Political Science
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Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves NothingThe political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure--social, political, legal, and personal--of legalized abortion. Hope in the Ruins of Roe Now...
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The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do about ItA challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world--but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to...
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that...
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Barack Obama SpeechesThis handsome leather-bound volume features 85 of Barack Obama's most influential and impactful speeches--spanning more than a decade from his time in the Senate to his final day in the presidency. Hailed as one of the greatest orators of modern times, former President Barack...
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--And How to Fix ItNew York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read...
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Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember1919 is often recalled as the year of the Winnipeg General Strike, but it was also the year that water from Shoal Lake first flowed in Winnipeg taps. For the Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, construction of the Winnipeg Aqueduct led...
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The China Nexus Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's TyrannyBenedict Rogers, born in London, England, first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools...
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Why Liberalism FailedHas liberalism failed because it has succeeded? "Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."--President Barack Obama "Deneen's book is valuable because it focuses...
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul"Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" --Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
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You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from MyanmarIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, and more, guiding us toward an expansive idea of what it means to be a...
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social MediaYou are being lied to by people who don't even exist.Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an infodemic of...
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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage MovementRestores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L....
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled HitlerHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."--Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A first-rate work of history."--Ben Yagoda, Wall...
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American LifeA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American...
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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and PandemicsA plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee...
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Post-Scarcity AnarchismIn this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a "post-scarcity" era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological...
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It IsMost people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968...
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Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and exploited. She challenges...
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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to PossibilityAn energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"--New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late is the book for anyone who...
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in AmericaOnce home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real--an event that could be more catastrophic...
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