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by Anne Larason Schneider (Author), Helen Ingram (Author)How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public policy that unmistakenly works to advance citizenship by listening to, educating, and involving ordinary people. Rather than serve mainly the narrow interests of powerful groups who are socially constructed as "deserving" or issuing discipline and punishment to powerless people socially constru...

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War - Paperback

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by Phil Klay (Author)From the author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences--for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war--from the revolutionary war o...

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by Ibram X. Kendi (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Libr...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need - Paperback

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by Bill Gates (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in...

Platform Politics: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy - Paperback

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by Luke Yates (Author)The 'sharing economy', powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about, and why? This book shows how platform capitalism is not only shaped by business decisions, but is a result of struggles involving social movements, consumer politics and state interventions. It focuses in particular on the controversial tactics used by platform giants to avoid regulation. Drawing on cutting-edg...

What Hangs in the Balance: The Case for Principled, Ethical, Competent, and Courageously Selfless Leadership - Hardcover

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by Philippe Johnson (Author)The actions or inactions of elected and appointed leaders determine whether the people they serve flourish or suffer. What hangs in the balance is not just quality of life, but often life itself. Unprincipled and unethical leadership puts at risk mission accomplishment, good governance, public trust in democratic institutions, national security, and even the rule of law. Over the course of Philippe Johnson's twenty-four-year career as a United States Air Force offi...

Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated - Hardcover

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by Collective Antigone (Editor)A groundbreaking collection of writings by political prisoners in Egypt, offering a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism during the last decade. This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egypt's incarcerated from the eruption of the January 25, 2011, uprising. Some are by journalists, lawyers, activists, and artists imprisoned for expressing their opposition to Egypt's authoritarian order; others are by ordinary citizens caught up in...

The Olavo de Carvalho Reader - Hardcover

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by Olavo de de Carvalho (Author)The Olavo de Carvalho Reader, a far-reaching selection of philosophical essays by the celebrated Brazilian philosopher available for the first time in English, presents indispensable writings that have generated an intellectual revival in Brazil and beyond. Following Carvalho's definition of philosophy as the "search for unity of knowledge in the unity of consciousness, and vice-versa," it lays out the historical roots of the current cultural crisis in the West...

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

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by Jeanne Theoharis (Author)2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movementPresenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a s...

It's Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism - Hardcover

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by Bernie Sanders (Author), John Nichols (With)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like “A clarion call against the American oligarchs . . . powerful.” - The Guardian It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire...

Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today - Hardcover

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by William F. Owen (Author)Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen massacres fields of sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience working with the British Army and industry, Owen draws the reader back to basics based on limited budgets, limited resources and an overall reduction in cost, weight and complexity to comprehensively understand how ar...

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by Friedrich A. Hayek (Author)F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is a groundbreaking work of political and economic philosophy that warns of the dangers posed by centralized control and the erosion of individual freedoms. Written during the tumultuous period of World War II, Hayek's incisive analysis critiques the rise of socialism and its potential to lead societies toward authoritarianism and tyranny.In this enduring classic, Hayek examines the unintended consequences of well-meaning policies...

Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia - Paperback

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by Linda J. Cook (Author) Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Disassembling Police Culture - Paperback

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by Mike Rowe (Author)Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decision-making and actions. Author BiographyMike Rowe is Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Liverpool, UK. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2024

The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party - Paperback

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by Martin K. Dimitrov (Author) Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age - Hardcover

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by Hal Brands (Editor), John Bew (Contribution by), Lawrence Freedman (Contribution by)The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative ...

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by Judith Butler (Author)Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them. From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world "This is the most accessible of their books so far, an intervention meant for a wide audience . . . Because Butler is a human rights activi...

On XI Jinping: How XI's Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World - Hardcover

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by Kevin Rudd (Author)An authoritative account of Xi Jinping's worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.In his new book, On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage--that of President Xi Jinping, who now hold near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Ru...

The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando - Paperback

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by Paul Kix (Author)In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring exploits as a r駸istant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive.A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnifi...

Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries - Paperback

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by Mike Cowburn (Author)This book explores how new dynamics of primary competition have contributed to party transformation in Congress. It challenges commonly held beliefs about the role of primary voters and sheds light on the institutions, processes, and actors responsible for increasing partisan conflict on Capitol Hill. Number of Pages: 266 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 14, 2024

The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic Integrity - Paperback

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by Carol M. Swain (Author)Claudine Gay's resignation on January 2, 2024, as Harvard University's first Black president, after only six months on the job, sent shock waves across the world. However, it did not shock anyone closely following her situation. Gay stepped down less than a month after giving disastrous testimony in Congress about her university's laissez-faire approach to protecting Jews on campus from rising expressions of antisemitism that followed Hamas's terrorist attacks on Isr...

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy - Hardcover

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by Kash Pramod Patel (Author)A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People...we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!" --Donald J. Trump The highest levels of government have been infiltrated by an anti-democratic Deep State that can be defeated by refocusing our national security mission and rele...

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - Paperback

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by Jon Meacham (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize - Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award - One of the Best Books of the Year: The Chr...

Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment - Paperback

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by Yanis Varoufakis (Author)A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth. After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece's relationship with the EU--and sparks a spectacular battle ...

Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated - Paperback

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Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression - Hardcover

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by Adam Gopnik (Foreword by), Charb (Author)An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions. On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb." Known by his pen name, Stèphane Charbonnier was editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, an outspoken critic of religious fundamentalism, and a reno...

The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism - Hardcover

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by Jathan Sadowski (Author)This short book demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and equips readers with practical tools to dismantle them and build a better world, bit by bit. Our society is constantly made to serve the needs of two systems: technology and capitalism. Neither exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite offers the critical tools needed to deconstruct these systems--how they work, whom t...

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad - Paperback

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by Marnia Lazreg (Author)Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an an...

The Covid Safety Handbook: Staying Safe In An Unsafe World - Paperback

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by Violet Blue (Author)Covid is "over," right? If only that were true.Thousands of studies now show in the clearest of terms that Covid's initial infection is just the tip of the iceberg. Yet confusion, misinformation, disinformation, and resistance toward prevention clouds nearly every aspect of this preventable disease.Even if your situation feels impossible there are ways to safely, easily, and even discreetly reduce your risk-and you are far from alone.This inclusive book is a guide to ma...

Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal - Hardcover

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by Julie Greene (Author), Lisa Adams (Other)When acclaimed labor historian Julie Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored a cache of first-person essays written in 1963 by the Afro-Caribbean people, mainly Jamaican and Barbadian, who migrated to the Isthmus of Panama to work as diggers, track shifters, or domestic servants in the Canal Zone. Held at the Library of Congress and stored in Box 25 of the Isthmian Histo...

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by Michael Printy (Author) Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

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by Wilhelm Wundt (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2008