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A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political ThoughtA bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public...
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A Political Economy of JusticeDefining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable--and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now--then how do markets, governments, and people interact in this...
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How China Escaped the Poverty TrapAcclaimed as game changing and field shifting, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise. How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered...
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Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject ItA provocative retelling of the workings of self-interest in contemporary market society, which claims the world increasingly belongs to passionates, obsessives, and fanatics: those who do things for their own sake, rather than as means to other ends. In our capitalist market society, we...
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The Impasse of the Latin American LeftIn The Impasse of the Latin American Left, Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber explore the region's Pink Tide as a political, economic, and cultural phenomenon. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Latin American politics experienced an upsurge in progressive movements,...
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Democracy's Rebirth: The View from ChicagoDick Simpson draws upon his fifty-year career as a legislator, campaign strategist, and government advisor to examine the challenges confronting Americans in their struggle to build the United States as a multiracial, multiethnic democracy. Using Chicago as an example, Simpson examines how the political,...
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The A.L.F. Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North AmericaThe definitive look inside the Animal Liberation Front.At 700+ pages, The A.L.F. Strikes Again is the largest-ever collection of writing from members of the Animal Liberation Front (the "radical fringe of the animal rights movement"), tying together over 40 years of documents with one...
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California Government and PoliticsCalifornia Government and Politics: An Introductory Primer to California Government provides a basic understanding of the history and modern practice of California government and politics. This book stands as an independent resource for teaching California politics or a compliment to most introduction to political...
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George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding FatherA fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart "An outstanding biography . . . [George Washington] has a narrative drive such a life deserves."--The...
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The Devastating WakeThe Devastating Wake describes the environmental and social impacts of 13,000 voyages from New England to the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century. Four key resources extracted from islands and coastlines, and four introductions from New England ships--including diseases and Christianity--provide the framework for...
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All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize DisasterAn uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate From the climate apocalypse and COVID-19 to double-digit unemployment to Donald Trump and the rise...
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ErThe riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind "Gripping . ....
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Rosa ParksMontgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955: at the end of the working day, 42-year-old Rosa Parks, a black leather dressmaker, takes bus 2857, heading home. She sits in a center row, but when a white passenger gets on after a few stops, the driver asks...
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The Essential Writings of John MarshallJohn Marshall's strong personality and many Supreme Court decisions established the fourth chief justice as the most significant figure in the court's early years. His interpretation of the Constitution profoundly influenced the federal judiciary's authority over state courts and laws and wielded an enormous...
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Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American HistoryAs seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight As heard on Glenn Beck "In this important book the authors do the job our uninquisitive media has failed to do throughout this ordeal. Confirming with cited and sourced details the enemy of both liberty and logic the...
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Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global OrderThe state bounds politics: it constructs and enforces boundaries that separate what it controls from what lies outside its domain. However, states face a variety of threats that cross and challenge their geographical and conceptual boundaries. Transnational violent actors that transcend these boundaries also...
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China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World OrderAs China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and the U.S.,...
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On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine WarsAn oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain. In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners for Democracy movement to conduct interviews with participants in,...
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Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014As Noam Chomsky writes about something--US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement--he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved....
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The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic: The Rise of the Third ReichA thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power. November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic...
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