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[2023]
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English
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"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
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2023.
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English
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"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. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory."--
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2024.
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English
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"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
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2023.
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English
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"The complete story of the victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who witnessed it all firsthand. Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City as a working class activist in a punk band, arriving just before the start of Occupy Wall Street-the first major event in decades for a socialist movement that was nearly extinct at the turn of the century. She's been at the vanguard of radical politics ever since, as a writer, veteran...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024].
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English
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"It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In Held Hostage, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse health and education outcomes than larger states, and...
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Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity."--
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Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violence, right-wing populism, 'post-truth' discourse, economic inequality, pandemics, and the environmental crisis, transforming the public sphere in new and unexpected ways. It argues that the best way to understand these new critical discourses and...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"For Blood Money, Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent more than two years scouring a trove of restricted Chinese military documents, data-mining a mountain of American financial records, and tracking US political leaders' investments and family businesses. Schweizer unloads bombshell after bombshell, exposing the Chinese Communist Party's covert operations in the American drug trade, social justice movement, and medical establishment...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Steven A. Goldman looks at the contentious post-Civil War era from the perspective of Union veterans carried on the fight for equality in the decades to come. He explores the root causes of this historic contest, the changing attitudes of northern servicemen with respect to the Civil War's purpose, and the psychological effect of involvement in the unfinished cause of freedom and equality for all Americans"--
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This book explores how to forge more empowering and equitable spaces for civic learning by centering the agency and lived experiences of marginalized groups. It reimagines the role of education in preparing all kids for democratic participation, highlights a crucial point of political socialization, and provides actionable advice for policymakers hoping to equalize democratic opportunities for young people in the United States. The book makes four...
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HarperCollinsMéxico
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"The cultural battle transcends all generations, and . . . author Agustín Laje enumerates, analyzes and details the social variants that affect the new generation of young people and the political implication in an evolving society in favor of preserving youth and family"--Provided by publisher.
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Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Putin's Exiles is an indispensable work for anyone trying to understand Russia today-to go beyond Putin's propaganda and the tightly controlled nar- rative inside the country and look outside its borders to the diaspora of Russian exiles, who are imagining and fighting for the future of their country"--
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Golden World Films
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A new account of the punk girls that rocked a country and how their fight for human rights reverberates extra significantly today. Pussy Riot continues to challenge Putin's regime. Today, they are on the lamb from the tyranny, barely escaping the country. This doc shows a historical trajectory of the band and what they are doing today."--Container.
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Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The authors reveal what they think are the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations."--
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual culture that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's commercial...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine--the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is a precipitous fall in Americans' trust in their political,...
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