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Lessons from the Edge: A MemoirINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine--a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of...
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The Battle of Lincoln Place: An Epic Fight By Tenants To Save Their HomesThe Battle of Lincoln Place is a stirring account of the courage and perseverance shown by the tenants of a large, historic apartment complex who stand up to the greed and heartlessness of their corporate landlords, whose quest for profit threatens to destroy their...
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Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in UkraineWithout the State explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests - a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine - through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of "self-organization" and the notion that if something...
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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century"This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."--Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On TyrannyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A celebrated foreign...
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Anthology of Speeches and QuotesJosé Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, was a Spanish lawyer, parliamentarian, and martyr. Son of the General Miguel Primo de Rivera, the dictator of Spain from 1923-1930, Rivera founded the Falange...
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The Honest Contrarian: And Other Stories About Washington DCThe Honest Contrarian: And Other Stories About Washington DCBy: John Patrick FeeheryOn the morning of September 11th, 2001, John Feehery was running late to his office in the nation's Capitol building. He had to make a choice. Get his weekly picks in for his...
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Religion and Nuclear Weapons: A Study of Islamic Republic of Iran and PakistanThis book explores religion's role in shaping a state's nuclear policies. It analyses whether religion becomes a motivating or de-motivating factor in the nuclear weapons programs. The fatwa of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, against nuclear weapons is an important factor in the...
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Options for Improving Strategic Utilization of the Air Reserve Component for Sustained Active-Duty MissionsThe authors analyze how statutes, personnel policies, and resource policies constrain how Air Reserve Component (ARC) personnel are utilized to perform frequent or long-term active component operational requirements; suggest potential changes that would make accessing the ARC more efficient; and suggest specific strategic solutions...
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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's UniversitiesPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage--and why that is troubling news for our nation's security and democratic values. Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals that globalization--the influx of foreign...
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Liberia and America in Religious Politics: What is God Saying to the Nations?Dr. Jallah Yelorbah Koiyan discusses the influence of religion has on the government and defines the roles of governments and citizens in the community of nations. The author unveils that God has the universal interest in stewardship; therefore, He holds both governments and citizens...
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Building Community, Chinatown Style: A Half Century of Leadership in San Francisco ChinatownGordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made...
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous IdeaIn this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and...
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Murdering McKinleyWhen President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley restages...
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Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their CountryWhy are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they...
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Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusiveThis influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others.Author: Alan...
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Economic Interdependence and WarDoes growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets....
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.Author: Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayPublisher: Free PressPublished: 01/10/1996Pages: 912Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 9.26h...
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The Cigarette: A Political HistoryFinalist for the Hagley Prize in Business HistoryA Smithsonian Book of the Year "Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov's thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse."--New York Times Book Review Tobacco is the...
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Den of ThievesA #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize-winner JameAuthor: James B. StewartPublisher:...
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism "High-speed, four-lane storytelling...
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