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The Best of "The Daily Don," political cartoon that documents all the covfefe of the administration of Donald Trump.
The Daily Don is the best of artist Jesse Duquette's fabulous Instagram gallery of political cartoons relating to the Trump administration. It began in the wake of the first Trump press conference that gave us the weird and unnecessary lie about crowd sizes. Right then, Jesse thought, if this was Day One and the lying was already this...
21762) Shot in the Tower
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The number 1 best book about spies in Britain. As listed by Dame Stelle Rimington Ex-Director-General of M.I.5. The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question: how...
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A. Wess Mitchell is a leading foreign policy expert who formerly served as US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. His books include The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power (Princeton).
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other...
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An in-depth look at the US threat to "save" Venezuela
Since 1999 when Hugo Chavez became the elected president of Venezuela, the US has been conniving to overthrow his government and to roll back the Bolivarian Revolution which he ushered in to Venezuela. With the untimely death of Hugo Chavez in 2013, and the election of Nicolas Maduro that followed, the US redoubled its efforts to overturn this revolution. The US is now threatening to intervene...
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The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker's "Diefenbunkers"-eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these sites have fallen into disrepair or been sold off, one such site has recently been repurposed as "Canada's Cold War Museum" with the explicit purpose of fostering...
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Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow.As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina governor, and U.S. senator, Tillman offered a vision of reform that was proudly white supremacist. In the name of white male militance, productivity,...
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New technologies present governments with opportunities and challenges in a range of key policy areas such as employment, competitiveness, equity, and sustainability. A consensus is that the national government can play an important role in stimulating innovation. This report explores policy options to facilitate Indonesia's technological transformation and unlock its economic growth potential.
21768) WTF Is Happening to Us?
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Political correctness. Gender differentiation. Black lives matter. Riots. Democracy under fire. Loss of civil rights. Social media out of control. Metaphorically lobotomizing our children. Socialism. Failing education systems. Flourishing crime. The human plague. The sixth mass extinction of bio-diverse life. A serving U.S. President who trashed the Constitution by encouraging people to storm the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., resulting in six...
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Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change. Beyond that, he tells the true story of an intellectually adventurous but insecure gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and physically confrontational environment of the Weathermen. Variously known as the Weather Underground,...
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In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level. They begin by summarizing the history and present...
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Documented Evidence of the Trump-Russia Conspiracy.
Investigative reporter Scott Stedman has made waves worldwide with his hard-hitting investigative journalism, going as far as anyone has to uncover the deep roots of the Trump-Russia Conspiracy. His research has been cited by the Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, CNN, McClatchy, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, and Vice, and has even helped guide Congress's investigations.
Real News collects, for the...
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Laughter is the natural response of most Jamaicans to the name
Alexander Bedward, long proclaimed as the lunatic who literally attempted to
fly to heaven. In Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of
August Town: Race, Religion and Colonialism, Dave St Aubyn Gosse
debunks this common image of Bedward by drawing on new sources
to help cast Bedward in a more positive light. Gosse argues that Bedward ought
to be recognized as one of the significant black nationalists...
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"Co-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" Jeffrey Herbst is president of Colgate University.
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey...
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This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.
Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childish anxieties.
She presents an alarming picture of how a child's...
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In an age of nuclear experimentation, military conflicts, and ISIS, the Middle East is unstable, and the Iranian nuclear deal is shrouded in controversy and mistrust. How will this agreement impact US relations and strengths, not only in the region, but around the world? Will the US be challenged for world leadership? In Volatile State: Iran in the Nuclear Age, global affairs analyst David Oualaalou explores the new geopolitical landscape and how...
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Gerhard Bowering is professor of Islamic studies at Yale University and the editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.
A concise and authoritative introduction to Islamic political ideas
In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding...
21777) A Deadly Twist
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Some crimes can never be forgiven-or atoned for
When Athens journalist Nikoletta Elia disappears while on assignment on the island of Naxos, her editor calls on Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis to investigate. Sent to report on the conflict between preservationists and advocates for expanded tourism, Nikoletta is approached by a fan who takes credit for several suspicious deaths she'd reported on in the past. The assassin claims to have abandoned that...
21778) Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
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"Co-Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association" Devesh Kapur is associate professor of political science and holds the Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India at the University of Pennsylvania.
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of...
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Beneath the outward appearance of legitimate government and accountable officials there lurk hidden agendas, shadowy personalities and special interest groups seeking to seize control of the nation for their own ends. These 'states within a state', unfettered by legal norms and unworried by public opinion, are known as 'deep states'.
In this fascinating account, Ian Fitzgerald examines what a deep state really is and how they have emerged in various...
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Alors que l'on commémore le quarantième anniversaire de la bataille de Kolwezi, Jean Dusausoy nous livre ici un témoignage précieux, celui d'un homme, expatrié à Kolwezi dans les années 1970 pour travailler, en tant que technicien, dans les mines du Haut-Katanga.Dans ce livre, l'auteur nous plonge dans la vie quotidienne d'un Belge parti vivre au Zaïre. Il évoque le travail à la mine, la diffi culté d'être loin de ses proches, presque...
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