Political Science
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The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in OaklandIn The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the...
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Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World OrderBoth on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and...
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The Soweto UprisingThe Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa's history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event....
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Introduction to HousingThis foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...
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Europe and America: The End of the Transatlantic Relationship?"America First" is "America Alone"Foreign policy is like physics: vacuums quickly fill. As the United States retreats from the international order it helped put in place and maintain since the end of World War II, Russia is rapidly filling the vacuum. Federiga Bindi's new...
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The Ashes of WacoThis is the story the daily press didn't give us. It may be the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides-the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and...
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Latino Politics En Ciencia Política: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial ConsciousnessMore than 53 million Latinosnow constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group inthe United States, and the nation's political future may well be shaped byLatinos' continuing political incorporation. In the 2012 election, Latinosproved to be a critical voting bloc in both Presidential...
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The Public Policy Theory PrimerPublic policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and...
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The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Recovering from Another CollapseNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide...
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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable PacificNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict....
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970sAn authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty...
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Seven Essentials for Family-Professional Partnerships in Early InterventionFamily-professional partnerships are essential to early intervention practice (birth-age 3). However, building and sustaining these partnerships is complex work. This book is about digging deeper and looking closer at what it takes to have successful relationships with each and every family. The authors explore...
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Fighting Back: What Governments Can Do about TerrorismSince terrorism became a global national security issue in the new millennium, all governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet strong measures against terrorism have often made the root causes of the problem worse, while weak responses have invited further attack. In response, this...
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Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National SecurityThe US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A substantial...
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Introduction to Labor LawAn Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law...
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Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany EnigmaErastus Corning 2nd was elected mayor of Albany eleven times, serving forty-two consecutive years, a tenure unsurpassed in American political history. Now available in paperback, Paul Grondahl's thoroughly researched and comprehensive biography of Albany's mayor for life offers a full, sweeping portrait of Corning,...
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The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary DemocraciesParliamentary democracy involves a never-ending cycle of elections, government formations, and the need for governments to survive in potentially hostile environments. These conditions require members of any government to make decisions on a large number of issues, some of which sharply divide them. Officials...
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Social Work and DisabilitySocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work practice can, and indeed does,...
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Red Star Over the Third World"An original and much needed analysis of an important but neglected aspect of the legacy of the Russian Revolution.... Essential reading."--Mary Davis, Marx Memorial Library From Cuba to Vietnam, China to South Africa, the October Revolution of 1917 inspired millions of people beyond the...
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Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and RebellionPrisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row,...
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