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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World - Paperback

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by Samantha Power (Author)Now a Netflix biopic, Sergio, with Narcos star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. "The best way to understand today's messy world is to read about the inspiring life and diplomatic genius of Sergio Vieira de Mello." -Walter Isaacson Before his death in 2003 in Iraq's first major suicide bomb attack, Sergio Vieira de Mello--a humanitarian and peacemaker with the United Nations--placed himself at the center of the most significant geopolitical crises...

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life - Paperback

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by Marshall Frady (Author)"a quick introduction to the life of a great American" -- The New York TimesAn inspiring portrait of the incredible life and lasting influence of Dr. Martin Luther King Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating...

Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World - Paperback

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by Jim Sciutto (Author)"A solid job of reporting, a personal journey of discovery, and a wake-up call for all who read it." --Charles Gibson, ABC News After nearly one hundred assignments for ABC News in Muslim countries, Jim Sciutto brings back this disturbing truth: the Al-Qaeda--inspired view of an evil America bent on destroying Islam has moved from the fringes to the mainstream. Sciutto profiles a cross-section of people in the Arab world, including a former Al-Qaeda jihadi turned electr...

Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End - Paperback

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by Deepak Chopra (Author) "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." This statement has never been more true. Now, Deepak Chopra expands on A. J. Muste's insight, teaching us how to expand awareness, stop reacting out of fear, and reject war--one person at a time. As Dr. Chopra says, "Violence may be innate in human nature, but so is its opposite: love. The next stage of humanity, the leap we are poised to take, will be guided by the force of that love."Author BiographyDeepak Chopra is one...

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents - Paperback

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by Alex Butterworth (Author)In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists. In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows the rise of these revolutionaries from the failed Paris Commune of 1871 to the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond. Through the interwoven stories of several key anarchists ...

Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics - Paperback

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by Ari Rabin-Havt (Author), Media Matters for America (Author)A stunning investigation of the history of organized misinformation in politics. In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America present a revelatory history of this industry--which they've dubbed Lies, Incorporated--and show how ...

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

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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 American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents - Paperback

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by Damon Bach (Author)Restricted to the shorthand of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues to resonate. In this comprehensive history, Damon R. Bach traces the counterculture from its antecedents in the 1950s through its emergence and massive expansion in the 1960s to its demise in the 1970s and p...

Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism - Paperback

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by Christine Desan (Author)Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that structure it, the politics and ideas that shape it, and the benefits that...

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by Noam Chomsky (Author)The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual--"arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times). At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas--sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awes...

Becoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization: A Handbook for Scaling Up Solutions Through Knowledge Capturing and Sharing - Paperback

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by Steffen Soulejman Janus (Author)This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its recommendations are grounded on the insights gained from the past seven years of collaboration between the World Bank and its clients around the world ministr...

The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? - Hardcover

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by Deborah Stone (Author)Politics has become a synonym for all that is dirty, corrupt, dishonest, compromising, and wrong. For many people, politics seems not only remote from their daily lives but abhorrent to their personal values. Outside of the rare inspirational politician or social movement, politics is a wasteland of apathy and disinterest. It wasn't always this way. For Americans who came of age shortly after World War II, politics was a field of dreams. Democracy promised to cure th...

Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice: Transforming Individuals and Institutions - Paperback

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by Michael Braswell (Author), John Fuller (Author), Bo Lozoff (Author)This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings. Philosophical and spiritual contexts for peacemaking are presented that form a foundation for understanding the potential fo...

A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise - Hardcover

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by Benedict de Spinoza (Author), R. H. M. Elwes (Translator)An early voice calling for reason as the ruler of the human mind, and a man with, at best, a Deistic outlook on religion, Spinoza is perhaps the first truly modern philosopher. He is certainly the first modern critic of the Bible. His devoted adherents include many great names of 19th-century literature: Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and George Eliot were deeply swayed by his writing; in the 20th century, Albert Einstein claimed Spinoz...

A Hard Rain Fell: Sds and Why It Failed - Paperback

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by David Barber (Author)By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history--a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. SDS's development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization's relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women's lib...

Outline of the Us Legal System - Paperback

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by Us Dept of State Bureau of International (Author)This outline covers the history and organization of the federal and state judicial systems; the criminal and civil court processes; the background, qualifications, and selection of federal judges; the role of other participants (lawyers, defendants, interest groups) in the judicial process; and the implementation and impact of judicial policies. Contents: 1) History and Organization of State Judicial System. 2) History and Organization of th...

The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond - Paperback

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by Terry Gibbs (Author), Garry Leech (Author)What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton's industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province's utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal-from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs as a result of neoliberal globalization-the economi...

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by Hock Hochheim (Author)True Crime! "Don't Even Think About It!" Crime and justice in the U.S. Army and Texas. It is a threat Hock issued to criminals at the moment of arrest when they looked like they would attack him or run off. Book 1 in the Hock Hochheim memoirs, covers the "patrol years." Book 2, "Dead Right There," covers his many detective years with the US Army Military Police, and Texas police. Hock's career spans three decades. Here in Book 1, he responds to a plethora of crimes an...

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by Upton Sinclair (Author)In 1924 Upton Sinclair wrote this novel. The Millenium takes place in the year 2000. As capitalism reaches its apex, a 100-story Pleasure Palace is built in the middle of Central Park - New York City. It is built for the pleasure of the ruling class - pigs that they are As the Palace has its 'grand opening' an experiment with radiumite goes real bad and it explodes killing everyone in the world except eleven people at the Palace. These eleven people are extremely we...

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hardcover

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by David Hume (Author)David Hume penned this enquiry in the 1700s, anticipating many of the arguments of skeptics, empiricists, and atheists by centuries. His arguments against miracles and whether or not human testimony provides sufficient evidence for belief in them are raised to the present day, although it must be said that if they are still being raised, they may not be the proverbial 'nail in the coffin' for religion (and Christianity in particular) that skeptical philosophers believe. ...

Nim-bii-go-nini Ojibwe Language Revitalization Strategy - Paperback

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by Rawnda Abraham (Author)The Nim-bii-go-nini Ojibwe Language Revitalization Strategy is a grassroots approach to language learning that has been in collaborative development and implementation with my family since 2008. Nim-bii-go-nini is two words: Nim-bii-go, commonly pronounced Nipigon, and Nini, meaning people. We are Lake Nipigon Ojibwe people. This strategy is one response to some of the negative intergenerational impacts that the Canadian Residential Schools have on Aboriginal familie...

The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics - Paperback

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by Avidit Acharya (Author), Alexander Lee (Author)The people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border communities often are, neither community can access the governmental institutions of the nation on the other side. Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? More b...

Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd; Quarterly Essay 38 - Paperback

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by David Marr (Author)Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transformation of a dreamy kid into an implacably determined youth, already set on the prime ministership. He examines Rudd's years as Wayne Goss's right-hand man in Queensland, his relentless work in federal Opposition - from Sunrise to AWB - and finally his recor...

Emerging Markets in a World of Chaos: Pathways for Economic Growth and Development - Hardcover

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by Ali Zafar (Author)This book is a journey through leading and incredibly diverse emerging markets in a world of shocks and transitions. Tracing the rise of China, the emergence of India, the changing fortunes in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, the unique developments in Turkey and Indonesia, the complex geopolitics in Russia and Saudi Arabia, and the challenging post-apartheid transition in South Africa, the study examines their varying prospects in the years to come. Using an innovative ana...

Bayesian Social Science Statistics - Hardcover

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by Jeff Gill (Author), Le Bao (Author)In this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. No previous knowledge is required other than that in a basic statistics course. At the end of the process, readers will understand the core tenets of Bayesian theory and practice in a way that enables them to specify, implement, and understand models usin...

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude - Paperback

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by Robert Baer (Author)"Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state--a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can't get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?" In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA's efforts to fight glo...

Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam - Paperback

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by John L. Esposito (Author)The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending. As it became clear that these horrifying acts had been committed in the name of religion, the media, the government, and ordinary citizens alike sought answers to questions about Islam and its adherents.In this level-headed and authoritative book, John L. Esposito, one of the world's most respected scholars of political Islam, provides answers. He clearl...

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by Florian Schneider (Author)Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And as we have increasingly seen, nationalism in digital spheres interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on the ground". If we are to understand the social and political complexities of the twenty-first century, we need to ask: what happens to nationalism when it goes digital? In China's Digital Nationalism, Florian Schne...

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by Julian J. Wamble (Author)In We Choose You, Julian J. Wamble investigates the sophisticated process of Black voter candidate selection. Contrary to the common assumption that Black voters will support Black politicians, Wamble explores what considerations, outside of race, partisanship, and gender, Black voters use to choose certain representatives over others. The book complicates our view of candidate selection, expands our understanding of identity's role in the representative-constituen...

The House that Fox News Built? - Paperback

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by Kevin Arceneaux (Author), Johanna Dunaway (Author), Martin Johnson (Author)The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes than science. Using a rigorous quasi-experimental research design, observational data, and open science practices, this book carefully demonstrates how the re-emergence and rise of partisan cable news in the US affected the behavior of political elites during the rise ...

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by Paul Cartledge (Author)Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic ...

Forecasting Government Budgets: Methods and Applications - Paperback

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by Aman Khan (Author), Kenneth A. Kriz (Author)Forecasting is integral to all governmental activities, especially budgetary activities. Without good and accurate forecasts, a government will not only find it difficult to carry out its everyday operations but will also find it difficult to cope with the increasingly complex environment in which it has to operate. This book presents, in a simple and easy to understand manner, some of the commonly used methods in budget forecasting, simple as we...