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One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future - Paperback

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by Ben Carson (Author), Candy Carson (Contribution by)Now in paperback - Dr. Carson's acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller. "In light of the economic stagnation, swelling debt, out-of-control bureaucracy, and moral decline facing America today, Dr. Ben Carson's One Nation is about the most optimistic book you will find at your local bookstore. Brimming with confidence about America's ability to come to a consensus on such issues as debt, welfare, and gay marriage, Carson provides a hopeful...

Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing - Paperback

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by Charisse Burden-Stelly (Author), Jodi Dean (Author)Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism. The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Bla...

Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network - Paperback

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by Ruth Gomberg-Mu?oz (Author)Winner of the 2011 ALLA Book Award honorable mention! Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at a Chicago-area restaurant. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz introduces readers to the Lions, ten friends from Mexico committed to improving their fortunes and the lives of their families. Set in and around "Il Vino," a restaurant that could stand in for many places that employ undocumented wo...

The Economics of Child Labour: Education, Fertility, and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries - Paperback

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by Alessandro Cigno (Author), Furio C. Rosati (Author)Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in the home, to morally or physically dangerous ones. Many forms of child labour have valuable learning-by-doing elements, but they all conflict with formal education. If the family is credit constrained, child labour relaxes the liquidity constraint and may be neces...

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by Timothy O. Lenz (Author), Mirya Holman (Author) Number of Pages: 448 Dimensions: 0.9 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 16, 2013

The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists - Paperback

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by Roy W. Spencer (Author)The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth's climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon d...

21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 - Hardcover

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by Ben S. Bernanke (Author)In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of government securities, pumped dollars into the international financial system, and crafted a new framework for monetary policy that emphasized job creation.These strategies would...

Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana - Hardcover

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by Marc Frank (Author)"A vivid, engaging exploration of Cuban politics, culture and economic life."--America "Considerably deeper than much of the work on the subject. It takes on the challenge of describing what's in a black box with energy and candor."--VisitCuba.com "The most informative, accurate, insightful, detailed account available on twenty-first century Cuba."--HavanaTimes.org "Marc Frank is the best foreign journalist reporting from Cuba today. We now have a behind-the-scenes lo...

The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico - Paperback

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by Amilcar Antonio Barreto (Author)This is the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s. It is also the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: December 11, 2018

The World: A Brief Introduction - Paperback

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by Richard Haass (Author)The New York Times Bestseller "A superb introduction to the world and global issues. Richard Haass has written something that is brief, readable, and yet comprehensive--marked throughout by his trademark intelligence and common sense." --Fareed Zakaria An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world bey...

Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America - Paperback

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by Mike Bedenbaugh (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 24, 2024

Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico - Hardcover

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by Ed Morales (Author)A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane Mar a, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy ...

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by Joel Joseph (Author)The book explains the harm caused by plastics on oceans, lakes, streams, humans and animals. The book proposes solutions to plastic pollution, including legislation in the United States and an international treaty. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2023

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics - Hardcover

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by Diego Muro (Editor), Ignacio Lago (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Spanish political system through the lens of political science. It aims to move away from a complacent analysis of Spanish democracy and provide a nuanced view of some of its strengths and challenges. The Handbook introduces Spanish politics to an international audience of scholars and practitioners. It is structured around six sections that cover Spain...

A People's History of the United States - Paperback

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by Howard Zinn (Author)THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, a...

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - Paperback

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by George Lakoff (Author)"[Lakoff is] the father of framing."--The New York Times "An indispensable tool for progressives--packed with new thinking on framing issues that are hotly debated right now."--Jennifer M. Granholm, former governor of Michigan Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today's essential issues. Called the "father of framing" by The New York Times...

The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran - Hardcover

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by Denise Natali (Author)In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, Denise Natali shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes. Rather, Kurdish nationalism has been shaped by the development of nation-states in the region. Although Kurdish communities have maintained some shared sense of Kurdishness, Kurdayeti (the mobilization of Kurdish identity) is interwoven with a much larger...

How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment - Hardcover

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by Rachel Herzing (Author), Justin Piché (Author), Mariame Kaba (Foreword by)An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive interviews with abo...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Paperback

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by Richard Rothstein (Author)Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein desc...

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by Ezra Klein (Author)ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's "5 books to read this summer," this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this "superbly researched" (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us--and how we are polarizing it--with disastrous results. "The American political s...

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America - Paperback

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by Joseph A. McCartin (Author)In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers' inability to n...

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care - Paperback

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by Mimi E. Kim (Editor), Cameron Rasmussen (Editor), Durrell M. Washington (Editor)A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.Within social work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state--abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organiz...

How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment - Paperback

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Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future - Paperback

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by Alice Cappelle (Author)Analyses how conservative and anti-feminist ideas are filtered through social media, and how we can collectively fight back against them to reclaim our future online. Analysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented backlash against women is being orchestrated online. Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the "manosphere" to hookup culture, traditional feminity, the politics of sexual liberation and...

Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States - Paperback

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by Zoe Baker (Author)An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, she demonstrates that the ...

You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 - Hardcover

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by Tariq Ali (Author)A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can't Please All. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to writing and cultural interventions. An eyewitness in Moscow to the fall of the Soviet Union, he was caught up in the intellectual excitement that had gripped the cou...

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth - Hardcover

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by Catherine Pakaluk (Author)A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah's Children is a compelling portrait of these overlooked but fascinating mothers who, like the biblical Hannah, see their children as their purpose, their contribution, and their greatest blessing. The social scientist Catherine Pakaluk, herself ...

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

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by 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 Constitutional Convention recom...

At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope - Paperback

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by Edward Curtin (Author)At the Lost and Found is a dazzling exploration of the most important issues of our time, written in a style that defies categorization. Open it at any chapter and you will be hooked by themes and sentences that are a moveable feast for head, heart, and spirit. Each chapter is like a river journey that will twist and turn your mind down unexpected tributaries that you never thought to follow. And when you reach the end, you will realize you have been traveling one mig...

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by Thomas Paine (Author)Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies ...

Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime - Hardcover

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by Marlene Laruelle (Author)Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that depict the Russian regime as either a cynical kleptocracy or the product of Putin's grand Machiavellian designs, Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime offers a critical genealogy of ideology in Russia today. Marlene Laruelle provides an innovative, mu...

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power - Hardcover

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by Sergey Radchenko (Author)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution....