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Brazil Third Edition: Five Centuries of ChangeRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.Author: GreenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 06/01/2021Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.10dISBN: 9780190068981Review Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2022About the AuthorJames Green is...
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The Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America's Premier Law Enforcement AgencyMost people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years...
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Asian American Connective Action in the Age of Social Media: Civic Engagement, Contested Issues, and Emerging IdentitiesSocial media provides ethno-racial immigrant groups--especially those who cannot vote due to factors such as lack of citizenship and limited English proficiency--the ability to mobilize and connect around collective issues. Online spaces and discussion forums have encouraged many Asian Americans to participate in public...
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Higher Education for Democracy: The Role of the University in Civil SocietyBronze Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education CategoryDemocracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but they also need to reflect democratic values in...
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World Report 2022: Events of 2021The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic...
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Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide, Updated EditionUnstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change...
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Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp SystemHalf a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of...
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Critique and PraxisCritical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today's critical theory often seems to engage only in critique....
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Compassionate Reasoning: Changing the Mind to Change the WorldAround the globe, people who work in the helping professions are often heroic bridge-builders and creators of peaceful societies. They have in common, Marc Gopin argues, a set of cultivated moral character traits and psychosocial skills. They tend to be kinder, more reasonable, moreself-controlled,...
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Fraude: A fragmentação da identidade nacional por meio do processo democráticoNo ano de 2018 compreendi que, para entender o que se passava naquele momento no Brasil, era necessário conhecer nossa história. O Governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores havia terminado e o Brasil se lançava em algo que me parecia ser uma repetição em nosso...
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A Left Green New Deal: An Internationalist BlueprintWhat does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like? With the cascading effects of multiple ongoing health and economic crises, conditions are ripe for the emergence of a global progressive social project capable of moving us beyond business-as-usual and eradicating the fundamental causes...
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Inequality, Class, and EconomicsWhat if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society-- and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the...
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Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable FutureHow can we build a future of work that meets pressing challenges and delivers for workers? Contemporary societies are beset by interrelated ecological, political, and economic crises, from climate change to democratic erosion and economic instability. Uncertainty abounds about the sustainability of democratic capitalism....
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Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970sIn Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s, Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony over an international economic order under attack...
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Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom StruggleIn many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has...
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33 Myths of the SystemIn the perfect dystopian system, the prison and the prisoners are one.A radical guide to the entire system in its final, most developed form. 33 Myths of the System takes apart the fabrications of all the ideologies of the system, exposing the iniquitous fictions...
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Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald TrumpA revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive--and only--insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front...
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War, Genocide and Cultural Memory: The Waffen-Ss, 1933 to TodayThis book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. It draws on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years. The gathered material comprises a wide-ranging selection of data such...
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Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native LiberationRed Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that...
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Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better WorldFor most of this nation's history, religious socialists made their case to a population that was, for the most part, hospitable to religion and resistant to socialism. Today, those trends are moving in opposite directions. A majority of young people and persons of color...
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