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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The orchestrator of an annual opinion poll in the Arab world describes the profound changes taking place, including recent protests and the toppling of autocrats, and discusses how the people of the region feel about these drastic shifts.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With a new preface by the author
The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
With conflicts again dividing Russia and the United States, the need for balanced, accessible scholarship that benefits from new materials and critical perspectives is imperative. In seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen F. Cohen questions many conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall of communism, and the effect of Russia's policies at home and abroad. Written for specialists and general readers, Cohen's essays...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER -- -- -- One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Of the many obstacles to racial justice in America, none has received more recent attention than the one that lurks in our subconscious. As social movements and policing scandals have shown how far from being "postracial" we are, the concept of implicit bias has taken center stage in national conversation about race. Millions of Americans have taken online tests purporting to show the deep, invisible roots of their prejudice. When a recent Oxford...
67) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?
Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning--and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. --From the Introduction
From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Examines Iran's pursuit of nuclear power in defiance of the United Nations and protests from the Western world, explaining why diplomatic engagement with Iran has never worked and outlining the regime's radical aspirations for the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Many of the world's states-from Algeria to Ireland to the United States-are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power, Peter Krause offers a powerful new theory to explain this variation focusing on the internal balance of power among nationalist groups, who cooperate with...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics" -- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry, President Obama would have been considered a successful president. He achieved so much more, however, that he can be counted as one of our most consequential presidents.
With...