Political Science
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The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital FreedomHow we lost control of the internet--and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide...
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A New World Begins: The History of the French RevolutionFrom an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than...
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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child WelfareThe story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other...
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (50th Anniversary Edition)In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the...
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the FewNow a Netflix Original Documentary America was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparity in eighty years. Why is the...
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Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the HamptonsBestselling author Steven Gaines's richly entertaining (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons. As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant collision among the established...
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Forced Out and Fenced in: Immigration Tales from the FieldFormer President Barack Obama's administration oversaw three million deportations-far more than any previous President, and more than the sum total of all deportations prior to 1997. President Donald Trump has promised to surpass these record numbers of deportations. With mass deportation constantly in the...
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A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental IllnessThe New York Times bestseller"A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . ." --The Boston Globe "A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi's book deserves high marks for original thinking." --The Washington Post "Provocative, fascinating." --Salon.com Historians...
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Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore Volume 54Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks,...
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Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South IndiaAs news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. Cancer...
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State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate ChangeNatural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the...
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It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the UsA renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by Donald Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of...
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Fdr's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal LiberalismA comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that famously crashed and...
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Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-And-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial JusticeTold through the powerful stories of Black lives that were ravaged by racism, this manifesto holds 10 demands to rectify racial injustice Told through his perspective as an activist, acclaimed commentator Solomon Jones tells the stories of real people whose lives and deaths pushed...
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Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing SchoolgirlsA 2021 Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award "Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture. We need to help with efforts to liberate all of them and become...
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A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor CountriesAn ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism's failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out. The retreat of liberal...
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Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and ResponsivenessHow poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants...
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Myth America: Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the United StatesAn eye-opening and prophetic look at the true state of American politics and culture today. Is the U.S. a beacon of progress? That's how the mainstream media want you to see it. But in Myth America, visionary researcher David McGowan presents an index of...
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Kingdom and Country: Following Jesus in the Land That You LoveWe love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well? National tensions are at a record high. People on all points in the political spectrum care deeply about their country, although they differ wildly in their...
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Bosnian War PostersBosnian War Posters is a unique compilation of posters and political graphic design. It includes key archive photos from the war as well as new photos that put all the images in context today. This book illustrates the entire conflict: from April 1992--when the...
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