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How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in AmericaIn this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of "the streets" not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as...
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Black Power on the Move: Migration, Internationalism, and the British and Israeli Black PanthersThough born in the American South in the mid-1960s, the Black Power movement traveled the world in the years between 1967 and 1972, capturing the imagination of people of color across the Caribbean, Africa, Australasia, Europe, and the Middle East. In Black Power on...
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The End of the Rhetorical Presidency?: Public Leadership in the Trump EraThe End of the Rhetorical Presidency? Public Leadership in the Trump Era explores one of the most disruptive aspects of the Trump presidency. Since the FDR administration, presidents developed the capacity and skill to use the public to influence the legislative arena, gain reelection,...
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The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon's "Memorabilia"The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citizen philosopher Socrates, founder of...
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The Political Economy of Italy's DeclineItaly is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From...
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Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971: History RevisitedThe famous British philosopher and historian, R.G. Collingwood, suggested that a historian must reconstruct history by using 'historical imagination' to're-enact' the thought processes of historical persons based on information and evidence from historical sources. That is what the authors of the present book have...
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Sotto attacco: Il terrorismo islamico contro l'OccidenteNizza, 14 luglio 2016, ore 22:30. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel stringe il volante di un Renault Midlum noleggiato in un'agenzia locale. Dalla fronte, sugli occhi, cadono gocce di sudore. Davanti a lui, sulla Promenade des Anglais, una folla di migliaia di persone sta assistendo allo spettacolo...
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Living in ProblematicitySpanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patočka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writings assembled in Living in Problematicity examine the role of the philosopher in the world, how...
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War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of Isis, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with IranIs the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East? In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from...
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The Indian IdeologyThe historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world's most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the "Idea...
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Chronology of Chaos: The Mistakes, Missteps, Mishaps, and Missed Opportunities During Donald Trump's Reign as POTUSChronology of Chaos is a book that covers the day to day turmoil during Donald Trump's first term in office. Written in a chapter/month format, Chaos captures the abject craziness of an administration run by tweet, and dominated by fear. Each chapter entry consists...
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Praying for America: 40 Inspiring Stories and Prayers for Our NationPraying for America encourages readers to spend forty days asking God to do His will in and to bless America.Each chapter includes an inspiring story demonstrating the power of faith in the life of our nation, a prayer, and a relevant passage of Scripture...
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The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of EnlightenmentHow did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the...
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Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil WarsTheodore McLauchlin's Desertion examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long...
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Disaster Education, Communication and EngagementA detailed guide to the design and evaluation of effective disaster learning programs Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement provides a much-needed evidence-based guide for designing effective disaster learning plans and programs that are tailored to local communities and their particular hazard risks. Drawing on...
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Rwanda After Genocide: Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic GrowthIn the 1994 Rwanda genocide, around 1 million people were brutally murdered in just thirteen weeks. This book offers an in-depth study of posttraumatic growth in the testimonies of the men and women who survived, highlighting the ways in which they were able to...
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Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and Its DiscontentsWhen insurgent organizations factionalize and fragment, it can profoundly shape a civil war: its intensity, outcome, and duration. In this extended treatment of this complex and important phenomenon, Michael Woldemariam examines why rebel organizations fragment through a unique historical analysis of the Horn of...
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Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi GermanyLike every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom through book censorship.Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933 alone, there were 90 book burnings across 70 German cities,...
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Debating Targeted Killing: Counter-Terrorism or Extrajudicial Execution?Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of Israel and the United States. Several thousand have been killed by drones or by operatives on the ground in the last twenty years. Is this form of killing justified, when hundreds or thousands...
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Les origines du régime féodalLa mani re dont les populations de la Gaule sont pass es du r gime politique que Rome leur avait donn au r gime f odal est un des plus graves probl mes que la science historique ait r soudre. Il n'est jamais ais...
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