Political Science
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Down & Dirty: The Plot to Steal the PresidencyAcclaimed journalist Jake Tapper explains what actually happened, who got away with what and how both sides, Democrats and Republicans, plotted to steal the presidency in 2000.Author: Jake TapperPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 04/03/2001Pages: 528Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.34w x 1.56dISBN: 9780316832649Review...
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Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate JourneyAuthor: Letty Cottin PogrebinPublisher: Time Warner Trade PublishingPublished: 12/06/2000Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.44w x 1.08dISBN: 9780316712637Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/26/1996 pg. 88Booklist 03/15/1996 pg. 1218Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/1996 pg. 74Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1996 pg. 359Library Journal 01/01/1996
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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across AmericaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by...
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The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal SystemA withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths.Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems...
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The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin PoulsenAuthor: Jonathan LittmanPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 03/31/1997Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.42w x 1.14dISBN: 9780316528573Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 01/27/1997 pg. 88Kirkus Reviews 01/15/1997 pg. 122New York Times 03/30/1997 pg. 17Booklist 02/15/1997 pg. 980Library Journal 02/15/1997 pg. 148Library Journal 02/01/1997
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! "You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read it...
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Rosa Parks: A BiographyRosa Parks: A Biography captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP...
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The Consolidation of Dictatorship in Russia: An Inside View of the Demise of DemocracyThe still-prevailing notion among Western powers, including the United States, is that Russia is a democracy, or at least that it remains in the process of democratization. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Ostrow, Satarov, and Khakamada demonstrate in The Consolidation of...
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Story Behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th CenturyProtest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against, whether it be political, social, or personal. Story Behind the Protest Song features 50 of the most influential musical protests and statements recorded...
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Black Congressmen During Reconstruction: A Documentary SourcebookDuring the Reconstruction, African Americans from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia--former slave-owning states--were elected to Congress in remarkable numbers. They included lawyers, teachers, businessmen, editors, and ministers. African Americans gained the right to vote through the Reconstruction Acts...
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Gun Control and Gun RightsRoots of the gun control debate date back to our country's founding. Attorney Constance Crooker traces this debate from its origin to the present day. Narrative chapters examine the theories and rhetoric behind each side of this dispute and show the extent to which...
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Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States ConstitutionFederalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution provides a thorough examination of this significant and distinctive part of the U.S. constitutional system, documenting its role in major domestic constitutional controversies in every period of American history.Although the book is organized historically rather...
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The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet: A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th PresidentWhen the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment caused by climate change. This short, powerful book...
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Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with DocumentsConservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 explores the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution, chronicling its legacy through subsequent presidencies.Author: Meg Jacobs, Julian E. ZelizerPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 09/17/2010Pages: 258Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9780312488314About the AuthorMEG JACOBS(Ph.D.,...
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Death as a Way of Life: From Oslo to the Geneva AgreementIn Death as a Way of Life, David Grossman, one of Israel's great fiction writers, addresses urgent questions regarding the middle east in a series of passionate essays and insightful articles. Writing not only as one of his country's most respected novelists and commentators,...
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State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of AmericaThe one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, said Theodore Roosevelt. State of Emergency will demonstrate...
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization DebateNaomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries. Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in...
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Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West: The Plight of Women and Female ChildrenBillet examines the debate between the uniform application of universal human rights and cultural relativism. Billet outlines the foundations and evolution of both schools of thought. The book also examines case studies that involve either women or children and are typically viewed by the...
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to AbbottabadNOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American...
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the WorldFrom the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories--why they're wrong, and how they've been harming America and the world. Ideas have the power to change history. But what...
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