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Economic Report on Africa 2021: Addressing Poverty and Vulnerability in Africa During the Covid-19 PandemicThe report applies a poverty-vulnerability-resilience framework to examine the impact of COVID-19 on household well-being in Africa. The report emphasizes the dynamic nature of poverty since some of the poor are not poor all the time, though they are often vulnerable because of exposure...
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The Story of RussiaFrom the great storyteller of Russian history, a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia's identity and politics from its foundingWho were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing...
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The Story of RussiaFrom the great storyteller of Russian history, a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia's identity and politics from its foundingWho were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing...
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A Convention of States: How to Win the Battle Between the Commons and the AristocracyMy aim in writing this book was for the purpose of reminding Americans that we the people are and always were intended to be sovereign over the elected government. Popular sovereignty was asserted as the founding principle of our beloved United States of America....
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#You Know You're Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday AntiblacknessA groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France. What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You're Black in France When... responds to that question. Under the banner of universalism, France...
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Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board GamesA striking analysis of popular board games' roots in imperialist reasoning--and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic...
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Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations (Second Edition) [16 Pt Large Print Edition]Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of thingsmoney and corporationsmatter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre...
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Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational ConnectionsBorn out of a fundamental tension between the old-fashioned and inadequate Qajar monarchy of Mozaffar al-Din Sah and Mohammad Ali Shah, and new reformist democratic ideals, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 represents a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Iran. The collapse...
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The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed ConflictThe book serves as a companion to three other volumes published by Cambridge University Press, dealing respectively with the jus ad bellum, the law of belligerent occupation, and non-international armed conflicts. It is devoted to the core of the jus in bello - that...
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Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging Along Kashmir's FrontierHow do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Freedom in Captivity...
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Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem: Annotated in the AI Lab at NimbleBooks.comThis report was first issued in August 2020 by Mike Pompeo's State Department. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it became even more relevant. The report is provided here with the addition of eight pages of analysis carried out by the...
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Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and Turkey: Rethinking Conflict ResolutionThis book challenges the notion of 'conflict resolution' in the Northern Irish and Turkish-Kurdish peace processes, both far-reaching ethno-nationalist conflicts in the post-Cold War era. Incorporating fieldwork carried out until 2015, İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu compares these conflicts during major peace attempts, from early secret...
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became DespotismAmericans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movements they represent and weighs their consequences for the American republic.Each of the three movements rejected...
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The Prisons Memory Archive: a Case Study in Filmed Memory of ConflictThe Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) explores ways that narratives of a conflicted past are filmed at the site of the experiences and later negotiated in a contested present in the North of Ireland. Given the state's failed attempts at establishing an official process for...
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The Virus and the Host: Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic IllnessThere will almost certainly be more pandemics in our future. Yet, during the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public-health official took the simple step of telling Americans what we all need to hear: robust good health?healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and...
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License to Loot: How Racial Injustice, Able-bodied Americans, Illegal Immigration, and the Opioid Epidemic Split AmericaLicense to Loot is a full of fire and fury look at America's problems and how we begin to solve them. It unapologetically examines illegal immigration, opioid misuse, controversial vaccinations, and ethnic prejudice.This book is about helping low-waged employed folks do their best to...
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Regulatory Governance: Policy Making, Legislative Drafting and Law ReformThis book describes how governments formulate policies, draft legislation, and manage stocks of legislation and how approaches to these tasks are converging. That convergence has developed over 30 years through the work by the OECD in its studies on regulatory reform and the work...
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Arms Control and Europe: New Challenges and Prospects for Strategic StabilityThis book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture. Against the background of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, international experts discuss topics and critical issues such as the revanchist strategy of Russia and the readiness of...
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The Us-China-Russia Triangle: An Evolving HistoriographyThis book analyses international relations between the USA, China, and Russia and provides an overview of how the US-China-Russia triangle has evolved over time. Based on a forensic examination of primary documentation from US archives, the author illustrates how the US strategic perspectives on...
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Croire au Cameroun et Construire son Avenir: Réflexions Inspiratrices pour un Changement de PolitiqueLe Cameroun est souvent considéré com-me un pays modèle pour la stabilité et la continuité politique en Afrique. Cependant, il est également confronté à de nombreux problèmes culturels, économiques, politiques et sociaux difficiles à surmonter. Ce volume exprime l'opinion personnelle d'un intellectuel. Il propose...
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