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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU CasesTo mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a...
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Worth Dying for: A Navy Seal's Call to a NationIn a fast-paced and action-packed narrative, Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver tackles the questions that have emerged about America's past decade at war--from what makes a hero to why we fight and what it does to us.Heroes are not always the guys who jump...
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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn MonroeThe updated bestselling biography--based on over six hundred interviews--and the inspiration for the Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from Joe DiMaggio...
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The Facilitative Leader in City Hall: Reexamining the Scope and ContributionsTwo forms of local government are prevalent in American cities. The style of leadership found in mayor-council cities draws attention to the mayor and frequently involves power struggles as mayors attempt to assert control over city councils and city staff. However, the leadership of...
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle EastA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian...
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Hans Kelsen's Political RealismThis book is the first work to show this iconic legal philosopher's significance as a progressive political realist. In a lively account of Kelsen's life and political thinking, Robert Schuett introduces him as a political realist and brings his thought on human nature, the...
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Ciudadania Americana 2022 - 2023: Guía de Estudio completa - Toda la historia de EE.UU con las 100 preguntas y respuestas oficiales para pasar el examEL EXAMEN Y LA ENTREVISTA PARA OBTENER LA CIUDADANÍA ESTADOUNIDENSE SERÁN PAN COMIDO CON ESTA GUÍA DE ESTUDIO! Sueñas con convertirse en ciudadano estadounidense? Está nervioso por el examen y la entrevista? Para muchas familias de inmigrantes, convertirse en ciudadanos estadounidenses de pleno derecho,...
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Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005-2010Drawing from his thousands of pages of notes written while serving as Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, John Lawrence has written a narrative documenting his insider perspective from 2005 to 2010. These momentous years included furious political and legislative...
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No Masters But God: Portraits of Anarcho-JudaismThe forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book. Set in the decades surrounding both world wars, No masters but God identifies a loosely connected group of rabbis and traditionalist...
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Diplomatic: A Washington MemoirIn September 2015, Joe Hockey's promising political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal leadership. After felling the Abbott/Hockey government, Turnbull informed Hockey that he would no longer be treasurer of Australia...
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The Real Donkey:: The Collected Political Columns of the Reverend Dr. Robert C. EmersonThe Real Donkey is a collection of political essays written by the Reverend Dr. Robert Carol Emerson from 2001 until 2007 for The York Town Crier, his local weekly independent newspaper in Southeastern Virginia. The essays articulate the need for a more active role...
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China's New Engagement with Taliban and the Wakhan CorridorPakistani Mullah Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid in his recent interview with a local journalist (Quran orders to become terrorists: Maulana Abdul Aziz, SAMVADA-25 August 2021) communicated that the Holy Quran has ordained Muslims to become terrorists against enemies of Allah. His interview generated...
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Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition: Moving Beyond Racial CapitalismBlack Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition deals with three distinct radical orientations: the anarchist movement in Europe and the United States, the Black Radical Tradition, and Black anarchism. Importantly, Black anarchism owes more to the Black Radical Tradition than the European anarchist movement....
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The Price They PayThe Price They Pay will attempt to return to the modern police officer something they have been lacking for a long time - humanity. It will tell the story of the mother and child who lost their husband and father to a hit and...
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the SouthNew York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the...
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America's Constitution: A BiographyIn America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world's great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this "biography" of America's framing document explains not only what the...
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Why We Can't WaitDr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city's streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from...
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A BiographyChristopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the...
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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern PoliticiansA primer on campaigning in ancient Rome that reads like a strategy memo from a modern political consultant How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero,...
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How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim CrowIn 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the...
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