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From Ignorance to Insanity: (Observations of an Old Man)We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban/Russia nuclear threat, the Cold War, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin...
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Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern ChileHungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how...
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Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist ChinaAt a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown....
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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction. But as Reconstruction came to an end and discrimination against African Americans in the South became commonplace, civil rights advocates in Congress increasingly shifted to policies desired by...
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An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the HumanitiesIn An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to...
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The Great Hysteria and The Broken StateThis pandemic is not a once in 100 year event but closer to a once in 30 year event. The hysteria is grossly overdone. There were WHO guidelines in 2019 about flu-type pandemics and none involved lockdowns. Australian governments including Victoria's had clear plans...
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The Last Temptation of Boris JohnsonIt was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote 'leave' and a nation's future was sealed. Guests included the spirits of Prime Ministers past, including Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair as well as...
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Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for ActionConflict, as distinct from violence, lies at the heart of all social and political change. It is conflict that is often a sign and mechanism for change, it has many positive characteristics, which we can use to address direct, cultural and structural violence. In...
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The Global TrapThis extraordinary book explores the spread of globalization. The authors - journalists on Der Spiegel - provide an account that is highly informed, yet extremely readable. They show how internationalism, once an invention of social-democratic labour leaders, has firmly changed sides. Now more than...
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The Inherence of Human Dignity: Foundations of Human Dignity, Volume 1Focused at the theoretical level, this volume seeks to clarify our understanding of various historical and contemporary concepts of human dignity. It examines the various meanings of the term 'dignity' before looking at the philosophical sources of dignity and both religious and secular attempts...
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Bogus Science: How Scare Politics Robs Voters, Corrupts Research and Poisons MindsThe good name of true science, which has transformed the world we live in marvelous ways over the last 200 years, has been hijacked for several decades by politicians seeking to employ science and scientists in support of dubious political goals. They have used...
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History of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary - Volume II: McAlester, Oklahoma - 2nd EditionThe History of the Oklahoma State Petitionary - Volumes I and II, by Dan Reynolds provides tremendous insight into the evolution of the prison from statehood to the present, including its struggles and accomplishments. The books balance the humor and tragedies which have given...
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Republicanism, Communism, IslamIn Republicanism, Communism, Islam, John T. Sidel provides an alternate vantage point for understanding the variegated forms and trajectories of revolution across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, a perspective that is de-nationalized, internationalized, and transnationalized. Sidel positions this new vantage point against the conventional...
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The Ends of ModernizationThe Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to...
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Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in TexasIn Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state′s rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as the author team explains who gets what and how. Utilizing a comparative approach, the authors set Texas in context with other states′...
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The Heroine of Cameron Dam: The Annotated 1929 Memoir of Myra DietzThe Heroine of Cameron DamDecades ago, a vagabond searching through trash outside a Los Angeles publisher's office found a rejected 1929 manuscript. The author, Myra Dietz, wrote it 19 years after she, her brother, and father, were severely wounded by gun-toting thugs who served...
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To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the PoorThe long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the...
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Farming and Working Under Contract: Peasants and Workers in Global Agricultural Value SystemsIn recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage small farmers in high value agriculture chains. However, its role and impact in the developing countries constitute a debated ground. The proponents of contract...
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Electrification: Accelerating the Energy TransitionElectrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition offers a widely applicable framework to delineate context-sensitive pathways by which this transition can be accelerated and lists the types of processes and structures that may hinder progress towards this goal. The framework draws insights from well-established literature, ranging...
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Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India: Writings on a Movement for Justice, Liberty and EqualityDescription On 15 December 2019, police in riot gear stormed Delhi's Jamia Millia IslamiaUniversity and attacked unarmed students protesting against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act (CAA), which makes religion the basis of Indian citizenship. Inneighbouring Shaheen Bagh, a few women-mothers, other relatives and friends ofthe students-came...
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