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The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Stephen C. Richards · Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing collection of convict experiences, academic research, and policy recommendations shines a light on the proliferation of supermax super-maximum-security prisons and the detrimental effects of long-term high-security confinement... |
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Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell · The MIT Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death... |
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Wrong Turnings: How the Left Got Lost
Geoffrey Martin Hodgson · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 283
Format: Paperback
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The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little... |
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition... |
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right
George Hawley · Columbia University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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CODE RED: Computerized Election Theft and The New American Century: POST - E2014 Edition
Jonathan D Simon · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 4 edition
Format: Print book
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CODE RED is about what has happened to American elections, American politics, and America since computers took over the vote counting just a few short years ago. It identifies the red flags--including the glaring one waving over our most recent election, E2014--and provides accessible... |
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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
Mark Hertsgaard · Hot Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate... |
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Heather Mac Donald · Encounter Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson... |
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Uprooting Racism - 4th edition: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Paul Kivel · New Society Publishers
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Over 50,000 copies sold of earlier editions! Powerful strategies and practical tools for white people committed to racial justiceIn 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion. Meanwhile, inequalities in education,... |
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Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
TRITA PARSI · Yale University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015... |
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American Indian Politics and the American Political System
David E Wilkins · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover
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American Indian Politics and the American Political System is the most comprehensive text written from a political science perspective. It analyzes the structures and functions of indigenous governments (including Alaskan Native communities and Hawaiian Natives) and the distinctive legal... |
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