Politics / Current Events
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
$28.99 Add to cartA new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.
The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly… [more below]- Author: Mandelbaum, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0197746926
- Language: English
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Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
$29.99 Add to cart- Author: Edwards III, George C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 100942629X
- Language: English
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Out of the Uniform, Back into Civilian Life: No Nonsense Veterans Benefits Guide
$9.99 Add to cartAn invaluable resource for veterans seeking clear, actionable guidance to navigate the often complex landscape of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and assistance programs. When you hang up that… [more below]
- Author: Pike, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988961017
- Language: English
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Ethics-Based Policing: Solving the Use of Excessive Force
$29.95 Add to cartRoss Swope served the police profession for more than four decades. Highly decorated and accomplished, he worked with thousands of officers and police officials who performed their duty with courage,
- Author: Swope, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986993805
- Language: English
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America’s Last Chance
$14.99 Add to cartThe battle for control of the Republican Party has been ongoing for decades; however, it has been especially intense over the last few years, the time period chronicled in this book. On the one side a
- Author: Crouere, Jeff J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997297700
- Language: English
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The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
$41.99 Add to cartPut the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying … [more below]
- Author: Borrup, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0940069474
- Language: English
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Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building
$33.95 Add to cartThis practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn’t) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won’t find … [more below]
- Author: Mattessich, Paul W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0940069121
- Language: English
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The Second Treatise of Civil Government
$12.99 Add to cartAs one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil society.Endeavoring to reconstruct the … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0879753374
- Language: English
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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
$26.95 Add to cart“Takes readers on a head-shaking romp through a south Florida that they won’t find in any tourist brochure. . . . Hiaasen’s writing is fearless and the targets endless: politicians, municipal employee… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0813034280
- Language: English
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River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha
$24.95 Add to cartMore than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, “the Rogue who ruled Omaha,” was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no
- Author: Menard, Orville D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803248334
- Language: English
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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
$32.99 Add to cartBy drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on beh… [more below]
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: July 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0743249119
- Language: English
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Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
$17.95 Read moreA gripping in-depth look at the presidential election that stunned the world
Donald Trump’s election victory resulted in one of the most unexpected presidencies in history. Identity Crisis provides th- Author: Sides, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 13, 2019
- ISBN10: 0691196435
- Language: English
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The ABC of Anarchism
$24.95 Add to cartA gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assas… [more below]
- Author: Berkman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0486433692
- Language: English
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue- Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423195
- Language: English
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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age
$25.00 Add to cartIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-ri
- Series: Contending Modernities
- Author: Ritchie, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0268105782
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism
$16.99 Add to cartThe first volume of Arendt’s celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 20 1968
- ISBN10: 0156078104
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explains
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician’s life. From getting elected to staying el
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187293
- Language: English
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Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America
$18.99 Read moreWith a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.
Putin’s Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vla- Author: Koffler, Rebekah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 168451374X
- Language: English
