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New Age Politics: Our Only Real AlternativeForget the term "New Age," says Mark Satin in the introduction to this 40th Anniversary Edition of his book New Age Politics. That term was tied to an historical moment. What this book is really about is the new politics arising out of the...
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Big BurnA good case could be made for predicting a calamitous forest fire that would ravage the relatively unscathed, lush timber stands of the Northwest. Some people shrugged and lamented that one could never predict much of the future. But regardless of what people thought,...
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Inside the Money MachineInside the Money Machine is poetry for the immense majority for those who work for a living, out of the house or at home, from the laundromat to the classroom, from blue-collar construction sites to white-collar desk jobs. These fresh, gritty and passionate poems...
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Friendly FascismThe 8th November 2016 marked a startling new era in American political life. After the creeping ascent of Right wing authoritarian parties in the UK and Europe Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election brought an alarming form of "alt-right" neo-conservativism into the American...
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Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist WritingsIn 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany's fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy's Future and Freedom party...
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Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, 3rd Edition: Volume 1, History and TheoryFoundations of Orientation and Mobility, the classic professional reference and textbook has been completely revised and expanded to two volumes by the most knowledgeable experts in the field. The new third edition includes both the latest research in O&M and expanded information on practice...
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This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948 is a collection of letters written by Muriel Kitagawa during this period, as well as statements, essays and manuscripts which arose from Kitagawa's commitment to write about the injustices of...
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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural...
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Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and NunavutPart ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and Aboriginal politicians, and participated in daily life. In...
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The Art of Industrial Warfare: USA vs China in Economic Battle - Who will dominate the 21st century?The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...
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Fascism: The Career of a ConceptWhat does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried...
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Plough Quarterly No. 5: PeacemakersThe diverse contributors to this issue of Plough Quarterly focus on what it means to be a peacemaker. Peacemaking, they show, is a riskier and more ambitious undertaking than we may have imagined. Today we must wage peace where thousands of children are being...
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Uncle Sam's Family: Issues and Perspectives on American Demographic HistoryThis work introduces readers to the basics of demographic history, touching on issues of interest to anyone concerned with understanding how we have come to live as we do and what the future may bring. It also focuses directly on matters of birth, death,...
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota's Protest TraditionWhen the senatorial election of 2008 between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman stretched on for a contentious six months, people throughout the country wondered about Minnesota's offbeat politics. But Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements...
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Women Behaving Courageously - The WorkbookThis workbook is the result of running live workshops for women of all ages and from all walks of life. The women who attended my workshops looked as though they had perfect lives but quickly confessed that underneath the façade, they were actually struggling...
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Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale EmergenciesFrom floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. What accounts for governments' effective responses to unfolding disasters? How should they organize and plan for significant emergencies? With fifteen adapted Kennedy...
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A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One)An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. Democracy--presidential elections.In 2000, we learned that an exceptionally close presidential election can produce chaos, because we have no reliable Constitutional mechanism for resolving disputes. Joe Biden just...
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Terrorism Trap: September 11 and BeyondThe Terrorism Trap is a powerfully argued analysis of the deeper causes and meaning of September 11. Why did the attacks happen? Who is to blame? Who is taking advantage of the crisis? Who is hurt by all the ensuing events? Why do they...
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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history--the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II--challenges traditional perceptions of...
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest WashingtonThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a...
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