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  • Security Through Cooperation
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    Security Through Cooperation

    Russian officials and experts often voice the view that the United States was hell-bent on undermining, even destroying Russia during the turbulent period of the Soviet breakup thirty years ago. The primary US goal, in this telling, was to expand NATO to...
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  • Children of a Modest Star
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    Children of a Modest Star

    A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders...
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  • Currency of Nihilism
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    Currency of Nihilism

    What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways. From...
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  • Currency of Nihilism
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    Currency of Nihilism

    What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways. From...
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  • Our Political Nature
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    Our Political Nature

    By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three...
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  • President Trump, Inc
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    President Trump, Inc

    With Trump in the White House, big business has direct power in government. Trump has stacked his cabinet with former employees of investment banks, big oil and international corporations. Now that big business has its representatives in the cabinet, it...
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  • Britain's Secret Wars
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    Britain's Secret Wars

    In a devastating analysis, T. J. Coles reveals the true extent of Britain's covert foreign policy that supports war, conflict and oppression around the world. Unbeknownst to the broad population, the Shadow State sponsors a ‘new world order' that allies...
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  • President Trump, Inc
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    President Trump, Inc

    With Trump in the White House, big business has direct power in government. Trump has stacked his cabinet with former employees of investment banks, big oil and international corporations. Now that big business has its representatives in the cabinet, it...
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  • The Great Brexit Swindle
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    The Great Brexit Swindle

    In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the Conservative party is a powerful group of globalists and financial traders. Their...
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  • The New Salmagundi Reader
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    The New Salmagundi Reader

    These articles, orginally published in the American quarterly Salmagundi since 1983, provides a record of some of the thinking about a wide range of cultural, political and literary issues.
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  • Social Structures and Forms of Consciousness
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    Social Structures and Forms of Consciousness

    This new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science...
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  • Social Structures and Forms of Consciousness
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    Social Structures and Forms of Consciousness

    This new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science...
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  • When Media Goes to War
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    When Media Goes to War

    In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and...
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  • Embedded with Organized Labor
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    Embedded with Organized Labor

    Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime organizer and "participatory labor journalist." Steve Early tackles the most pressing...
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  • We Never Swim in the Same River Twice
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    We Never Swim in the Same River Twice

    Originally published in 2020, Hassouna Mosbahi's riveting novel explores the human psyche amidst the turbulent aftermath of the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Through the experiences of three friends, Mosbahi narrates the profound impact of violence and...
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  • How Institutions Think
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    How Institutions Think

    Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what thoughts occupy these suprapersonal minds? Mary Douglas delves into these questions as she lays the groundwork for a theory of institutions. Usually the human...
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  • Violence Today
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    Violence Today

    Amidst the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg posed a stark choice for humanity: socialism or barbarism. Violence Today asks if current patterns mark a decent into the barbarism that Luxemburg feared and if a just society, one capable of...
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  • Socialist Register
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    Socialist Register

    Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. "Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007" examines whether capitalism can come to terms with today's ecological...
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  • Cold War II
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    Cold War II

    In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded a growing number of images of the Cold War and entertained a return to memories of conflicts between the USSR and the US, Russians and Americans, and communism and capitalism. Cold War II: Hollywood's...
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  • Feeling Global
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    Feeling Global

    Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of...
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  • Combating Proliferation
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    Combating Proliferation

    The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems—and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments—illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of...
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  • Human Rights in the New Europe
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    Human Rights in the New Europe

    Human Rights in the New Europe is one of the first books to bring together leading thinkers from both East and west in order to examine the situation of human rights in Europe, especially east-central Europe, after the fall of communism. The book focuses...
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  • Downsizing Democracy:
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    Downsizing Democracy:

    In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation,...
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  • Comparative Politics
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    Comparative Politics

    This book provides a distinctive new introduction to the study of comparative politics at undergraduate level. Rich in case study material and global in coverage, Comparative Politics sets out the basic theoretical and methodological foundations for...
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  • Information and Democratic Processes
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    Information and Democratic Processes

    The golden democratic tradition of an informed and involved electorate freely and rationally choosing its public officials seems to be at odds with American political reality. Thus the questions: On what basis do people vote and form opinions? How does...
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  • To Chain the Dog of War
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    To Chain the Dog of War

    ''An important book . . . that I wish every member of Congress and would-be president would carefully study.'' -- George McGovern ''A timely and valuable study that makes a useful contribution to preserving the Constitution and our hopes for survival.''...
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  • Banded Together:
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    Banded Together:

    Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community's efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of...
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  • Making Feminist Politics
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    Making Feminist Politics

    In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labour politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labour unions in the contemporary era...
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  • Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability
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    Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability

    In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is...
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  • Political Writings
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    Political Writings

    Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics. Spanning a period in American history from the Progressive Era to the advent of the Cold War, this...
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  • What is Political Theory?
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    What is Political Theory?

    What Is Political Theory? provides students with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the discipline. Eleven substantive chapters address the most pressing topics in political theory today, including: -what resources do the classic texts...
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  • Social Experiments
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    Social Experiments

    Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the...
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  • Good, Reliable, White Men:
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    Good, Reliable, White Men:

    This engaging study provides an account of the independent railroad brotherhoods from the period of their formation in the 1860s and '70s to the consolidation of their power on the eve of World War I. By commanding the attention of U.S. presidents and...
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  • Making Capitalism Safe
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    Making Capitalism Safe

    A broad, historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S.Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120 years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this improvement partly to the...
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  • Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities
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    Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

    While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.This book explores the key theoretical and empirical...
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  • On the Ground:
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    On the Ground:

    On the Ground charts labor relations in the airline industry, unraveling the story of how baggage handlers--classified as unskilled workers--built tense but mutually useful alliances with their skilled coworkers such as aircraft mechanics and made...
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  • Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy
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    Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy

    Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent...
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  • Red Family
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    Red Family

    One of the few publicly known communists in the South, Junius Scales organized textile workers, fought segregation, and was the only American to be imprisoned under the membership clause of the Smith Act during the McCarthy years. This compact collective...
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  • Promoting Diversity and Social Justice
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    Promoting Diversity and Social Justice

    This book offers educational and psychological perspectives to inform practice and increase options in addressing conflict situations. The first part of the book helps the educator understand the reasons for resistance and ways to prevent it. The second...
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  • Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes
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    Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes

    Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics -- social, economic, and political -- of countries with these industries forms the subject of this sophisticated and humane study.The...
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  • Beyond Imagined Communities
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    Beyond Imagined Communities

    How did the nationalisms of Latin America's many countries -- elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery -- arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European,...
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  • Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
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    Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

    Islam and Democracy in the Middle East provides a comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties,...
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  • Hong Kong Confidential
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    Hong Kong Confidential

    A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releases which hitherto shrouded many of the decisions and evasions under the long Hong Kong governorship of Sir...
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  • Farewell, My Colony
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    Farewell, My Colony

    In the heart of Beijing, a large digital clock marked off the seconds until July 1, 1997, when the red, five-star flag of China would be hoisted over Hong Kong and the grand but untried idea of one country, two systems would be put into practice...
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  • Cornerstone of Liberty
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    Cornerstone of Liberty

    Published shortly after the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New London case, The Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America made a powerful contribution to the firestorm of interest in protecting property rights. Now in its...
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