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Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint NonviolenceThousands of ordinary people in Israel and Palestine have engaged in a dazzling array of daring and visionary joint nonviolent initiatives for more than a century. They have endured despite condemnation by their own societies, repetitive failures of diplomacy, harsh inequalities, and endemic cycles...
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The Bracero Program: Interest Groups and Foreign PolicyLong before "Cesar Chávez" and "Chicano" became commonly known, the word "bracero" had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program--or bracero program as it came to be known--was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue. At...
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The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the RepublicIn the updated paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller, David Limbaugh offers a chilling and thorough indictment of the Obama administration, unveiling the reality behind Obama's capitalism scandals, Constitution violations, shadowy bureaucracy, and more. When it comes to our prosperity, our freedom,...
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever WarIn "a clear-eyed and shrewd examination...of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism" (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever altered by President George W. Bush's war of choice after 9/11.The War on Terror...
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The FBIGet an inside peak at the world's most powerful law enforcement agency through the research of a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist whose investigation brought down FBI director William S. Sessions in this unprecedented look at the people, power, and secrets...
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Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American StrategyThe world's foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations explains Iran's current nuclear potential and what America can do about it: "Engrossing...If Congress gets a vote on going to war with Iran, let's hope that this book is on everyone's reading lists" (The Economist).In 2005,...
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To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left BehindThe "searing" (The New Yorker), "must read" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of "one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq" (Dexter Filkins). In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's (UAuthor: Kirk W. JohnsonPublisher: Scribner Books CoPublished:...
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How the Left and Right Think: The Roots of Division in American Politics Emerson said of the left and right, Each is a good half, but an impossible whole. In public affairs, the left traditionally pushes for political, economic and social progress, while the right steers towards individual opportunity, stability, tradition and the maintenance of gains...
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That's Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public LifeA farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C., during the Vietnam War era, as young men burned their draft cards and pro-cannabis factions held smoke-ins in the capital....
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Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945-1947The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans--many barely out of their teens--gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials held at Dachau. Their work often put...
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Slavery and Racism in American Politics, 1776-1876From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on principles of liberty, independence and freedom, slavery advocates and sympathizers positioned themselves in every aspect of American influence....
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Eyes on Havana: Memoir of an American Spy Betrayed by the CIAAn Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the Vietnam War. Framed by his handlers for an airport...
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The Power of Creative Reasoning: The Ideas and Vision of John GarangSeventy-two percent of South Sudan's population is under thirty years of age. It is this generation that must create a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. In The Power of Creative Reasoning, author Lual A. Deng shows how the...
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What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today's Leaders Have Lost Their WayPsychologist, H. John Lyke, and author of What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?, asks the question: "At the end of this century, will the United States still be a world leader or will we continue to be an inferior caricature of what we once...
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Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro AnthologyIn sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and...
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Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for AllEducating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge--also known as civics education--has been in decline, as schools have shifted focus to college and career, STEM, and raising reading and math scores. But over the last few years,...
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Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence AnalysisThis book describes some of the powerful metaphors that have developed over the past two decades about the workings of our minds including cognitive science (which embraces several disciplines, notably computer science, linguistics, neurophysiology and psychology), in an attempt to apply those metaphors to...
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Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's CubaWINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily Telegraph For over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a...
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Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937The webs, nodes and networks created by Britain's Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are here explored in the context of their personal and social impact. Using the British Settlement of Aden as its focus, the book examines the development of...
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How Isis Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and EgyptHow did ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation - manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations...
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