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Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and FaithIn communities in and around Cobán, Guatemala, a small but steadily growing number of members of the Q'eqchi' Maya Roman Catholic parish of San Felipe began self-identifying as members of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Their communities dramatically split as mainstream and charismatic Catholic parishioners...
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Cyber Mission Thread Analysis: A Prototype Framework for Assessing Impact to Missions from Cyber Attacks to Weapon SystemsAn important consideration when deciding to mitigate or accept a risk from a cyber attack to a weapon system is how it affects operational missions. To analyze mission impact, the authors propose a methodology that aims to achieve two goals: to be comprehensive enough...
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Our Data, Ourselves: A Personal Guide to Digital PrivacyA practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common and crucial question: What can we as private individuals do to protect our personal information in a digital world? In this practical handbook, legal...
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Prisoners of Their Premises: How Unexamined Assumptions Lead to War and Other Policy DebaclesA timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions. Why do accomplished and stable leaders frequently make calamitous decisions with devastating consequences for their countries--and other nations? We debate debacles such as the American involvement in Vietnam, seeking to understand...
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Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in AfghanistanIn August 2021, Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul, ending twenty years of international efforts to build a democratic state in Afghanistan. Did the Taliban's success rest on coercion and violence alone, or did they win the battle for public support through...
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Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy RevisitedWhat does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with...
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Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story"Heart of Fire is a revelatory, evocative, deeply moving book." --Washington Post "Amazing . . . a memoir I really loved." --Secretary Hillary Clinton, "You and Me Both" podcast "A beautiful book." --Trevor Noah, The Daily ShowThe intimate and inspiring life story of Mazie...
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Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth ColumnsThe invocation of fifth columns in the political arena -- whether contrived or based on real fears -- has recurred periodically throughout history and is experiencing an upsurge in our era of democratic erosion and geopolitical uncertainty. Fifth columns accusations can have baleful effects...
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Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class JoyJames Wilt exposes the links between the global alcohol industry and capitalism. In Drinking Up the Revolution, James Wilt shows us why alcohol policy should be at the heart of any socialist movement. Many people are drinking more now than ever before, as already...
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The Open Society PlaybookIn his newest book, Scott Howard, author of The Transgender Industrial Complex, exposes the persons and actors financing the push for globalization and dissolution of national borders. Howard, in his own words, commits the "thoroughly postmodern crime of telling the truth using the words...
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Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol SiegeMore than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of the jihadist militants she spent her days monitoring, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid...
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COVID GATE 2022 - Agenda 21 Uncovered: The Deep State Elite & Big Pharma Exposed! Vaccines - The Great Reset - Global Crisis 2030-2050We are inching ever closer to the mother of all economic depressions and its effects are about to cause an unprecedented amount of turbulence, chaos and despair in our modern society. The horror stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s are about to...
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Law and IlliberalismDoes the law shield citizens from authoritarian regimes? Are the core beliefs of classical liberalism--namely the rights of all individuals and constraints on state power--still protected by law? Liberalism and its expansion of rights could not exist without the legal system, and unsurprisingly, many...
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Guns 360: Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense Approaches to Firearms in AmericaGuns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control. Issues related to firearms cut across all dimensions of society and...
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Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second AmendmentThe U.S. Supreme Court increasingly matters in American political life when those across the political spectrum look at the Court for relief from policies they oppose and as another venue for advancing their own policy agendas. However, the evidence is mounting, to include this...
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Biocrisis: Defining Biological Threats in U.S. PolicyOver the last 20 years, the national security community has engaged with disease-related issues that have traditionally been the scope of public health agencies. The federal government's response has been to create a single national biodefense strategy, which has been largely ineffective in improving...
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Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of ValueA sweeping, authoritative, and accessible overview of major issues in the global economy from a Marxist perspective. Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn...
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Polling Unpacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion PollsFrom a political-polling expert, an eye-opening--and hilarious--look at the origins of polls and how they have been used and abused ever since. Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do we tell the good from...
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The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism: Reputation Meets RealityAre claims of Massachusetts's special and instructive place in American history and politics justified? Alternately described as a "city upon a hill" and "an organized system of hatreds," Massachusetts politics has indisputably exerted an outsized pull on the national stage. The Commonwealth's leaders often...
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Expansion rebellion: Using the law to fight a runway and save the planetThis is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport was a...
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