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Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of TrumpIn this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization's new discontents in the United States and Europe. Immediately upon publication, Globalization and Its Discontents became a touchstone in the globalization debate by...
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American StateProhibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion...
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Inventing Human Rights: A HistoryHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture...
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the...
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in AppalachiaIn a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced...
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The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean NationThe Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen,...
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Capitalism: A Very Short IntroductionWhat is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word "capitalism" is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as, "what...
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Ukraine and the Art of StrategyThe Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine and economic sanctions imposed by the West, transformed European politics. These events marked a dramatic shift away from the optimism of the post-Cold War era. The conflict did not escalate to the...
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Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the WorldTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick"Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental...
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Crushed: Big Tech's War on Free Speech with a Foreword by Senator Ted CruzAMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK"No one--conservative or liberal--should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself." -- Senator Ted CruzWhen the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution, they had no idea there...
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The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan...
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Ukweli: The Search for Healing TruthUkweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it. The personal accounts and insights from forty-five writers and poets will educate...
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller"As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef 's bookstore--the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failure and success are often lovers, the relationship between neighborhoods and...
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WhitenessThe socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness, tracing its creation,...
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A Brief History of Fascist Lies"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why...
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Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern AfghanistanA new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and...
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against IsisFrom the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS. The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence...
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I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White HouseINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)." -- Laura Miller, Slate"Salacious and score-settling." --The Guardian"Part giddy travelogue, part...
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The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and ModerationIn his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena. "A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action." --Victor Davis HansonIn The Statesman as Thinker,...
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Nkrumah and the Ghana RevolutionIn this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958,...
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