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Francis Fukuyama
The End of History and the Last Man
Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping thr...
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Charles Tilly
Contentious Performances (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. Firs...
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David F. Schmitz
The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989
Building on Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as s...
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Vandana Shiva
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3 The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea Chapter 4 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5 The Stolen Harvest of Seed Chapter 6 Genetic Engineering and Food Secur...
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Robert Nisbet
Twilight of Authority
“We had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberal democracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decay that both Plato and Aristotle declared endemic in all forms of state. Now we are not so sure.” So wrote Robert Nisbet in the first edition of Twilight of Authority , published by...
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Beatrice Edwards
The Rise of the American Corporate Security State: Six Reasons to Be Afraid
“A vital book about the ridiculously cozy relationship between corporate wealth and government power and how it only seems to be getting worse” (William Cohan, author of Money and Power ). In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights has been rendered power...
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Piero Ammirato
Cooperative Enterprises
Cooperative Enterprises is the first textbook to examine the evolution of the cooperative enterprise model and the contribution that cooperatives can make to the economy and society. It provides an accessible overview of the subject, looking at history, cooperative models, theories, legislation, an...
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Drew J. Strait
Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalism threatens democracies and the church’s witness around the world. In the US, the election of Donald Trump and the January 6 Capitol insurrection spilled Christian power worship into public view. Since then, we have worked hard to define what American Christian nationalism is a...
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Andrew C McLaughlin
The Foundations of American Constitutionalism [1932]
Based on McLaughlin's Anson G. Phelps Lectures on Early American History delivered at New York University in 1932, this important study locates the principles of the United States Constitution in the political philosophy of colonial New England, Puritan practices and the ideals of English personal r...
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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
The Official Senate Report on CIA Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency?s Detention and Interrogation Program
Now available to the public for the first time, the Senate's landmark torture report delivers a damning indictment on CIA interrogation practices. Finally declassified and released after five years in the making, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture program, which de...
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Drew J Strait
Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalism threatens democracies and the church's witness around the world. In the US, the election of Donald Trump and the January 6 Capitol insurrection spilled Christian power worship into public view. Since then, we have worked hard to define what American Christian nationalism is and...
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Otto Bauer
The Austrian Revolution
This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer’s magisterial work — available in English for the first time in full — charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolu...
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J.R. MacGregor
Historical Biographies of Presidents - Books 3 and 4: George Washington – Beyond Independence and Thomas Jefferson – The Architect of Freedom in the
No two men are more synonymous with what it means to be “American.” From leading the Continental Army in the battle for American Independence and being the first president of the United States to the writer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the most popular leaders in American Histor...
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G. K. Chesterton
The G.K. Chesterton Collection: Alarms and Discursions, A Miscellany of Men, The Victorian Age in Literature, The Barbarism of Berlin, Letters to an .
The G.K. Chesterton Collection is an extraordinary anthology that brings together some of the most insightful, witty, and thought-provoking works of the renowned English writer, philosopher, and critic G.K. Chesterton. This comprehensive volume includes Alarms and Discursions, A Miscellany of Men,...
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Ole Skovsmose
Critical Mathematics Education (Advances in Mathematics Education)
The book Critical Mathematics Education provides Ole Skovsmose’s recent contribution to the further development of critical mathematics education. It gives examples of learning environments, which invite students to engage in investigative processes. It discusses how mathematics can be used for ...
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Jack Miles
A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life
In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor―acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion,...
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Ross B. Emmett
Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight occupies a paradoxical place in the history of Chicago economics: vital to the tradition’s teaching of price theory and the twentieth-century re-articulat...
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Stephen G. Salkever
Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues. Originally published in 1...
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Sabyasachi Kar
The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes (Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy)
‘This book is different from most other attempts to understand the politics of Indian economic development. Breaking down the last 65+ years of Indian development into several episodes of growth, it provides a rich set of insights into the political economy of the Indian development process and is...
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Jens-Dieter Stahmer
Wings of the American Mosaic: A Vision for Tolerance, Engagement, and Justice
Wings of the American Mosaic: Volume I – A Vision for Tolerance, Engagement, and Justice is a powerful and timely exploration of America’s ongoing struggle, and promise, to become a more just, inclusive, and compassionate nation.Written from the unique perspective of an author born in Germany ...
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