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Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar GalacticaIn Otherworldly Politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows: Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica.Dyson explains how these shows offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated by politics and history, science fiction...
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Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in TransitionThe second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States...
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Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the SubprimePredatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the current global financial crisis. This special issue of the journal American Quarterly explores the ways in which "subprime" becomes a racial signifier in the current debate about the causes...
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Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to ObamaJames H. Lebovic explores the logic of seeking peace in an arms race. Flawed Logics offers a compelling intellectual history of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms control. Lebovic thoroughly reviews the critical role of ideas and assumptions in U.S. arms control debates, tying them to...
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Capital (Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy)Perhaps one of the most consequential works of all time, "Capital" is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, Marx would only see the...
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Democracy in America (Volumes 1 and 2, Unabridged) [Translated by Henry Reeve with an Introduction by John Bigelow]In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over...
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind"The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are gathered...
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The Other Side of the Story: King of Kings Mohammad Reza Pahlavi IAuthor: Ahmad Kasvravi TabriziPublisher: Booksurge PublishingPublished: 09/07/2006Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9781419643415This title is not returnable
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our SecurityThe urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading--and why we should be concerned: "A brisk, disturbing account" (Kirkus Reviews). Thirty years ago there were no private military and security...
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DamagesDamages is the riveting true story of one family's legal struggles in the world of medicine. At the urging of a friend, the Sabias filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Humes and Norwalk Hospital. Barry Werth takes us through the seven-year lawsuit, allowing...
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How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War IIIIn this startling book, now in paperback, the bestselling author of Explaining Hitler warns that a nuclear World War III is not only the most massive and imminent threat to existence as we know it, but also one of the most ignored. While Russian...
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The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist PowerFor twenty-six years, Iran has waged an international terrorist war while the intelligence services of the West, led by Mossad and the CIA, have waged a relentless, mostly clandestine counter-jihad in return. Though Iran has become a quietly looming threat, little has been revealed...
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Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's EnemiesNow in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Galbraith's timely book describes the storm of unintended consequences President Barack Obama has inherited in the Middle East as a result of the war in Iraq.Called byNew York Timescolumnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating"...
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War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war in his fourth book on President George W. Bush. The War Within provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who...
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A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights RevolutionFifty years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order desegregating the city's Central High School, a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that places Ike and his civil rights policies...
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Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political JourneysPolitical vicissitudes aside, with or without a conservative administration, whether or not America is engaged in war, or regardless of who next holds the majority either in Congress or the Court, the United States as a whole (as the infamous red and blue map...
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Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always FullCertain to excite and inspire both students entering the human services field and seasoned non-profit professionals, Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always Full is the first full-length leadership book to focus on the unique challenges of the...
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Religious Pluralism and Civil SocietyOrganized into three major topics, the articles in this volume delve into this urgent topic of our day and offer valuable insights in the following areas: I. Broad Perspectives - Providing a solid foundation, this opening section lays the groundwork for clarifying this complex...
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The Handbook of Social PolicyThe Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The...
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Ideology and PoliticsThis book challenges the idea of post-ideological consensus and offers a fresh perspective on the current state of political ideologies. Ideology and Politics presents an accessible account of a new era of ideological politics, where the dominant neo-liberalism has spawned a diverse global range...
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