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Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition: Political Science and the Discourse of DemocracyAmericans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to...
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How Viktor Orb?n Plays to Win: The Resurgence of Central Europe (Foreword by Rod Dreher)With Brexit complete, the European Union unbalanced, and populist national conservatism on the march across the continent, winds of rebellion continue to blow from Central Europe, where Hungary's dynamic leader Viktor Orb?n has been building a political alternative to neoliberal statism. Prime Minister of...
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How to Create Societies for Human Wellbeing: Through Public Policy and Social ChangeWellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed 'experts' all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why? Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new perspective on psychological wellbeing informed by evidence...
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How to Be an Activist: A Practical Guide to Organising, Campaigning and Making Change HappenFrom experienced campaigner Vanessa Holburn and with a foreword by award-winning animal welfare campaigner Lorraine Platt, this is the essential guide to activism. 'Essential reading for anyone looking to start a grassroots campaign - and useful bedtime reading for some of our political parties...
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're GoingINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."--Bill Gates "Provocative but...
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How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political ChangeSince the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention. Only twenty-seven amendments have been approved in 225 years. Why do members...
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Hoosier Vigilantes: Frontier Justice and the Evolution of Law EnforcementThe story of the intersection between vigilantism and law enforcement In frontier Indiana, vigilantism was a grim necessity. Beginning with the vigilance committees of the 1860s that lynched the Reno Gang and the Knights of the Golden Circle, who plotted to assassinate Governor Morton,...
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Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First Century America"Compelling and useful reading" for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America's leading constitutional rights group (Booklist). In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place--for activists and dissenters, whose First Amendment rights...
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Good Places for AllThis short book invites readers into a deeper understanding of cities and suburbs and the challenges they face. Because places play such an important role in human well-being, loving our neighbors includes caring for and cultivating good places for all. Despite their great prosperity,...
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God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. BushHow did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"?Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half...
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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands TaleSeeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and...
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First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference HandbookFirst Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject. This accessible resource provides critically...
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Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina Under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn ChaseIn June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander and...
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Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'Incisive, politically engaged, and theoretically sophisticated ... A must-read for anyone concerned with the prospects of a liveable and sustainable future for all on this planet' Ilias Alami, author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets'A comprehensive critique of the financialization discourse,...
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Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign PolicyCovering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educational exchanges, cultural exhibits, overseas libraries, and domestic public relations.Drawing upon exhaustive research in...
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Eat or Be EatenThe issue of food can be interpreted in two ways. As a geographical agriculturist, I have focused on food production around the world, but also on being faced with predatory action. These stories relate such events in my life. Some are humorous and some...
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Dying For Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine MurdersOn September 18, 1992 a violent explosion deep in Yellowknife's Giant mine took the lives of nine miners. The men had defied the picket lines that were the scene of violent clashes between the mineworkers and company security forces during a long and bitter...
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Dodging the Bullet: Failed Assassinations Throughout HistoryExplores the most remarkable assassination attempts throughout history, highlighting the chaotic intersection of fame, danger, and the human psyche.Everybody remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy died. The president's assassination shocked the world and raised questions that have still not been answered...
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Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. LiteratureA dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can...
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Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in ExpertiseThe world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism about expert knowledge. It is a world in which the terms of the political game are imposed by illiberal democrats who undermine the authority of scientific institutions....
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