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The Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of...
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Congress from the Inside: Observations from the Majority and the Minority"While the larger story is well handled, it's the details that make this so readable. Not for political junkies alone, but for anyone who enjoys good writing and a good story."--Kirkus Reviews "With good humor and a light touch, Brown, at times, gently pokes...
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The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still CanA clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change."An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be."--Naomi Klein,...
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Occupy the Economy: Challenging CapitalismToday's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make...
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Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold StoryDespite official declarations, the war in Afghanistan is far from over; in fact, it's escalating. Seven years after 9/11, the Taliban continue to regroup, attack and claim influence over most of the region. This book presents a fresh, comprehensive analysis of Afghanistan's political history...
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Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global ApartheidA compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly...
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000sThe economic boom of the 1990s veiled a grim reality: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, the gap between good and bad quality jobs was also expanding. The postwar prosperity of the mid-twentieth century had enabled millions of American workers...
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The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) about Race at WorkSince the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the "color blind" approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and insists that people should be understood as individuals, not as members of racial or cultural groups. This...
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DistrustIf trust is sometimes the rational response in interpersonal relations, then it can also be rational to distrust. Indeed, distrust is the preferred response when it protects against harm--as when parents do not entrust the safety of their child to a disreputable caretaker. Liberal...
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Power and Society in Greater NYWho has ruled New York? Has power become more concentrated--or more widely and democratically dispersed--in American cities over the past one hundred years? How did New York come to have its modern physical and institutional shape? Focusing on the period when New York City...
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Public PersonsThis set of brief pieces examines the relation of power to knowledge. Lippmann paid little homage to the innate wisdom of the people. While he had no wish to disenfranchise citizens, he believed elites drove the engines of power. His point was that liberty...
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A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and PoliciesA Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy.A Prosperous Way Down...
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Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker VoiceAmerican society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded--in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth....
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Sagebrush Collaboration: How Harney County Defeated the Takeover of the Malheur Wildlife RefugeEvery American is co-owner of the most magnificent estate in the world--federal public forests, grazing lands, monuments, national parks, wildlife refuges, and other public places. The writer Wallace Stegner famously referred to public lands as "America's best idea," but there have always been some...
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Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism, and the use of historyIn this collection of essays, Enzo Traverso examines the relationships between anti-Semitism, modernity and the Holocaust. The different parts of the book analyse multiple dimensions of the destruction of the European Jews, debates over historical memory and left-wing debates on the nature of anti-Semitism.Inspired...
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Greece 2015: There was an alternative2015 was a landmark in the history of Greece, Europe and the Left. This book can be used as a guide for readers who are not ready to content themselves either with the mainstream narrative, or with former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis's version in...
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Managing Global Issues: Lessons LearnedGlobalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts, examines the...
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The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in RetrospectThe importance of [the 1913] report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today. . . to reveal to people of this age how much of today's problem has deep roots and how much does not....
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Commentary on Filangieri's WorkCommentary on Filangieri's Work addresses the principal political and social questions that Benjamin Constant, one of the most important liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century, ever discussed. This translation will help give the work its deserved importance in political theory. Commentary is founded on...
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Competition, Economic Planning, and the Knowledge ProblemNo other economist in recent times has been so closely identified with the Austrian School of economics as Israel M. Kirzner, professor emeritus of economics at New York University. A leader of the generation of Austrian economists after Ludwig von Mises and F. A....
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