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The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and IslamThe 'War on Terror' ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a homogenised Muslim 'Other'...
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in AmericaOnce home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real--an event that could be more catastrophic...
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The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence CommunitiesNational intelligence agencies have long adjusted to the opportunities and threats from new technologies, and have created structures, concepts, and practices to best apply new capabilities. But such recent technological developments as artificial intelligence are different in kind. Increasingly affordable to nongovernmental actors, they...
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Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886-1937The untold history of how Chicago served as an important site of innovation in environmental thought as America transitioned to modern, industrial capitalism.In Nature's Laboratory, Elizabeth Grennan Browning argues that Chicago--a city characterized by rapid growth, severe labor unrest, and its position as a...
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Without Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul"Without Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul" is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author...
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Social Security Handbook 2022: Overview of Social Security Programs, LARGE PRINT EDITIONThe Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2022 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws.The completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand reference for comprehending complex Social...
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Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and JusticeThe ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to do good, how should we prioritize and...
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Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded WorldWhat makes your heart break for our broken world? You want to make a difference in the world. You're concerned about all the problems you see, the injustices and the suffering. But you don't know where to begin. Designed for the aspiring activist or...
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Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer CommunitA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookShortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardsAn Indigo Best Book of 2020Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of...
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Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside InThe transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the "Big Grid" that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an...
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Lost in Canada: An Immigrant's Second ThoughtsIn the late 1990s, culture writer Lydia Perovic immigrated from Montenegro to the open, optimistic country of Canada and threw herself into its vibrant artistic and cultural communities. She was happy with her decision until about five years ago, when Canada began to change....
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Confessions of a Union Buster: New Activist EditionMartin Jay Levitt was a union buster who planned and executed customized anti-union campaigns at more then 250 businesses across America, from coal mines and factories to airlines and nursing homes. Levitt reached the pinnacle of his profession by demolishing friendships, shattering families, and...
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The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is EverythingA bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US...
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Religion and US Empire: Critical New HistoriesShows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion....
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What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity NowWhat have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries--like manufacturing, construction, printing--as well as those in service-producing jobs, like...
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Our Vanishing Civil LibertiesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Eagle Down: American Special Forces at the End of Afghanistan's WarA Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in Afghanistan. A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST...
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Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America Into World War IIThe astonishing story of the British spies who set out to draw America into World War IIAs World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause-but the American public was sharply divided on the subject. Canadian-born...
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In Praise of FlorenceThe Italian Renaissance was the home of modern ideas about republican freedom, democracy, balance of power, and free competition. But the period in which these ideas originated, the 14th and 15th century, is still relatively unknown, in spite of the fact that this time...
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The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi DynastyThe surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."--Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal "An extraordinary account. . . . Deeply nuanced...
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