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Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century
Hendrik G Meijer · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The idea that a Senator - Republican or Democrat - would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884-1951) , Republican from... |
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Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror
HELEN EPSTEIN · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
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Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root... |
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Gideon Rachman · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing... |
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Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists... |
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Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China
Scott Savitt · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek... |
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A Dictionary of Sociology
John Scott · Oxford University Press; 4 edition
Format: Book
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A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology,... |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Martin Luther Jr King · Melville House
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate... |
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No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan
Ben Anderson · Oneworld Publications
Format: Print book
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Informed by over 300 hours of frontline footage with the U.S. Marines, critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ben Anderson provides a gripping account of the Afghanistan war in Helmand province. The only journalist to have witnessed every Afghan military campaign under Obama, Anderson... |
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Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Michele K. Troy · Yale University Press
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange bird": a cultural outsider to the Third... |
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Return to Cold War
Robert Legvold · Polity Press
Pages: 187
Format: Print book
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The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian foreign policy,... |
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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement
KAYLEIGH MCENANY · Threshold Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape... |
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Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court
Damon Root · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Should the Supreme Court defer to the will of the majority and uphold most democratically enacted laws? Or does the Constitution empower the Supreme Court to protect a broad range of individual rights from the reach of lawmakers? In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root traces the long... |
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