Political Science
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights MovementWinner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then...
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American Intergovernmental Relations: A Fragmented Federal PolityThe one constant in the American federal system is change--change that is not always beneficial. American Intergovernmental Relations: A Fragmented Federal Polity examines how the dynamic social, economic, and political forces that impinge on American government at all levels shape the way that our...
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern ResponseFor many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an...
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John Rawls: His Life and Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sIn America Divided, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin provide the definitive history of the 1960s, in a book that tells a compelling tale filled with fresh and persuasive insights. Ranging from the 1950s right up to the debacle of Watergate, Isserman (a noted historian...
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The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union 1917-1991For half of the twentieth century, the Cold War gripped the world. International relations everywhere--and domestic policy in scores of nations--pivoted around this central point, the American-Soviet rivalry. Even today, much of the world's diplomacy grapples with chaos created by the Cold War's sudden...
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The Great TriumvirateEnormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill...
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Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for FreedomReveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activists continually devised new ways of asserting their quest for freedom.Author: William H. ChafePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/14/1981Pages: 304Binding...
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Tourism 1: Teacher's Resource BookFocuses on the functional language needed to succeed in the job. This book presents grammar, vocabulary, and skills, contextualized in real work situations. It includes job profiles of real professionals, specialist facts and figures, and quotations. It provides easy-to-understand tips, additional activities for mixed...
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The Essential WritingsMahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker, one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century, and a famous advocate of non-violent civil resistance. His many and varied writings largely respond to the specific challenges he faced throughout his...
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Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and RaceActivated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutality in Ferguson, organized against stop-and-frisk in New York...
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to TrumpA concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye,...
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False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle EastMore than half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. In False Dawn, noted Middle East expert Steven...
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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social MediaSocial media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social...
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Politics on Display: Yard Signs and the Politicization of Social SpacesPolitical yard signs are one of the most ubiquitous and conspicuous features of American political campaigns, yet they have received relatively little attention as a form of political communication or participation. In Politics on Display, Todd Makse, Scott L. Minkoff, and Anand E. Sokhey...
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Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Almost everyone has citizenship, and yet it has emerged as one of the most hotly contested issues of contemporary politics. Even as cosmopolitan elites and human rights advocates aspire to some notion of "global citizenship," populism and nativism have re-ignited the importance of national...
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an IdeaStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The...
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Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of GenocideThe destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what...
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War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as PoliticsAs a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective...
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In the Shadow of Korematsu: Democratic Liberties and National SecurityThe national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom...
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