Political Science
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Excuse Me While I Skip a Beat: Working to Reinvent My Life and Leadership as a White GuyWe the people are in crisis. This is what the nation's headlines clearly tell us. Growing economic inequality is crippling more Americans, and the divide that defines us is decaying our public will. Where we have landed is unacceptable.But there are solutions, and Robert...
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Erasing the Liberty: The Battle to Keep Alive the Memory of Israel's Massacre on the USS LibertyOn June 8, 1967, the virtually unarmed USS Liberty (AGTR-5), the U.S. Navy's most sophisticated spy ship, while monitoring communications in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean during the Six-Day War-to find out if the Soviet Union was assisting its Arab client states-was viciously...
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Equity and Education Since Brown V. Board: Where Do We Go from Here?In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress made since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chapters document the shifts over time on key aspects of education, including school segregation, achievement trends in relation to policies and...
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Equity and Education Since Brown V. Board: Where Do We Go from Here?In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress made since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chapters document the shifts over time on key aspects of education, including school segregation, achievement trends in relation to policies and...
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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in PanamaEmperors in the Jungle is an expos? of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped...
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Elites, Nonelites, and Power: The Critical Legacy of Elite Theory from Marx to Lachmann, and Then BeyondIn a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-take-all society seemingly designed to concentrate privilege and power in the hands of a very few, the central question that faces social science--and indeed the world--is...
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Direct Democracy: And the Curse of the Boiled FrogsOur nation faces bankruptcy. Our people are divided. Our elections are riddled with corruption, confusion and mismanagement. Our Bill of Rights is under assault. The Forever Wars are never ending. Our shadow government is a criminal enterprise milking the working class of their hard-earned...
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate TechnologyFinancial Times Best Books of 2023 in EconomicsWinner of 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize The global battle among the three dominant digital powers--the United States, China, and the European Union--is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing...
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Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political ScienceA searing argument--and work of meticulous scholarship--about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our political system vulnerable to oligarchic takeover. Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with...
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Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political OrganizingIn uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet, as Michael Rosino shows, progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to...
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DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher EducationDEI Exposed puts the spotlight on a Big Con: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.DEI gurus siphoned funds for education into social engineering programs. They suckered and swindled some of the smartest people in the U.S., cost universities dearly in terms of funds and reputation, and...
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Constitution of the United States: With Short Biographies of the SignersThis leather bound limited edition contains the complete text of the United States Constitution, including all of its amendments, and features short biographies and commissioned line portraits of each of the signers.The landmark legal documents of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the...
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Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and EducationOriginally published: 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1988.Author: Neil PostmanPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 03/03/1992Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9780679734215About the AuthorNeil Postman was a University Professor, the Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and the chair of the...
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Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My AmericaFrom political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply-felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and...
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{Code Names} Betsy and BabeIn 1971, a young American couple in their twenties, fly to Nairobi, Kenya, with their two young daughters to begin a five-year teaching contract at American-run Nairobi International School. Through a unique relationship with one of the students, the couple is approached by the...
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Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the CoupSet against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy. In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in...
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Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class StruggleThe fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation and becoming something that might even be worse. Bringing together analyses from different fields--law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis--Jodi Dean shows the direction the...
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Black Freedom Fighters in SteelThousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life without Klansmen, chain gangs, and cotton. Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism by Ruth Needleman adds a new dimension to the literature...
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Beat the Burnout: Prevention and Recovery Solutions for Frontline BurnoutLive Well. Serve Strong.In high-stakes domains like frontline professions, we have to be intensely driven about what we do. Yet, sometimes, the demands and our passion burn so brightly that it leaves us feeling drained, agitated, and distracted. This book is a thoughtful guide...
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Bad-Ass Solutions: For Today's BIG-ASS Problemscivilization, such as global warming, homelessness, and mass killings. This refreshingly NONPARTISAN book is for all of us who are frightened, frustrated and pissed off about these critical issues that just aren't being addressed.Author Mitch Francis solved today's big-ass problems in amazingly creative and...
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