Political Science
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The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America's Presidential TransitionsAuthor: David Marchick, Alexander Tippett, A. J. WilsonPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/11/2022Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.94dISBN: 9780813947761Review Citation(s): Library Journal 12/02/2022 pg. 1
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How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical GuideFrom politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert. In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone who has a different opinion. Whether you're...
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In the Lion's Den: Israel and the WorldIsraeli statesman and former UN Ambassador, Danny Danon, presents a compelling vision of Israel's future as a major player on the global stage. In the Lion's Den is a book about the life events that encouraged Danny Danon to pursue his chosen career path...
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The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the Cia's Most Controversial Covert ProgramSome argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA's enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the full...
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Globalization: A Very Short IntroductionWe live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social...
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The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American WestAuthor: Robert ChaneyPublisher: University of Washington PressPublished: 05/24/2022Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80dISBN: 9780295750972
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Nobody Left BehindA collection of poetry, prose and non-fiction inspired by the cost-of-living crisis. Edited by Amanda Nicholson with writing by over 30 poets and authors from around the UK. This anthology was produced to raise awareness of the experiences you rarely see in the mainstream...
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Plato: 'The Republic'This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, this edition is suitable for students at all levels. It contains an introduction that assesses...
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German EmpireIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918--which inspired events that forever changed the European continent--here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany...
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And How Are the Children?: Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of MotherhoodEmmy-winning journalist, congresswoman, and the first single American to adopt internationally, Marjorie Margolies masterfully blends her personal narrative with national history and politics in this call-to-action memoir. Filled with the wisdom Marjorie Margolies gained as an athlete, educator, TV reporter, congressperson, world traveler, adoption...
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Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender IdentityWhat the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people...
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The South: Jim Crow and Its AfterlivesA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a...
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Delusion and Mass Delusion2021 Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Meerloo's best-known book is Rape of the Mind, published in 1956. The book received wide attention in part because it dealt with totalitarian applications of...
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It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other storiesIn It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime. Make no mistake...
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy FutureA revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for...
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to ModernSettlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an...
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Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme CourtThe gripping story of the Supreme Court's transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning law columnist for The...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-EsteemWorld-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day.Why do so many African-Americans--whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young...
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Human Rights: A Very Short IntroductionToday it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This...
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Relentless: A Gold Star Father's Pursuit of TruthRelentless: A Gold Star Father's Pursuit of Truth of Extortion 17 Charles's son, Michael Strange, was a top cryptologist and SEAL Team 6 member on the Osama Bin Laden raid in 2011. Three months later on August 6, 2011, Michael was killed in Afghanistan...
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