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16381) Divorce vs. Democracy
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This work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1916.
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An Eye-Opening, Concise Look at the Source of the Current Wave of Terrorism, How it Spread, and Why the West Did Nothing. Lifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence Ward reveals a sinister truth. Far from being "the West's ally in the War on Terror," Saudi Arabia is in reality the largest exporter of Wahhabism-the severe, ultra-conservative sect of Islam that is both Saudi Arabia's official religion and the core ideology for international...
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Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist answers an echoing call for a beginner's guide to foresight. Drawing from her decades of experience in high-tech, April Reagan presents an array of historical information, tools and research to guide readers through an educational journey.
Bridge Makers is designed as an easy read that aims to spark an interest in every citizen to find agency in their anticipation of the future. This is done by painting...
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As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution, a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. “The Triumph of Politics” was Stockman's frontline report of the miscalculations, manipulations, and political intrigues that led to its failure. A major publishing event and New York Times bestseller in its day, “The Triumph of Politics”...
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Comment la COP 24 a-t-elle pu se passer comme si le dernier rapport spécial du GIEC sur l'urgence climatique n'avait jamais existé ? Cet essai s'interroge sur le rle véritable des COP.
Vingt-quatre ans de COP*. Depuis un quart de siècle, les négociations sur climat font quasiment du surplace tandis que les émissions de GES poursuivent leur ascension.
Fin 2018, la COP 24 s'est passée comme si le dernier rapport spécial du GIEC sur l'urgence...
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In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism first...
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The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives and Québécois families, in particular the way family allowances and compulsory schooling primarily benefited teenage boys who worked on family...
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"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" Dawn Langan Teele is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of Field Experiments and Their Critics.
The important political motivations behind why women finally won the right to vote
In the 1880s, women were barred from voting in all national-level...
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Before the First Opium War (18391842), China had control over the terms of its relationship with Western powers, refusing to grant foreigners extraterritorial privileges or sign international treaties fully recognizing their political status. This dynamic has been largely overlooked in prior studies that emphasize China's semi colonial vulnerability after the First Opium War, but it has important implications for the attitudes and policies that have...
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This book examines how insufficient policies can lead to the alleged abuse of power in organisations. When independent ethical structures and processes are missing or weak, practices of abuse, misconduct and cover-ups can easily arise at the leadership level. Even organisations that specialise in good governance are no exception, as illustrated by this case study on arguably the world's most influential anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International...
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Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet...
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Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.
In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle...
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Insider Richard Kirsch offers a vivid, first-person account of how health care reform came to be.
This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organizers played a crucial role in President Obama's signing historic health reform legislation in March of 2010-defeating the tea partiers, Republican Party,...
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Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport will be among the major challenges facing humanity and will require a revolution in thinking about how we move people and goods. Transport Revolutions analyzes five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods travel. It examines the worldwide state of transport...
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O nazismo, um movimento político alemão controverso, está para sempre associado à loucura assassina e à monstruosidade destrutiva de uma ideologia racista e anti-semita. A história recorda particularmente o seu protagonista, Adolf Hitler, e o seu único partido, o NSDAP. No rescaldo da Grande Guerra, surgiram movimentos extremistas, nomeadamente em Itália com Mussolini e na URSS com Lenine. Os alemães, devastados pela derrota, precisavam de...
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The Earth is slowly heating up, and only we, as a global community, can stop it-with the knowledge behind what is happening, we can affect change. Using his PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and his LLM in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Northwestern College of Law at Lewis & Clark University, Dr. John Perona takes us on a journey into the science and politics of the climate crisis in From Knowledge to Power:...
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Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to early cooperation with the United Nations. Tracing the relationship between transformations in anti-colonial politics and the history of the United States during its emergence as the dominant world power,...
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From August 2018 ahead through year two's midterm elections of the racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and hate filled bigoted oppression plans. BattleRhymes Vol.6 Rhymes its way through a litany of social, political & ethical issues in an #UpslopeFlow format expressing deep concern for the rise of hate and lack of pushback. Contains more rhymes than Shakespeare has sonnets. ™️ After the 1st five Tomes...
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This book describes an adaptable biothreat assessment process to complement overall bio risk management programs, incorporating threat management and the unique natures of biological assets. Further, this book examines the nexus between public health, international security, and developing technologies, building a case for augmenting biosecurity to levels beyond the laboratory constraints. With the face of biological and biomedical sciences changing,...
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Robert P. Inman is the Richard K. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Finance, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he continues to teach at the Wharton School and the Law School. His books include Making Cities Work (Princeton). Daniel L. Rubinfeld is professor of law at New York University and the Robert L. Bridges Professor Emeritus of Law and professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He...
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