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Los Hombres de PutinLIBRO DEL AÑO PARA THE ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES Y THE TELEGRAPH. Un portentoso ejemplo del mejor periodismo de investigaciónTras una impresionante labor de investigación, Catherine Belton desvela la historia inédita de cómo Vladimir Putin y su círculo íntimo, formado principalmente por miembros del KGB,...
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The Ethics of Urban Warfare: City and WarThis volume addresses key ethical issues and challenges of modern urban warfare through ten chapters written by acclaimed experts from eight different countries and three continents. The foreword to the volume was written by Gen. (ret) Mart de Kruif, while Professor Hugo Slim wrote...
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The Commercial Determinants of HealthAn accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us--by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector...
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Back from Dystopia: A New Vision for Western CitiesCities throughout the West face rising crime, soaring housingcosts, a sprawling homelessness crisis and devastateddowntown areas following two years of COVID restrictions andthe aftermath of destructive protests. Policymakers typicallyaddress these and other urban problems in a piecemealfashion. They fail to understand what makes great...
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Visiting the FirehouseWhen there's an emergency, firefighters are some of the first on the scene to make sure buildings and people in them are safe. But where do they come from so quickly? The firehouse! Most communities have firehouses that are easy to find and able...
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The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist CosmopolitanismThe Dialectics of Global Justice uses a novel application of negative dialectical interpretation to offer an immanent and ethical critique of prominent theories of global justice (i.e., cosmopolitanism), including how these theories manifest in political movements and policy agendas. Drawing on the work of...
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Inside Texas Politics 4th EditionAuthor: RottinghausPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 01/19/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780197672419
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Modeling and Measuring the Effects of Economic Shocks on a Defense Industrial BaseThe purpose of this report is to assist Department of Defense decisionmakers called upon to respond to adverse economic shocks by identifying opportunities for improving analysis of shocks and their effects on U.S. defense postures. The authors examined historical and hypothetical instances in which...
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Crossing Borders: The Making of an American Asian SpecialistGarver's memoir traces his evolution from a 1960s Student for a Democratic Society radical committed to socialist revolution to an American patriot trying to understand and explain China's quest for wealth and power. Several years early encounter with variants of dictatorship in the USSR...
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Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory ResearchIn an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book explores whether and how it is possible to use arts-based methods for creating more horizontal and democratic research practices.In discussing both the...
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A Pea River Progeny: Alabama's Colorful and Controversial Governor James E. Big Jim Folsom"A Pea River Progeny: Alabama's Colorful and Controversial Governor James E. "Big Jim" Folsom chronicles the life of a 20th century Deep South politician who left behind a memorable legacy. A Populist who appealed to the common folks, Folsom directly bypassed the state's powerful,...
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The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific WarThe Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on...
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When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century AfricaIn the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not...
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Nationalism, and Socialism Is Destroying American DemocracyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface "Epic and debate-shifting."--David Brooks, New...
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Дыхание жизниКнига Дыхание жизни - это рассказ о геноциде русских против чеченского народа. С XVI века Россия целенаправленно уничтожает чеченский народ варварскими, бесчеловечными методами. Кровожадная Россия неоднократно совершала геноцид против чеченского народа и за это время; уничтожил более миллиона чеченцев.Сегодня кремлевские кровопийцы и убийцы продолжают...
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The Truth and Reconciliation CommissionIn 1995, South Africa's new government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a lynchpin of the country's journey forward from apartheid. In contrast to the Nuremberg Trials and other retributive responses to atrocities, the TRC's emphasis on reconciliation marked a restorative approach to...
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Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East BeganFind out about the 1958 U.S. intervention that succeeded and apply those lessons to today's conflicts in the Middle EastIn July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by vendors and sunbathers. Fortunately, the rest of...
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Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or SAn urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers--anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the world Blueprint for Revolution will teach you how to - make oppression backfire by playing your opponents' strongest card against...
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern WorldThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative...
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Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral OrganizingA collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today's Poor People's Campaign The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called "the closest person we have to...
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