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A New Embassy Along an Ancient Route in UzbekistanWhen the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the United States was tasked with establishing diplomatic relations with the newly independent successor republics and creating an embassy in each new capital. In this book, the first U.S. ambassador to Tashkent, Henry Clarke, explains the logistical...
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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the RepublicAn acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court's increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law--all behind closed doors The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded...
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PoliticsThe fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline's foundational concepts and...
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America"An extraordinary history...Deeply researched, elegantly written...a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten."--Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review"[This] epic, meticulously detailed account not only reminds its readers that newspapers matter, but so do black lives, past and present."--USA TodayGiving voice to the...
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Toward a U.S.-Japan Technology Alliance: Competition and Innovation in New DomainsAs economic strategy and national security become increasingly intertwined, Japan and the United States are aligned on the importance of protecting critical and emerging technologies to manage strategic competition with China. As the technology policy debate advances rapidly in both countries, there is great...
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How Trump and the Christian Right Saved Lgbti Human Rights: A Religious Freedom MysteryDuring the Obama administration, Christian conservatives insisted that securing human rights for LGBTI people abroad diminished human rights protections for people of faith. During the 2016 presidential election, the Christian right backed Donald Trump and demanded an end to sexual orientation and gender identity...
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The Intelligence War in Britain: Public Perceptions of the UK Intelligence Agencies, Foreign Espionage, the Tory Party and its Response to the SalisbuThe sound and cry of foreign espionage has reverberated in British newspapers for years while the British domestic intelligence agency (MI5) abruptly warned that Chinese intelligence agents were making things worse when they were introduced to parliamentarians in Britain. The MI5 said that a...
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Land is a Big DealLand and the policies that govern it hold an incredible but largely forgotten power over our lives. When land is wasted and squandered, we get sky-high rents, oppressed workers, ruined businesses, depleted natural resources, a polluted earth, and an impoverished society. Poor land policy...
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Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab CapitalismAuthor: Steffen HertogPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/19/2023Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781009045575
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Spying with Little Eye: Complexity of Intelligence Challenges in Europe, and the UK, Interference of Russian, Chinese and Iranian IntelligenceAuthor: Musa Khan JalalzaiPublisher: Vij Books IndiaPublished: 02/28/2023Pages: 234Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9789395675383This title is not returnable
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American CitiesSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control...
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The Enemy of Europe/The Enemy of Our EnemiesThis sequel to Yockey's IMPERIUM shows that all wars are related to politics and the aim of politics is to obtain power. Who were the 'real' winners and losers of the World Wars and who is the enemy of Europe? Includes Revilo P. Oliver's...
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Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National ParkNorth Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service's policy favoring...
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Selections from Three Works: A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver; A Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith; A Work on the Three TheologicaFrancisco Su rez (1548-1617) was the greatest metaphysician and moral theorist of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholasticism. Su rez is of particular importance as a theorist of natural law and of rights, for his work combines expertise in moral theory with a mastery of civil...
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Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and DevelopmentA revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America. It is a quiet revolution, largely unnoticed in society at large. But it is profoundly important. From the High Plains states and Prairie Provinces to the southwestern deserts, from Mississippi and Oklahoma to...
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1920: The Year of the Six PresidentsThe presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women...
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Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the WorldCreating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deep-rooted crisis of violence and our feelings of helplessness, victimization, and fear. As a...
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Bad Land: An American RomanceA New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the YearWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers AwardWinner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty...
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's MenRead the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this "captivating book rooted in first-rate research" (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time,...
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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books,...
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