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Field Notes on Democracy
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Arundhati Roy |
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contempora… |
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Ideology and spatial voting in American elections
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Stephen A. Jessee |
"Ideology and Spatial Voting in American Elections addresses two core issues related to the foundations of democratic governance: how the political views of Americans are structured and how citizens'… |
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Dancing with imperialism
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J. Smith,André Moncourt |
>This work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive. This was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with… |
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Listen, Liberal
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Thomas Frank |
How the Democratic Party lost its working class, and what happened afterward. |
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The Second Arab awakening
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Marwan Muasher |
"This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the firs… |
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Antisocial media
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Siva Vaidhyanathan |
"If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable j… |
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Degrees of inequality
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Suzanne Mettler |
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… |
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Financing the 2000 election
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David B. Magleby |
A series of 10 papers, presented by Magleby (Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, Brigham Young U.), explore the money issues behind the American political campaigns of 2000. Patterns of … |
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Strike art!
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Yates McKee |
"The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond Activist art experienced a new beginning in the Seattle anti-globalization protests of 1999, reaching … |
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Falling in love with America again
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Jim DeMint |
" In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our… |
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For God and the fatherland
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Michael A. Burdick |
"Title is somewhat misleading. While the work presents information on the conflict between church and state in the 1880s and examines the Perón regime's relationship with the Church, the heart of th… |
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American Grit
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Tony Blankley |
Argues that the liberal policies of President Obama will result in a decline of the economy, a lessening of the resolve to fight Islamic terrorism, and a government unable to counteract the aggressiv… |
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From Civil to Political Religion
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Marcela Cristi |
"Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a "new" religion (civil religion) to be used by the… |
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