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Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth about Voting in America"If you want to celebrate your essential right as a citizen and encourage others to do the same, Thank You for Voting provides an engaging and concise tutorial of what it means to cast your ballot--past, present, and future. Read this book (And be...
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The Republic (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of...
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The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum ThoughtWhile Richard M. Weaver is best known for the classic Ideas Have Consequences, the foundation of his career was this study of his native South. Calling the Southern tradition "the last non-materialist civilization in the Western world," he traced its roots to feudalism, chivalry,...
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the PresentA major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of...
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Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as a self-contained blip that--aside from the horrors of Cherokee Removal (admittedly no...
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Post Corona: From Crisis to OpportunityNew York Times bestseller! Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University's Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned...
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All Societies Die: How to Keep Hope AliveIn All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and...
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American TownA riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up...
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The Third UnconsciousA wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform...
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La Otra Historia de los Estados UnidosEn sta, su m s famosa obra, Howard Zinn nos presenta una perspectiva l cida e imprescindible de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde el primer encuentro entre los ind genas americanos y Crist bal Col n, hasta las aposionadas protestas en contra...
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Cómo Ser Antirracista / How to Be an Antiracist"EL MEJOR LIBRO DEL A O"The New York Times Book Review - Time - NPR - The Washington Post - Shelf Awareness - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews El racismo es, en su esencia, un sistema poderoso que crea falsas jerarqu...
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Policies and Policy Processes of the European UnionThe dynamic and complex system of European Union policymaking is analysed in this new edition of a much-praised textbook. It offers the most integrated understanding of EU policy available. Major approaches to policymaking - including intergovernmentalism, neofunctionalism, supranationalism and critical theory - are presented...
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The Communist ManifestoWith 6 alternate language edition prefaces. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian...
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Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for EveryoneSince the mid-twentieth century, free-market ideology has undermined the economic well-being and social fabric of American life. An unprecedented, extremely effective and largely invisible effort by a small network of billionaires and corporate capitalists has mesmerized Americans with the narrative that the selfish pursuit...
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Tsar Bomba: Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-1962On 30 October 1961, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union) conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed 'Ivan', and known in the West as the 'Tsar Bomba', the RDS-202 hydrogen bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy...
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Syringe Exchange Programs and the Opioid Epidemic: Government and Nonprofit Practices and PoliciesSyringe exchange programs and safe injection services are outside-the-box interventions increasingly being used by governments, nonprofits and citizens to address dire issues percolating in tandem with America's burgeoning opioid epidemic. People who inject drugs (PWID)--almost a million Americans annually--commonly use painkillers such as heroin...
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On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of PlaceWhen are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified...
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AnticorruptionWinning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians.The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this...
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the WestThe untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad: "A compelling rendering of Putin's frightening extensions of power into Europe and the United States" (Associated Press). They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills...
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Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the...
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