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by Clarence Gus a. Martin (Author), Fynnwin Prager (Author)A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment, topics discussed include the Causes of Terrorism, the Role of the Media, Cyberterrorism, Religious Terrorism, and The Future of Terrorism.
Number of Pages: 800
Dimensions: 1.7 x 9.1 x 7.3 IN
Publication Date: January 16, 2019
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by Natalie Masuoka (Author), Jane Junn (Author)Women Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican and women of color are majority Democratic voters. Second, due to the unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, w...
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by Chris Christie (Author), Ellis Henican (With)With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan's character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines--finding plenty of compelling insights fo...
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by Juanita Tolliver (Author)"A beautifully written political-social page turner" (Joy-Ann Reid) about the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics. In 1972, New York Representative Shirley Chisholm broke the ice in American politics when she became the first Black woman to run for president of the United States. Chisholm left behind a coalition-building model personified by a once-...
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by Paul Bartrop (Author)Genocide: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as; how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide? How prevalent has genocide been throughout history? and how has the concept been defined? Real world case studies address significant issues including: The killing of indigenous peoples by colonial powers The Holocaust and the questi...
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by David A. Ochmanek (Author), Anna M. Dowd (Author), Stephen J. Flanagan (Author)The U.S. defense strategy and posture have become insolvent. Sustained, coordinated efforts by the United States, its allies, and its key partners are necessary to deter and defeat modern threats, including Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine and reconstituted forces and China's economic takeoff and concomitant military modernization. This report offers ideas on how to address shortcomings in defense preparations.
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by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Author)Páginas libres. Breve antología del pensamiento anarquista en Puerto Rico (1900-1919), compilado y editado con sensible cuidado por Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, suma hilos a una recuperación histórica imprescindible en nuestro país. Con el junte de textos de Venancio Cruz, Luisa Capetillo, Juan Vilar, Juan José López y Ángel María Dieppa esta nueva entrega de la serie Otra Universidad pone en circulación ideas, conexiones, aciertos y silencios de y sobre nuestrx...
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by Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic (Author)Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. By analyzing the concept of time, Nitzan Lebovic explores Buber's stress on the temporality of the dialogue between I and Thou; Benjamin's now-time and "dialectics in standstill"; Arendt's understanding of democracy as "natality" or a "permanent...
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by Peter Bergen (Author)A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than eighty U.S. citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with...
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by Richard G. Niemi (Author), Jane Junn (Author)Sound democratic decisions rely on a citizenry with at least a partial mastery of the rules and workings of democratic government. American high schools, where students learn the basics of citizenship, thus ought to play a critical role in the success of democracy. Yet studies examining the impact of high school government and civics courses on political knowledge over the past quarter-century have generally shown that these courses have little ...
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by Andrew F. Puzder (Author)Former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. Andrew F. Puzder exposes how the secretive consolidation of financial power under the guise of "ESG" represents a new collectivist threat to the free market.Over the last thirty-five years, asset manager mega-giants BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have accumulated unprecedented levels of stock ownership in virtually every major US company. Voting the shares they hold for clients allows these companies to force their own "en...
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by P?l Kolst? (Author)Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination of what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and how believers respond to its messages regarding issues such as marriage, divorce, contraception, abortion, husband-wife relations, and LGBTQIA+ rights. According to P?l Kolst , for the ROC, the ethics of private life involve what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics" the state regulates the sex lives of its citizens to control the development of the population....
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by Terence Ball (Editor), Richard Dagger (Editor), Daniel I. O'Neill (Editor)Presenting key selections from an array of original sources and a wide range of ideological visions, Ideals and Ideologies puts students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. This new edition includes a generous sampling of key thinkers across the various traditions.Author BiographyTerence Ball received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Emeritus ...
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by Alex?i Navalni (Author), Ana Camallonga Claveria (Translator), Gemma Deza (Translator)El ?ltimo mensaje al mundo de un resistente pol?tico ruso que pag? con su vida el precio de sus convicciones.Alex?i Navalni empez? a escribir Patriota poco despu?s del envenenamiento que casi lo mata en 2020. Este libro es la historia completa de su vida: su juventud, sus inicios en el activismo, su familia y su compromiso con la causa de la democracia frente a los esfuerzos de la superpotencia rusa por s...
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by Prema Kurien (Author)Author BiographyDr. Prema Kurien is Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. She is a scholar of international migration, race, ethnicity, and religion. She adopts a transnational approach in her work and has also done research in India, to show how a variety of global factors, including developments in the country of origin, play a profound role in shaping community structures, cultures, and activism profiles of immigrants and even the second generation. Her wor...
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by Groundxero (Editor), Notes on the Academy (Editor), Workers Unity (Editor)The Journey of the Farmers' Rebellion highlights the stories of a critical period in Indian agricultural and labor history. Through an investigation into the narratives shaped by, and shaping, the historic Indian Farmers' Rebellion of 2020-2021, this book uncovers how the fight for land, dignity, and survival connects farmers, laborers, women, Dalits, and Indigenous communities alike in a shared, intersectional resis...
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by Stephen W. Sawyer (Author)A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he presents readers of political history with a prequel whose ambitious claim is that a genuine demos became possible in France only with the development of government regulati...
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by Se?n Kennedy (Author), James McNaughton (Author)Published to coincide with the release of Joker: Folie ?agrave; Deux, the sequel to Todd Phillips' iconic blockbuster, this imaginative reading sees Joker as an economic and political allegory, presenting unexpected and dazzling insights into contemporary capitalism.What could be more surprising than the cinematic presentation of the Joker as a key to solving our present economic and political predicament? Send In the Clowns! leads us precise...
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by Robert M. Sanford (Author), Donald G. Holtgrieve (Author)Environmental impact assessment is now firmly established as an important and often mandatory part of proposing any development project. Environmental Impact Assessment in the United States provides foundational knowledge of environmental review in the United States as carried out at federal, state, and local levels, with detailed information about the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its applications, and other relevant ...
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by Jim Storr (Author)What can we learn from war, and warfare, in the twentieth century? What observations and deductions can we make, and what lessons can we draw? 'War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century' examines both a clearly delineated period in the past, and the century which offers us the most (and the most relevant) material to examine. Deliberately looking through the prism of strategy, operations and tactics, this book offers a surprisingly novel perspective on some apparently fami...
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by Philip A. Martin (Author)In Strong Commanders, Weak States, Philip A. Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obedient national militaries from the remnants of insurgent forces. When civil wars end, non-state armed groups often integrate into post-conflict militaries. Yet rebel-military integration does not always happen smoothly. In some cases, former rebels cooperate with new leaders, forming powerful national armies that underpi...
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by Tina Rosenberg (Author)An honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship--these people live in Latin America, but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world.Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and le...
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by Nathan P. Jones (Author), Nathan P. Jones (Contribution by)Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, organized crime victims, and criminals...
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by Nicole F. Watts (Author)A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee In the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people, the Iraqi Kurds. Five thousand people died in what became known as the Halabja Massacre, which has been deemed the worst chemical attack in history. Nicole F. Watts, a former journalist and now professor of political science, has spent o...
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by Alexis de Tocqueville (Author)Translation of: De la democratie en Amerique.Front JacketVolume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.Author BiographyAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French politician and theorist. He wrote Democracy in America after visiting the United States during which he observed various elements of the prison system. He continued on to serve in the ...
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by Derek W. Black (Author)The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power to keep a perso...
