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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNew York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behin...

Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition): What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Steven E. Koonin (Author)In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin's groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change--with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland's ice loss is accelerating.""Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.""Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact...

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle - Paperback

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by Thomas Sankara (Author)"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2007

Africa's `Agitators': Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 - Paperback

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by Jonathan Derrick (Author)The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and Europe as well. In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised bo...

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 - Paperback

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by Milton Mayer (Author), Richard J. Evans (Afterword by)"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He's right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to...

Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times - Paperback

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by Paul Rogat Loeb (Author)Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life--powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style, Paul Loeb tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise...

Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary: From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend - Hardcover

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by Nora Berend (Author)Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives of Hungarian history and national identity. This book argues that instead of conceptualizing modern political medievalism separately as an 'abuse' of history, we must investigate history's very fabric, b...

Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture - Paperback

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by Peter Trubowitz (Author), Brian Burgoon (Author)A large and widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core foreign policy principles that Western governments have championed for over half a century. Much of the debate over the weakening of the Western liber...

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question - Paperback

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by Roxani Krystalli (Author)As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that has lasted decades. The category of "victim" is not a mere description of having suffered harm, but a political status and a potential site of power. In Good Victims, Roxani Krystalli investigates the politics of victimhood as a feminist question. Based on in-depth engagement in Colombia over the course of a decade, Krystalli argues for the possibilities ...

Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession - Hardcover

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by Bjn Bremer (Author)Austerity became the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe. After a brief period of 'emergency Keynesianism' from 2008 to 2010, even the centre-left abandoned plans for deficit spending and accepted austerity as the dogma of the day. In this book, Bjn Bremer explains how this came about and explores its political consequences, combining qualitative and quantitative methods and drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence to study both the...

The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times - Paperback

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by Joshua M. Scacco (Author), Kevin Coe (Author)American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and standards of executive leadership. Yet research on the presidency, although abundant, has been slow to adjust to changing realities associated with digital technologies, diverse audiences, and new elite practices. Meanwhile, journalists and the public continue...

Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education - Paperback

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by Domingo Morel (Author)Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institutions of higher education. But a less well-known approach to affirmative action also emerged in the 1960s in response to urban unrest and Black and Latino political mobilization. The programs that emerged in response to community demands offered a more radical view of college access: admitting and supporting students who ...

How Capitalistic is the Constitution? - Paperback

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by Robert A. Goldwin (Author)What is the relationship between democratic government and a capitalist economic system? Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1981

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

Tears of Disinheritance: Revisiting the Maasai Historical and Contemporary Land Injustices in Kenya - Paperback

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by Ben R. Ole Koissaba (Author)The land question remains an emotive issue across Kenya regardless of one's ethnic origins. Today, almost every Kenyan seeks to own a kaplot, a piece of earth however small, that one can call one's own. The resultant conflicts that arise with this mindset are many and are at the centre of displacement and marginalization of many Kenyans while enriching a few in the privileged class. Yet this need not be the case if we all learnt from our past and especially the ...

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire - Paperback

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by Caroline Elkins (Author)Author BiographyCAROLINE ELKINS is professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard's Center for African Studies. Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. She has als...

Reinventing Marcos: From Dictator to Hero

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Dalton (Author)Marcos died a dictator. But today, on social media, Marcos is a hero.President Ferdinand E. Marcos held power for 21 years and lost power in four days. What happened and why is recounted in this memoir by Keith Dalton, a decade-long former foreign correspondent in the Philippines. He writes of a ruthless and repressive dictatorship - responsible for more than 100,000 deaths, imprisonments, torture, and 'disappearances'. Through despotism, n...

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything - Hardcover

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by Christopher F. Rufo (Author)For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after the death of George Floyd, their ideas exploded into American life.Corporations denounced the United States as a "system of white supremacy." Universities pushed racially segregated programs that forced students to address their racial and sexual "privilege." And schools injected critical race theory in the classroom, dividing children into "oppressor" and "oppresse...

Politics, Pride and Perversion: The Rise and Fall of Frank Arkell

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Eklund (Author)Frank Arkell (1929-1998) was the most successful politician of his generation; an Independent who served as Wollongong's Lord Mayor (1974-1991) and state member (1984-1991). Arkell dominated Wollongong public life with unstoppable energy, eccentric flair, and a single-minded determination to support the city through economic restructuring. Despite his popularity, at the edges of public consciousness there was growing disquiet over Arkell's p...

Get Going: Solve Homelessness Today - Paperback

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by Carol Hollowell (Author)The real solutions that lead to a marked change in the landscape of homelessness and how communities can follow Switchpoint's tactics and methods for a sustainable impact.Ending homelessness requires individuals and organizations to drop the ego and embrace the philosophy of EGI (Everyone Gets Involved). As a co-op built to make sustainable positive change in the community, Switchpoint has enacted a path that others can follow in identifying problems, finding soluti...

The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Klarman (Author)Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. Based on prodigious research a...

Evaluations of Police Suitability and Fitness for Duty - Paperback

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by David M. Corey (Author), Mark Zelig (Author)Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 20 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psycholo...

Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives - Paperback

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by Riley E. Dunlap (Editor), Robert J. Brulle (Editor)Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully developed. Climate Change and Society breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting climate change as a thoroughly social phenom...

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by J. M. Berger (Author)What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical starting point in a search for understanding--tells us only that extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme." In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge se...

The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe - Paperback

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by Gideon Levy (Author)Reportage from the frontline of the crisis in the Middle East from a leading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the October 7th attack and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-...

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by Christina Sharpe (Author)Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artif...

Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon - Hardcover

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by Ken Khachigian (Author)A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture. Ken Khachigian has written the most lucid, most important work about the postwar period. For an inside look at how ugly politics can be--and how noble--...

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Paperback

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by Peter Marshall (Author)Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power, and investigates the successes and failure of the anarchist movements throughout th...

Walden and Civil Disobedience - Paperback

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by Henry David Thoreau (Author)Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts--part social experiment, part spiritual quest--is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical book that resulted is both a record of the two years Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society and a declaration of personal independence. By virtue of its ca...

Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality - Paperback

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by Angus Deaton (Author)Author BiographyAngus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author (with Anne Case) of the New York Times bestselling book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton) Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 1.3 x 8 x 5.2 IN Publication Date: October 22, 2024

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 - Paperback

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by Alan S. Blinder (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden--filled with lessons for today In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight ...

His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner): One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Paperback

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by Robert Samuels (Author), Toluse Olorunnipa (Author)WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER. A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Caro...