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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityInequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations...
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The New Road to SerfdomIn World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of social democracy, British politician Daniel Hannan returns the favor. The New Road to Serfdom is a must-read rallying cry...
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Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, with a New Preface and EpilogueIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With...
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Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist MoscowIn this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to...
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity--from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization--Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history...
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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late ColonialismIn analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have...
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The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military RelationsIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general...
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Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian CountryIn 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native organizations have...
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Adolescent self-concept, self-control adjustment and pedagogical concerns of working mothers and housewives.Importance of mother In life, a person generally come across various forms of relationship like father, son, husband and wife but the most dearest and hearty of all is of a mother. Mother is the best gift given by the creator on this earth....
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Please Don't Take My Baby'I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention, ' Jade said. 'I'll show my mum she's wrong.'Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she's brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more...
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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistoryHuman rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering...
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Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6Gordon Thomas, a leading expert on the intelligence community, returns in Secret Wars to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6. Thomas's wide-sweeping history of two of the oldest and most powerful agencies in the world chronicles a century of both...
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Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in EuropeFrom Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. Israel, the Middle East's only consolidated democracy according to many, has never experienced single-party rule...
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MythologiesFour myths dominated U.S. ideology in the 19th century. Myths of white victimization, capitalist progress, the frontier, and the ″self-made man″ shaped how many Americans thought about themselves. These ideas lay at the heart of ruling class justification for settler colonialism, the expansion of...
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Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy--until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its...
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants KillFor four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively--to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola--she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains...
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Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in RomaniaFocusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project. Contrary to arguments that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase the pre-war...
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The Three Worlds of Welfare CapitalismFew discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. G sta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and...
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Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityEurope is in crisis. Sluggish economic growth in many countries, widespread income stagnation, and recession have led to severe political and social consequences. Social protections for citizens have been cut back. Governments offer timid responses to deep-seated problems. These economic and political failures have...
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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast AsiaDoes foreign aid promote human rights? As the world's largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast...
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