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The Left Hand of CapitalIn The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-economic initiatives transformed...
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Demagogue's PlaybookA New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick What Happens to Democracy When a Demagogue Comes to Power?It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book." --Bob Bauer, Former Chief Counsel to President Barack Obama What--and who--is...
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Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less SafeAn insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended. Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As...
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Non-Governmental Organizations and DevelopmentThis book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development, combining a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. The revised...
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Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights OdysseyPastor, award-winning author, and rising civil rights leader Michael W. Waters (Stakes Is High, For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World) ruminates on the sacred places and spaces he visited as part of a cross-country trek in the summer of 2016...
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Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black RadicalismWhile the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has taken a more complex path through the nation's history. Formed by...
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The Activist's Handbook: How to Fight Back In Your CommunityTake a Stand, Change the Debate, and Restore Freedom There is a determined force in the world dedicated to an agenda designed to "reorganize human society." To achieve that agenda they are on a drive to change our American economic system, abolish private property,...
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Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of AnthropoceneThis book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nation's struggles against the state. A fundamentally different portrait of history, geography, politics, and the role of law emerges when the perspective of the nation and peoples is placed at...
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Indictment & Application for a Public Enquiry Into State-Sponsored Criminality in Ireland: And the case for the establishment of the People's Tribunal"There are mechanisms in place" (they tell us) by which we are supposed to be able to guarantee the Rule of Law in this State - which is how and why we remain members of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the...
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Planning and ParticipationWhy should the public participate in planning? And who are the stakeholders who are required to participate in the planning process? This guide assesses public and stakeholder participation in the planning process, which is a statutory requirement across the entire scope and scale of...
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Heroic Struggle Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSRThis book analyses the internal and external factors that contributed to the dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR. It reviews the history and characteristic features of the Soviet Socio-economic model from 1917 to 1991.Author: Bahman AzadPublisher: Farabi PublishersPublished: 08/10/2020Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations: Manual NWP 1-14M/MCTP 11-10B/COMDTPUB P5800.7A"The United States will not, however, acquiesce in unilateral acts of other States designed to restrict the rights and freedoms of the international community in navigation and overflight and other related high seas uses." --President Reagan's Oceans Policy Statement on the 1982 United Nations...
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Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global SouthIn Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth...
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Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and FearSpinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political method resembles the Renaissance civic humanism in its view of governance as an...
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The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and VirtueDo elections turn people into democratic citizens? Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, development and security in Africa, with many hoping that the secret ballot would transform states. Adopting a new approach that focusses on the moral economy of...
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Early Communist China: Two Studiesvolume 4Contains two detailed case studies. In "The Fu-t'ien Incident, December 1930," Ronald Suleski describes the pivotal incident in the power struggle between Mao Zedong and the Communist Central Committee. Daniel Bays's study of "Agrarian Reform in Kwangtung, 1950-1953" focuses upon the measures taken by...
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Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary ExecutiveA powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation, and expertise....
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Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law & Legal CultureFueled by grassroots activism and a growing collection of formal political organizations, the Christian Right became an enormously influential force in American law and politics in the 1980s and 90s. While this vocal and visible political movement has long voiced grave concerns about the...
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Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark PastThe second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is asked to look after Sophia, a troubled 12-year-old with a sad past. Sophia's actions are disturbing and provocative and, before long, Casey and...
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L'Entraide, un facteur de l'évolutionla fin du XIXe si cle, le social-darwinisme tente d'appliquer le m canisme darwinien de s lection naturelle dans le domaine social. La comp tition pour l'existence et la survie des plus aptes sont tenus pour les principes de l' volution. Kropotkine combat ce...
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