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Report copyright infringementby Francisco José Urrutia (Author)La Sociedad de Naciones fue la primera organización internacional de Haute politique para mantener la paz mundial. En este libro, el autor, Francisco José Urrutia, nos lleva en un viaje al interior de la sociedad y nos ofrece una visión única del papel que jugó en el mantenimiento de la paz mundial después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowled...

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by David Barsamian (Author), Ervand Abrahamian (With), Noam Chomsky (With)A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.Author BiographyOne of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radio--now in its 33rd year--and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howar...

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger - Paperback

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by Richard Wilkinson (Author), Kate Pickett (Author)Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it. "Get your hands on this book."-Bill Moyers This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are lik...

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by Thomas Paine (Author)Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies ...

Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy - Paperback

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by Kishore Mahbubani (Author)The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.America values strategic decisiveness; ...

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by John Locke (Author)John Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority except by the consent of the people. When rulers became tyrants and act against the common good, then the people have the right of revolution against them. Writing against the backdrop of Charles II's savage purge of the Whig movement, Locke set out to attack the fabric of th...

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by Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Author), Martin Malia (Introduction by)Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the world. In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist...

The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians - Paperback

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by Caleb Carr (Author)Military historian Caleb Carr's groundbreaking work anticipated America's current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr's authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately s...

Sustaining Language Use: Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development - Paperback

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by M. Paul Lewis (Author), Gary F. Simons (Author), G. Richard Tucker (Foreword by)How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International's 80 years of fieldwork in local language communities. Using the Sustainable Use Model detailed here, readers learn how to advise maintaining use of their language at a sust...

Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy - Paperback

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by Charles H. T. Lesch (Author)Theocratic movements are on the rise. But what does it actually mean for God to rule? This Element offers one answer by recovering the theocratic project of medieval Judaism's most important thinker, Moses Maimonides. Theocracy is often thought to quash human agency, evoking an overpowering deity and clerical domination. Yet by reconsidering Maimonides' debt to the Islamic philosopher al-Fārābī, and challenging Leo Strauss' influential reading, the author argues...

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America - Paperback

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by Richard Slotkin (Author)Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in NonfictionA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"Sweeping...A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars." --New York Times Book Review "A provocative culmination of Slotkin's field-defining arguments on the place of violence in creating America." --Kathleen Belew "Brisk, bold, and thought-provoking." --Daniel Lazare, Arts Fuse "[An] exciting and detailed new decoder ring of a boo...

From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 - Paperback

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by George C. Herring (Author)The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate co...

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days - Paperback

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by Sheyann Webb (Author), Rachel West Nelson (Author), Frank Sikora (Author)Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent winter of 1965--events that changed not only the lives of these two little girls but the lives of all Alabamians and all ...

A New View of Society & Other Writings - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Robert 1771-1858 Owen (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 impo...

A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard. Throughout His Ordered Masks - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Yibing Zhang (Author), Huiming He (Translator) Number of Pages: 496 Dimensions: 1.11 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 15, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto J. González (Editor), Hugh Gusterson (Editor), Gustaaf Houtman (Editor)Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable ...

How to Apologise for Killing a Cat: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Doza (Author)'Most books on persuasion teach the few how to sway the many. With wit and vim, Guy has given us something else: an X-ray into the tactics of those trying to change our minds and behaviour.' Stephen Krupin, former speechwriter for Barack ObamaWhen Winston Churchill spoke in Parliament, he convinced an empire to go to war. When Martin Luther King spoke in Washington, he convinced millions to open their hearts to change. When Oprah Winfrey said: ...

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for Its Survival - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Dunt (Author)'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Urgent and engaging .' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'A phenomenal history from a truly big mind.' - DAVID SCHNEIDER, WRITER'Required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy.' - PROSPECTIn this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian Dunt tells the story of liberalism from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism....

Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gary May (Author)A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It is an extraordinary story of the intimidation and murder of courageous activists who struggled to ensure that all Americans would be able to exercise their right to vote. May outlines the divisions within the Civil Rights Movement, describes the relationship between President Johnson and ...

Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby David Brundage (Author)In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve of the bloody 1798 Irish rebellion, and concluding with the role of Bill Clinton's White House in the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, Brundage t...

New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Gest (Author)It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted i...

What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah L. Rhode (Author)For years prior to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized protests with limited success. So why and how did thousands of Egyptian citizens suddenly take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in January 2011? Contesting the Repressive State not only answers this question but asks specifically why and how people who are not part of political movements choose to engage or not engage in anti-government protest under re...

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Peter Baehr (Introduction by)A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting refl...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents - Paperback

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by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Author), Linda Greenhouse (Foreword by)A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women's rights whose personal experiences helped shape her into a feminist icon who empl...

Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy - Hardcover

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Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It - Hardcover

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by Christopher Dicarlo (Author)Renowned ethicist provides essential guide to successfully navigating the future AI landscapeIn Building a God, Christopher DiCarlo explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence--a destiny that seems not just possible, but inevitable. At this critical crossroad in our evolutionary history, DiCarlo, a renowned ethicist in AI, delves into the ethical mazes and technological quandaries of our future interactions with su...

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by Emma Goldman (Author)In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notorious Anarchist," feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldman. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known radical lecturer, writer, editor, and friend of the oppressed. This book is a collection of her remarkably penetrating essays, far in advance of their time, originally published b...

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph A. Schumpeter (Author) Number of Pages: 446 Dimensions: 1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: May 23, 2024

Hatreds We Love: The Psychology of Political Tribalism in Post-Truth America - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen J. Ducat (Author)An in-depth study of the malignant power of group identity in contemporary politics, most notable on the MAGA Right, that explains the growing longing for autocratic rule, the rise of delusional thinking, and the increasing comfort with political violence. Fueled by conspiracy thinking and a growing indifference to facts, some Americans, especially on the Right, are increasingly seeing their fellow citizens as threats that must be elim...

Countering Extremism and the Threat of ISIS in Southeast Asia - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of (Author)Violent attacks in Europe and expanding jihadist networks in Northern Africa have provided tragic and senseless reminders of the threat that terrorism and extremism pose to the world. When the global fight against the threat of terrorism is discussed, Southeast Asia is rarely the first thought. This vibrant region, home to nearly 40 percent of the world's Muslim population, is also a crucial part of the global war...

Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby K. S. Komireddi (Author)Author BiographyK. S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi is an essayist, journalist, public speaker, and speechwriter-advisor. His commentary, criticism, and reportage--from South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East--appear, among other leading publications, in The New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, Economist, and the Spectator. A foreign affairs panellist on Monocle radio, he appears on BBC, CNN, ABC, CBC to discuss int...

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Report copyright infringementby Davidson Loehr (Author)A combination of Kahlil Gibran and Dr. Phil, theologian and lifelong liberal Davidson Loehr brings a much-needed clarity to the reasons that liberalism has done such deep harm to areas including education, the media, politics, race relations and religion.The problem in all five areas is the fact that for two centuries, liberals have been sloughing off biblical religion with its supernatural God and mythical eternity in Heaven. But with wh...