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Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Bingaman (Author)In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the US Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished through the legislative process. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world's greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of cong...

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Pelosi (Author)The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker--how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: "Mother, get a life!" And so Nancy did, and what a life it ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.[Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two y...

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Report copyright infringementby Human and the Lights (Author)Human Justice tells the compelling true story of a human rights lawyer's last trial in a 15-year career spent helping people living on the margins enforce civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. Corporate values, which are only about money and nothing else, played out to their logical extreme in the case, signaling that corporatism is incompatible with a sustainable future for our species and our planet. "This was my last trial b...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

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Report copyright infringementby Robert W. Merry (Author)Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor, but they lay south of the line where slavery w...

Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again

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Report copyright infringementby Donald J. Trump (Author), Stephen K. Bannon (Foreword by)The Book That Launched MAGA Nation The media scoffed at Trump's vision and the people who supported him; they were blinded by the Clinton machine. But their eyes were opened after Trump won sixty-two million votes and the Oval Office in 2016. Even Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "Donald Trump heard a voice in this country that no one else heard." He still does. Donald Trump puts "America's inter...

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Wm Jeffries (Author)I Could Have Been One provides a look into the world Donald Wm. Jeffries was born into, raised, and grew up in through historical and political events of his life. We examine the world starting in the 1940s through our modern day and see how life was and what has changed. The history in which Jeffries has lived through has had a remarkable impact on his life and worldview, and we see this develop and change throughout the course of hi...

Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse

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Report copyright infringementby Okwui Enwezor (Author), Terry Smith (Editor)Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific critic...

Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition

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Report copyright infringementby Okwui Enwezor (Author), Terry Smith (Editor)Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta 11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific criti...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindiwe Dovey (Editor), Añulika Agina (Editor), Michael W. Thomas (Editor)Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interviews, and specific case studies, the contributors bring to life the complex materialities an...

Art, Politics, and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Frascina (Author)Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period. This book is based on detailed and new research from a range of sour...

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Petrossiants (Editor), Jose Rosales (Editor), Claire Fontaine (Contribution by)Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migr...

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Report copyright infringementby G K Publications (P) Ltd (Author)This book by GKP is designed for the Recruitment exam of Constable - General Duty for the Staff Selection Commission (SSC). The contents of the book include the following sections - General Intelligence & Reasoning, Elementary Mathematics, English Language, General Knowledge & Awareness. The book also has two full-length practice sets which are designed in compliance with the latest exam pattern. This study guide will ce...

Born-Again Diva: from Phuck-You to Philosophy to Phixing the Arts Problem

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Fontana (Author)How do we thrive as artists, when it's so hard to even survive? Born Again Diva is a personalised treatise by one arts practitioner, feeling her way through the thoughts of other arts practitioners, who're feeling their way through the Australian Arts Industry, and examining its status within broader economic systems. In the wake of Australia's 2023 new National Cultural Policy, it laments the Covid-19/pandemic experience as a lost opp...

Politics simple explained: For Millennials, Gens XYZ and Future Generations

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Rodulfo (Author)Politics has been difficult to understand since its beginnings. In one hand because of the philosophical, social and academic approach of last centuries, and on the other hand because politicians and the interest groups they represent have no interest to make it comprehensible and easy to discuss and digest.Presented in simple language, social media like format, the author offers the IMDb of politics, with simple concepts, pictures, likes a...

Making Livable Places: Transportation, Preservation and the Limits of Growth

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Report copyright infringementby Todd Shallat (Editor), David Eberle (Editor)Making Livable Places explores the history and politics of the issues and places that shape Boise's metropolitan growth. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Chee Min Ng (Author)Australia, as an immigrant nation, has many migrant success stories. Each wave of migration generates its own migrant success stories. Many of the large corporations today are the results of the enterprising ingenuity of post-World War II migrants. The ending of the 'White Australia' immigration policy in the 1970s brings another set of success stories - this time from migrants of non-European backgrounds. The Ethnic Business Award entries f...

The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment

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Report copyright infringementby David Mamet (Author)One of America's greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition. "Government, like Circe, turns men into swine," David Mamet writes in his latest political tour de force. Prepare to be challenged, enlightened, and entertained by The Disenlightenment as Mamet dissects the modern world with enthusiasm, wisdom, and lots of references to movies about th...

Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza Garnsey (Editor), Caitlin Hamilton (Editor), Christine Sylvester (Foreword by)Creating Justice, through a series of conversations between a diverse set of artists and scholars from around the globe, explores how art can facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights, highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, advocate for and effect change, and aid in post-conflict recovery.Author BiographyEliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fell...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindiwe Dovey (Editor), A?ulika Agina (Editor), Michael W. Thomas (Editor)Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interviews, and specific case studies, the contributors bring to life the complex materialities an...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Morrow (Editor), Amy Sodaro (Editor), Leora Kahn (Editor)Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time, i...

The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Rodota (Author)Since its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington's chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both political parties and the epicenter of a scandal that brought down a president. In The Watergate, writer and political consultant Joseph Rodota paints a vivid portrait of this landmark and the movers and shakers who have lived there.Watergate residents--an intriguing casts of politicians, journalists, socialite...

Beijing Record: A Physical and Political History of Planning Modern Beijing

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Report copyright infringementby Jun Wang (Author)Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage. Wang's publication presents a survey of the main developments and government-level (both central and municipal) deci...

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Report copyright infringementby Sky Tallman (Author), David Vermette (Editor)Metrocoalescence presents a vision and a practical guide for a new way of regulating development that treats the city as a complex, self-organizing system. It proposes new tools to help solve the housing crisis, create better urban form, more vibrant and walkable cities, and mitigate some of the ways traditional zoning has distorted markets and contributed to urban and rural sprawl. f(z) Functional ZoningA framework ...

Planning for a Continent of Cities: Long-range scenarios for Australian urbanisation

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Bolleter (Author), Robert Freestone (Author)Some 50 years after Ideas for Australian Cities appeared we now have another milestone publication that envisions future pathways to the grand challenge of planning more sustainable and resilient cities - the nation's greatest asset. Planning for a Continent of Cities assembles a unique and thought-provoking set of continental scale settlement scenarios that address the twin challenges of long-term spatial plan...

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Report copyright infringementby Camilo Espitia (Author)Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several Latin American cities, each with specific challenges, and explores how they have gradually overcome these difficulties through policies, planning, and design, and with private/public sector coordination.The cases include: The built environment and social mobility in Bogotá; Mexico City and its ...

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

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Report copyright infringementby Fassil Demissie (Editor)Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment purposely suited to the administrative apparatus of empire: architecture and urbanism sought to project the authority of the European powers while simultaneously stabilizing the fragile European identity at the colonial frontier. This book seeks to uncover the multiple ways in which colonial architectural and urban design practices reconstituted colonial cities in A...

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Report copyright infringementby Koon Hean Cheong (Author)Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010-2020) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures she gave between March and April 2018, and highlights of her dialogue with the audience.Climate change, an ageing population, anti-globalisation sentiments the world over, technological disruption, and social me...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Ball (Author)Jonathan Ball was born in Bude, Cornwall, in June 1947. After qualifying at the Architectural Association, London, he set up practice in his home town in 1974. In 1992 he was appointed MBE for Services to Architecture. In 1994 he was approached by Tim Smit with an idea to create the largest greenhouses on planet Earth to tell the story of the great plant hunters. Smit and Ball took huge personal risks as co-founders of the innovative archi...

Views to Die For: Murder, anarchy, and the battle for Sydney's future

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Skelsey (Author)How did a 1970s plan to raze and redevelop a historic Sydney suburb lead to a kidnapping, murder and urban warfare? And why does this tumultuous period still play a pivotal role in Sydney's planning today?These are the big questions explored in Views To Die For.Views To Die For has been published alongside the 50th anniversary of the 1975 murder of outspoken Kings Cross activist and publisher Juanita Nielsen.It's the untold and inside story...

Is There a War on Surburbia? Calling a Truce in the Battle Over Land Use

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Greenhut (Author)Current debates over land-use planning have taken on the same strident, ideological and almost religious zeal that dominate other hot-button political disagreements, which isn't surprising given that where we choose (or happen) to live reflects some of our most fundamental values. Americans' politics are deeply divided by cultural issues and there are few things more cultural than whether we live in big cities: suburbia, small towns or t...

The Ludic City: Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

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Report copyright infringementby Quentin Stevens (Author)This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition - competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. Stevens explores and analyzes these case...