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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer SpaceThe radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space colonies, privatising the moon's resources...
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Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in BoliviaIn three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after protests against his...
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany"Evocative. . . . Epic. . . . Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see the irrational as an integral part of modernity." --Boston Review...
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After Trump: Reconstructing the PresidencyIn After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era.In fourteen chapters they offer more than fifty concrete proposals concerning presidential conflicts of interest, foreign influence on elections, pardon power...
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The U.S.-Mexican Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical PerspectiveThis comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history of the region and traces the economic...
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The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working ClassWhat does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affects culture and our mental health and what we can do about it -- calling not for assimilation, but for annihilation. To be working-class in a middle-class...
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A Global Security System: An Alternative to WarResting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World BEYOND War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our...
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A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental LawWhat would America's Constitutions have looked like if each generation wrote its own? "The earth belongs...to the living, the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." These famous words, written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, reflect Jefferson's lifelong belief that each generation...
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Value(s): Building a Better World for AllA bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need to maximize value for the many, not few.As an economist and former banker, Mark Carney has spent his life in various financial roles, in both the...
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Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and NeedOur Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse...
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Arthashastra: a treatise on the art of governmentWritten in the 4th century before Christ by Kautilya, also known as Chanakya, The Arthashastra is one of the earliest works of political realism to have been written, along with Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince. It is considered as...
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Civil DisobedienceThe Book that Transformed America Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an argument for disobedience to an unjust state by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 and continues to transform American discourse even today. It was Thoreau's first...
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The Case for DegrowthThe relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead...
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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to WarA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER - A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II "An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects...
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Happy Half-Hours: Selected WritingsA delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne's brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight. A. A. Milne was a...
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Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive CareRich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a...
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book...
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The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World--But Lost Her Way"The gravamen of The American Way of Empire is that American power depends upon a strong social contract between economic elites and the general population. We will be unable to meet the strategic challenges of the twenty-first century-China foremost among them-unless we repair that...
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Rat U Bosni I Hercegovini: Kako Je Genocid Nagraen I Osnovana Republika SrpskaBoston, 5. novembra 1995 Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini je neuvena tragedija. Pred oima cijelog svijeta unitava se drava, a narod (stanovnitvo) nacije trpi genocid i etniko ienje. Sva naela humanosti, morala i meunarodnih pravila su pokoena. Najee se postavlja pitanje kako bi se...
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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer.The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US...
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