dedication to persisting. Global Peace A...

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart - Hardcover

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by Nicholas Carr (Author)From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us...

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

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by Chris Hayes (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC 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 "An ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only our selves but also our politics." --New York Times "Brilliant book... Reading it has made me change the way I work and think."--Rachel...

The Conservative Sensibility - Paperback

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by George F. Will (Author)The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- "easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written" (Jonah Goldberg). For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Toda...

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America - Paperback

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by Sally Denton (Author), Roger Morris (Author)Las Vegas--the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city's historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug...

Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud - Paperback

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by Tom Mueller (Author)"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." -- New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter "Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud." -- The Washington Post "Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce speci...

Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World - Paperback

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by Ian Bremmer (Author)G-Zero -- \JEE-ZEER-oh\ --n A world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesn't work and the G7 is history. If the worst threatened--a rogue nuclear state, a major health crisis, the collapse of the global financial system--where would the world look for leadership? For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the ...

The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean - Paperback

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by John Julius Norwich (Author)This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfully illustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea represents the culmination of a great historian's unparalleled art and scholarship. John Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, t...

Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism - Paperback

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by Thomas L. Friedman (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today's radically new world and America's complex place in it. Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the te...

An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism - Paperback

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by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn of War, which opens with that first essay, will stimulate readers across the political spectrum to think more deeply about the attacks, the war, and their lessons for all of us.Fro...

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East - Paperback

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by Rashid Khalidi (Author)Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternat...

Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem - Paperback

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by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Author), John O'Neill (Translator)First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the basic question was: given the violence in Communism, is Communism still equal to its humanist intentions? Starting with the assumption that a society is not a...

In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of TWA Flight 800 - Paperback

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by Pat Milton (Author)Like the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of TWA Flight 800 just off Long Island, New York, in the early evening of July 17, 1996, captured the world's imagination. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton has covered the story from day one and was granted unprecedented access to the FBI investigation--the largest and most complex in the agency's history. Initially suspecting that a crime had been committed, James Kallstrom, the head of the FBI's New York office, led the tw...

The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream - Paperback

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by Steve Fainaru (Author), Ray Sanchez (Author)The Duke of Havana is the inside story of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, fallen hero of the Cuban revolution. Banned by the Castro government for plotting to defect and shunned by Cuban society, the finest pitcher in Cuba's history fearlessly turned his internal exile into a political crusade. He ultimately escaped his country in a twenty-four-foot boat and, nine months later, triumphed in the World Series with the New York Yankees. Present throug...

The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State - Paperback

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by Graeme Wood (Author)What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS - "Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory."--Tom Holland, New Statesman The Islamic State inspired a wave of true believers to travel to Syria from Europe, America, and the Middle East, in numbers not seen since the Crusades. What compelled tens of thousan...

The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories - Paperback

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by David Remnick (Author)Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or ...

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by Katha Pollitt (Author)Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of her indefatigable wit and brilliance. Her stirring new Introduction offers a seasoned critique of feminism at the millen...

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by David Puttnam (Author)"A fascinating history."--Time Out New York The acclaimed producer of such classic films as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, and the only European ever to head a major Hollywood studio, former Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the movie business and of the unique and frequently unholy alliance between commerce and art that underpins it. Puttnam's story moves from the early days of cinema and the rivalr...

Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic - Paperback

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by Alexander Stille (Author)In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with suc...