Political Science
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic DisasterThe inside story, told with "insight, perspective, and stellar reporting," of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved the American economy from a second Great Depression (Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair...
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Karl Marxâ (Tm)S Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political EconomyReveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a "Promethean." According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief...
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The Last Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Sunset of an American Ruling ClassThe Book of Record Regarding the WASP Aristocracy and its Legacy ...From the Medieval chivalric code of the gentleman to the Ivy-covered quads of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. "In a style that echoes the great John McFee, Hutter clearly explains the under-appreciated importance of...
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale" (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who created the world's greatest empire--and then lost it all. "An essential addition...
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A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and SurvivalThis extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China--and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime...
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World Order"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." --Walter Isaacson, TimeAn astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues. --Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing...
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From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern AsiaWhy some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer--and why others haven't Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization--a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world's poorest regions...
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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix ItA groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE - "Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is...
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In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague YearIN TRUMP TIME, tells the story of a President who worked night and day for the American people, who built the strongest economy in modern history, and fought the Covid pandemic by working with the private sector to deliver PPE, therapeutics and vaccines at...
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American DreamAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story...
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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted AideIn time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to PandemicsDeadly plagues have ripped across the globe for centuries and will continue to do so in the future. From the Black Death to Smallpox and the Hong Kong flu, seven of the ten worst plagues in history originated in China. But the Covid-19 pandemic...
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work DisappearsWhat happens when Americans lose their jobs? In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three workers...
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector MythsThe world's most popular products, from the iPhone to Google Search, were funded not by private companies, but the taxpayer. In this sharp and controversial international bestseller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds...
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War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America's Public LandsThe inside story of the drug cartels on our public lands-and the game wardens taking them on.Author: John Nores, James SwanPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 10/05/2010Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781599219301Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 135About the...
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The Occult Roots of BolshevismThis book is an exploration of the occult dimensions of Marxism, Bolshevism and the historical influences of Russian Cosmism on these ideologies. Occultism, magic, Bolshevism and Cosmism are defined at the outset. Chapter one explores Federov's Cosmism and the theory of Marxism as an...
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Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian MovementDennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story...
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International PoliticsIn this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events--Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns--to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today. With all...
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown CommunityDaring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a...
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The Shattering: America in the 1960sOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights...
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