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Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American PoliticsAfrican American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized "dog whistles," especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and from all racial backgrounds continually appeal to negative...
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How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American PoliticsThe rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influence in the Republican Party...
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A Woman's Place: Us Counterterrorism Since 9/11The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the US approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and vast, there remains a significant void. The diverse actors contributing to counterterrorism increasingly...
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Riding a Donkey Backwards Through Afghanistan: Transforming the Afghanistan ArmyDo you wonder what we did with all the US money pumped into Afghanistan? Or...how it was all spent? This is the inside story of the United States' army-building efforts written from the unique vantage point of the on-the-ground Army officer responsible for fiscally...
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Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, UniversalityA compelling account of politics and social philosophy in Levinas's Talmudic commentaries Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a French philosopher known for his radical ethics and for his contribution to Jewish thought in his commentaries on Talmudic sources. In Levinas's Politics, Annabel Herzog confronts a...
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Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First CenturyExpert analysis of American governance challenges and recommendations for reform Two big ideas serve as the catalyst for the essays collected in this book. The first is the state of governance in the United States, which Americans variously perceive as broken, frustrating, and unresponsive....
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Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies (16pt Large Print Edition)In his trailblazing book ''Theory U'', Otto Scharmer described a powerful process for sensing the future that is emerging so we can align ourselves with it and help it to come into being. Now he shows that this same U process is the key...
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (16pt Large Print Edition)In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years,...
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The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World (16pt Large Print Edition)A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well - being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you...
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Internationalism or ExtinctionIn his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces...
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Umbrellas in BloomThe Umbrella Movement put Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the globe. Umbrellas in Bloom is the first book available in English to chronicle this history-making event, written by a...
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Building a New Legal Order for the OceansThe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, has been called a constitution for the oceans. It keeps order in the world's oceans and regulates nations' use of their natural resources. Tommy Koh served as president of the third convention,...
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The US Army Rappelling Handbook - Military Abseiling Operations: Techniques, Training and Safety Procedures for Rappelling from Towers, Cliffs, MountaTECHNIQUES, TRAINING AND SAFETY PROCEDURES FOR RAPPELLING FROM TOWERS, CLIFFS, MOUNTAINS, HELICOPTERS AND MORE Learn military rappelling skills that could help save lives - including your own! Current U.S. Army training doctrine. Full-size edition - large 8.5" x 11" format: clear, detailed text &...
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The Model Arab League Manual: A Guide to Preparation and PerformanceThis textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Model Arab League (MAL) programme for first time and returning students. Drawing on over fourteen years of combined experience in successfully leading award-winning MAL delegations, Philip D'Agati and Holly A. Jordan provide students with an introduction...
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Siege: The Powerful and Uncompromising Story of What Happened Inside the Lindt Cafe and Why the Police Response Went So Tragi"I'm sure you will be] as shocked and bewildered by what you've learnt, as I was." --Afterword, Louisa Hope, Lindt Cafe hostage On December 15, 2014, just 10 days before Christmas, the unthinkable happened. A terrorist attack on Australian soil. For 17 hours, Islamic...
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For God and Country: The Christian Case for TrumpDonald Trump--Defender of Religious Freedom In 2016, many Christian leaders at first opposed candidate Donald Trump. He was a former social liberal, and his occasional vulgarity, multiple marriages and divorces, and tabloid scandals made it impossible for him to defend Christian values in public...
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Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for AsylumA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States' failing immigration system.Long before...
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What Does Green Mean?: The History, People, and Ideas of the Green Party in Canada and AbroadCanadians have seen Liberal governments. They've seen Conservative governments. And they've seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries...
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U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to CatastropheU.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire...
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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle EastAn important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Yaacov Yadgar provides a novel analysis of...
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