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Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations. Political scientist Pascal Lupien here reveals how Indigenous political activists responded to these changes as part of their long, ongoing struggles for equal citizenship rights and economic and political power. Such activists are often thought to rely solely on disruptive, large-scale forms of collective action, but Lupien argues that twenty-first-century...
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It's Not Just the Facts
When it comes to climate change, this truly is a golden age-of fake news, post-truths, pluralistic ignorance, conspiracy theories, a willfully ignorant administration, and the Cranky Uncle. You know him. We all have one. That exasperating Thanksgiving blusterer digs in his heels even as the foundation of his denial thaws faster than the Arctic ice caps.
Written and illustrated by Dr. John Cook, cognitive psychologist and...
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"My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!" How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the Canadian nation flow from screen to audience and then...
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“The Horrors of the Negro Slavery Existing in Our West Indian Islands” is a pamphlet written anonymously in the 18th century. The pamphlet is a scathing indictment of the slave trade and the treatment of enslaved people in the West Indian colonies of Great Britain. The pamphlet describes in detail the brutal conditions under which enslaved people were forced to live and work. It details the horrific physical and psychological abuse that was inflicted...
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China. This book offers a comprehensive, balanced and policy-oriented assessment of the BRI's first ten years and what it has meant for the world's businesses, polities, and societies. The authors explore China's role as a globally significant source of development finance and investment capital, and examine the political,...
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The only metric that tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a limited time, followed by a crash. Avoiding ecological bankruptcy requires rigorous resource accounting - a challenging task, but doable with the right tools. Ecological Footprint...
16428) The Wizards of Oz
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"The Wizards of Oz" is a work of fiction. However, every character in the book is based on a real person. Every occurrence is based on an actual happening. All the language, though vile is based on the language used by those individuals
The humor and sarcasm are only meant to draw you into a true and traitorous reality: a political system that feeds on power and greed and money.
As you read on, you will be horrified by the people and events that pervade...
16429) A Modern Slavery
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“A Modern Slavery” is a book written by Henry Woodd Nevinson, first published in 1906. The book is an investigative report on the forced labor system in Portuguese Africa, specifically in Angola. Nevinson, a journalist and social reformer, traveled to Angola in 1905 to gather information about the forced labor system that was prevalent there. In the book, Nevinson describes the cruel and inhumane treatment of the African people who were forced...
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In April 1975, Addheka was a 14-year-old Cambodian girl who had only just learned to walk after being a polio victim as an infant. She was part of the forced evacuation from Phnom Penh of the entire population of the city and trudged to an unknown future with her large extended family Her beloved father, who produced two other families, altogether looked after 24 children and three wives. The families were soon scattered far and wide and lost touch...
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In Defending the Constitution, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-makes an impassioned constitutional argument against the impeachment of President Donald Trump, just as he delivered it to the United States Senate.
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties...
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Participatory Democracy: The
Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica, Marc Anthony
Thomas expands the existing knowledge on participatory democracy. Parish development
committees were established as a means for Jamaicans to inform government
policy, and Thomas explores the extent to which supportive institutional, infrastructural
and superstructural conditions allow for robust implementation of this
democratization initiative. His analysis...
16433) The South Was Right!
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THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT! A NEW EDITION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY IN 1991, THE KENNEDY BROTHERS first published The South Was Right!, launching the modern movement of Southern awareness and activism. To date the first and second edition of this book has sold over 135,000 copies! Not for the faint of heart, The South Was Right! is an authoritative and well-documented study of the mythology behind "Civil War" history and its ongoing effects. In their new edition...
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Let Adam Brandon, one of America's leading activists, explain the past, the present, and the future of American conservatism-from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to the rise of the Tea Party and the fight against Obamacare to the election of Donald Trump and his battle to drain the swamp in Washington-and offer advice from his unique perspective on how to bridge the generational and political divides in the United States for a better future.
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Un ouvrage nécessaire pour comprendre notre Histoire moderne.
Dans cet ouvrage est exposée la doctrine officielle du fascisme, écrite par Mussolini.
Découvrez de l'intérieur une idéologie qui a participé à modifier en profondeur le visage du XXe siècle.
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Comme toute saine conception politique, le fascisme associe la pensée à l'action. C'est une action animée par une doctrine. Cette doctrine est née d'un système donné de forces...
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Buffalo Girl- My Journey to Freedom is a gripping drama, a celebration of the human spirit, and a beacon of hope for all. Hoang Taing affirms that for even the youngest member of a shattered family, forced to live in the bleak landscape of a war-torn country, love can bloom like a flower within, and - with this flower to motivate and inspire her- not only survive but thrive.
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A landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors' definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows this story from inside the realtor profession, drawing on many industry documents that have remained unexamined until now. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word "freedom"...
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For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo's St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the "Nigger Breakers"-men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. "Isn't it ironic," writes Reed: "A media that scolded the Jim Crow South in the 1960s now finds itself hosting the bird." In this collection, which includes several unpublished...
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From the bushfires in Australia to the outbreak of COVID-19 and America's greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, It Took a Crisis outlines how the events of 2020 underscored the need for a serious assessment of the status quo. These intersecting crises have laid bare existing institutional failures that the world has failed to address for decades, arguably centuries.
These issues are not new. Health care has never been a universal right...
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An incisive collection of essays that reveal the past, present, and future strength of Black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself.
In a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues...
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