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Seeing the Unseen: Beyond Prejudices, Paradigms, and Party LinesA bishop and gun safety activist offers a way forward from opposing viewpoints.Instead of dismissing those whose views and experiences are different from our own, the author argues that we must look directly at them and see the goodness that is inherent in all...
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Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy FutureAn atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy "Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of climate change is solvable. Fixing the gridlock on global action requires fixing the gridlock here in...
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Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come."-Global Trends 2040 (2021)Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence...
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Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernityNo doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for...
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to TrumpA concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye,...
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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short IntroductionThinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn...
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This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to CongresswomanNamed a Best Political Book of the Year by The Atlantic"This Is What America Looks Like is the origin story of a leader who, finding no set path that would take a person like her to the places she wanted to go, was forced,...
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Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It MattersA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Fortune Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal...
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The Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & RevolutionSelected writings--speeches, essays, and letters--by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara. Widely revered as a true revolutionary, this collection of writings from Ernesto Che Guevara highlight his principled politics and praxis in the fight against capitalism...
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The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United StatesIn The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of realism, a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a...
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Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change ItIn Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts. Judge Cordell, the first...
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in PoliticsA compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy.Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals...
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Public Waters: Lessons from Wyoming for the American WestWinner of the 2022 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book from Western Writers of AmericaWyoming's colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state's rich history of managing this valuable natural resource...
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The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War ThreatThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA In the late 1970s, the...
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Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggle of an NBA Freedom FighterAs a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against...
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your JobAn exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years...
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Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement"A political combat memoir like no other, suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt takes us to the front lines of the Votes for Women battlefields -- in the states and in Congress -- as American women fight for the franchise. With candor and flashes of...
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The State and Revolution: Lenin's explanation of Communist SocietyWritten at the time of the Russian February 1917 Revolution, before the Bolshevik take-over in October, this is Lenin's tour de force, a rebuttal of the views of Krautsky and other 'opportunists' who had fudged Marx's core teachings for their own political ends.Using quotes...
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Evolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and AffirmationEduard Bernstein, a German politician of the socialist party, sets out his beliefs in peaceful, incremental legislative transition to a socialist planned economy.Writing in 1899, the mature Bernstein had by this time disavowed the earlier doctrines of Marxism which crucially advocated violence in the...
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The PrinceThe Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not...
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