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Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black LivesBlack Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social...
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The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Social ChangeIn The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters...
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What Is It about TexasWhat is it about Texas? shares stories and historical interpretations with wide audience appeal. The collection in this book is meant to inform, entertain, and perhaps make one ponder how the state's past has developed and progressed. Maybe, out there, there is someone else...
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England's Cross of GoldIn England's Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on the struggles among elites in London to define and redefine the gold standard--from the...
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American Affective Polarization in Comparative PerspectiveAmerican political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude...
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Figures That Speak: The Vocabulary of Turkish NationalismIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father (Atatürk). This familiar vocabulary functions as more than a set of descriptors of institutions, phenomena, or...
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Democracia Em ConvulsãoEste livro composto por quatro ensaios que visam entender o Brasil em seus aspectos pol ticos e culturais da atualidade. Os ensaios tratam da democracia em convuls o, das disputas entre Direita e Esquerda, das origens da democracia na Gr cia e no Brasil,...
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Raging Waters in the South China SeaPacked with more than a hundred color illustrations, maps, and timelines, this enlightening and provocative book on the South China Sea conflict is a treasure trove of information written in an engaging and compelling way. While there are hundreds of footnotes to lead readers...
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Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to FukushimaConformist, mute and malleable? Andrews tackles head-on this absurd caricature of Japanese society in his fascinating history of its militant sub-cultures, radical societies and well-established traditions of dissent Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how...
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Diary of Gideon Welles, Volume I: Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson"Wanting a man from New England, Lincoln took an ex-Democrat, trained in public business, who had manifested his courage and the earnestness of his conviction by casting loose from his old associates on the question of slavery; and who also had shown a natural...
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On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global EraIt could be argued--and esteemed historian of ideas Russell Jacoby does so here--that the less diversity there is, the more we talk about it. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do...
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Liberty for AllChristians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the...
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about RacismIn this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight...
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When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' - Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America' - Washington Post In When America...
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Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its LegacyShortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go...
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Inside American PoliticsAuthor: Ryan BarilleauxPublisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyPublished: 04/05/2010Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.03h x 7.34w x 0.75dISBN: 9780757576706
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Local Government Law: A Practical Guidebook for Public Officials on City Councils, Community Boards, and Planning CommissionsLocal Government Law provides a unique resource with concise, easy-to-understand explanations of important legal issues faced by local public officials, community boards, and city councils. From the moment officials take office, they face decisions related to basic principles found in state and federal law....
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Friend or Foe: Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence in the Lebanese Civil WarWhen civil conflicts break out in plural societies, violence often occurs along group divides--running the risk of spiraling into ethnic cleansing. Yet for militants who do not seek ethnic separation as a political goal, indiscriminate attacks are detrimental to their cause. Under what circumstances...
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Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First CenturySince the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked whether the country should or will return to commanding armed forces amid an increasingly...
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War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic ThoughtPeace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: peace is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace?...
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