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The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Allen 1922- Rutland (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America - Hardcover

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by Michael Harriot (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. “Michael Harriot has...

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by Smedley D. Butler (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speec...

The Private Investigator Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Protect Yourself, Get Justice, or Get Even - Paperback

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by Chuck Chambers (Author)Chuck Chambers has seen it all in his 22 years as a P.I., working thousands of cases. His hands-on experience and hard-nosed detective work has made him one of the most sought-after private investigators in the business.Here, Chambers shares his insider expertise, with true case histories from his files, tricks of the trade, and step-by-step advice to help readers be able to: - Catch a cheating spouse- Uncover hidden assets, monetary malfeasance, and fraud- Tail and ...

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by Chong-Un Ch'oe (Author), Choi Jung-Woon (Author), Jung-Woon Choi (Author)The book explores the implications of the democratic movement that took place in Gwangju, a southwestern city of Korea, in May 1980 when military paratroopers brutally crushed a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doo-hwan, who was about to become the country's president. Because of the event now known as the Gwangju Uprising, 191 people perished and 852 were wounded. In The Gwangju Uprising, Cho...

Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study - Paperback

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by Henry Hakam?ki (Foreword by), Adnan Husain (Foreword by), Breht O'Shea (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2024

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by Alex S. Vitale (Author)The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated editionThe massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020-- by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. That case had been put persuasively a few years earlier in The End of Policing by Alex Vitale, now a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over poli...

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by Rosa Luxemburg (Author)Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" away exploitation and economic crises. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1973

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987 - Paperback

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by Thomas Sankara (Author) Number of Pages: 448 Dimensions: 1.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2007

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul - Paperback

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by Scott W. Berg (Author)WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city--told with the "the clarity--and tension--of a well-wrought military narrative" (Wall Street Journal) In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the "big one"--...

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border - Paperback

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by Francisco Cantú (Author)The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they l...

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Richard Ovenden (Author)A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage, this is a brilliant read--both powerful and prescient."--Elif Shafak Libraries have been attacked since ancient times but they have been especially threatened in the modern era, throug...

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back - Paperback

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by Elisabeth Rosenthal (Author)A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers...

Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Garlock (Author)Jonathan Garlock's Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor makes accessible a great deal of information necessary for understanding and evaluating the history and impact of this organization. It provides information on twelve thousand local assemblies organized by the Knights of Labor between 1869 and 1896. Organized geographically by state, county, and community, the Guide provides the assigned local assembly number, dates of existence, and community...

Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century: General Theory and Principles - Paperback

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by Melville C. Branch (Author)Planning by civil governments, businesses, and the military services has been considered separately in both theory and practice. Those concerned with each of these applications have had little contact with those in the others, despite the common concerns and characteristics of their respective practices. A leading figure in the research and education in planning, Branch draws upon his experience in civil, corporate, and military planning to provide a comprehensiv...

Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby G. F. Abbott (Author)From the preface: "The late convulsions in Greece and Turkey, and the consequent revival of all the mis-statements which, during the War, flowed from ignorance or malice, render the publication of this book particularly opportune. Mr. Abbott deals with his subject in all its aspects, and presents for the first time to the British public a complete and coherent view of the complicated circumstances that made Greece, during the War, the battl...

Sensemaking: A Structure for an Intelligence Revolution - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby National Defense Intelligence College (Author)Sensemaking is the inaugural book in our new series, titled The A. Denis Clift Series on the Intelligence Profession. The Clift Series will present original research on intelligence analysis and the teaching of intelligence. In 2009, A. Denis Clift concluded a 50-year career with the federal government. Clift was president of the National Defense Intelligence College from 1994 to 2009 and was instrumental in creatin...

Smallpox as a Bioweapon: Should We Be Concerned? - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Naval Postgraduate School (Author)There is debate in the weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism literature over whether the threat from smallpox is exaggerated or realistic; however, there has been insufficient evaluation of the factors that indicate whether the threat is valid or overblown. Insufficient weight has been given to whether there are groups or individuals who are capable or have demonstrated the intent to use smallpox as a weapon, which shoul...

Understanding China's Political System: Congressional Research Service, May 10, 2012 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Michael F. Martin (Author), Susan V. Lawrence (Author)This report is designed to provide Congress with a perspective on the contemporary political system of China, the only Communist Party-led authoritarian state in the G-20 grouping of major economies. China's Communist Party dominates state and society in China, is committed to maintaining a permanent monopoly on power, and is intolerant of those who question its right to rule. Nonetheless, analysts consider ...

Trappings of Power: Political Leadership in Africa - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Z. Allan Ntata (Author)Why is it that by his death, having solved the country's hunger problems and set an example for Africa on how to deal with foreign donors and international aid organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank, Mutharika was regarded as a pariah both in Malawi and internationally? Mutharika had overseen the expansion of the transport infrastructure, presided as Chairman of the African Union and helped Malawi achieve rapid GDP growth. How i...

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Goldman (Author)Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. "Anarchism and Other Essays" is a collection of essays first published in 1911. The ...

The Arab States and the Palestine Question: Between Ideology and Self-Interest - Paperback

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by Aaron David Miller (Author)Miller has written extensively on the Middle East and has been an analyst with the Department of State. He is well-acquainted with the so-called Palestine Question.' The focus of the present study is upon the Palestinian cause and its less than full cooperative relationship with Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. . . . This volume is an excellent complement to Arthur Day's East Bank/West Bank and is useful to the serious student of Middle East politics. ChoiceAuthor Biog...

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot - Paperback

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by Mikki Kendall (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic "One of the most important books of the current moment."--Time "A rousing call to action... It should be required readi...

Reinventing Democracy: Improving British political governance - Hardcover

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by David Kauders (Author) 90% of electors want political reform. But how to escape the mess? Britain should adopt a federal structure with a written constitution and an elected apolitical People's Council replacing autocratic and ineffective bodies.Growing concern about the relative economic deterioration of the United Kingdom led to realisation that the system of political governance is probably an unrecognised cause of British decline. Events over the last few years have provided a fertile ...

Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Rhodes (Author)The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the Unite...

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Breyer (Author)A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution. "You will not read a more important legal work this election year." --Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New York Times bestselling books "A dissent for the ages." -...

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Stewart (Author)This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men are created equal.In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essenti...

The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos Lozada (Author)The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation. As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all manner of texts: commission reports, political reporting, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional...

Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Whitlock (Author)#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock's masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history--exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation's security. All the admirals in the US Navy knew Leonard Glenn Francis--either personally or by his legendary repu...

The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Brody Mullins (Author), Luke Mullins (Author)Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the three dynasties--one Republican, two Democratic--that have enabled corporate interests to infiltrate American politics and undermine our democracy. On K Street, a few blocks from the White House, you'll find the offices of the most powerful men in Washington. In the 1970s, the city's center of gravity began to shift away ...

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Report copyright infringementby Pepe Escobar (Author)In Eurasia vs. NATOstan, Pepe Escobar takes us on a whirlwind journey through the swirling sands of the 21st century's defining clash. From the ancient Silk Roads to the modern-day War of Economic Corridors, Escobar paints a vivid picture of a world in transition, where the old order is crumbling and a new, multipolar reality is struggling to be born.With his nonpareil blend of historical insight, deep cultural appreciation, and sharp geopo...

Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby James Fanell (Author), Bradley Thayer (Author), Stephen K. Bannon (Foreword by)For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans--a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics. But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US...