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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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Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious UnitySunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance. Under the Banner of Islam uses Turkey as a case study to understand how religious, ethnic, and national identities converge in ethnic...
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The Life of the Party: Memoirs of a Hood ConservativeBorn with a plastic spoon in her mouth, Cecilia S. Johnson walks you through her diverse and often traumatic upbringing that led to her becoming one of the most compelling young figures in the conservative movement. Orginally from a small trailer park in Southeast...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Human RightsSince the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum? This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights...
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Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian StateDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents over one hundred contemporary political jokes in the contexts of their performance. Throughout, Anastasiya Astapova demonstrates the salience of the joke genre, the...
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From Odessa with Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine"Born in Tashkent, raised in Moscow and New York City, an editor in Odessa, a correspondent in Paris, there seems nowhere Davidzon hasn't been, no one he hasn't met. The result is a distinctive voice and eye, an eclectic mix of the cultural critic,...
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Ignaz Semmelweis and the Vienna School of MedicineBased on newly available documents and others translated for the first time, physician Nicholas Kadar sheds important new light on the thinking of the celebrated Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) at the Vienna School of Medicine, where he discovered the cause and prophylaxis of...
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The Cold War Wilderness of Mirrors: Counterintelligence and the U.S. and Soviet Military Liaison Missions 1947-1990The untold story of the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany.This book details the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany...
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From Anger to Action: Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable PlanetFrom Anger to Action tells the stories of the citizens' movements charting new paths to tackle the big global challenges that lie behind the political upheavals of our times. Drawing on candid insights from citizens, activists, and innovators, and their own experiences as leaders...
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New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its AlternativesNew Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war' on cholera in the 19th century. It didn't defeat the disease but it served...
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Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in AlgeriaColonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to shed new light on the ways in which the...
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East-West Dialectics, Currency Resets & the Convergent Power of One: Roadmapping the Economic AbyssThis three-part series attempts a vaguely Christian read of the so-called 'East-West dialectic' first by exploring the overarching engine of historical advance (usury and debt-money creation); then onto Russia and China's expanding and consensual roles in global power consolidation before reviewing how the impending...
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Key Controversies in European IntegrationIs the EU a success or a failure?Should It Stay or Should It Go? Britain and the EUThe Big Waste or Essential to Feed Europe? The Common Agricultural Policy Observers of the European Union could be forgiven in thinking that since its inception the...
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American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's IdentityAmerican Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding.During the interwar period, isolationists could be found...
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Cannabis: Global HistoriesCannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe,...
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