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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Paperback

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by Jane Mayer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist LA Times Book Prize Finalist PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group. “With such turmoi...

Equity Efficiency and the United States Corporation Income Tax - Paperback

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by Gregory J. Ballentine (Author) Number of Pages: 1 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Servant Leadership [25th Anniversary Edition]: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness - Hardcover

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by Robert K. Greenleaf (Author)The Revolution Has Only Just Begun Twenty-five years ago Robert Greenleaf published these prophetic essays on what he coined servant leadership, a practical philosophy that replaces traditional autocratic leadership with a holistic, ethical approach. This highly influential book has been embraced by cutting edge management everywhere. Yet in these days of Enron and what VISA CEO Dee Hock calls our "era of massive institutional failure," Greenleaf's seminal work ...

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Paperback

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by Edward S. Herman (Author), Noam Chomsky (Author)A "compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions" (The New York Times Book Review) due to the underlying economics of publishing--from famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction. In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense...

Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Nigel Warburton (Author)Voltaire's comment--"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"--is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find someone prepared to defend all freedom of speech, especially if the views expressed are obnoxious or obviously false. So where do we draw the line? How important is our right to freedom of speech? In this accessible and up-to-date Very Short Introduction, Nigel Warburton covers a wide range ...

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age - Hardcover

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by John Lithgow (Author)New York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproa...

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by Alexis de Tocqueville (Author), Bruce Frohnen (Editor)This classic analysis of America's unique political character is quoted heavily by politicians and perennially pops up on history professors' reading lists. The enduring appeal of Democracy in America lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of Amer...

The Complex Interplay Between Power, Politics, and African Agency: The Philosophy of Toyin Falola - Hardcover

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by Serges Djoyou Kamga (Author)The Complex Interplay between Power, Politics, and African Agency: The Philosophy of Toyin Falola by Serges Djoyou Kamga examines the impact of colonialism by using Toyin Falola's philosophy as a framework. It delves into the evolution of African political culture under colonial rule. This book offers a unique perspective on the intricate dynamics of African society, providing a deeper understanding of how power and politics have shaped African culture. Kamga em...

Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline - Paperback

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by Theodore Dalrymple (Author)In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the treatment of criminals and the men...

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA - Paperback

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by John Prados (Author)From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing--episodes in United States relations with the world. Richard Nixon's 1969 presidential order that declared CIA covert operations necessary to the attainment of American foreign policy goals was an acknowledgment that secret warfare tools had a much wider application than just the cold war conflict with the...

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - Paperback

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by James C. Scott (Author)"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning."--Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Ti...

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by Erin Hannah (Author), John Ravenhill (Author)What constitutes Global Political Economy? In whose interest is GPE constructed, and by whom? How can injustices in GPE best be redressed? These are some of the key questions that this new edition addresses by re-imagining this highly regarded textbook.As an ever-evolving field subject to constant changes and developments, the new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject written by leading experts in the field. Edited by Dr E...

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World - Paperback

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by Antony Loewenstein (Author)How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine **WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE****Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the...

Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America's Failed War on Drugs - Hardcover

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by Ryan Hampton (Author)A passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis.The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents, suicide, or gun violence. Fentanyl--a potent, inexpensive, and easy-to-manufacture synthetic opioid--has thoroughly contaminated the drug supply, and while it frequently makes front page...

Trilogues: The Democratic Secret of European Legislation - Hardcover

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by Giacomo Rugge (Author) Number of Pages: 249 Publication Date: January 23, 2025

To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton - Paperback

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by Huey Newton (Author), Toni Morrison (Editor), Elaine Brown (Introduction by)A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. Was he a gifted leader of his people or a dangerous outlaw? Were the Black Panthers heroes or terrorists?Whether Newton and the Panthers are remembered in a positive or a negati...

Achieving Regulatory Excellence - Paperback

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by Cary Coglianese (Editor)"Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging "sharing" economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them. Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and evaluate success. Achieving Regulatory Excellence provides that direction ...

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes - Paperback

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by Andrea Kendall-Taylor (Author), Natasha Lindstaedt (Author), Erica Frantz (Author)Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing challenges to it. Comprehensive coverage of the full spectrum of political systems enhances students' understanding of the relevance of contemporary global trend...

Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology - Paperback

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by Kenneth A. Gould (Author), Tammy L. Lewis (Author)Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the topic in an innovative way. Instead of compiling articles from professional journals, this reader presents twenty classroom-tested "lessons" from dedicated, experienced teachers and researchers in the field. Building the collection on the model of a successful undergraduate classroom experience, the coeditors asked the contributors to choose a topic, match it with th...

The History of Turkey: Grandeur and Grievance - Hardcover

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by Maurus Reinkowski (Author), William J. Walsh (Translator)A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atat?uml;rk's modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the cities and the military coups in the second half of ...

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline - Paperback

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by Yasheng Huang (Author)The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance "Riveting."--Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST--exams, autocracy, stability, and technology--from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Kej...

Palestine in a World on Fire - Paperback

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by Katherine Natanel (Author), Ilan Papp? (Author)A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Papp? and Katherine Natanel h...

Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice - Paperback

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by Chanelle Gallant (Author), Elene Lam (Author), Harsha Walia (Foreword by)A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the "anti-trafficking industry"-and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves. In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name o...

Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered - Hardcover

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by Paul W. Schroeder (Author), Perry Anderson (Introduction by)Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy Stealing Horses to Great Applause presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes the systemic crisis engulfing the ...

Shelbyville - Murders and Mob Justice in a Small Town - Paperback

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by Terry Lee Coats (Author)When the No.5 left Nashville, little did anyone know the events of February 10, 1912, would take an ugly turn. Three NC&St.L Railway employees, brothers Wat Greer and David Neal, and a third man, Charles Dane Bomar, would be charged with the murder of S.W. Everson, a railroad detective, and within two weeks, two of these three men would be dead at the hands of a lynch mob.In the winter of 1911, Shelbyville, Tennessee, a town that had not seen significant crime i...

The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis - Hardcover

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by Gregory Royal Pratt (Author) "Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on the fifth floor at City Hall. What he delivers on these pages takes us backstage to give us a powerful, incisive portrait of the woman, the details of her mayoralty, and the many players who shared the stage." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune reporter and author of A ...

Building a Smarter Community: GIS for State and Local Government - Paperback

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by Christopher Thomas (Editor), Keith Mann (Editor)Provide open data, balance decisions and initiatives, and create equitable policies. Smart communities don't wait for someone to deem them smart; they take action. State and local governments worldwide have taken that first step using geographic information system (GIS) technology. Applying GIS to planning and urban design, public works operations, and racial equity and social justice has helped meet citizens' needs and improve government ope...

The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature, and Accumulation - Hardcover

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by Bikrum Gill (Author)This book situates the post financial crisis phenomenon of the "global land grab" within the longue duree of the capitalist world system. It does so by advancing a theoretical and historical framework, called the political ecology of colonial capitalism, that clarifies the key role played by the co-production of race and nature in provisioning the "ecological surplus" that has historically secured the emergence and reproduction of capitalist development. The key premise...

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy - Paperback

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by Jacob Soboroff (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The seminal book on the child-separation policy." --Rachel MaddowNow in paperback, featuring updated reporting and a new afterword: The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America's systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist American Book Award Winner American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn June 2018, Donald Trump's most notorious decis...

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by Joseph Zárate (Author), Annie McDermott (Translator)When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape ...

The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement - Hardcover

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by Hajar Yazdiha (Author)How the misuses of Martin Luther King's legacy divide us and undermine democracy In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women's rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from family values coalitions to the alt-right, now claim the collective memory of civil rights to...

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by John Locke (Author)John Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority except by the consent of the people. When rulers became tyrants and act against the common good, then the people have the right of revolution against them. Writing against the backdrop of Charles II's savage purge of the Whig movement, Locke set out to attack the fabric of th...