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Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment and Disavowal in the Post-Racial EraBoth significant and timely, Blackhood Against the Police Power addresses the punishment of "race" and the disavowal of sexual violence central to the contemporary "post-racial" culture of politics. Here the author asserts that the post-racial presents an antiblack animus that should be read as...
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Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjöld on the Art of Ethical LeadershipAn accessible guide to the principles and vision of Dag Hammarskj ld, a man John F. Kennedy called the greatest statesman of our century. Dag Hammarskj ld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his tragic Dag Hammarskj ld served as...
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The Just King: The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on Leading an Ethical LifeA translation of a popular Buddhist work on worldly ethics by Tibet's most famous philosopher. Leadership. Power. Responsibility. From Sun Tzu to Plato to Machiavelli, sages east and west have advised kings and rulers on how to lead. Their motivations and techniques have varied,...
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The Farm Bill: A Citizen's GuideThe farm bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation the American president signs. Negotiated every five to seven years, it has tremendous implications for food production, nutrition assistance, habitat conservation, international trade, and much more. Yet at nearly 1,000 pages, it...
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy MissionFrom the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis During the ominous...
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Thatcher's Trial: 180 Days That Created a Conservative IconIn six months, Margaret Thatcher reinvented her political party and redefined modern conservatism in one of the greatest feats of modern political leadership. In 1981, less than two years after she had been elected as Britain's first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher was deemed...
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Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought ThemAt the heart of the story of America's wars are our citizen soldiers -- those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think...
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The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution FailedAs Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution -- a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The Triumph of Politics was Stockman's...
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935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral IntegrityFacts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government of the people, by the people and for the people, requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the...
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The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.: Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence AThe final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and "neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the civil rights movement to be "Communist", and did everything...
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Twelve Who Don't Agree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin's Russia"Portraits of a group of mostly young Muscovites . . . Some of Panyushkin's] sketches are political fables of inspiring selflessness and courage" (Star Tribune). In Twelve Who Don't Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the country's social spectrum, including: a...
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Ebonics Is GoodAuthor: Abdul Karim BanguraPublisher: CognellaPublished: 09/02/2010Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781609279011
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies)Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring majority. Employing a blend of economic, social, and...
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin AmericaBananeras] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged.--Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and ResistanceWomen banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives....
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the sixties and seventies. An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from G ran Hugo Olsson's...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an AnalogyIn Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today's movement for justice in Palestine. Contributors include Andy...
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Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Nature and the Social OrderFrom the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects provides a scathing critique of orthodox views and government policy, and outlines other paths that can lead to better understanding an...
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Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and SubjectionThe emergence of ideology theories marked a re-foundation of Marxist research into the functioning of alienation and subjection. Going beyond traditional concepts of 'manipulation' and 'false consciousness', they turned to the material existence of hegemonic apparatuses and focused on the mostly unconscious effects of...
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Keywords: The New Language of CapitalismKeywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators...
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Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State ResilienceSyria has been at the center of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent and murderous repression by the Assad regime. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyzes the resilience of the regime and...
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