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Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court Vs. the American PeopleThe Supreme Court has recently issued decisions announcing that citizens have neither a constitutional right to vote, nor the right to an education. Conservative judges have continually disavowed claims to any rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. In "Overruling Democracy, " celebrated law...
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American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant AntifascismSince the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States. This book analyzes the tactics, culture, and practices of the movement...
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Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European UnionThe European Union of today cannot be studied as it once was. This original new textbook provides a much-needed update on how the EU's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multiple crises and transformations since 2010. An international team of leading...
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American Agony: The Opioid War Against Patients in PainManaging pain with opioids is a science--except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street...
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The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of SlaveryThe prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers--enslaved and free--allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as...
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Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park ReserveOriginally published in 1990, Paradise Won has been updated and details the epic 12-year struggle to stop logging in the unique global ecosystem referred to as "Canada's Galapagos."Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve is located in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as...
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Assassination of Mahatma - Indira - Rajiv Gandhis'30th January 1948; 31st October 1984; 21st May 1991.These three days bear significant importance in the history of independent India. The nation witnessed the assassination of the Father of the Nation, the Prime Minister of India and an ex-Prime Minister of India respectively. It...
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Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922Can one individual influence the course of history? In the example of Churchill and the Middle East during post-World War I, the answer is an irrefutable yes. Winston S. Churchill, first as Secretary for War and Air, and then as Colonial Secretary, both formulated...
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Dependency, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Latin AmericaThe Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) managed to explain both the insertion of peripheral societies into the international market and the capital accumulation processes of each country. This theory has become an essential tool for those endeavoring to understand our world. Since Ruy Mauro...
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Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In them, these students explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia....
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Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom StruggleThe memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical history. Born in 1929 New Orleans to left-wing Jewish parents, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's life has spanned nearly a century of engagement...
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On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things PastEdward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Said forever changed how...
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Village Gone Viral: Understanding the Spread of Policy Models in a Digital AgeIn 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist. The documentary radically challenged prevailing images of Ethiopia as a gender-conservative and aid-dependent...
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The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of BelongingThe Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (L on Ren Sultan, Edmond...
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A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North AfricaThis book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical...
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Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive CareRich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a...
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Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to PowerBoth more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight. After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the imprisonment of two of...
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Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug TradeIn this irreverent ode to gonzo journalism, one writer travels the globe to explore the use of recreational drugs in cultures around the world. After I got out of jail, I was determined to find out more about how the issue of drugs not...
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Scatter 2: Politics in DeconstructionThis book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to contemporary philosophy. Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy--as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery...
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Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence is here, today. How can society make the best use of it?Until recently, "artificial intelligence" sounded like something out of science fiction. But the technology of artificial intelligence, AI, is becoming increasingly common, from self-driving cars to e-commerce algorithms that seem to...
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