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The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East GermanyRichardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be...
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The Emotional Infrastructure of PlacesInfrastructure is a hot topic for communities all over the world. Ranging from roads and bridges to power grids and cell towers - it is all the foundational elements for a shared and common purpose. Infrastructure is literally all around us, like the background...
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Understanding Central America: Global Forces and Political ChangeIn this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a classic in the field which invites students to explore the histories, economies, and politics of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Covering the region's political and...
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The Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean EnergyDid you know that the carbon impact of producing ten cheeseburgers is the same as one passenger travelling 167 miles on a London bus? Or that high levels of air pollution lead to over 40,000 premature deaths and 6 million sick days each year?...
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Le Socialisme Et l'Homme À CubaDans le mieux connu de ses écrits, Che Guevara explique les tâches et les défis politiques de direction qui se posent dans la transition du capitalisme au socialisme. Contient le discours prononcé à l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Che Guevara par...
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Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in AmericaConservative political commentator Kathy Barnette shares how liberal leadership has failed the black community and how being a democrat is not synonymous with your skin color. During his first historic run for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump made an impassioned plea to the...
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Climate Change CriminologyLeading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic...
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The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human SecurityDoes climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This study presents a new conceptual framework to evaluate this claim. Contributing to scholarship in the fields of critical security, environmental...
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Islamophobia and the LawIslamophobia and the Law is a foundational volume of critical scholarship on the emerging form of bigotry widely known as Islamophobia. This book brings together leading legal scholars to explore the emergence and rise of Islamophobia after the 9/11 terror attacks, particularly how the...
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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction"In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world's mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it's...
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and PeacebuildingFeaturing numerous case studies from various contexts and traditions, The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding brings together a diverse array of scholars to grapple with the tension between theory and practice, cultural theory, and the legacy of the liberal peace paradigm. This...
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Well PlayedThis book began as an answer to power. In the face of the undeniable, it became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to remain...
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Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two BirminghamsA Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which they are situated in the long history of people of African origin and their ancestors who were taken into slavery, experienced a phoney freedom and subsequently experienced...
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Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical AgainThe eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto - a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again. For...
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Everyday Community Practice: Principles and practiceIncreasingly students and practitioners in human services are asked or seek to include community engagement, participation and capacity building in their work with groups. In this book expert authors Amanda Howard and Margot Rawsthorne provide guidance on the theory and practice of working with...
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Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st CenturyIn response to this current political and economic climate, Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century defends the importance, and difficulties, of teaching Marx and critical theory--and the crucial insights of critical pedagogy--through variously original and republished chapters, which, each in their...
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How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian ModelsIn How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel's and Marx's systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model...
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Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II)For years Abdullah Öcalan has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that has led to capitalism's emergence and global domination. Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings is the second volume of his definitive five-volume work...
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The Forgotten Revolution: The 1919 Hungarian Republic of CouncilsAfter the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals began forming grassroots councils to get the country back on...
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Democracy's Troubles: Twelve Threats to the American Ideal and How We Can Overcome ThemEvidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege--in the United States and around the world. This volume identifies and explains a dozen separate challenges threatening American democracy today. Sorting these challenges into political and social-cultural problems, each is placed in an historical context to...
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