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Report copyright infringementby Siamack Shojai (Author), Robert Christopherson (Author)Globalization is both a virtue and a vice. On balance it is beneficial to individuals, communities, nations, and the world economy. It facilitates the movement of goods and services, people, financial capital, and ideas. Overall, it creates wealth. Globalization does have vices, however, cultural clashes, environmental degradation, and displaced workers among them. The contributors to this volume contend th...

Preparing for Citizenship: Teaching Youth to Live Democratically

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Mosher (Author), Andrew Garrod (With), Robert A. Kenny (With)Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in sch...

The Parallel Histories of Israel and Palestine: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Davies (Author)How do you learn about a contentious and divisive history like that of Israel and Palestine? Don't shy away from the two competing narratives - seek them out, lay them side by side, and immerse yourself in both. Then you can form your own judgement. In a world where every truth seems to have a counter-truth, opinions are taken to extremes and people don't trust the 'experts' to decide, it's tempting to duck talking about difficult topics....

Step Up!: How To Advocate Like A Woman - Paperback

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by Ellen Troxclair (Author)Right-of-center women are frustrated and fed up - tired of being overrun by a "women's march" that does not represent their values, overwhelmed by divisive rhetoric on social media, and woefully underrepresented in elected offices. And, there is too much at stake to stay on the sidelines. Step Up will inspire women to turn the same leadership, compassion, and tenacity that already bring to their families and workplaces into effective advocacy for their communities -...

University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus

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Report copyright infringementby Peter MacKinnon (Author)Investigating issues of university governance in Canada, University Commons Divided analyzes several major cases at the university level that have come to exemplify infringements on the freedom of expressionAuthor BiographyPeter MacKinnon is president emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan, an officer of the Order of Canada, and a senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensi...

The Battle of Lincoln Place: An Epic Fight by Tenants to Save Their Homes - Paperback

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by Dennis Hathaway (Author)The Battle of Lincoln Place is a stirring account of the courage and perseverance shown by the tenants of a large, historic apartment complex who stand up to the greed and heartlessness of their corporate landlords, whose quest for profit threatens to destroy their long-time homes. It follows four women who lead the hundreds of working class and elderly tenants in a desperate struggle on the streets, in the halls of government, and in the courts of law and public op...

The Battle of Lincoln Place: An Epic Fight By Tenants To Save Their Homes - Hardcover

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Reparations on Fire: How and Why it's Spreading Across America - Paperback

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by Nkechi Taifa (Author)Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making. It combines a historical survey and commentary on the Reparations Movement in America while addressing how pioneering reparations legislation is being born and debated in city council chambers and statehouses nationwide. It is part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert.Reparations on Fire brings additional value to the Reparations Movement as it goes about the necessary task ...

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by Tom Ramstack (Author)April 15, 2013. Before the Boston Marathon was over, few people cared who won or lost. Patriots Day, a day of festivities to celebrate the American Revolution, was about to become the latest nightmare in America's ongoing war on terrorism. "The pungent smell of gunpowder hung in the air while shrapnel, ball bearings and nails littered the streets near the blast sites. Spectators left behind backpacks, cell phones and handmade signs with runners' names. Doctors at Brigh...

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by The Invisible Committee (Author)A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent wav...

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have - Paperback

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by Tatiana Schlossberg (Author)*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award* From a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action--updated for paperback with a new preface and afterword--will empower you to stand up to climate change and environmental pollution by making simple but impactful everyday choices. With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural w...

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory - Paperback

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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH - The "brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful--and certainly the strangest--deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor "Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else."--Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book World Near the end of World War II, tw...

Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Kirk (Author), Brent Hamachek (Author)"A Post Hill Press book"--Title page verso.Author BiographyCharlie Kirk is the Founder and Executive Director of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government. Since the inception of Turning Point USA in 2012, Kirk has grown Turning Point USA from nothing to having representation on ove...

Early History of Junction City, Kansas: the First Generation

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Report copyright infringementby John B. Jeffries (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 concur, that this work is important...

Encouraging College Students' Democratic Engagement in an Era of Political Polarization

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Report copyright infringementby Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch (Editor), Mike Y. Ahn (Contribution by), Rebecca A. Alt (Contribution by)This work argues that colleges and universities are important locations for building students' capacities for civic participation. Grounded in literature and personal experience, the authors advance pedagogical strategies that promote civic responsibility and prepare students to navigate today's polarized political landscape.Author BiographyAngela M. McGowan-Kirsch...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony T. Kronman (Author)"I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it's more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one." --Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is a threat to our democracy. College education is under attack from all sides these days. Most of the handwringing--over free speech, safe zones, trigger warnings, and the babying of stud...

Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Hewitt (Author)Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2002

Tafari Makonnen School: Inspiring Lives of Achievement Since 1925

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Report copyright infringementby Bisrat Aklilu (Contribution by), Doug Eadie (Contribution by)Through the lives of tremendous achievement that its alumni have lived since its establishment in 1925 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by Regent Ras Tafari Makonnen (the future Emperor Haile Selassie I), Tafari Makonnen School has made a powerful contribution to the economic and social development of not only Ethiopia but of many other nations around the world where its alumni have lived and worked. The emb...

Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars

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Report copyright infringementby Omar G. Encarnación (Author)Although a lot has been said about the stunning success of the marriage equality movement, not much is known about why the global struggle over gay marriage has varied across countries with respect to the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality. In this book, Omar Encarnación presents a cross-national exploration of the politics of "gay marriage wars" by looking at how gay marriage has been framed in t...

Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring - Paperback

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by Peter Duffy (Author)The never-before-told tale of the German-American who infiltrated New York's Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II: "Thrilling, well-researched, well-told, fascinating" (Minneapolis Star Tribune).He was the first hero of World War II and yet the American public has never seen his face. William G. Sebold, a naturalized American of German birth, risked his life to become the first double agent in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He spe...

What It Takes: The Way to the White House - Paperback

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by Richard Ben Cramer (Author)"Quite possibly the finest book on presidential politics ever written, combining meticulous reporting and compelling, at times soaringly lyrical, prose." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he rec...

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Pepperman Taylor (Author)Liberal Education and Democracy addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy.Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. In Liberal Education and Democracy, Bob Pepperman Taylor evaluates both the defenses that have been offered for liberal education and the complex relationship between liberal education and democracy. He...

From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 - Paperback

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by George C. Herring (Author)The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate co...

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Paperback

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by H. W. Brands (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War "It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come." --The Christian Science Monitor Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his p...

How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will

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Report copyright infringementby John Kennedy (Author)One of the most distinctive and funny politicians, Senator John Kennedy (the one from Louisiana)--hailed by Politico as "America's most quotable Senator"--offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the Senator's tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by his thoughts on vario...

Diplomacy and Laws Under President Xi Jinping: THE SILK ROAD - Qing DYNASTY OF ANCIENT CHINA - The One CHINA AND TAIWAN Legal doctrine.

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Report copyright infringementby Dr Amrit Rattan K Baidwan Macfarland (Author)The One China Taiwan thesis, stems from the Cairo declaration ratified post world wars.The post-world war status and jurisdiction over Taiwan and its appertaining islands including Penghu were further ratified under various legal instruments, post the Cairo Declaration, Potsdam proclamation, Japanese instrument of surrender, the San Francisco, Peace Treaty and Treaty of Peace under the republic of China and Japan of ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Youniss (Editor), Peter Levine (Editor), Lee Hamilton (Foreword by)The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans are responsive to effective outreach efforts, and this collection addresses how to best provide opportunities for enhancing civic learning and forming lasting civic identities. The thirteen original essays are based on research in schools and i...

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Report copyright infringementby Betty A. Reardon (Author)Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awareness and understanding of human rights in their curricula from the earliest levels. Written by by Betty A. Reardon, one of the foremost scholars on human rights education for the primary and secondary levels, Educating for Human Dignity is designed for both teachers and teacher educators. I...

The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide - Paperback

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by Pamela Cooper-White (Author)How do we overcome polarization in American society? How do we advocate for justice when one side won't listen to the other and cycles of outrage escalate? These questions have been pressing for years, but the emergence of a vocal, virulent Christian nationalism have made it even more urgent that we find a way forward. In three brief, incisive chapters Pamela Cooper-White uncovers the troubling extent of Christian nationalism, explores its deep psychological roo...

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History - Hardcover

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by Bill O'Reilly (Author), Martin Dugard (Author)The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Na...

The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor - Hardcover

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by Hamilton Nolan (Author)A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity. In the wake of the pandemic, a highly visible wave of strikes and new organ...

Social Security Disability Revealed: Why it's so hard to access benefits and what you can do about it - Paperback

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by Spencer Bishins (Author), Allison Bishins (Editor) Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2022