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Ayodhya: The Dark Night - The Secret History of Rama's Appearance In Babri Masjid - Paperback

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by Krishna Jha (Author)22 December 1949: A conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little-known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Rama inside it. While it is known that the Hindu Mahasabha had a role in placing the idol in the mosque, the larger plot and the chain of events that led to that act have never been subject to rigorous scrutiny. Krishna ...

Water: Asia's New Battleground - Hardcover

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by Brahma Chellaney (Author)'... Chellaney shows how today's economic growth could lead to tomorrow's water wars". This is a vital book for anybody interested in diplomacy and conflict in the twenty-first century' - Stanley A. Weiss, founding chairman, Business Executives for National Security, Washington DC The battles of yesterday were fought over land; those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia...

Highway 39: Journeys Through A Fractured Land - Paperback

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by Sudeep Chakravarti (Author)In Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land, Sudeep Chakravarti attempts to unravel the brutal history of Nagaland and Manipur, their violent and restive present, and their uncertain and yet desperately hopeful future, as he travels along Dimapur, Kohima, Senapati, Imphal, Thoubal, and their hinterlands-all touch points of brutalized aspiration, identity, conflict and tragedy. These are the lands that nurture deadly acronyms-like AFSPA, an act of Parliament ...

The Kalam Effect: My Years With The President - Paperback

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by P. M. Nair (Author)A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became President of India in July 2002. He was a surprise choice. A scientist and not a politician, with an unusual hairstyle and an unassuming way of doing things, and no other agenda except that of seeing India become a developed and strong nation. How would such a man fit into the regal splendour of Rashtrapati Bhavan, and all the pomp and ceremony of a head of state? What followed, however, as P.M. Nair shows in The Kalam Eff ect, was a remarkable ...

Kargil: From Surprise To Victory - Paperback

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by Malik V. P. General (Author)In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by General V.P. Malik, former Chief of the Army Staff, analyses the reaso...

Political And Incorrect: The Real India, warts And All - Hardcover

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by Tavleen Singh (Author) Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2007

The Writings Of James Madison: 1790-1802 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby James Madison (Author)This collection of writings by founding father James Madison offers a rare insight into the thoughts and motivations of one of America's most important historical figures. With articles covering topics ranging from the ratification of the Constitution to foreign affairs, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the early days of American politics. It's an indispensable resource for historians, political scientists, and stude...

Agenda 21 Exposed: Unveiling the Evil behind Global Genocide - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby George Stoddard (Author)"Agenda 21 Exposed: Unveiling the Evil behind Global Genocide" is a groundbreaking book that serves as a whistle blower's warning to the citizens of the world. With irrefutable proof, it reveals the truth behind Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030, calling out by name and exposing those who drafted these sinister plans. This book brings to light the names of individuals and organizations endorsing and promoting this agenda of global genocide. It a...

The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Oklahoma Oklahoma (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 import...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Wratislaw (Author), Plato (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 th...

Professor Allan Lichtman's method for predicting the winners of the U.S. popular votes since 1984. The 13 keys to the White House - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Nienaber (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: This paper will focus on what Lichtman calls the "Thirteen Keys to the White House" and how he used them to predict the outcomes of the last nine presidential elections. To do so, his book "The Keys to the White House" which was firstly published in 1996 is required as the main source for the following steps that will ser...

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto - Paperback

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by Kohei Saito (Author), Brian Bergstrom (Translator)Author BiographyKōhei Saitō is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in philosophy from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2016. He was awarded the 2018 Deutscher Memorial Prize, the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies, making Saitō its youngest recipient. In 2020 the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awarded him the highly prestigious JSPS prize, awarded to the top 25 s...

The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives - Hardcover

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by Andrew J. Scott (Author)"A manifesto to guide the longevity revolution" (David Sinclair) for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear and skepticism? The reason is simple: society is not currently structured to support long lives. Rather than...

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents - Paperback

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by Rod Dreher (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers. For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are ...

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War - Paperback

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by Howard W. French (Author)Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the...

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed - Paperback

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by Slavenka Drakulic (Author)"She is a writer and journalist whose voice belongs to the world." -- Gloria SteinemThis essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, witty, and intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection...

The Know Nothing Party: The History and Legacy of America's Most Notorious Nativist Political Party - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Immigration during the first five years of the 1850s reached a level five times greater than a decade earlier. Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded into the tenements of large cities. Crime and welfare costs soared. Cincinnati's crime rate, for example, tripled between 1846 and 1853 and its murder rate increased s...

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Report copyright infringementby Kobi Shashoua (Author)The Palestinians are always mentioned in conjunction with the conflict in the Middle East. Many nations are mentioned in various contexts, but the Palestinians are synonymous with discrimination, with deprivation, with oppression, with genocide, with military occupation, etc. It seems that everyone on this planet has an opinion about the Palestinians, ranging from the aboriginals to the polar wildernesses. The opinion usually connects to t...

An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph I. Lieberman (Author), Hadassah Lieberman (Author), Sarah Crichton (With)A groundbreaking memoir featuring the personal recollections of former Senator Joe Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, of their 2000 vice presidential campaign. From the second they find out that Joe had been chosen by Al Gore as his running mate, the Liebermans' lives drastically changed--privacy vanished as political handlers took over. Now, Joe and Hadassah recount the excruciating...

The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Debra Hendrickson (Author)A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children--the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today--by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America. Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson's clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada--the fastest warming city in the United Stat...

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture - Paperback

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by James L. Dickerson (Author)Racism and xenophobia have long challenged democracy, a battle played out dramatically in the concentration camps built, staffed, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. Government. The camps first appeared in the nineteenth century with the imprisonment of Native Americans, then returned during World War II with the roundup of Japanese Americans (most of them citizens of the United States), German Americans, Italian Americans, and Jews f...

A City Within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan - Paperback

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by Todd E. Robinson (Author)A City within a City examines the civil rights movement in the North by concentrating on the struggles for equality in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Historian Todd Robinson studies the issues surrounding school integration and bureaucratic reforms as well as the role of black youth activism to detail the diversity of black resistance. He focuses on respectability within the African American community as a way of understanding how the movement was formed and held together...

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by Victor Nickolich (Author)"As the Russian-built Lada sedan sped towards Havana, the man known as Lince felt a sudden chill running down his spine. Could it be possible that the same people he sought help from had double-crossed him? The likelihood that someone at the US State Department had cozied up to the Cubans and leaked his intentions to defect suddenly became a daunting reality. He braced himself for the worst." November 1977. Cuba has assembled a powerful skydiving team to compete at...

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics - Paperback

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by John J. Mearsheimer (Author)The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happe...

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by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Written by one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, during the English civil war, Leviathan is an influential work of nonfiction. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory, Leviathan has both historical and philosophical importance. Social contract theory prioritizes the state over the individual, claiming that individuals have consented to the surrender of some of their freedoms b...

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by G. K. Chesterton (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)G.K. Chesterton delivers insightful commentary on modern behavior and social practices influenced by big business, gender roles, government and other notable figures throughout his lifetime. The book is inspired by his own personal beliefs regarding faith, family and the working man. What's Wrong with the World is a critical analysis of various topics covered by acclaimed writer G.K. Chesterton. He tackles contemporary ideals that d...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgi Plekhanov (Author)A comparison between the political philosophies of Anarchism and Socialism with the differences highlighted. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: March 07, 2021

Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert G. Picard (Author)Why and how are news organizations changing? With the drive for low costs and low prices, how can the news industry create value to ensure its survival in the digital environment? Most of the contemporary challenges faced by news organizations result from changes in the media environment and media markets that have reduced the value of news and information and disrupted the existing business models of news producers. Many of these chang...

Reflections on the Revolution in France - Paperback

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by Edmund Burke (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Reflections on the Revolution in France offers provocative political commentary from the British statesman Edmund Burke, that examines the early stages of the French Revolution. It's a searing criticism of those in and outside formal government who support the movement's unconventional methods. The French Revolution was a decade-long social and political conflict that changed the landscape of modern France. Irish philosopher and politic...

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by Aristotle (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority, and not the minority. In The Politics, he defines various institutions and how they should operate within an established system. The Politics provides an analysis of contemporary government as it relates to all people. Aristotle discusses the positive and negative qualities of authority and how...

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by Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by) With a mix of both respectable and immoral advice, The Prince is a frank analysis on political power. Separated into four sections, The Prince is both a guide to obtain power and an explanation on the aspects that affect it. The first section discusses the types of principalities. According to Machiavelli, there are four different types--hereditary, mixed, new and ecclesiastical. While defining each type, Machiavelli also di...