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Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World ChristianityIn Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the...
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To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in NicaraguaTo Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation's racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th...
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Marxian Economics: An IntroductionMore and more people have turned to Marxian economics in recent years. But isn't it a defunct branch of the 'dismal science', disproven by the experience of the past 150 years, of no interest to anyone except historians? In this book, David Ruccio demonstrates...
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United Nation: The Case for Integrating IrelandOne hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified.But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would it mean for those both north and...
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Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity PoliticsGeorge Hawley, who has written extensively on conservatism and right-wing ideologies in the U.S., presents a telling portrait of conservatism's relationship with identity politics.The American conservative movement has consistently declared its opposition to all forms of identity politics, arguing that such a form of...
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Revolutionary Contagion and International PoliticsA unique theory of what happens when leaders fear a revolution abroad will spread to their own country and how that affects international relations. When do leaders fear that a revolution elsewhere will spread to their own polities, and what are the international effects...
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Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico's Largest Immigration CenterMuch has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belén Fernández, offers a different and wholly...
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Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral StateAn estimated forty million people in the United States regularly practice yoga, and as an industry it generates over nine billion dollars annually. A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation are thought to be...
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Bajo La Mirada del Dragón Despierto / Under the Gaze of the Awakened DragonMavi Doñate, corresponsal de RTVE en Pekín, nos ofrece un libro imprescindible para entender la transformación del mundo global. «Bajo la mirada del dragón despierto es tan solo una de mis crónicas, contada en primera persona, sobre la cobertura periodística que jamás habría querido...
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Microverses: Observations from a Shattered PresentShort essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and culture Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed...
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Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math: And What We Can Do about ItThe current school system churns out millions of illiterates and mental zombies--but here's how we're going to fix it, starting today. "Stephen King? A piker: no horror story is as harrowing as Andrew Bernstein's must-read Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand...
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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable DemocracyA groundbreaking account of how prolonged grassroots mobilization lays the foundations for durable democratization When protests swept through the Middle East at the height of the Arab Spring, the world appeared to be on the verge of a wave of democratization. Yet with the...
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Cyprus: An Ancient People, a Troubled History, and One Last Chance for PeaceLawrence Stevenson served two tours of Cyprus as a United Nations peacekeeper during the 1970s and 1980s, and saw an island at war with itself with no hope of resolution in sight. Those experiences, and Cyprus's intractable division between East and West, haunted him...
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Party, Politics, and the Post-9/11 Army*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Dr. Geoffrey R.H. Burn).Throughout the existence of the All-Volunteer Force, but chiefly since the 1990s, the military has faced charges of growing politicization.During periods of heightened partisan polarization-and the...
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The Practical Guide to the United States Constitution: A Historically Accurate and Entertaining Owners' Manual For the Founding DocumentsThe Practical Guide to the United States Constitution offers an accurate but entertaining look at the founding documents. It covers the how's, what's, and why's of the United States Constitution, but with a side of fun.The mission is simple: to make the Constitution so...
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Pride, Pop and PoliticsFifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts have played an influential role in each great stride made. With new interviews...
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War After the War: A New History of ReconstructionThe War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of...
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LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social MovementsThe modern political tumult of Nicaragua includes revolution, dictatorship, and social movements. LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua explores the untold stories of the LGBTQ community of Nicaragua and its role in the recent political history of the country. Karen Kampwirth is a renowned scholar of...
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Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern TimesAn innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms,...
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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change Beyond Conventional WarContemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in...
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