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On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet PoliticsThe first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle--from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's...
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The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in GermanySince German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan's riveting account...
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Political Economy for Public PolicyThe ideal introductory textbook to the politics of the policymaking process This textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of the policymaking process. The book's distinct political economy approach has two virtues....
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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second EditionTheories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the...
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The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - Updated EditionWhy our banking system is broken--and the reforms needed to fix it The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth....
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Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's HeartlandWhat Kansas really tells us about red state America No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas...
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Democratic Education: Revised EditionA groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of education Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic...
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The Republic: Introduction by Alexander NehamasToward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and...
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The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial PredicamentThe preeminent sociologist and National Book Award-winning author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture grapples with the paradox of his homeland: its remarkable achievements amid continuing struggles since independence. There are few places more puzzling than Jamaica. Jamaicans claim their home has...
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Beyond AbortionFor most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court's decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe--and popular...
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Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of GlobalizationWinner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world's leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold...
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Civilizing Torture: An American TraditionFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMost Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as well as decrying its...
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The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New GlobalizationBetween 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new...
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Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the DepressionJust as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin...
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The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal ProfessionAnthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the...
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of IndependenceHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for...
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Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter OffensiveAs America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact. As diplomatic negotiations were pursued in Paris, President Richard...
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the CarolinasObscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia...
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PatriotsWith meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution--the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom. George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry--these heroes were men of intellect,...
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Student Workbook, Book B Grade 4This consumable student workbook is part of the Math in Focus: The Singapore Approach curriculum series. Book 4B, this workbook accompanies Math in Focus' Student Book Grade 4, Part B, and provides opportunities for practice, assessment, and skill-development. Cheery illustrations and easy-to-understand text give...
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