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Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Rosengarten (Author)In 1935, when Lillian Rosengarten was a toddler, her family fled Nazi Germany, for New York. But even there, the legacy of the Nazis' brutality continued to cast a shadow over her family for many decades. In Survival and Conscience, Rosengarten describes how she faced those challenges and came to understand that all forms of extreme nationalism and race hatred must be combated, together. Along with many other refugees from Nazism and...

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Drinker Bowen (Author)"Remarkable...If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it" (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents, the Constitution of the United States. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Co...

Stirring The Pot - Personal thoughts on politics, religion and more!

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Parker (Author)Stirring The Pot is a collection of thoughts and expressions by Jack Parker meant to provoke thought and conversation. Topics from the worlds of politics and religion, as well as many personal items, are presented to make you happy, or make your blood boil. Either way, an opinion has been shared. Feel free to follow Jack Parker on Facebook and respond to his regular thought provoking posts on a wide variety of topics and issues. ...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Bobrovskaya (Author)Lenin and Krupskaya is a biographical book written by C. Bobrovskaya that delves into the lives of Vladimir Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. The book explores their personal and political relationship, their involvement in the Russian Revolution, and their contributions to the formation of the Soviet Union. It also provides insight into their ideology and beliefs, including their commitment to Marxism and Leninism. Through detailed...

Chaos Royale: The Grenouille That Won the War (a White-Paper for Humanity)

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Fleischhaker (Author)Going from a top-tier MBA program and a trajectory toward becoming an investment banker in front-office finance to living in abject poverty under extreme covert protection, Kevin Fleischhaker's life was upended by the real-life clandestine FMK v1.0 social engineering system and its catastrophic dystopian framework. In Chaos Royale, he recounts how he truthfully blew the whistle on the system to top-level leaders, heads of state, and i...

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Report copyright infringementby George Berger (Author)Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world's press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social, and politi...

Henry A. Wallace and American Foreign Policy.

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Report copyright infringementby J. Samuel Walker (Author), Henry a. Wallace (Author)Author Biographyllace /f Henry /i A. ker /f J. /i Samuel Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 11, 1976

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Lamont Gregory Msc Oxon (Author)Eric LaMont Gregory provides an eye-opening account of American foreign policy and how the decisions made today will influence the forces that propel America into the future. His international career began in the Middle East in the 1960s. Over the next 40-plus years, he was in Bosnia during the war; Rwanda before and after the genocide; Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua during the Contra d...

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

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Report copyright infringementby Mychal Denzel Smith (Author)Author BiographyMychal Denzel Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching (2016) and Stakes Is High (2020). His work has appeared, online and print, in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's, Artforum, Oxford American, New Republic, GQ, Complex, Esquire, Playboy, Bleacher Report, the Nation, the Atlantic, Pitchfork, Bookforum, and a number of other publications. He has appea...

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Degrasse Tyson (Author), Avis Lang (Author)In this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative examination of the intersection of...

The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Woolley (Author)Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives?Online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in this urgent book, it may pale in comparison to what's to come: humanlike automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake" AI-edited videos and images, interactive...

The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World

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Report copyright infringementby William Drozdiak (Author)A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency.A political novice leading a brand new party, in 2017 Emmanuel Macron swept away traditional political forces and emerged as president of France. Almost immediately he realized his task was not only to modernize his country but to save the EU and a crumbling international order. From the decline of NATO, to Russian interference, to the Gilets Jaunes...

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Report copyright infringementby Irene Reyes-Smith (Author)"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." Matthew 5:9 (NIV) For most, the badge is a symbol of law, trust, respect, and honor. It is equated with symbols of authority for those who take an oath to uphold the integrity that comes with upholding order, such as police and fire personnel whom we entrust to maintain the safety and sanctity of our neighborhoods and communities. But what happens when the symbol ...

Sentinel of Truth: Gourgen Yanikian and the Struggle Against the Denial of the Armenian Genocide

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Report copyright infringementby Tigran Kalaydjian (Author)Sentinel of Truth provides a gripping account of the assassination of two Turkish diplomats in California in 1973 by an aggrieved septuagenarian survivor of the Armenian Genocide, and explains how a study of the global campaign against Turkey's denial of the genocide cannot but include the killings carried out by Gourgen Yanikian. By describing in detail the effects these and subsequent acts of militancy had on the consciousness of dia...

Tom Hayden on Social Movements: Four unpublished talks and the Rolling Stone interview

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Hayden (Author)"Every now and then, there's a surge of history in which a group of people has the chance to determine events by taking their lives, their destiny, into their own hands." Tom Hayden, a central figure in the Vietnam War peace movement, shows what social movements look like from the inside. He spells out why they are intense, complex, exhilarating - and powerful enough to make history. These four unpublished talks and the Rolling Stone intervie...

Transformative Innovation for Sustainable Human Settlements: A South African Context

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Emmanuel Okem (Editor), Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni (Editor), Tshepang Mosiea (Editor)This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.The TIP approach shows that addressing societal problems is not a function of a technical solution within a government department but one...

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Report copyright infringementby Marco Te Brömmelstroet (Author)We shape mobility with words, and in turn, those words shape how we move, build, and experience our cities. In Mobility Language Matters, Marco te Brömmelstroet unveils the hidden power of language in defining the way we perceive transportation, infrastructure, and urban life. From technical jargon that reinforces car dependency to metaphors that limit our imagination, this book challenges the deep-seated narratives that drive mob...

Access to Eden: An Essay on Arts & Crafts Values, Garden City Ideals, and the 1924 'Wheatley' Housing ACT

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Report copyright infringementby John Astley (Author)In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped the original public sector housing ideals in Britain. The essay surveys the cultural and legislative strands in a narrative that reveals the origins of public sector housing with company housing (such as Port Sunlight), the Arts and Crafts movement, with architects such as Baillie Scott, the Garden City pioneer Ebenezer Howard, and urban planners such as Raymond Unwin and Bar...

The Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Hardy (Author)The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the Cold War. That is the challenging argument of The Poisoned Well, which provides a vivid account of the struggle against European colonial rule in ten states stretching from North A...

The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Langfitt (Author)As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.China--America's most important competitor--is at a turning point. With economic growth slowing, Chinese people face inequality and uncertainty as their leaders tighte...

The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Shackelford (Author)A young diplomat's account of her assignment in South Sudan, a firsthand example of US foreign policy that has failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world. In 2017, Elizabeth Shackelford wrote a pointed resignation letter to her then boss, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. She had watched as the State Department was gutted, and now she urged him to stem the bleeding by showing leadership and commitment to his diplom...

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

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Report copyright infringementby Kehinde Andrews (Author)A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism continue to inform our modern world. Colonialism and imperialism are often thought to be distant memories, whether they're glorified in Britain's collective nostalgia or taught as a sin of the past in history classes. This idea is bolstered by the emergence of India, China, Argentina and other non-western nations as leading world powers. Multi...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Engels (Author)"To make man the master of his own form of social organization--to make him free--is the historical mission of the modern proletariat," writes Engels. Here socialism is placed on a scientific foundation, the product of the lawful operations of capitalism itself and the struggles of the working class. Number of Pages: 113 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel B. Vogelstein (Author), Meighan Stone (Author)Foreword by Tarana Burke. Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement. Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women's activism powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight the violence and discrimina...

Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age

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Report copyright infringementby David Wessel (Author)In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in which political and economic elites attend to the care and feeding of the super-rich, and inequality compounds.David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur develops an idea intended as a way to help poor people ...

The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg Easterbrook (Author)The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades, the Navy has stood sentinel over crucial waterways, ensuring safe passage of goods from nearly all nations. The result is the longest phase of peace on the waters since the Phoenicians, with rising living standards, more (total) jobs, and the dramatic decline of pover...

A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic-And How We Can End It

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Cohen (Author)Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the modern weight crisis. Based on her own extensive research, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics and cognitive science, Coh...

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Pahlka (Author)Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2023Named one of Ezra Klein's "Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023," The New York Times Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka's work at recodingamerica.us. "The book I wish every policymaker would read."--Ezra Klein, The New York TimesA bold call to reexamine how our government operates--and sometimes fails to--from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for Americ...

After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Keil (Editor), Fulong Wu (Editor)After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe,...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Wymond (Author)On 6 February 2023, a devastating earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria, killing over 59,000 people, damaging 230,000 buildings, and crippling vital infrastructure. Over 8.8 million lives were affected, largely due to a corrupt building industry driven by greed. Corrupt construction transcends all borders; demanding urgent attention and systemic reform.Corruption in the Construction Industry lays bare the world's most corrupt industry. One tha...

AP Comparative Government and Politics Prep 2024: 4 Practice Tests and Study Guide for Getting a 5 [4th Edition]

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Report copyright infringementby G. T. McDivitt (Author)Introducing our AP Comparative Government and Politics Prep 2024: 4 Practice Tests and Study Guide for Getting a 5 [4th Edition]! Accepted, Inc.'s AP Comparative Government and Politics Prep includes everything you need to pass the AP Comparative Government and Politics exam the first time. Quick review of the concepts covered on the AP Comparative Government and Politics exam 4 Full Length Practice Tests Sample Short Answer & Essay ...

Winning Ohio: The final 100 days of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign at ground zero

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Ryan (Author)"Meet the 'deplorables' and their God, guns, and high school football. Thomas Ryan takes you there." - Anonymous Ohio political operative"Parachute into the drama of a presidential ground game, and join Thomas Ryan on an adventure of a lifetime." - Megan O., Housewife"Even if you don't like politics, this book has the appeal of a novel..." - Ellen F. Thomas Ryan came to Northeast Ohio to find his way onto the Trump campaign. Instead, he foun...