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Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global RightVisualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China,...
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Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in HoustonSince World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis--and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways,...
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Dear Leader: My Escape from North KoreaTHE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions...
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Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous IdeasThe most controversial essays from the bestselling author once called the most dangerous man in America--collected for the first time.The nation's most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler,...
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Chinese Intelligence OperationsPlease note this book was written in 1994. From Publishers Weekly: Written by a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, this is a straightforward examination of the structure, operations and methodology of the intelligence services of the People's Republic of China. Eftimiades describes how the Ministry...
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Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic DivideThe power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But...
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An Anthropology of MarxismAn Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era...
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Chicago Socialism: The People's HistoryIn the United States, Chicago provided Socialism with a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for political exiles and a springboard for activism. When Josephine Conger-Kaneko began printing The Socialist Woman in 1909 and then ran for alderwoman in 1914, she could appeal to...
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Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the RevolutionFood has been and continues to be an essential part of any movement for progressive change.From home cooks and professional chefs to local eateries and bakeries, food has helped activists continue marching for change for generations. Paschal's restaurant in Atlanta provided safety and comfort...
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Schenectady's General Electric Realty PlotSchenectady's General Electric Realty Plot was formed in 1899 when the General Electric (GE) Company purchased 70 acres of land from prestigious Union College.This move provided unique housing opportunities for its executives and scientists and attracted brilliant minds from around the world to work...
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Preparedness and Response for Catastrophic DisastersBased on a popular course for the FEMA Higher Education project, Preparedness and Response for Catastrophic Disasters provides important insight into plans to mitigate and respond to the devastation caused by large-scale catastrophic events. Hurricane Katrina provided clear evidence that these occurrences are both...
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Capital and CommunityOne has to establish a chronology of Marx's works on economics in order to understand the importance of this unpublished chapter of Capital; all the more so because Marx was unable to complete this work. It is vital to discover the common framework, the...
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The Foundations of Leninism"The foundations of Leninism is a big subject. To exhaust it a whole volume would be required. Indeed, a number of volumes would be required. Naturally, therefore, my lectures cannot pretend to be an exhaustive exposition of Leninism; at best they can offer but...
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Forming Jural Assemblies: Building Blocks of the RepublicWe The People are the First Level of Government in a Republic. As one of We The People you can see how you, in a Jural Assembly, have Power and Authority "over" your elected free state officials of "state government" through your State/Settlement Constitution....
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State Formation Through Emulation: The East Asian ModelNeither war nor preparations for war were the cause or effect of state formation in East Asia. Instead, emulation of China--the hegemon with a civilizational influence--drove the rapid formation of centralized, bureaucratically administered, territorial governments in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Furthermore, these countries engaged...
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Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus - solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins...
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Smoker Beyond the Sea: The Story of Puerto Rican TobaccoIn this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present. Based on more than twenty years of research in the United States...
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in BenghaziThe harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department...
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Always Divided, Never United: And Other Stories During a Time of Pandemics and PoliticsIt was an age defined by a potentially apocalyptic situation running rampant, a partisan and dogmatic ruling class refusing to listen to anyone beyond the loudest voices in the mob, and truth and understanding lingering frustratingly out of reach. But was it really that...
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Ecocene PoliticsAnchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene-a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes...
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