Political Science
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Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl DisasterAfter the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political roadblocks. Efforts to gain access to the site of catastrophic radiation damage were denied, and the residents of Chernobyl were given no answers...
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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics"My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America--their...
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Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of...
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The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix ItExperience a revelatory, groundbreaking assessment of the greatest betrayal in American history in this explosive New York Times bestseller. William Barr - Paul Manafort - Michael Cohen - Steve Bannon - Rudy Giuliani - Mitch McConnell - Roger Stone - George Papadopoulos - Jeff...
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Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of LifeA vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business...
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Discourses on LivyDiscourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is...
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SustainabilityA concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent...
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCCIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies...
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Social ContractRevolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the...
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CapitalA classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done...
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Development: A Very Short IntroductionWhat do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development...
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The Portable Karl MarxIncludes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known works, especially his long-unavailable, early works.Author: Karl MarxPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 03/31/1983Pages: 720Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 7.70h x...
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory"First there was A People's History of the United States. Now there's a paranoid's history, with Jesse Walker revealing that normal, sensible citizens have been conspiracy nuts ever since our nation's beginning." -- Debbie Nathan, author of Sybil ExposedJesse Walker's The United States of...
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Shadow Warrior Edition: L.I.N.E. Combatives Manual: A Study & Analysis of the US Marine Close-Quarters Combat ManualLinear Infighting Neuro-Override Engagement or L.I.N.E. was the US Marine's Hand-to-Hand Combat System from 1989 to 2002, until it was replaced by the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. It was taught to US Army Special Forces Units from 1998 to 2007. Created by Ron...
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Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military DictatorshipA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive...
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America Through Foreign EyesDo Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America....
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Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. EmpireAssessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have steadfastly maintained...
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Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of ResistanceThe early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's...
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Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of ExtremesA rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age "Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired [this book]. . . . It explained...
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Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass BehaviorWhat motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team sport--the...
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