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African Americans in SpringfieldSpringfield became the capital of Illinois due in large part to Abraham Lincoln--lawyer, politician, and president. Lincoln lived in Springfield from 1837 to 1861, and during the decade after his departure, the African American population in the city quadrupled. Although Springfield was dominated by...
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Crossed Off the Map: Travels in BoliviaBlending travel writing, history and reportage, Crossed off the Map: Travels in Bolivia journeys from the Andes to the Amazon to explore Bolivia's turbulent past and contemporary challenges. It tells the story of the country's profound and unexpected influence on the wider world over...
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NON-TRUTH, MORAL NIHILISM, and JACOBIN CYNICISM: Western Civilization's Descent as Reflected in the Tenures of the 44th and 45th US Presidents, and thAmerica, the powerful lead nation of the occidental world, is in trouble. Her society is deeply divided as moral and intellectual confusion sweep across the country, engulfing politics, media, academia, and the arts. Micewski confirms this premise in his compelling analysis of the tenures...
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Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal EducationLiberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology,...
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Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical HopeThe importance of telling new climate stories--stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope. "How dare you?" asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019. How dare the world's leaders fiddle around the edges...
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Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless RevolutionAn engaging, in-depth account of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution through the eyes of its youth leadersJanuary 25, 2011 was a watershed moment for Egypt and a transformative experience for the young men and women who changed the course of their nation's history. Tahrir's Youth...
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The History of Russia: From the Mongol Invasion to the Fall of the Soviet EmpireA fascinating, lively, and wide-ranging history of Russia, from the Mongol invasions to the present day. From monarchy to the world's first socialist state, from communism to capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe's new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the...
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All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid CrisisAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat...
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The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella FrazierMartin Luther King used news cameras as a means of exposing anti-Black violence by white mobs in the 1950s and 60s. Darnella Frazier used her phone to record and post the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin in May 2020. These are just...
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Social Security Made Simple: Social Security Retirement Benefits and Related Planning Topics Explained in 100 Pages or LessFind all of the following, explained in plain-English: How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security How to decide...
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Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social JusticeScience, not politics, can take us beyond the hype and headlines to forge a realistic green new deal.Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly debated, often using partisan characterizations that critique it as...
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Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of BipartisanshipIf greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive interviews. This is the dramatic story of a conservative champion who shaped modern America--by...
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of CapitalismLegendary economist, investor, tech philosopher, and public treasure George Gilder argues that a hard-driving culture of entrepreneurial ideas is now in conflict with a growing mindset of government regulation combined with a total surrender of the individual imagination. The winner of this battle may...
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Democracy's Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It MattersDemocracy's Meanings challenges conventional wisdom regarding how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and more than 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation....
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Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign PolicyFreedom of press is a cornerstone of our democratic political system. But reporters, pundits, and editors face intense pressure to serve as propagandists rather than journalists in their coverage of U.S. foreign policy. Too many members of the news media seem unable to make...
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King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.In King's Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King's vocal timbre, Wallace shows how...
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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the BombAtomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest...
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Making Space: Women and the Manmade EnvironmentTimely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architectureMaking Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have a...
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Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind"In terrifying detail, Unholy illustrates how a vast network of white Christian nationalists plotted the authoritarian takeover of the American democratic system. There is no more timely book than this one."--Janet Reitman, author of Inside Scientology Why did so many evangelicals turn out to...
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The Way Things Ought to Be#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with "talent on loan from God" entertained, provoked, and persuaded...
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