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The Art of Being RuledWyndham Lewis' scathing critique of modern democracy and mass society, now back in print."The working of the 'democratic' electoral system is of course as follows. A person is trained up stringently to certain opinions; then he is given a vote, called a 'free' and...
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The Probability of Success (Book 3): The China AffairsWritten by #1 best seller Brad GoodIt would seem life has finally settled down for Jack Gold. China is making progress toward opening up economically and providing a path for upward mobility for its citizens. Jack and Jojo are expecting a baby and Jack...
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Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the Fbi's Secret WarsInto the Wild meets Red Notice, The Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest's extraordinary Lost Son unspools the story of Billy Reilly, a young American enlisted by the FBI to develop intelligence, who vanishes during a mysterious trip into Russia's war against Ukraine, leading...
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Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore's Road WarsStop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore's 40-year battle over expressway plans. Meet the unsung heroes, a ragtag band of neighborhood activists, preservationists, and environmentalists who saved Baltimore from its own leadership, thereby protecting Baltimore's historic waterfront communities of Federal Hill, Fell's...
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Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding DilemmaPublisher: Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublished: 12/06/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.80w x 0.30dISBN: 9781558444447
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlThe bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the...
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle EA New York Times Notable Book of 2020 " A] sweeping and authoritative history (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of...
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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid BusinessEach year some sixty billion dollars are spent on foreign aid throughout the world. Whether in donations to charities such as Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE, UNICEF, or the Red Cross, in the form of enormous loans from the World Bank, or as direct...
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest CivilizationA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the...
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Law, Liberty, and MoralityThis incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, a subject of particular interest and importance since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. Professor Hart first considers John Stuart Mill's famous declaration: "The...
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Everyone Counts: Could Participatory Budgeting Change Democracy?The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes "participatory...
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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in RwandaAn incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994...
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The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, JeopardyWith engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. Hirschman draws his examples from...
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The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World EconomyIn this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the importance of the nation-state, arguing forcefully that when the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the international demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence. Combining history...
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is...
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Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of PowerThis is the only expos of one of the world's most secretive and feared organizations: Yale University's nearly 200-year-old secret society, Skull and Bones. Through society documents and interviews with dozens of members, Robbins explains why this old-boy product of another time still thrives...
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Politics in China: An Introduction, Third EditionOn October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous seven decades it has been! During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China has been...
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Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny*As heard on NPR's All Things Considered* "Utterly original." --The New York Times Book Review "Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it." --Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling...
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Populism and the Future of the FedPopulism and the Future of the Fed features highly readable essays that provide a broad perspective on core issues-including the populist challenge to Fed independence, fiscal dominance and the return of inflation, the limits of Fed power versus the expansion of its dual mandate,...
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Life After Progress: Technology, Community and the New EconomyFrom a renowned pioneer of the localization movement, an anthology of essays challenging the narrative that technological progress and an increasingly globalized economy will lead us to a better world This collection of essays has been selected from 30 years of published articles, book...
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