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Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer, and Its AftermathThe student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come...
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Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. PrimacyAt a time when America's dominance abroad was being tested like never before, Taming American Power provided for the first time a "rigorous critique of current U.S. strategy" (Washington Post Book World) from the vantage point of its fiercest opponents. Stephen M. Walt examines...
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All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of EducationIn what John Hope Franklin calls an essential work on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a Brown baby against a vivid pageant of historical characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
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The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to FreedomIran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democracy movement boldly challenges authority, and young Iranians are more interested in moving to America than in chanting "Death to...
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Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-UpWith Ronald Reagan's knowledge and support, the United States attempted to trade arms for hostages held by Iranian terrorists; some of the secret money then funded the guerrilla activities of the Nicaraguan Contras, a counter-revolutionary group that Congress had specifically forbidden the administration to...
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AuthorityA master of the interplay between politics and psychology, Richard Sennett here analyzes the nature, the role, and the faces of authority--authority in personal life, in the public realm, authority as an idea. Why have we become so afraid of authority? What real needs...
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The Pathology of PowerIn this book, a seasoned commentator on world affairs discusses the way power in government becomes enlarged, exploited, and institutionalized--not just as the result of external dangers, real or contrived, but as the result of the way the arms race spills over into and...
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The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the AndesOn May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square....
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Political GamesPolitical Games uses bold visuals and cases from contemporary politics to present forty-nine of the most compelling insights from game theory, illuminating the common logics underlying political problems. Each game is depicted graphically and accompanied by a concise explanation and technical notes. Collectively, these...
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Monetary Vs Fiscal PolicyAuthor: Milton Friedman, Walter W. HellerPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 04/01/1969Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24dISBN: 9780393098471About the AuthorFriedman, Milton: - Milton Friedman was a renowned American economist, longtime professor at the University of Chicago, and recipient of the...
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller The Post-American World pointed to the "rise of the rest"--the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, and others--as the great story of our time, the story that will undoubtedly shape the future of global power. Since its publication, the...
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Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold WarThe subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German...
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California's Utopian ColoniesBehind the commune movement today lies an impulse for a simpler, less harried existence that has its roots deep in American history. During the last hundred years, California has contributed to the Utopian heritage more colonies than any other American state. From varied backgrounds--religious,...
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The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender RightsWhen Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles-historical, sociological, psychological, medical-Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that...
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Home and ExileA rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels. --Chicago Tribune Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the...
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information AgeIndia today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers...
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Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and HavanaFrom America's number one Cuba reporter, PEN award-winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we've all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping...
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The Necessary Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable WorldImagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where "regenerative" commercial buildings - ones that create more energy than they use - are being...
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Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder CountryFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. "A status report on the American Dream that] gets its power from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."--Time...
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The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First CenturyRefuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America's might is fast emerging. It comes not...
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