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Confessions of a Welfare Mom: An Urban Anthology of Personal Experiences

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Report copyright infringementby Kiwan N. Fitch (Author), Kiwan N. Fitch (Compiled by)Confessions of a Welfare Mom Anthology shares the experiences of each contributing author's experience with their dealings of being on welfare. Read through some of the heartfelt words of each woman as they share their personal bout with the welfare system. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 09, 2011

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel J. Flynn (Author)Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism--fusionism--championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in London chanted "Free Frank Meyer!" to block the deportation of a comrade who was their cause célèbre. Those fervent Marxists could never have predicted that their hero would one day provide the intellectual energy necessary to propel conservatives to pol...

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

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Report copyright infringementby Hillary Rodham Clinton (Author)What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she's been married to President Bill Clinton--...

The Writings of James Monroe: Including a Collection of His Public and Private Papers and Correspondence Now for the First Time Printed; Volume 5

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Report copyright infringementby James Monroe (Author), Stanislaus Murray Hamilton (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard S. Clark (Author) Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.22 x 6.08 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2000

The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Gardner (Author)In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of "Abiymania", a fervor of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as if from nowhere, Abiy Ahmed, a Pentecostal Christian, promised democratic salvation and national unity. For his role brokering a historic peace with neighboring Eritrea, he received the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Hailed at home as a prophet and abroad as a liberal reformer, A...

A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation

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Report copyright infringementby John Hume (Author)Hume recounts the struggle for the nationalist community's rights and presents a blueprint for peace. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.48 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: October 10, 2000

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Report copyright infringementby William D. Coffey (Author)Continued from Volume I with special focus on the interface of science and spirituality, this book addresses the several human factors that are worsening the worldwide threat of global warming. These factors have, so far, rendered us seemingly incapable of making the major changes required to stop ruining our environment-much less reversing course, as we must if human civilization to survive much beyond this century's mere eight remain...

The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes - Hardcover

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by Asaf Siniver (Author)Asaf Siniver provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of international arbitration in the settlement of interstate territorial disputes. He engages with International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarships to locate the unique characteristics of arbitration as a legal method of dispute settlement, distinct from the other legal method of adjudication ('judicial settlement') and diplomatic methods such as negotiation and mediation. A nov...

In Pursuit of Composite Beauty: Yanagi Soetsu, His Aesthetics and Aspiration for Peace

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Report copyright infringementby Mari Nakami (Author)In Pursuit of Composite Beauty is a study of the life and thought of Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), known primarily as the founder of Japan's mingei (folk crafts) movement. Mr. Yanagi was a thinker who believed that world peace could not be achieved by 'painting the world in one single color.' Before and during World War II, when Japan was invading Asia and enforcing its cultural assimilation policy in its colonies and occupied territories, Yana...

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley - Hardcover

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by Marietje Schaake (Author)An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the s...

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality - Hardcover

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by Lyta Gold (Author)In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she ask...

Constitution of the United States - Hardcover

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by Founding Fathers (Created by)The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal Government, as well as the basic rights of the citizens of the United States. This beautiful gift edition contains the complete text of the Unite...

The Chief Witness: Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps - Paperback

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by Sayragul Sauytbay (Author), Alexandra Cavelius (Author), Caroline Waight (Translator)A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes--and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they are in. It is so easy to suffocate us with the demons of powerlessness, shame, and guilt. But we aren't th...

Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River - Paperback

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by Zak Podmore (Author)Award-winning journalist Zak Podmore brings to life the magnificent terrain and complex politics of the Colorado River, its dying reservoirs--and the surprising revelation that the inevitable loss of Lake Powell could be a turning point for more a sustainable future. "A chronicle of both personal and ecological redemption by a gifted writer and observer, as well as a stirring affirmation that, even in a world suffering from terminal burnout, seeds can take root, flowers...

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy - Paperback

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by Talia Lavin (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editor's Choice/Staff Pick One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers. Cultur...

Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Kenya

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Report copyright infringementby Zarina Patel (Editor), Zahid Rajan (Editor)At the turn of the twentieth century, the print media in India was highly developed and very active in the country's liberation struggle. Hence South Asian migrants who came to Kenya were well aware of the importance of the press in advancing the anti-colonial campaign. The first Indian-owned newspaper in Kenya was the African Standard which Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee established in 1901 in his fight for equal rights. Tha...

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

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Report copyright infringementby Ben MacIntyre (Author)"For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre's superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life."--The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time--from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor. "[Ben ...

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention - Paperback

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by Ben Wilson (Author)In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity's existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, citie...

Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster

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Report copyright infringementby Tom White (Author)Though it was banned in the UK in 1999, asbestos still kills more than 5,000 people every year. How did this happen? And what can we do about it? Asbestos was once known as the "magic mineral." Cheap, versatile, and tough, it was used in a wide range of industrial and consumer products, from fireproofing spray on warships, to insulation panels in high-rise towers, to tablecloths and ironing board covers. But from the dawn of the industry in th...

Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons - Paperback

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by Joy James (Editor) Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarisation has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wo...

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - Paperback

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by Saul Alinsky (Author)"This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine...

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties, at the Accession of King George the First

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Report copyright infringementby Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke (Created by), John Buchan Collection (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Schol...

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics - Paperback

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by H. W. Brands (Author)From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was...

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State - Hardcover

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by Byron Tau (Author)You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home. "A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age."--Kirkus Reviews "That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillanc...

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World - Hardcover

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by Deb Chachra (Author)NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece." --Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the ...

Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living - Paperback

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by H. L. T. Quan (Author)'Phenomenal ... Offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism' -- Angela Y. Davis 'Embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practice--an abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice' -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams 'A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements an...

On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication - Paperback

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), David Bromwich (Introduction by)More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fift...

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by Jack Kevorkian (Author)The inventor of the controversial "suicide machine" outlines his startling views on planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation in this graphic and well-argued commentary. Photographs. Number of Pages: 270 Dimensions: 1.05 x 9.3 x 6.28 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1991

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It - Paperback

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by Robert B. Reich (Author)From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change "Reich has an almost unmatched ability to make insightful observations about the nation’s inequities, and in The System, he observes that the question is no longer Democrat versus Republican or left versus right, but 'democracy ve...

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine - Paperback

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by Nada Elia (Author)An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all? In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its hyper militarism to incarceration, its environmental devastation, and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine's fate is linked through bo...

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution - Paperback

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by Yuri Slezkine (Author)The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative tells the chilling true story of an enormous Moscow apartment building where Soviet leaders a...