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Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel
David Leach · ECW Press
Pages: 344
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Say the word Israel today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. It wasn t always so. For decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer, in a blue work shirt and white sunhat, draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary... |
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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
Juan Gonzalez · Verso
Format: Book |
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News for All the People is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial newspaper to the internet age. It chronicles key government decisions that created our nation’s system of news, major political battles over the role of the press,... |
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Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy
Hindol Sengupta · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover |
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Twenty years after India opened its economy, it faces severe economic problems, including staggering income inequality. A third of its citizens still lack adequate food, education, and basic medical services, while Mumbai businessman Mukesh Ambani lives in the most expensive home in the world,... |
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Congress, Presidents, and American Politics: Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
Lee Hamilton · Indiana University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions, and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics. He continued to write regularly throughout... |
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The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst
Robert Blecker · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book |
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For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers’... |
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Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice
Anthony J Nocella II · New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback |
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The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless one, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new society, free from oppression and inequality, can be overwhelming. Tools for facilitating motivation,... |
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Ctrl Z: The Right to Be Forgotten
Meg Leta Jones · New York University Press
Pages: 267
Format: Print book |
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This is going on your permanent record is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected,... |
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