Political Science
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War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the FutureA critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both...
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None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital AgeCapello investigates why we've been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we've had along the way to rein it in. Every day, Americans surrender their private information to entities claiming to have their best interests in mind. This trade-off...
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Eight Hundred Heroes: China's Lost Battalion and the Fall of ShanghaiAcclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand.Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the world's greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat - except for a single...
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Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women's Rights, Peace and Equality in Northern Ireland and BeyondBy the age of ten, Monica McWilliams was dispensing payouts in her granny's post office, book-keeping for her cattle-dealer father and leaving no one in any doubt that she could stand up for herself. She went on to break the mold in so many...
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For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist RealismFor a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called "capitalist realism, in which (to cite the famous expression variously attributed to Fredric...
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Cuba: The Doctrine of the LieCuba: The Doctrine of the Lie is a thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for...
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War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, GeopoliticsApplying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relations Offers a definitive and original vision of space warfare that theorises often-overlooked aspects of contemporary space activities based in the discipline of Strategic Studies. This original research draws out the...
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 VaccineThis is the incredible story of the scientists who created a coronavirus vaccine in record time. In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the...
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The Final Kingdom: Horizons of the Fourth Political Theory and Geopolitics of the ApocalypsePyotr Volkov (born in Uruguay as Diego Daniel García), is an anthropologist and historian with a special interest in past and current events related to the great history of Slavdom and Orthodox Christianity. For an entire decade, he worked to create an ambitious book...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception-now with a new introduction and afterword from the author....
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Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South KoreaThe essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'état and the martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated...
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Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of CommunicationIn Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Working with Gilles Deleuze's suggestion that...
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The Benjamin FilesJameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker...
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Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for ResilienceDISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY The new edition of the standard textbook in the field, updated with new studies and practical guidelines for reacting to the complexities of today's disasters Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience provides a thorough overview of the...
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You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the DreamersShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk--even for those born on US soil. Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and...
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Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West"'Return of the Strong Gods, '...is a thoughtful contribution to American political debate. It is incisively written and full of modern observations. Mr. Reno explains, better than any book I can remember, the present-day progressive's paranoid fear of fascism and neurotic determination to ferret...
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Salazar and His Work: Essays on Political PhilosophyThree attributes should be essential to anyone in public office: intelligence, integrity and dedication. If it is not an easy task to identify one of these qualities in a politician, much more difficult it would be to find two, and highly improbable to have...
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Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet CombatFighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouting, and basing--and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and...
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Reflections on the Revolution in FranceReflections on the Revolution in France offers provocative political commentary from the British statesman Edmund Burke, that examines the early stages of the French Revolution. It's a searing criticism of those in and outside formal government who support the movement's unconventional methods. The French...
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Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements MatterTraditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by inequality, social...
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