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Public Corruption in the United States: Analysis of a Destructive PhenomenonPublic Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact. It is the first book of its kind to examine in plain language the breadth of criminal public corruption in...
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Sites of Genocide"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world's leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and...
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Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1880 to the PresentTerrorism is a persistent form of political violence, but it appears intermittently, afflicting certain places in certain eras while others remain unscathed. Since the late nineteenth century, it has risen and fallen in recurrent generation-long spasms in which hundreds of short-lived groups wreak havoc....
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Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided SocietiesNeuroscience research has raised a troubling possibility: Could the tendency to stigmatize others be innate? Some evidence suggests that the brain is prone to in-group and out-group classifications, with consequences from ordinary blind spots to full-scale dehumanization. Many are inclined to reject the argument...
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Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS...
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The Failure of American Conservatism: --And the Road Not TakenA natural outsider to the American political realm, Ryn puts forth a perspective that major conservative voices and think tanks often ignore, and analyzes where American post-World-War II intellectual Conservatism succeeds, why it struggles, and how the movement has evolved from its original roots...
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Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli WarA major new reading of the 1973 war in the Middle East, an act of Israeli hubris that planted the seeds of the current crisis In this book, first published in Hebrew in 1975 and now available in English for the first time with...
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Unfuck America: A Respectful, Open-Minded ConversationAmerica has its head wedged up so deep, we're looking at tonsils. What are you doing about it? If you're like most people, you're caught somewhere between a frustrated, partisan echo chamber and a finger-pointing media so afraid of being canceled that it's not...
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The Multiethnic Soviet Union and Its DemiseThis book is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. It reflects on how the Soviet Union was home to many ethnic minorities, and how their fates, and that of the USSR...
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Canada and China: A Fifty-Year JourneyPresenting a thorough record of Canada's diplomatic ties with China, Canada and China recounts ten stories regarding China policy decisions made by the Canadian government. These decisions describe key bilateral moves, beginning with Pierre Trudeau and recognition in 1970, and ending fifty years later...
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First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak IdentityFirst Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two...
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The Principles of CommunismPrinciples of Communism (German: Grundsätze des Kommunismus) is a brief 1847 work written by Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of Marxism. It is structured as a catechism, containing 25 questions about communism for which answers are provided. In the text, Engels presents core ideas of...
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Hidden History of PrescottPrescott, known as the First Capital of Arizona Territory, has a history rife with colorful characters and notable events. The growing town included members of the Yavapai Tribe, early inhabitants whose reservation was established in 1935, and Chinese immigrants, who were rumored to have...
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Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of SegregationA behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in "River City," a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly whiteneighborhoods provided responsive service and...
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Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional ApproachesAn interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violence Despite the growing interest in the subject of gender violence, surprisingly little has been written in recent years about the methodology behind this emerging field of research. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to fill...
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Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative ResearchFairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. The book develops concrete guidelines for conducting inference to best explanation given incomplete information; no previous exposure to Bayesian...
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The Olive Branch from Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current ImpasseThe Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about...
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The Constitution, Citizenship, and Immigration in American History, 1790 to 2000Author: Kunal M. ParkerPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.58w x 0.17dISBN: 9780872291997About the AuthorKunal M. Parker is professor of law and dean's distinguished scholar at the University of Miami School of Law. Please address all correspondence to kparker@law.miami.edu. He...
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Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic: Updated and RevisedThe only close analysis of our pandemic year revealing how the confluence of key government missteps, behind-the-scenes deal brokering, staggering dismissal of decades of scientific progress, conspiracy theories, and further malfeasance were behind hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. "A fast-paced narrative that captures...
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General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of JusticeThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of an often neglected, misunderstood and maligned source of international law. Article 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice sets out that the Court will apply the 'general principles of law recognized by civilized nations'....
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