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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 Volume 14Volume 14 of The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.Human Nature and Conduct evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University....
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There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and EqualityThis book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories...
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Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems...
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Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by step, carefully laying the foundation for his central assertion that our basic rights are...
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Infinite Hope: The Story of One Man's Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and Survival O N Death RowWritten by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row--a powerful memoir about fighting for, and winning, exoneration In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of...
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Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal ConflictFor American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how...
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The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senatevolume 12With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become...
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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian ImpasseA visionary* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--one state for two peoples--that is more urgent than ever It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian violence is to divide the territory in two. All efforts at resolving the conflict...
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A Brief History of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island ParadiseThis book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic history...
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The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in IndiaThe neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative...
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Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern IndiaModern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors...
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Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, ProspectsAsian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. In 1996, more than 300 Asian and Pacific Americans were elected to federal, state, and local offices; today, more than 2,000 hold appointive positions in government. Asian American voices have...
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Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social ChangeUntil recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situation today is radically different, especially in cities and prosperous villages, as a result of a notable increase in people's income...
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When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its AftermathApril 1958: The Soviets were leading the space race, the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow seemed certain to crown a hometown champion. But as the world's finest young pianists descended on the Russian capital, an...
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The Idea of PoliceThe Idea of Police is one of the core texts in its series. Written by a leading criminologist in a highly readable, fluid style, it is intended as an introductory text on police. Klockars defines the police in terms of their right to use...
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Quilts and Human RightsQuilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all the textile forms linked to human rights activities, one form--the quilt--has proved an especially potent and popular form for...
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1942: The Year That Tried Men's SoulsFrom the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America's most critical hour. On December 6, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare. Novelist and popular...
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The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First CenturyBased on an essay that has been hailed as one of the most influential policy pieces published in the last decade, Robert Cooper sets out a radical new interpretation of the shape of the world in this path-breaking book The Breaking of Nations. Cooper...
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After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For...
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Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International AmbitionOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they...
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