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Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World's Largest Casino"The book seems at times like a legal thriller, a psychological drama, a morality tale, and a scandal sheet." -- Richard Tambling, Hartford Journal InquirerJeff Benedict, the author of No Bone Unturned, tracks the transformation of the Mashantucket Pequots from a population of one...
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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A HistoryA bracing, accessible history of white American liberals--and why it's time to change the conversation about them. If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in...
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While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle EastA powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7 While Israel Slept tells the gripping inside story of how Hamas, Israel's weakest enemy, succeed in launching a surprise attack on one of the world's most powerful militaries. Through a...
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What the Boss Doesn't Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning CampaignsAfter the labor movement faded away in the lives of most Americans, organizing is back! Workers are organizing at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, and Google, to name just a few. But it's going to take more than picket signs and marches in front of stores...
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Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic IncomeA sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty--now known as basic income--is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern conception truly emerged in...
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Water in the West: A Reference HandbookWater use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors. Today, though, serious questions are being raised about how western states used dams, irrigation systems, and other water-related infrastructure to transform the...
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Visions for an African Valley: Histories of Development in Kilombero, Tanzania Since 1877What was the effect of the numerous, albeit often unsatisfied, plans for development on the land and communities of the Kilombero valley throughout the colonial period and into the first decades of independence? This book traces histories of development in - and crucially, visions...
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Veiled Atrocities: True Stories of Oppression in Saudi ArabiaA deaf-mute woman waiting for her brother to pick her up in front of shop window is arrested by two members of the Saudi "morality police" (mutawas) on suspicion of prostitution. They report their allegation to the governor of Riyadh, who accepts it without...
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Unyielding Resolve: Captive Nations and the Path to FreedomDr. Lev E. Dobriansky provides a unique, first-person perspective on Russian imperialist behavior in the twentieth century, arguing that even in the Soviet era, Russian statecraft was heavily shaped by traditional imperialist ideology--led by Moscow's self-image as the dominant Eurasian imperial power. This theory...
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Unions Flying High: Airline Labor Power in the 21st CenturyComplex and closely watched, the U.S. airline industry has long been a stronghold of union labor. Airline unions function as democracies that organize strikes, raise concern about important safety issues, and back mergers that would not move forward without their support. They use their...
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Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil WarRediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silenced Unforgettable Sacrifice offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War, challenging conventional narratives and revealing a rich history preserved through oral traditions and communal efforts....
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Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold WarTHE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WARHow Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a "shining city upon a hill."On October 25th,1983 President Ronald Reagan launched one of the...
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Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning2021: As the centennial of one of the nation's worst race massacres approached, citizens of Tulsa faced the prospect with hope and dread. Hope that the anniversary would show Tulsa had changed since that day in 1921, when a white mob left the city's...
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The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel PopulismThe problem with expertise--and the dark side of the equation "knowledge = power." Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that...
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The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out about Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific ProcAn unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and...
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The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of GodOne of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after...
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The Soul of Man Under SocialismIn The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true...
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The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to LeninHow an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problems Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented...
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The Revolutionary Science of Marxism-LeninismThe publication of this book, The Revolutionary Science of Marxism-Leninism, by J. Sykes, comes at a turning point in this country. Times have changed. There is a renewed and resurgent communist movement in the U.S. Not since the rise of the new communist movement...
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The Qu?bec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural DynamicsQu?bec's engagement with the United States is the most significant and consequential point of interaction amongst all its international activities. This new, edited book volume seeks to explore the many ways in which Quebec engages with the United States, including political exchange, border issues,...
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