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    The Iconoclast
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    The Iconoclast

    Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in...
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    Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia
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    Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia

    This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient incipience to the origins of today's tragically fratricidal war.Drawing...
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    Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora
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    Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora

    Hindu nationalism is transforming India, as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India's vast diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians...
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    Faith, Unity, Discipline
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    Faith, Unity, Discipline

    Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an...
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    Leonor
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    Leonor

    Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC...
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    State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France
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    State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France

    In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not...
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    The Horn of Africa
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    The Horn of Africa

    Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary...
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    Brooklyn Goes Home
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    Brooklyn Goes Home

    Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner American Book Fest Awards Finalist Book Excellence Awards FinalistBrooklyn Goes Home is the true story of how one greyhound sparked a...
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    The History of the Republic of Turkey
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    The History of the Republic of Turkey

    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkeythat gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey. The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were...
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    Finding a Sustainable Balance
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    Finding a Sustainable Balance

    Discover The Geographic Approach to help restore, preserve, and protect the environment.As we continue to uncover and learn about ecological challenges facing our planet, the job of environmental and natural resource management organizations is becoming...
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    Austria Behind the Mask
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    Austria Behind the Mask

    Austria has long been considered a European success story: a land-locked country on the losing side of World War Two, which emerged from ten years of post-war occupation as one of the EU's richest member-states, a symbol of social consensus and political...
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    Gaman Perseverance

    This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World...
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    The Gerald Horne Reader
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    The Gerald Horne Reader

    I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Readeris a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne-a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international history.Horne approaches his study of history as a deeply...
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    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism
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    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism

    An essential record from the Second International, assembled by Under the Socialist Banner. At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the revolutionary goal of...
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    Shadow Empires
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    Shadow Empires

    An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times.The world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins...
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    All We Have Is the Story
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    All We Have Is the Story

    Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub...
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    Crossing the Congo
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    Crossing the Congo

    **Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award (Wanderlust Adventure Travel Book of the Year)**In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from...
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    The Wisest Fool
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    The Wisest Fool

    James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind...
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    Media Monsters
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    Media Monsters

    **Longlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024**In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation...
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    Course of Destruction
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    Course of Destruction

    KEY SELLING POINTS > THE RADICAL MIND: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left by David Horowitz FALL 2023 200,000 Announced 1st Print >12,000 COPY 1ST 90 DAYS LAYDOWN Goalw/ Chain, Independent, Mass Merch, Christian & Airport...
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    The Kings of Algiers
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    The Kings of Algiers

    A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America.At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach,...
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    Riambel
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    Riambel

    Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own yet one which would...
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    The Holy City of Antiracism
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    The Holy City of Antiracism

    Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not merely moral and political, but philosophical, and even spiritual. We hardly seem to experience the same reality anymore, preferring to self-select into media...
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    Illiberal Europe
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    Illiberal Europe

    Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as...
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    Russia in Africa
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    Russia in Africa

    Three decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. The October 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi highlighted the appeal of Russia's normative agenda, the...
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    Post-Imperial Possibilities
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    Post-Imperial Possibilities

    After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental...
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    The 1922 Committee
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    The 1922 Committee

    The Conservative Private Members (1922) Committee is an important but elusive force in British politics. Despite becoming almost a household name during the leadership crises of 2022, it remains little understood beyond the corridors of Westminster...
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    Systemic Islamophobia in Canada
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    Systemic Islamophobia in Canada

    Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. The authors consist of both scholars and professionals who encounter in the...
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    Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War
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    Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War

    The great expedition to Sicily described in the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides' history can be depicted in a variety of ways. By some, it has been thoughtfully treated as an example of overreaching on the part of the Athenians. By others, it has...
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    24/7 Politics
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    24/7 Politics

    How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens...
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    The Workers' Way to Freedom
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    The Workers' Way to Freedom

    Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), the Dutch astronomer and Marxist revolutionary, was a key theoretician of council communism-a Marxist alternative to both Leninism and Social Democracy that instead emphasized working-class self-emancipation through workers'...
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    Pitfall
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    Pitfall

    A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.A race is on to exploit the last bonanzas of gold, silver, and industrial...
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    Fag Hag
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    Fag Hag

    'Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!'Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseilles in 1947 to immigrant parents, her mother a...
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    Mr. Block
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    Mr. Block

    Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe.A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of...
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    Revealing Secrets
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    Revealing Secrets

    For a long time, the Australian Signals intelligence (or Sigint) story has been kept secret. Until now...Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with...
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    Black Grief/White Grievance
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    Black Grief/White Grievance

    Howrace shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up...
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  • Bill of Rights
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    Bill of Rights

    In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without the consent of Parliament, directly citing the Bill of...
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    Triumph and Despair
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    Triumph and Despair

    Triumph and Despair tells the dramatic story of post-revolutionary Iran's first four decades, from its establishment in 1979 until today.The revolutionary coalition that overthrew the monarchy was at once democratic, populist and Islamic. The...
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  • Beyond a Fringe
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    Beyond a Fringe

    Winner of the Parliamentary Book Awards 2021 Best Biography, Memoir or AutobiographyVeering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the parliamentary jungle make for one of the most entertaining political memoirs in years.From his...
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    What a Bloody Awful Country
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    What a Bloody Awful Country

    In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over on the island of Ireland as the nascent IRA took its guerrilla campaign against British rule to the streets. By 1921, Britain had beaten a retreat from all but a small...
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    A Fabulous Failure
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    A Fabulous Failure

    How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US...
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    The Civic Bargain
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    The Civic Bargain

    A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive - if we want it to.Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being...
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    Utopianism for a Dying Planet
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    Utopianism for a Dying Planet

    How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound...
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    The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR
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    The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR

    Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock 'n' roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into...
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    If Only You Could Bottle It
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    If Only You Could Bottle It

    Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism,...
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    Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis
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    Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis

    The changes triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008, the immigration flows and the covid-19 pandemic in contemporary societies have transformed the way individuals communicate, create content, and 'consume' publicly available information...
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    The Morrison Government
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    The Morrison Government

    Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022Australia has rarely endured as many difficulties as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic-dominated Morrison Government's term of office, from its surprise 2019...
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