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Robbin Laird
Perspectives on Portuguese Histroy: The 2024 Lectures by Professor Kenneth Maxwell (Portugal and Brazil Confront the Contemporary World)
When Kenneth Maxwell—the world's foremost historian of Portuguese democracy—stood before audiences in São Paulo, Lisbon, and Harvard in 2024, he wasn't just delivering academic lectures. He was connecting the threads of a revolutionary story that spans centuries and continents, linking the 1974...
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Mary Jo McConahay
Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right
“A fascinating, investigative dive . . . both alarming and enlightening.”  — Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money The definitive account of how a group of American Catholic bishops are using “dark money” and allying with ultra-right evangelicals in an attempt to remake America . . . ...
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John H McManus Ph.D
Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Information in the Digital Age
America is being torn apart by the rise of new sources of news that have no respect for facts or democracy. Coupled with politicians who cast honest journalists as frauds and enemies of the public, they are eroding the informational common ground and poisoning the process of reaching consensus that ...
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Tony Smith
Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed ― and how America can fulfill it again The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power―and also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with th...
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John Dewey
The School and Society
The School and Society by John Dewey is an educational classic that provides an influential analysis of the relationship between school and society. Drawing on his experience in the classroom and his philosophical background, Dewey offers a unique perspective on topics such as the role of the tea...
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John Rees
The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to l...
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Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
The New York Times –bestselling author “delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic” ( Publishers Weekly ). In this book, Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitu...
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Lawrence Jacobs
Making America Healthier: The Affordable Care Act and Civic Renewal
Health reform didn't just expand coverage, it reshaped American politics. The Affordable Care Act's journey reveals how inclusive policy can build public trust, soften partisan divides, and redefine civic engagement. Can a bold new social program foster a supportive constituency that helps sustain...
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Jim A Diers
Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way
Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle’s communities. This book not only gives hope that p...
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George Cheney
Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón
Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondrag...
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Brian Loveman
The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America (Latin American Silhouettes)
Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corr...
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Henry A. Giroux
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Second Edition (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism , Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the p...
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Ella Myers
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a "public and psychological wage," offering valuable social standing to even the ...
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Merrill
The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, “a Laborer,” 1747–1814 (The John Harvard Library)
The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot soldier, and political philosopher, Manning was a powerful democratic voice of the common American in a turbulent age. The public crises of the infant republ...
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Sebastian Strangio
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt ...
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Agnes Horvath
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Base...
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Halil Karaveli
Why Turkey is Authoritarian: Right-Wing Rule from Atatürk to Erdogan (Left Book Club)
For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karaveli highlights the danger in viewing events in Turkey as a war b...
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Barbara Stiegler
Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative
Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. “We must adapt!” These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. Where does this widespread sense that we have fallen behind come from? How can w...
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans...
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Don H Doyle
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model...
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