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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...

Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times - Paperback

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by Linda Jaivin (Author)As we enter the "Asian century," China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid modernization, and an assertive geopolitical player. To understand the nation behind the headlines, we must take in its vibrant, tumultuous past--a story of "larger-than-life characters, philosophical arguments and political intrigues, military conflicts and social upheavals, artistic invention and technological innovation."The Shortest History of China char...

Long Reach of the Sixties: Lbj, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court - Paperback

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by Laura Kalman (Author)The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon atte...

Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East - Paperback

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by Roger Hardy (Author)The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the Cold War. That is the challenging argument of The Poisoned Well, which provides a vivid account of the struggle against European colonial rule in ten states stretching from North Africa to south Arabia. Drawin...

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by Deudney (Author)Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming plane...

Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War - Paperback

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by Lionel Beehner (Editor), Risa Brooks (Editor), Daniel Maurer (Editor)This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era, or the first decade of the twenty-first century. A great deal has changed since then. This book considers the implications for civil-military relations of many of these c...

Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Paperback

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by Rebekah J. Kowal (Editor), Gerald Siegmund (Editor), Randy Martin (Editor)In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that ad...

Terrorists as Monsters: The Unmanageable Other from the French Revolution to the Islamic State - Paperback

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by Marco Pinfari (Author)From the chilling threats of the "ISIS vampire" to the view of al-Qaeda as the "Frankenstein the CIA created," terrorism seems to be inextricably bound with monstrosity. But why do the media and government officials often portray terrorists as monsters? And perhaps more puzzling, why do terrorists sometimes want to be perceived as such? This book, the first of its kind, examines the use of archetypal metaphors of monstrosity in relation to terrorism, from the gorgons ...

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by Deborah Brautigam (Author)Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively bu...

Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know - Paperback

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by Jason Brennan (Author)Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles have risen to the forefront of Republican politics. But libertarianism is more than the philosophy of individual freedom and unfettered markets that Republicans have embraced. Indeed, as Jason Brennan points out, libertarianism is a quite different--and far richer--system of thought than most of us suspect. In this timely ne...

Reading Bible with Founding Fathers C - Hardcover

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by Dreisbach (Author)No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the...

Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know (Revised) - Paperback

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by Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Author)The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar, Kathleen Hall Jamieson marshals the troll posts, unique polling data, analyses of how the press used hacked content, and a synthesis of half a century of media ef...

The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology - Paperback

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by Mark Zachary Taylor (Author)Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nati...

Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government - Paperback

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by James T. Sparrow (Author)Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs. Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during W...

Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace - Paperback

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by Lynn Meskell (Author)Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European intellectuals suc...

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by Raymond Fisman (Author), Miriam A. Golden (Author)Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), renowned scholars Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden provide a deeper understanding of why corruption is so damaging politically, socially, and economically. Among the key questio...

Killing Hope: Us Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II - Paperback

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by William Blum (Author)In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'...

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by Lee McIntyre (Author)How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psycholog...

The Intellectuals And Socialism (1949) - Paperback

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by Friedrich A. Hayek (Author)The Intellectuals and Socialism is a book written by the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek, first published in 1949. The book is a critique of the intellectual class and their attraction to socialism, arguing that their ideas are misguided and ultimately harmful to society. Hayek argues that intellectuals are often disconnected from the realities of the market and the complex social systems that underpin it, leading them to advocate for polici...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) - Paperback

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by Dean Spade (Author)Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to--or actively engineer--each crisis, ordinary p...

The Pioneer Women Of Wyoming (1901) - Paperback

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by Frederick C. Johnson (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8...

The Duty Of Judges As Constitutional Advisers (1889) - Paperback

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by Hugo Abelard Dubuque (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x ...

Enfranchisement Of Women: An Essay (1868) - Paperback

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by Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x ...

Greece Before The Peace Congress Of 1919: A Memorandum Dealing With The Rights Of Greece (1919) - Paperback

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by Eleutherios Venizelos (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x...

A Few Thoughts On The Abolition Of Colonial Slavery (1826) - Paperback

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by Thomas Chalmers (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8.5 I...

The Armenian Kingdom Of Cilicia (1919) - Paperback

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by Vahan M. Kurkjian (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.08 x 11 x 8.5...

The New Constitution Of The State Of Missouri (1865) - Paperback

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by Thomas C. Fletcher (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8....

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic - Paperback

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by Michael Axworthy (Author)In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged. The...

The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies - Hardcover

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by Auron MacIntyre (Author)The Total State pulls back the veil on the new American authoritarianism and why the same system of liberal democracy we say we cherish may have led us to our present state The modern United States is a nation full of censorship, lockdowns, riots, and political persecution. How did the land of the free become a surveillance state terrified of COVID and ruled by unaccountable bureaucrats? As a journalist, Auron MacIntyre witnessed firsthand the manipulation of news ...