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    Who's the Fairest of Them All?

    President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we...
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    If But My Gaze Could Heal
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    If But My Gaze Could Heal

    An engaging, moving, and poignant book of poetry from a well-known leader, educator, and writer with notable endorsements from Reverend Billy Talen (Church of Stop Shopping), Carolyn Martin (poetry editor at Kosmos Journal), and Alice Reys (Singer...
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    Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?
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    Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?

    A brief book by a well-known activist on the growing childfree movement, its many positive benefits and the conventional resistance with adopting this lifestyle.Verena Brunschweiger is no stranger to controversy. In her latest book, Do Childfree People...
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    Vegan Entanglements
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    Vegan Entanglements

    Scholarly and personal essays on the intersections of the prison-industrial complex, industrial animal agriculture, and capitalism.Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism invites over 15 activists, scholars, and journalists to...
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    Vegan Geographies
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    Vegan Geographies

    Fourteen chapters from international geographers and cultural analysts, academic and otherwise, on veganism as a conceptual and physical space.Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to antiquity. Yet, it is only recently...
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    Vegan Voices
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    Vegan Voices

    A collection of informative, diverse, evocative, and inspiring essays from over 50 vegan activists, educators, artists, and changemakers on the whys and wherefores of the vegan diet and lifestyle.Why should one go vegan? Is veganism the positive change...
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    Kindling
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    Kindling

    A collection of beautifully poignant and moving poems and artwork from a talented artist who spent a summer interacting with the animals on an organic meat farm. In the summer of 2019, artist and poet Linnea Ryshke worked as a labourer at an organic...
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    Measuring Up
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    Measuring Up

    How do leaders and innovators drive change and improvement?Governments often depend on a geographic context for making major decisions, sharing information, and expanding its operations. When organizations face the need for change from a drastic event,...
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    Thematic Mapping
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    Thematic Mapping

    First place winner in Educational Products at the 2021 International Cartographic ConferenceMaps are ubiquitous, yet maps are not made equally, nor are they read equally.Every map is a product of its maker and its reader, and maps are rarely right or...
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    Collaborative Cities
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    Collaborative Cities

    Dynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology.Our communities today face difficult issues - such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness - which are tangled, complicated, and constantly evolving. Coined 'wicked...
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    Cover-Ups & Secrets
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    Cover-Ups & Secrets

    A compelling look at the misuse of power, lies, corruptions and cover-upsFake news, alternative facts, outright lies, fears of nuclear war, widespread surveillance of the population, mass shootings, the rise of a totalitarian state and more have led...
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    The Illuminati
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    The Illuminati

    Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes. Reviewing the evidence, documents, and connections, The Illuminati: The Secret Society That Hijacked the...
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  • Jane Fonda: In Her Own Words
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    Jane Fonda: In Her Own Words

    Get inside the head of Jane Fonda: actress, political activist, environmentalist, philanthropist, and creator of an unlikely fitness empire that captivated the country beginning in the 1980s.This collection of quotes has been curated from Jane Fonda's...
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  • Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words
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    Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

    Age range 13 to 18Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as the First Lady of the United States. This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle...
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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words
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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words

    Age range 13 to 18A collection of 300 quotes from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Part of theIn Their Own Wordsseries.As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female...
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    UFOs and the National Security State
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    UFOs and the National Security State

    Richard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public's...
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    Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship

    Noam Chomsky's classic critique of the ideology of liberalism that justified American imperialist foreign policy during the 1960s-a critique that remains relevant to this day"Provocative . . . Chomsky establishes the premise that the U.S. presence in...
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    Class Notes

    Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its "forceful" and "bracing opinions on race and politics," Class Notes is critic Adolph Reed Jr.'s latest blast of clear thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. The book begins with a...
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    The Stonewall Generation
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    The Stonewall Generation

    "It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resilience, and revolution." -Kirkus starred reviewForeword by Kate Bornstein and Barbara CarrellasIn The...
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    Children of the New World

    A pioneering work of interconnected perspectives, Children of the New World is a novel of insurgency and resistance by one of the Arab world's most distinguished woman writers."Assia Djebar's point of view is feminist and anti-colonial, but her novel is...
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    They Dare to Speak Out

    The first book to speak out against the pervasive influence of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American politics, policy, and institutions resonates today as never before. With careful documentation and specific case histories,...
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    Die Nigger Die!

    More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography-which was first published in 1969,...
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    Assata
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    Assata

    On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed...
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    The Inspection House

    In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he...
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    The Case of Alan Turing (Graphic Novel)
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    The Case of Alan Turing (Graphic Novel)

    Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of...
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    Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State
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    Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State

    A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The...
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    Imperial inequalities
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    Imperial inequalities

    Imperial inequalities takes Western European empires, and their legacies, as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of...
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    I want to break free
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    I want to break free

    The book delves into the legal, economic and political problems of creating new states, using historical examples and anecdotes from all over the world to illustrate the obstacles to these campaigns. Are you fed up with the divided and unequal society or...
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    Challenging nuclearism
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    Challenging nuclearism

    An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to create a 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons by practising elements of 'nuclearism'. Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why...
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    The rise of devils
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    The rise of devils

    In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and...
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    Knowledge production in higher education
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    Knowledge production in higher education

    Mindful of divisive labels in constructions of the 'Middle East and North Africa' (MENA) and of 'Europe', the editors and contributors of Knowledge production in higher education reflexively immerse themselves into an investigation of how knowledge about...
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    Indo-Pacific Empire
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    Indo-Pacific Empire

    The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of...
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    Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
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    Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts

    Provides the most up to date history of the Treasury, one of the central institutions of Britain's politics and economy.The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the...
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    Counter-terror by proxy
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    Counter-terror by proxy

    Counter-Terror by Proxy sheds lights on a fascinating and intriguing case of illiberal practices in a liberal regime where Spanish State agencies colluded with mercenaries and petty criminals in order to kill members of the Basque militant group ETA and...
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    Passionate politics
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    Passionate politics

    Passions matter to politics. Yet, much of the work on passions in politics focuses on such spectacular events as social movements, civil wars and revolutionary upheavals, but ignores electoral politics as banal. The contributors to this book trace the...
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    Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship
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    Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship

    When a person is not recognised as a citizen anywhere, they are typically referred to as 'stateless'. This can give rise to challenges both for individuals and for the institutions that try to govern them. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of...
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    The New Politics of Poland
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    The New Politics of Poland

    For many observers, the electoral success of Poland's populist right-wing party Law and Justice in 2015 came as an unpleasant surprise. Even more shocking was what happened next: Jaroslaw Kaczynski's party started taking over all state institutions. It...
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    What's in it for me?
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    What's in it for me?

    This punchy and provocative book asks a simple but overlooked question: why do we have the political views that we do? Offering a lively and original analysis of five worldviews - conservatism, national populism, liberalism, the new left and...
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    Oil and the political economy in the Middle East
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    Oil and the political economy in the Middle East

    This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. The introduction and conclusion also discuss the COVID-19-induced oil price crash of 2020. Based on a heuristic framework...
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    Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
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    Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

    The year 1973 is usually considered the great equaliser among major oil producers. But the 'Visions' strategies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a so-called middle power and small state in the Middle East regional system,...
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    The War on the Uyghurs
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    The War on the Uyghurs

    The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people.China's...
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    The break-up of Greater Britain
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    The break-up of Greater Britain

    This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A...
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    The wolves are coming back
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    The wolves are coming back

    The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a...
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    Culture is bad for you
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    Culture is bad for you

    Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country. However, this book explains why we need to be cautious...
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  • Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
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    Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France

    This book looks at the period 2015-18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on...
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  • Government by referendum
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    Government by referendum

    Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums?...
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    How to save politics in a post-truth era
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    How to save politics in a post-truth era

    The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has...
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