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Move: Where People Are Going for a Better Future - Paperback

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by Parag Khanna (Author)*A Financial Times Best Book of the Year* A "provocative" (Booklist) and compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change.In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility--the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events--wars and genocides, revolutions and ...

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis - Paperback

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by Jonathan Blitzer (Author)A National Bestseller - A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch - One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks - Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington Post - Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction"What an incredibly thor...

Winning Elections in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Dick Simpson (Author), Betty O'Shaughnessy (Author)A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes you can! And the book she recommends for candidates, campaign staff, volunteers, and citizens is Winning Elections in the 21st Century, a handbook for anyone who wants to know how campaigns are run and won today. Written by longtime political veterans, both former elected official...

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Paperback

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by Raymond Arsenault (Author)The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. With characters and plot lines rivaling ...

Police Dogs of Trinidad and Tobago: A 70-Year History - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Debbie Jacob (Author) They are four-legged police officers sniffing their way through mountains, tropical forests, and urban jungles, and they operate in the southernmost Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, just seven miles from Venezuela. Police dogs and their canine officers face dangers including drug dealers, thieves, kidnappers, and murderers by relying on their most important weapon: trust This is an unprecedented look at crime from the police canine...

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Report copyright infringementby Travis Wallenfang (Author)In 2017, Tribal Affairs stated, "There is little or no information, or the information has been archived because the project is complete, but you only get information the way we give it to you... Perhaps this will stall him from receiving the information?"Having worked as a Field Engineer contracted for WisDOT, tasked with documenting Native American participation in projects for years, author Travis Wallenfang always knew where the in...

Here We Go Again: Biblical Insights to Counter Chronic Political Hype - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Mark D. West (Author)America is broken. Dissension, anger, and hopelessness, all describe the political feelings of many Americans. Families and friendships are fractured. Our struggles seem to grow worse with each new election as we hear the same old hype: "This is the most important election of our lifetimes." These realities apply to Christians and non-Christians alike. Yet, aren't Christians supposed to offer hope? Sadly, there's little evidence that Christ...

Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law: Sovereignty and Liberty - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John William Burgess (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 imp...

United States Antarctic Program (USAP) Sexual Assault/Harassment Prevention and Response (SAHPR) - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby National Science Foundation (Author), Fred Zimmerman (Annotations by)It is infuriating to encounter sexual harassment are infuriating in any setting, let alone in one of the most extreme and hazardous of all human habitats. But this account of persistent sexual abuse in the US Antarctic Program has significance beyond individual rights and organizational responsibilities. The Antarctic is scientifically important to the whole world and strategically important t...

Hope and Despair: Israel's Future in the New Middle East - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Michael A. Horowitz (Author)Days before his country signed a deal to normalize ties with Israel, the Emirati Ambassador to the US penned an article in Hebrew, directly addressing Israelis. Israel, he argued, faced a choice between engagement with the rest of the region, or isolation. His words struck a chord then, and will continue to ring true in the decades to come. Michael A. Horowitz tells the unfolding story of this decision: of tension between the hope us...

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - Paperback

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by George Lakoff (Author)"[Lakoff is] the father of framing."--The New York Times "An indispensable tool for progressives--packed with new thinking on framing issues that are hotly debated right now."--Jennifer M. Granholm, former governor of Michigan Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today's essential issues. Called the "father of framing" by The New York Times...

National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945 - Hardcover

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by Christopher Rudolph (Author)This book describes how the external and internal security interests of the state have shaped the timing and form of immigration and border policies in the United States and Western Europe since 1945.Front JacketGlobal terrorism has emerged as a central security issue throughout the world, and effective immigration and border control is now a necessary condition to maintain national security. National Security and Immigration identifies the security-related impl...

Godbodyism: How Adamology Leads to a True Black Thearchy Black Divinity Series Vol 5 - Paperback

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by Shahidi Islam (Author)What Can the Story of Adam and Eve teach us About the World?The New York City street culture created a powerful movement that has effected America in a spectacular way that has inspired and challenged Black people all over the world.This culture, called godbodyism, is now maturing into an ideology that we believe could improve society dramatically.Godbodyism: How Adamology Leads to a True Black Thearchy Black Divinity Series Vol 5 reveals the truths of this culture an...

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence - Paperback

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by Ronan Farrow (Author)US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're becoming a nation that shoots...

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by Terry Eagleton (Author)One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to Tiger Woods and Mel Gibson along with Charles Fourier and Michel Foucault."--Michael Patrick Brady, PopMatters "Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."--Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century In this ...

Freedom in the Family: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tananarive Due (Author), Patricia Stephens Due (Author)Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements and an incisive examination of the future of justice in...

The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Zach Fredman (Author)After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries. More than 120,000 U.S. servicemen deployed to China, where Chiang Kai-shek's government carried out massive programs to provide them with housing, food, and interpreters. But, as Zach Fredman uncovers in The Tormented Alliance, a military alliance with the United States means a military occupation b...

Chicago, 1968: Policy and Protest at the Democratic National Convention - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nicolas W. Proctor (Author)In August 1968, Democrats gather at their National Convention in Chicago to debate a platform for a deeply divided party. Factions are split over issues such as civil rights, infrastructure, and the war on poverty--not to mention the war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, crowds of protesters descend upon the city. Impassioned antiwar demonstrators plan sit-ins and marches, while the absurdist Yippies, determined to make a mockery of the conventi...

Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mahshid Mayar (Author)By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century." Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American ch...

Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Abel (Author)Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like AncestryDNA and 23andMe has sparked debates about the commodification of identity, the antiracist pote...

Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Mayeux (Author)Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalis...

Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy J. Minchin (Author)From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions of Americans, including social security, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and universal health care. With a membership of more th...

Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Max Krochmal (Author)This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorit...

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley D. Farmer (Author)In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows...

Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jane H. Hong (Author)Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on ...

Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Maddalena Marinari (Author)In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States. Many Americans of northern and western European ancestry regarded these newcomers as biologically and culturally inferior--unassimilable--and by 1924, the United States had instituted ...

The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gladys I. McCormick (Author)In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as m...

On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Wesley C. Hogan (Author)As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival. That reality forms the backbone of this book, as Hogan documents and assesses young people's interventions in the American fight for...

Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin A. Cowan (Author)In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival records, he shows that by midcentury, conservatives--individuals and organizations, civilian as well as military--were firmly situated in a transnational network of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the powerful hardline constituency supporting B...

Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy B. Tyson (Author)This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, Williams, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance," W...

Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture Since 1945 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Stahl (Author)From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the public alike and were instrumental in promulgating conservative ideas. Yet, in spite of the formative influence these institutions have had on th...

Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood (Author)In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post-Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy. Most African Americans remained loyal Republican...