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Spear: Mandela and the RevolutionariesA revelatory and definitive account of how Nelson Mandela and his peers led South Africa to the brink of revolution against the postwar twentieth century's most infamously racist regime.Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries brings to life the brief revolutionary period in which Nelson Mandela...
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Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and DemocracyHow to restore ethics, the rule of law, and democracy as the centerpieces of U.S. governmentU.S. government has been repeatedly renewed--sometimes simply repaired and other times reinvented--during its over 230 years. Major aspects of the federal system were broken again during the four years...
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Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and CagesABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition.Connecting movements for social justice with ideas for how activists can support and build on this...
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Rosa's BusSet in the present day, Rosa's Bus tells the story of an old man and his young nephew visiting the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. Rosa Parks, now a respected civil rights activist, was travelling to work in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, when...
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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the CityRethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public...
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The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AIAI is revolutionizing the world. Here's how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous--in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors...
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Policing the City: An Ethno-GraphicAdapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from tragic episodes that make the...
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Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured IgnoranceHenry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and conservative-based technologies, is partly responsible for...
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Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, ProgressiveIn this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows,...
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The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free MarketsA Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year "Superbly argued and important...Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his...
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Fast Track: American Government: Essential Review for Ap, Honors, and Other Advanced StudyGET UP TO SPEED WITH FAST TRACK: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT! Covering the most important material taught in high school government classes, this essential review book gets readers on the fast track to class success, with critical information presented in an easy-to-follow quick-study format! Inside this...
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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States NationhoodA Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten.--Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story...
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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 Egyptian 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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Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks and a RantBrooke Williams walked twice into Southern Utah's Mary Jane Wilderness: at the beginning of the Trump presidency, perhaps the most tumultuous and destructive in American History, and four-years later at its end. In Mary Jane Wild Brooke wanders into this magical place looking for...
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Propaganda: A Master Spin Doctor Convinces the World That Dogsh*t Tastes Better Than CandyEdward Bernays was a member of this massive Jesuit machine. His uncle, Sigmund Freud, was a master Jesuit manipulator who influenced Bernays in countless ways. Freud was thought to have brought out and fully developed the narcissist in Bernays, who was known to all...
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Gene Sharp: How to Start a Revolution: How to Start a RevolutionGene Sharp is the world's most celebrated expert in nonviolent revolution. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times, his guidebook for revolutionaries has been translated into more than 40 languages, slipped across borders and hidden from secret policemen all over the world. For...
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God's Chaos CodeThe Ancient Prophetic Code That Reveals The Future Of America And What Is Next For The Nations Of The Earth Chaos is escalating in the world around us; as riots erupt in major cities, liberties are stripped away in the name of public safety,...
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Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19: Volume 19A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law...
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Indigenous Australia For DummiesA comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the...
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Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on...
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