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Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today
Anna Feigenbaum · Verso
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
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The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging.... |
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Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
Felix Harcourt · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
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In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated... |
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The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today
Kevin Carrico · University of California Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic... |
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Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity
Martin Halliwell · Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right.... |
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Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Julian Assange · OR Books
Pages: 185
Format: Print book
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Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s.Now,... |
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Konet?s? podkralsi?a? nezametno
?????? ?. ?. ??????. ; M Veller · AST
Format: Print book : Russian
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Novaia kniga Mikhaila Vellera sozdana v tom zhe zhanre, chto i riad ego bestsellerov poslednikh let - "Velikii poslednii shans", prochitannyi vsem politicheskim isteblishmentom strany (obshchii tirazh bolee 300 000 ekz.) i "Ottcy nashi milostivtcy". eto splav strastnoi... |
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The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America
RODNEY HOWARD-BROWNE · River Publishing
Pages: 425
Format: Hardcover
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Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable - including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive "invisible" global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were... |
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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
James L. Trainum · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions... |
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Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media
Nickie D Phillips · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 220
Format: Print book
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From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence... |
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What Do We Know about Civil Wars?
T. David Mason · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
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Since World War II, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. How do we account for when and where civil wars are likely to occur, when and how they are likely to end, and whether or not they will recur? In this timely book,... |
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The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell
Alec MacGillis · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From a dogged political reporter, an investigation into the political education of Mitch McConnell and an argument that this powerful Senator embodies much of this country’s political dysfunction.Based on interviews with more than seventy-five people who have worked alongside Mitch... |
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
Bettany Hughes · Da Capo Press
Pages: 856
Format: Hardcover
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, it has been the capital... |
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Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Michele Valerie Cloonan · ALA Neal-Schuman
Format: Book
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Drawing on historical texts, this accessible volume provides a broad understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation.... |
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