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Aspire to Better: The 21st Century Electric CooperativeHistorian Arthur Schlesinger wrote that "no single public agency ever so enriched the and brighten the quality of rural living" than the creation of the "Rural Electrification Administration." That was in 1935.Seventy-eight years later, Mike Williams, CEO of the Texas Electric Cooperatives asked the...
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Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic ForestBrazil's Atlantic Forest is a paradise to many. In Southern Bahia, surfers, billionaires, travelers, and hippies mingle with environmentalists, family farmers, quilombolas (descendants of formerly enslaved people), and nativos, or "locals." Each of these groups has connections to the unique environment, culture, and character...
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The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in ChinaWhat does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance--performative governance.Iza Ding unpacks the black box...
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Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the WestAn incisive account of Erdoğan's Turkey - showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a...
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Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its SoulInside Hollywood's Descent into Dreary, Dull Leftist Groupthink Hollywood's Dream Factory is now a nightmare of woke restrictions, Identity Politics run amok, and freedom-snuffing rules and regulations. The Oscars are unwatchable, as are many films and television shows thanks to the woke revolution. Virtue...
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Targeted as a Spy: Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist RomaniaAn often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Every Western diplomat stationed in the Soviet bloc was targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in these countries....
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The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power Under the ConstitutionAuthor: Michael W. McConnellPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 02/15/2022Pages: 440Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.10dISBN: 9780691234199
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The Apostate: My Search for TruthThis book takes you on Mark's journey as he tries to prove to himself Islam is the true religion. It shows the horror he feels as he faces the truth. It finally takes you to his greatest discovery, Jesus is love, and Jesus is...
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of AmericaA bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America "Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book. It is a refutation of the...
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Reinventing Human RightsA radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 3"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be."Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features...
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Deterring Unconstitutional Policing: What all cops, civic leaders, and citizens should know for improving police community interactions and reducing cAs punctuated through recent events, societal perceptions are that American policing continues to fail in its mission, to protect and preserve. Whether because of institutionalized prejudices that emphasize an "us versus them" mentality, reinforced through warrior training tactics, or poor recruiting, training, leadership and...
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Slaying LeviathanChristians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents.Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would...
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Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe BidenEnough with the infighting, the truth-denying, the wild conspiracy claims, the looking backward, and the refusal to focus on the dangerous Biden agenda. Here's Chris Christie's urgent guide for recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again, told with all the New Jersey frankness and...
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Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of AmericaBlack Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--namely tobacco, rice,...
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The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy"An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America."--Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Education of an Idealist Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores...
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Gun Violence and the Fight for Public SafetyAmong similar countries, the United States has a unique problem with gun violence. Gun-related deaths and injuries happen at high rates every year. Debates over how to reduce gun violence center around defining Second Amendment rights, different ideas of freedom, and which reforms to...
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The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-PopulismFrom the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important--and misunderstood--movement of our time. Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No...
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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of AmericaThe instant #1 bestseller, now updated with new reporting. "This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump's shambolic tenure in office to date. - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol...
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Free South Africa: The Columbia University Divestment Movement: A Personal Perspective"We were the first university with a significant endowment to resolve to divest its investments in companies doing business in apartheid South Africa." -Michael I. Sovern President Emeritus Columbia University From a backyard basketball court in Compton, California, to the front line of the...
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