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Twelve Steps for White America: For a United States of America - Paperback

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by William Watson (Author)Twelve Steps for White America: For a United States of America answers the revolutionary call of James Baldwin in "The Fire Next Time" for new standards for white Americans. Educator and former psychotherapist William Watson presents a treatment plan for democracy, an innovative framework of steps white Americans can take (and all individuals and organizations can incorporate) to right our nation's course to peace and prosperity through justice then liberty for all....

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by Richard Pipes (Author)America's foremost authority on Russian communism--the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime--now addresses the enigmas of that country's 70-year enthrallment with communism. Succinct, lucidly argued, and lively in its detail, this book offers a brilliant summation of the life's work of "one of America's great historians" (Washington Post Book World). "The author has distilled his arguments concerning several key...

Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

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by Daniel Layman (Author)Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers of the long nineteenth century, the Lockean radicals--Thomas Hodgskin, Lysander Spooner, John Bray, and Henry George--responded to the horrid and rampant economic injustices at the time by picking up the loose ends of...

You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches - Paperback

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by Josephine Wolff (Author)What we can learn from the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches and how we can do a better job protecting online data. Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach--the theft of 145.5 million Americans' information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government's theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump--makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of al...

Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups - Paperback

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by Aidan McGarry (Author)The inclusion of marginalised groups is a problem of modern democratic societies as representative democracy is built on principles which favour the majority. Around the world, some sections of society are silenced and actively excluded--including women, migrants, refugees, LGBTIQ, indigenous communities, and ethnic minorities, among others. The voice of the majority is used to contain, diminish, and oppress minorities through institutional racism, violence, erasure f...

The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel--And America--Can Win - Hardcover

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by Victoria Coates (Author)On October 7, 2023, Israel was ambushed by the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. The attack, underwritten by the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashed unspeakable terrors on the Israeli population. Most of the world reacted with horror to Hamas's actions. But many commentators labeled the Jewish people, and Israel as a nation, as oppressors. The Palestinians, according to their Marxist calculus, were the oppressed.A legion of figures in academia, the media, a...

Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet - Paperback

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by David Kaye (Author)Social media is not just part of the Internet now -- for most of the world, it IS the internet. Almost all users of social media will want to go deeper than the daily headlines of Russian interference and fake news, to understand what's going on behind the massive change in how they use the Internet, and how it's upending our political systems and our private lives. This book helps readers understand what the future of free expression in the digital age may look like. Nu...

Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle - Paperback

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by Jonathan Horn (Author)Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn "provides a captivating and enlightening look at George Washington's post-presidential life and the politically divided country that was part of his legacy" (New York Journal of Books). Beginning where most biographies of George Washington leave off, Washington's End opens with the first president exiting office after eight years and entering what would become the most bewildering stage of his life. E...

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by Kate Thompson (Author)Palestine A - Z was produced in response to the often heard assertion that the Israel/Palestine issue is 'complicated'. Here is an explainer; a collection of short entries, in alphabetical order, covering the key parties, organisations and issues which are lost behind the headlines. What is Hamas? Where does the Balfour Declaration fit in? What is the Palestinian Authority and what were the Oslo Accords? From Administrative detention to Zionism, from Lavender to Where...

C.S. Lewis on Politics, Government, and the Good Society - Paperback

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by Jefrey D. Breshears (Author)C. S. Lewis is generally regarded as the foremost Christian thinker and writer of the 20th century. A first-rate scholar, philosopher, apologist, theologian, literary critic, science fiction writer, poet, and author of children's fantasy novels, he wrote with charm, wit, insight, and occasional eloquence.Lewis was neither a professional philosopher, theologian, Bible scholar, historian, psychologist, nor a social scientist, but he thought and wrote perceptively ...

Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Dane Kennedy (Author)Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945 to 193 today. Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the historic shift in international relations that has occurred over the past half-centur...

The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War - Hardcover

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by Mitchell A. Orenstein (Author)Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the European Union have been dealing with these issues for years. The La...

Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege - Paperback

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by Will Potter (Author)At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes terrorism and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalking slogans on the sidewalk.Like the Red Scare, this Green Scare is about fear and intimidation, using ...

Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective - Hardcover

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by Brian Wampler (Author), Stephanie McNulty (Author), Michael Touchton (Author)Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of strengthening accountability, civil society, and well-being. Governments often adapt PB's basic program design to meet local needs, thus creating wide variation in how PB programs function. Some programs retain features of radical democracy, others focus on comm...

External Validity and Evidence Accumulation - Paperback

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by Tara Slough (Author), Scott A. Tyson (Author)The accumulation of empirical evidence that has been collected in multiple contexts, places, and times requires a more comprehensive understanding of empirical research than is typically required for interpreting the findings from individual studies. We advance a novel conceptual framework where causal mechanisms are central to characterizing social phenomena that transcend context, place, or time. We distinguish various concepts of external val...

Attaché Case: Backstage at the Embassy - Hardcover

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by Todd Pierce (Author), Wyatt Doyle (Editor)"The Kitchen Confidential of the State Department."You've seen them on the news, looking competent and concerned in their navy suits. They're in Beijing, Riyadh, Nairobi, Geneva, and of course Washington, DC. They look uneasy on camera. When they speak (which is as little as possible), it's with caution, hemmed in by protocol and the fear of causing an incident.These are the diplomats.Opening up a famously tight-lipped profession, State Department ...

Attaché Case: Backstage at the Embassy - Paperback

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by Michael Weber (Author)Political theory, from antiquity to the present, has been divided over the relationship between the requirements of justice and the limitations of persons and institutions to meet those requirements. Some theorists hold that a theory of justice should be utopian or idealistic--that the derivation of the correct principles of justice should not take into account human and institutional limitations. Others insist on a realist or non-utopian view, according to which feas...

Massacres and Morality: Mass Atrocities in an Age of Civilian Immunity - Paperback

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by Alex J. Bellamy (Author)Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. This is the norm of civilian immunity, widely considered to be a fundamental moral and legal principle. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate killing of large numbers of civilians remains a persistent feature of global political life. What is more, the perpetrators have often avoided criticism and punishment. Examining dozens of episodes of mass...

The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State - Paperback

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by Michele Landis Dauber (Author)Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to a long tradition-dating back to 1790 and now largely forgotten-of federal aid to victims of disaster. In The Sympathetic State, Michele Landis Dauber recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the ro...

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by Richard English (Author)A compelling and authoritative history of Irish nationalism from the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Armed Struggle Author BiographyRichard English is the author of several books, including Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA and Radicals and the Republic. He is a frequent media commentator on Irish politics and has written on Ireland for the Financial Times, Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and Newsweek. Number of Pages: 625 Dimension...

Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio's Biggest Slum - Paperback

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by Misha Glenny (Author)Ant nio Francisco Bonfim Lopes was a hardworking young father before he became the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal, known as "Nem." Nemesis is the riveting account of Nem's ruthless ascent, his sway over its anarchic outlaw culture, and ultimately--his downfall. Struggling to come up with funds to pay for the hospital bills necessary to save a sick baby's life, a twenty-four-year-old Nem is...

Working Ethically in Child Protection - Paperback

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by Bob Lonne (Author), Maria Harries (Author), Brid Featherstone (Author)In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues surrounding child protection interventions and offers a process-oriented approach to ethical practice and decision making ...

The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages - Paperback

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by John W. Baldwin (Author)In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendancy over France, while France achieved political and cultural supremacy over western Europe. Based on French sources, this meticulously documented study provides an account of how Philip Augustus (1179-1223) brought about this transformation of royal power.Author BiographyJohn W. Baldwin is the Charles Homer Haskins Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Number of Pages: 632 Dimensions: 1.21 x 9.21...

The Policy of the Entente: Essays on the Determinants of British Foreign Policy, 1904 1914 - Paperback

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by Keith M. Wilson (Author)This collection of essays makes a major contribution to the growing debate on British foreign policy before the First World War, and mounts a sustained critique of the received interpretation that invites comparison with the work of Fritz Fischer on the foreign policy of Imperial Germany. The Policy of the Entente presents a realistic assessment of British priorities in the years before 1914, and considers the fundamental and conflicting pressures that determined th...

Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, the First Decline and Fall - Paperback

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by J. G. a. Pocock (Author)This major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenges the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and posits instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock presents a historical introduction to the first fou...

Classical Athens and Delphic Oracle - Paperback

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by Hugh Bowden (Author)This book provides an exploration of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, where the god Apollo was believed to speak to inquirers through his priestesses. In particular, it examines Athens' use of the oracle c. 500-300 BC. Demonstrating the importance of communication with the gods, and doing their will, in classical Athenian society, Hugh Bowden concludes that ancient Athens was not a secular Westernized democracy as we understand the term today. Number of Pages: 206 Dimens...

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by J. G. a. Pocock (Author)The second volume of Barbarism and Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment, and looks at Gibbon's intellectual relationship with writers sucah as Giannone, Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Ferguson and Adam Smith. Edward Gibbon's intellectual trajectory is both similar but at points crucially distinct from the dominant Latin "Enlightened narrative" these thinkers developed. The interaction of philosophy, erudition and narrative is central to enlightened hist...

Slavery In South Carolina And The Ex-Slaves: Or The Port Royal Mission - Paperback

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by A. M. French (Author)""Slavery In South Carolina And The Ex-Slaves: Or The Port Royal Mission"" is a historical book written by Mrs. A. M. French. The book is focused on the experiences of slaves in South Carolina during the Civil War and their transition to freedom. The author provides a detailed account of the Port Royal Mission, which was a humanitarian effort to provide education, healthcare, and other basic necessities to the newly freed slaves. The book also explores the social and p...

The Gospel Of Wealth And Other Timely Essays - Hardcover

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by Andrew Carnegie (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: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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by Rogers Brubaker (Author)Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they unwittingly adopt the language of participants in such struggles, and contribute...

German National Identity After the Holocaust - Paperback

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by Mary Fulbrook (Author)For over half a century, Germans have lived in the shadow of Auschwitz. Who was responsible for the mass murder of millions of people in the Holocaust: just a small gang of evil men, Hitler and his henchmen; or certain groups within a particular system; or even the whole nation? Could the roots of malignancy be traced far back in German history? Or did the Holocaust have more to do with European modernity? Should Germans live with a legacy of guilt forever? And how, i...