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Out of Bounds: Academic Freedom and the Question of Palestine - Paperback

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by Matthew Abraham (Author)Academic freedom is a key element of the academic enterprise in the U.S. However, it does not seem to exist when scholars seek to advocate on behalf of Palestinian self-determination. This unique work examines how the knowledge-power nexus is shaping the discourse around the Israel-Palestine conflict and restricting academic freedom. Beginning with a discussion of American Zionism, the work proceeds to explain why scholars working on the question of Palestine are of...

Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President - Paperback

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by Louis Fisher (Author)Over three decades after its initial publication, Louis Fisher's durable classic remains at the head of its class--a book that Congressional Quarterly called "as close to being indispensable as anything published in this field." This newly revised sixth edition emphatically reinforces that sterling reputation. Fisher dissects the crucial constitutional disputes between the executive and legislative branches of government from the Constitutional Convention through Presi...

When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day - Paperback

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by Archon Fung (Editor), David Moss (Editor), Odd Arne Westad (Editor)This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aim...

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities - Paperback

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by Matt Hooley (Author)In Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as that tradition emerges in response to the cultural legacies of US colonialism. Hooley shows how Indigenous literary and visual art modernisms challenge the strictures of everyday life and question the ecological, political, and cultural fantasies that make multivalent US colonialism seem inevitable. Hooley analyzes...

Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism - Paperback

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by Shane Burley (Author), Ben Lorber (Author)Two activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism? Antisemitism is on the rise today. From synagogue shootings by white nationalists, to right-wing politicians and media figures pushing George Soros conspiracy theories, it's clear that exclusionary nationalist movements are growing. By spreading division and fear, they put Jews, along with other marginalized groups and m...

The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire - Paperback

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by Masha Kirasirova (Author)In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress toward socialism in the "foreign East"--the Third World. Support for anti-colonial movements abroad was part of the Communist Party platform and shaped Soviet foreign policy to varying degrees thereafter...

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism - Paperback

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by Lila Abu-Lughod (Editor), Rema Hammami (Editor), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Editor)The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel...

The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis - Paperback

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by Youssef Cassis (Editor), Jean-Jacques Van Helten (Editor)Much has been written on the financial crisis of 2008 - the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression - analysing its causes and the risks for the future of the global economy. This book takes an alternative approach which focuses on the legacy of the global financial crisis, what is remembered and what lessons have been drawn from it. This volume provides perspectives on this legacy from a variety of contributors incl...

The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David J. Bodenhamer (Author)Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political conflict inevitable. It also has accommodated and legitimized the political and social changes of a vibrant, powerful democratic nation. A product of history's first m...

The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps - Paperback

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by Heinz Heger (Author), Sarah Schulman (Preface by), Klaus Müller (Introduction by)Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.Author BiographyHeinz Heger was the pen name of Hans Neumann, a writer who recorded the experiences of Josef Kohout, an Austrian survivor of the Holocaust who died in 1994.Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, nonfiction, and theater, and the producer and screenwriter of several featur...

The Genesis of the Civil War in Somalia: The Impact of Foreign Military Intervention on the Conflict - Paperback

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by Muuse Yuusuf (Author)This study explores the genesis of the civil war in Somalia by analysing the defeat of Somalia in the 1977 Ogaden war, asserting that this defeat, which was prompted by the intervention of the USSR, was a turning point which unleashed long term socio-political forces that led to the collapse of the central government of the country.Muuse Yuusuf analyses the history of the Somali civil war, from 1977 to the present, and the role played by various actors in the conflict ...

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback

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by Taylor Branch (Author)In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to...

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Karl Marx (Author), Ben Fowkes (Translator), Ernest Mandel (Introduction by)The first volume of a political treatise that changed the world One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and create fresh insights. Argui...

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World - Paperback

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by Vaclav Smil (Author)"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author... Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes From the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food ...

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life - Paperback

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by Natasha Lennard (Author)An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood, offering in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we should live in it. Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization of political dissent, the myths ...

Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media - Paperback

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by Justin Gest (Author)Public policy education is oriented around the development of innovative ideas for how to improve governance and make society better. However, it undervalues a critical tool for translating policy ideas into action: the ability to communicate ideas broadly, strategically, and effectively. Drawing on his past frustration with translating his research from academia to the public sphere, Justin Gest has written a primer for public policy students, researchers, and policy p...

Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War - Paperback

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by Tim Bouverie (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER - A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II "An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present."--Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitle...

The Development of Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights - Hardcover

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by A. R. Mowbray (Author), Alistair R. Mowbray (Author), Alastair Mowbray (Author)During the last thirty years the European Court of Human Rights has been developing, at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Convention. This monograph seeks to provide a critical analysis of the burgeoning case law concerning positive obligations, a topic which is relatively uncharted in the existing literature. Positive obligations require many different forms of action by member states, ...

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by Lynn Nottage (Author)Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play "Lynn Nottage's best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations." -Hilton Als, New Yorker Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poore...

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination - Paperback

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by Robin D. G. Kelley (Author), Aja Monet (Foreword by)The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley's influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future world...

Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum - Paperback

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by Francisco Parra (Author)The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlighted the central part played by oil in the modern world. The fate of millions now depends on the ever-shifting value of petroleum and on the fortunes of the corporations that deliver it. The story of oil - how it came to play such a dominant role in the world economy, who controls its extraction, pricing and supply - is e...

The Constitution of Vietnam: A Contextual Analysis - Paperback

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by Mark Sidel (Author)This new book examines constitutional debate and development in one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing societies in Asia, and will be of use to scholars and students of comparative law, comparative constitutional law and Asian law, and practitioners interested in Asia or in Vietnam. The book discusses and analyses the historical development, principles, doctrines and debates which comprise and shape Vietnamese constitutional law today, during a time of reform and d...

This America: The Case for the Nation - Hardcover

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by Jill Lepore (Author)At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history--and the history of the idea of the nation itself--while calling for a "new Americanism" a generous ...

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers - Paperback

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by Arundhati Roy (Author)Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.--Time MagazineRoy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'--and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed.--Noam ChomskyRoy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.--Naomi KleinNow in paperback, with a new introduc...

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism - Hardcover

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by Laura E. Gómez (Author)Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRAn NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the authorWho are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In this "timely and important examination of Latinx identity" (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban...

Outgunned!: True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up to Outlaws-And Won - Paperback

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by Robert A. Waters (Author), John T. Waters (Author)It's a classic story from hundreds of western shoot-'em-ups: a gang of outlaws rides into town, terrorizes local citizens, and finally meets their match when the heroic sheriff appears. In real life, it was different. Some of the most notorious western outlaws were killed or captured by townspeople. And the trend continued throughout the Prohibition era. OUTGUNNED! TRUE STORIES OF CITIZENS WHO STOOD UP TO OUTLAWS -- AND WON describes a doze...

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature - Paperback

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by Ben Mezrich (Author)The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park--like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species--the woolly mammoth. "Paced like a thriller...Woolly reanimates history and breathes new life into the narrative of nature" (NPR).With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating and true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting...

Walden and Civil Disobedience - Paperback

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by Henry David Thoreau (Author), W. S. Merwin (Introduction by), William Howarth (Afterword by)Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of n...

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition Volume 2 - Paperback

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by F. A. Hayek (Author), Bruce Caldwell (Editor), Bruce Caldwell (Foreword by)An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program--The Road to Serfdom was seen as here...

Globalization and Language in Contact: Scale, Migration, and Communicative Practices - Paperback

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by Mike Baynham (Editor), Stef Slembrouck (Editor), James Collins (Editor)This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe and Africa, the volume makes three important contr...

The Politics of Digital Pharmacology: Exploring the Craft of Collective Care - Paperback

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Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and fo...

Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State - Paperback

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by Rivka Azoulay (Author)The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdomof the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens were enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and i...