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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone - Paperback

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by Joseph S. Nye (Author)Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, that power is not enough to solve global problems--like terrorism, environmental degradation, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction--without involving other nations. Here Josep...

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by Frank Safford (Author), Marco Palacios (Author)Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society is a comprehensive history of the third most populous country of Latin America. It offers the most extensive discussion available in English of the whole of Colombian history-from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book begins with an in-depthlook at the earliest years in Colombia's history, emphasizing the role geography played in shaping Colombia's economy, society, and politics and in encourag...

Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race - Paperback

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by Hannah L. Walker (Author)Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutality in Ferguson, organized against stop-and-frisk in New York City, and fueled the rise of Black Lives Matter. Yet, scholars did not anticipate this resistance, instead anticipating the political withdrawal of marginali...

The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs - Hardcover

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by Christopher Marquis (Author)An exposé of how society pays for corporations' "free lunch" and the cost of environmental damage, low wages, systemic discrimination, and cheap goods. In an age when business leaders solemnly profess dedication to principles of environmental and social justice, Christopher Marquis's provocative investigation into the real costs of doing business reveals the way that leaders of the corporate world gaslight to evade responsibilities by privatizing profits and so...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism - Paperback

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by John Breuilly (Author)The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay which, by a combination of thematic focus, comparison, and regional perspective enables the reader to understand nationalism as a distinct and global historical subject. The book...

Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States - Hardcover

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by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young (Author)For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the political satire of the right and political satire is the opinion programming of the left. They look and feel like two different animals because their audiences are literally, two different animals. In Iro...

Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice - Hardcover

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by David S. Tatel (Author)The "moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir" (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America's most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers--who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America's second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved--or ...

Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s - Paperback

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by Kateryna Zarembo (Author), Tetiana Savchynska (Translator)This book offers a nuanced exploration of Donetsk and Luhansk regions prior to the 2014 Russian invasion. While the region, collectively known as Donbas, frequently appears in news headlines, it remains under-researched by scholars, and myths about it abound. Combining rigorous research and captivating narration, Kateryna Zarembo debunks common myths about the region, such as its long-standing gravitation towards Russia and its reje...

The New Americans?: Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino Identity - Paperback

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by Heather Silber Mohamed (Author)In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented protests marked a turning point for the Latino population--a point that is even more salient ten years later as the issue of immigration roils the politics of the 2016 presidential election. In The New Americans? Silber Mohamed explores the complexities of the Latin...

Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution - Paperback

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by Forrest McDonald (Author)This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including their understanding of law, history political philosophy, and political economy, and their firsthand experience in public affairs--and then analyzes their behavior in ...

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by A. LeRoy (Author)RESTORE YOUR BIRTHRIGHTNot since the days of Noah has Earth witnessed such an all-out assault on life and livelihood as we see today. The false authorities are pursuing their agenda of extermination and enslavement with a ruthlessness most of us could never have imagined. Can they be stopped?Yes, when we are aware of their schemes and wield True Law against them!In this sequel to Know Your Medical Rights, Abdiel LeRoy dismantles the lies, programming, and conditioning that...

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by A. LeRoy (Author)[formerly The COVID Protocols: Upholding Your Rights in Authoritarian Times]MEDICAL TYRANNY HASN'T GONE AWAY. ARE YOU READY?Did you know that, under international law, no-one can demand you get a medical test, wear a mask, or have any other medical procedure?And did you also know that no emergency, even if it threatens the life of a nation, takes away any of your rights? Or that any politician or pundit who attempts to persecute a group based on medical status is committin...

On The British Colonization Of New Zealand (1846) - Paperback

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by Aboriginesâ (Tm) Protection Society (Author)On The British Colonization Of New Zealand (1846) is a historical book written by the Aborigines�� Protection Society. The book provides a detailed account of the colonization of New Zealand by the British in the mid-19th century. It explores the impact of colonization on the indigenous Maori people, their culture, and their way of life.The book begins by describing the arrival of the British in New Zealand and their interactions with the Ma...

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by Wolfgang M?nchau (Author)'Compelling' Guardian'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times'Excellent' The Telegraph'Astonishing' The Times'An eye-opener' Gavin EslerUntil recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success. Angela Merkel was widely seen as the true 'leader of the free world', and Germany's export-driven economic model seemed to deliver prosperity. But recent events - from Germany's dependence on Russian gas to its car industry's delays in the race ...

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by Russell D. Buhite (Editor), David W. Levy (Editor)The first complete collection of FDR's historic conversations with the American people, this volume contains the entire texts of the 31 "fireside chats" that Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered over the radio during his 13 years as president, and with which he reassured and mobilized millions of listeners. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.81 x 7.95 x 5.05 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Careers in Social and Rehabilitation Services - Paperback

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by Geraldine Garner (Author)Give your future some positive therapy and enjoy a successful careerCareers that involve helping people are tremendously rewarding; they also offer diverse opportunities. In order to decide what job route is best for you, you need to begin with a clear plan: What will you specialize in? Do you need an advanced degree or certificate? How will you find the right position? Careers in Social and Rehabilitation Services has the answers. Here, you'll discover all the inf...

Bad Money: The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books) - Paperback

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by Kevin Phillips (Author)In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes the full measure of this crisis. They are a part of what he calls "bad money"- not just the depreciated dollar, but also the dangerous attitudes and the flawed products of w...

Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean - Paperback

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by Peter Fibiger Bang (Editor), Walter Scheidel (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its immediate successors. They seek to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: p...

Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy - Hardcover

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by Craig A. Anderson (Author), Douglas A. Gentile (Author), Katherine E. Buckley (Author)Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America's Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games contribute to aggressive and violent behavior? Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley first present an overview of empiric...

In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States - Paperback

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by Victoria Hattam (Author)Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. In the Shadow of Race recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means...

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by Joan Johnson-Freese (Author)Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the issues that have contributed to the decline of America's manned space program, such as lack of political support and funding, Johnson-Freese offers not only a critique...

Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down - Paperback

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by Dave Barry (Author)Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry is a pretty amiable guy. But lately, he's been getting a little worked up. What could make a mild-mannered man of words so hot under the collar? Well, a lot of things-like bad public art, Internet millionaires, SUVs, Regis Philbin . . . and even bigger problems, like - The slower-than-deceased-livestock left-lane drivers who apparently believe that the right lane is sacred and must never come in direct contact with tires- The pa...

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy - Hardcover

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by Daron Acemoglu (Author), James a. Robinson (Author)What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or dictatorship. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that d...

Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Pitts (Author)It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy still visible in the unequal structures of today's international order. Pitts focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the great age of imperial ...

Immigration and European Integration - Paperback

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by Andrew Geddes (Author)Migration is at the heart of the contemporary EU. This book addresses the two key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. Firstly, the efforts to control immigration and secondly, the chances for inclusion of migrants and their descendants.Author BiographyAndrew Geddes is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9.22 x 6.11 IN Publication Date: March 02, 2000

Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America - Hardcover

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by Dana R. Fisher (Author)Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser. She's the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns. Granted unprecedented access to the "People's Project," an unknown yet influential organization driving left-leaning grassroots politics, Dana Fisher tells the true story of outsourcing politics in America. Like the major corporations t...

Who Stole the American Dream? - Paperback

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by Hedrick Smith (Author)Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith's new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington's corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark politic...

Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 - Paperback

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by Joshua M. Smith (Author)North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award in United States Maritime History Passamaquoddy Bay lies between Maine and New Brunswick at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Most of it (including Campobello Island) is within Canada, but the Maine town of Lubec lies at the bay's entrance. Rich in beaver pelts, fish, and timber, the area was a famous smuggling center after the American Revolution. Joshua Smith examines the reasons for smuggling in thi...

Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis - Hardcover

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by Keona K. Ervin (Author)Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the "Gateway City" continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these decades, many African American citizens in the region found themselves struggling financially and fighting for access to profitable jobs and suitable working conditions. To combat i...

The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement - Paperback

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by Nicholas De Genova (Editor)This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability, the threat of forced removal. They explore practices and experiences of deportation in regional and national settings from the U.S.-Mexico border to Israel, and fr...

Sub specie aeternitatis: Articles Philosophic, Social and Literary (1900-1906) - Paperback

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by Nicholas Berdyaev (Author), S. Janos (Translator)1st English translation from Russian: the Russian religious philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev's 1907 book, "Sub specie aeternitatis: Articles Philosophic, Social and Literary (1900-1906)", is a sbornik collection 1900-1906 journal articles penned by him. It is among the earliest of his books, and as such serves as key to elements in his thought in this early period. Berdyaev's fundamental motifs of freedom, the person, creativity, spirit -- are ...

Mahan On Naval Warfare: Selections From The Writing Of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan (1918) - Hardcover

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by Alfred Thayer Mahan (Author), Allan Westcott (Editor)Mahan On Naval Warfare: Selections From The Writing Of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan (1918) is a book that compiles the most significant works of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, a renowned naval officer and strategist. The book features a collection of essays, articles, and speeches written by Mahan throughout his career, covering various aspects of naval warfare, including strategy, tactics, and history.The book is divided into four pa...