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Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings: Edited and Introduced by Jesse NormanThe most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and,...
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Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and IdentityThe groundbreaking oral history, Black, White, Other, made its mark by being the first book to ask black/white biracial people to speak for themselves on matters of race and identity. In the book, journalist Lise Funderburg presents the lives and views of forty-six adult...
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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender InequalityThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide...
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Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesThe city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while...
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Democracy's Slaves: A Political History of Ancient GreeceThe ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention...
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The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge TorturerThe Eichmann in Jerusalem for the Khmer Rouge, The Master of Confessions is a harrowing yet humane account of the trial of Duch, a Khmer Rouge operative and the director of the regime's most brutal prison. A renowned war-crime journalist, Cruvellier captures the intense...
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President Trump And The New World Order: The Ramtha Trump ProphecyTaking the lid off the pyramid of power, "President Trump And The New World Order" walks you through the veil behind which certain families and dynasties have spent generations, both publicly and behind the scenes, manipulating governments, politicians, and ordinary people alike in order...
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Whose Freedom?Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word freedom. Al-Qaeda attacked us because they hate our freedom. The U.S. can strike preemptively because freedom is on the march. Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. The...
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RepublicPlato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 bce. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded...
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold WarOnly two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends. Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who...
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Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical IslamOn November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical...
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture ProgramOn June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to explode a dirty bomb on American soil. That alleged terrorist was José Padilla who was finally charged in 2005 with conspiracy...
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Russia: The Story of WarNo nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls...
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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityInequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations...
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The New Road to SerfdomIn World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of social democracy, British politician Daniel Hannan returns the favor. The New Road to Serfdom is a must-read rallying cry...
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Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, with a New Preface and EpilogueIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With...
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Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist MoscowIn this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to...
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity--from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization--Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history...
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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ColonialismIn analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have...
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The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military RelationsIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general...
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