Political Science
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Class 11: My Story Inside the Cia's First Post-9/11 Spy ClassA gripping insider's look at the post-9/11 CIA In the weeks following the attacks of 9/11, the Central Intelligence Agency received over 150,000 r sum s from people wanting to serve their nation. T. J. Waters became one of more than a hundred students...
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The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the WorldNew York Times bestseller From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an expos of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner,...
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Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the RightThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the Senate Al Franken, one of our "savviest satirists" (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and even "treason."...
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Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black BudgetBased on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the Black Budget--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars.Author: Tim WeinerPublisher: Grand Central PublishingPublished: 07/01/1991Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...
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Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial PerspectivesInternational relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the areas of culture/identity, race, and gender...
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Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political DifferencesBuried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always reason and the careful consideration of...
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Sceptical Essays'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.'With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' -...
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record profits. What is going on? According to Robert Kuttner, global capitalism is to blame. By limiting workers' rights,...
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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil RightsIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of...
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End This Depression Now!The Great Recession is more than four years old--and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge--all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all--remain in a state of intense...
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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural SocietyThe classic image of the American nation -- a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy -- is being replaced by an orthodoxy that celebrates difference and abandons assimilation. While this upsurge in ethnic awareness has...
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A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968The ideological passions that, along with critical acclaim, greeted the publication of Paul Berman's A Tale of Two Utopias showed how persistent are some of the battle lines drawn in the tumultuous years around 1968.A Tale of Two Utopias recounts in clean, clear, often...
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Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights MovementThirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has...
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the...
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Common Sense: And Other WritingsIncludes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine's work; and Letter to the Abb Raynal, Paine's first examination of world...
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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have...
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The Crime of Sheila McGough" N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant expos of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American WorldWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The ProgressiveA deeply honest and brave...
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Crescent and StarIn the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch -- poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the...
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Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International TerroristsIn this innovative and concise work, Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding and fighting the increase in domestic and international terrorism throughout the world. Citing diverse examples from around the globe, Netanyahu demonstrates that domestic terrorist groups are usually no...
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