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The Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli's Discourses and Guicciardini's ConsiderationsThe question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers of the Renaissance--Niccol Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, whose major works on the nature of government are linked in an authoritative new translation. Political adversaries but nonetheless friends, Machiavelli and Guicciardini both reflected on...
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Power Tends To CorruptLord Acton (1834-1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly...
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The Watchful StateWhy did the imperial Russian government fail to prevent revolution in 1917? Were its security policies flawed? This broadly researched study of Russia's security police investigates the government's efforts to maintain order as it struggled against political opposition and threats of violence during the...
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The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker: Public Monuments and Modern PoetsThe Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker was originally published in 1910 by The Cooperative Press. A Russian immigrant who was a journalist and a militant socialist, the author presented her account of the Uprising of the 20,000 as the personal story of a striker.Author:...
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To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American WestIn the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. Fur trade beaver trapping meant streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Grazing livestock depleted native bunch grasses. Migrating Idaho Salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now dams stretch the...
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Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the DarkThe development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of many species of wildlife. In...
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Invisible Politics: Black Political BehaviorWith a view that behavioralism has distorted perceptions of black political activity, Hanes Walton, Jr., here reformulates the assumptions of behavioralism to arrive at a more realistic understanding of the political actions of black Americans. Considering the cultural and historical events that have shaped...
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The Crisis Regime: The M. A. C., the E. F. C. B., and the Political Impact of the New York City Financial CrisisAuthor: Robert W. BaileyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/30/1985Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsISBN: 9780873958516About the AuthorRobert W. Bailey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baruch College of the City University of New York.This title is only available via back order
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Finding Common Ground: The Art of Legislating in an Age of GridlockDemocracy has never been a quick or easy process by which to get things done. But many citizens are fed up with the current, extreme partisan gridlock at the national, state, and even local levels of government.Dave Bishop spent most of his twenty years...
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America's Child-Care Crisis: Rethinking an Essential BusinessThe child-care industry--essential to American families and to the American economy--is at risk of complete collapse. Before COVID-19 struck, the child-care industry faced funding issues and staffing dilemmas, while families struggled to find--or simply afford--quality child care. The reality is that COVID-19 has only...
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ReTargeting IranA timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.The United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged...
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every WriterAs fun to read as it is hands-on practical, it can be enjoyed straight-through or used as a reference as students draft, revise, and edit. Spiral-bound, the College Edition lays flat as students work at the computer, and at $16.95 suggested retail (after bookstore...
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Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of IntelligenceMel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military . . . he is also telling us how to save ourselves.--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating...
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Little HillAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment." Warren] has begun writing longer poems, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young, Anselm Berrigan, and Jacqueline Waters. I...
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Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-JamalRevolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ... His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man,...
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Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under SiegeAt a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes terrorism and to hit nonviolent activists...
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Communication in Legal AdvocacyCommunication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive anaysis of the communication processes in trials. Responding to the emerging interest in alternative dispute resolution, the book situates the trial within the...
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The Creation of the ConstitutionIn this essay, Max Edling provides an internationalist interpretation of the founding of the United States. Rather than focusing on domestic economic conflict, Edling's interpretation highlights international competition, both with European powers and Native American neighbors, and inter-state relations within the federal union, as...
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Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut RevolutionSince the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica...
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Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American CitiesWinner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across...
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