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The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in PoliticsWhen Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during the 1988 presidential campaign, he asserted in a particularly American tenor the near-ancient idea that lying and politics (and perhaps advertising, too) are inseparable, or at least...
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A Topping People: The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the...
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Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever"The players today are much better than we were.... But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can now. Man, we used to pass that basketball around like it was a hot potato."--Sam "Buck"...
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Magna Carta: Text and CommentaryA classic classroom reference since its 1964 publication, this indispensable volume offers the full text of Magna Carta in English, as well as a chapter-by-chapter discussion of its history and provisions.In his newly revised commentary on this founding document in the history of constitutionally...
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Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental KnowledgeLonglisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Citizen science--research involving nonprofessionals in the research process--has attracted both strong enthusiasts and detractors. Many environmental professionals, activists, and scholars consider citizen science part of their toolkit for addressing environmental...
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Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner ViolenceHousing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing takes on an additional meaning; it is the key to establishing a new life, free from abuse. IPV survivors often face such inadequate housing...
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Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental CrisisThe world's water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption of...
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This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth CenturyIn the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups--in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee--revealing how quite ordinary...
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Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College FootballEven the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Yet before and after these heroes staked a claim for African Americans in professional sports, dozens of college athletes asserted their own civil...
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The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in ChicagoSince the late 1970s, the high-rise developments of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) have been dominated by gang violence and drugs, creating a sense of hopelessness among residents. Despite a lengthy war on crime, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, the CHA has been...
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A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCCActivists and historians reflect together on the civil rights movement and its meanings, and on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's place in American history."The reminiscences and reflections voiced at the SNCC reunion remind us of the remarkable vision and courageous dedication of the civil...
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Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle"A collection of varied and amazing lives, all bent on shaping history. Together, these experienced, undeterred Nicaraguan women offer powerful clues about a truly revolutionary and democratizing feminism."--Adrienne Rich"If it were not for writers like Margaret, how would women around the world find each...
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A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in TrentonNineteenth-century Trenton, New Jersey, was a booming commercial and manufacturing center for iron, rubber, steel cables, machine tools, and pottery. Trenton's golden age lasted until the 1920s, when many local industries were bought out by national companies. The story of the subsequent social, political,...
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Games Real Actors Play: Actor-centered Institutionalism In Policy ResearchGames Real Actors Play provides a persuasive argument for the use of basic concepts of game theory in understanding public policy conflicts. Fritz Scharpf criticizes public choice theory as too narrow in its examination of actor motives and discursive democracy as too blind to...
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Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated HistoryGender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional...
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Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and PoliticsA rich collection of diverse voices, Sociology of Globalization examines the processes of globalization as well as its impact on people around the world. It looks beyond the headlines, stereotypes, and hype and features a balanced selection of classic scholarship and theory, cutting-edge research,...
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Military Leadership: In Pursuit of ExcellenceThe sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the 'process' of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the individual and organizational values that foster...
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Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi ArabiaThe relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has always been a marriage of convenience, not affection. In a bargain cemented by President Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's founding king in 1945, Americans gained access to Saudi oil, and the Saudis sent the dollars...
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Turkey: A Nation Divided Over Islam's RevivalThe secular Republic of Turkey, which has gone further towards Westernization than any other Muslim country, has been caught up in the Islamic revival sweeping the world from Morocco to the Philippines. Three-quarters of a century after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the trappings of...
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The Insider's Guide to Political Internships: What to Do Once You're in the DoorEvery year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they are rarely able to "hit the ground running," lacking the tools to help them do so. The Insider's Guide to Political Internships provides...
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