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Civil Disobedience"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations."-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) Civil...
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James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American...
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Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 3: The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being Also a Theory of CrisesThe Law of Accumulation and Breakdown ofthe Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis was Henryk Grossman's most important, influential, and also most denounced work. As official Communisteconomic thought was petrifying, to comply with the needs of the Staliniststate in Russia, Grossman's bookchallenged...
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German Crime Dramas from Network Television to NetflixGerman Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix approaches German television crime dramas to uncover the intersections between the genre's media-specific network and post-network formats and how these negotiate with and contribute to concepts of the regional, national, and global. Part I concentrates on...
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Writing a Proposal for Your Dissertation: Guidelines and ExamplesThe encouraging book that has guided thousands of students step by step through crafting a strong dissertation proposal is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. It includes new guidance for developing methodology-specific problem statements, an expanded discussion of the literature review, coverage of...
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The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani ResistanceIn 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes characterised as the 'forgotten occupation', the western Golan Heights have been transformed by Israeli colonisation, including the...
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Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990The authors investigate trends in racial inequality in occupational attainment in rural areas of the South since 1940. Drawing on data from the six censuses spanning the last five decades, they examine how inequality varies across local areas and how it has changed over...
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The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in IndiaThe Population Myth reveals how the right-wing spin to population data has given rise to myths about the 'Muslim rate of growth', often used to stoke majoritarian fears of a demographic skew. The author, S.Y. Quraishi, uses facts to demolish these, and demonstrates how...
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The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist UrbanizationHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a revolutionary alternative to capital's organization of...
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When Communities Design Aid: Creating Solutions to Poverty That People Own, Use and NeedAid initiatives go wrong for many reasons, but a common and surprising one is that poor people often don't want the kind of aid that is offered. This book explores why this happens and how it can be prevented. Richard Atkinson outlines important mistakes...
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Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic...
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Mao TSE-TUNG On Guerrilla WarfareIn 1937, Mao was in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist troops of Chiang Kai-shek. During this period, he wrote a succinct pamphlet that remains one of the most influential documents on warfare to this date. This treatise, the first systematic analysis...
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Visual CriminologyFrom fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent...
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The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist TanzaniaOver the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices...
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Modern Work and the Marketisation of Higher EducationOver recent decades, national Higher Education sectors across the world have experienced a gradual process of marketisation.This book offers a new interpretation on why and how marketisation has taken place within England. It explores distinct assumptions on the nature of graduate work and how...
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About KindnessThis beautiful children's verse book is about kindness - what it is, how to express it, and the positive impact that it can have on individuals and around the world. Written as a three-stanza poem, About Kindness employs rhythms, rhymes, and repetition to teach...
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Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in BrooklynAcross the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building community food systems rooted in the principles of social justice. But how exactly are communities doing this work, why are residents tackling these issues through food, what...
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Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western WorldThe idea of utopia, the perfect place, has tantalized humanity for thousands of years, from the myth of the Garden of Eden to the high-tech folly of Biosphere 2. Now the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and The New York Public Library are jointly sponsoring...
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as StorytellerIn this marvelous collection of hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales, Harold Scheub captures the immense sweep and diversity of African mythology. Scheub offers an unprecedented collection of 400 stories, arranged alphabetically, that touch on virtually every aspect of religious belief. Here are...
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Goddesses in World Mythology"In the beginning people did not work, because the sky was so close to the Earth, they could just reach up and cut off a piece of it to eat. One day, Greedy Woman cut of an enormous chunk of the sky and, even...
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