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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban DesignA globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can--and do--make us happier people Charles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has...
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The Inclusion Illusion: How Children with Special Educational Needs Experience Mainstream SchoolsAn examination of contemporary inclusive pedagogy and how it is failing students with special educational needs and disabilities. Inclusion conjures images of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) learning in classes alongside peers in a mainstream school. For pupils in the UK...
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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: Fdr's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal IdealFrom the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon--The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and...
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A Civic Technologist's Practice GuideThis friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. In it, Cyd Harrell outlines the types of projects, partnerships, and people that civic technologists encounter, and the methods they can use to make lasting change. She...
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El Libro de la PolíticaGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas Con un lenguaje claro, El libro de la pol tica ofrece concisas explicaciones que desbrozan la jerga acad mica, esquemas que hacen sencillas las teor as m s complejas e ingeniosas ilustraciones que juegan con nuestra comprensi n de la...
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Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions"Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and...
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Reproductive Justice: An Introduction Volume 1Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger put the lives...
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern WorldA work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the...
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American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience"A moving and timely book that strips away misleading politics to reveal the complexities of real human lives." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A provocative, conversation-sparking exploration of refugee experiences told in their own words, for readers of Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and AmericaNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa" (The Washington Post).What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it...
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The Communist Manifesto: But Tony Hawk Can Keep His StuffPLEASE READ: Widely loathed parody author Dick Cody Heese is responsible for this poorly-conceived spoof of Marx and Engels' "The Communist Manifesto." Written at the Hooters in Saugus, Massachusetts, in the span of 45 minutes, "The Communist Manifesto: But Tony Hawk Can Keep His...
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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair AmericaFrom New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country. "With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a...
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of FascismThe 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year...
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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*** An NPR Book of the Day Picking up where the New York Times bestselling Front Row at the Trump Show left off, this is the explosive look at the aftermath of...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and MoneyThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is Keynes' masterpiece published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought - especially challenging the proposition that a market...
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This Arab Life: A Generation's Journey into SilenceThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation's descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting mire that anticipates the region's present-day chaos. In an unusual twist, the...
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Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a TimeMaine-native Hanley Denning saw poverty and desperation in its ugliest form, and refused to turn a blind eye. A former track star at Bowdoin College, Denning was struck by what she saw at the Guatemalan City dump: garbage pickers competing with vultures for the...
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The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's TechnologiesOne of: CBC's "27 Canadian books we can't wait to read in September" CBC's "60 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for in fall 2022"Toronto Star's "40-plus books we're most looking forward to this season" Is a global pandemic what it took to show...
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Major Works, Volume I - Imperium PressJoseph de Maistre is one of the greatest of all reactionary thinkers, and in this volume, three of his principal works are brought together unabridged.A leading voice defending the traditional order of throne and altar, Maistre distinguished himself as a political commentator in Considerations...
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Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & PrisonsEdited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing. Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices--political prisoners, grassroots organizers,...
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