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Buddha's child
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Nguyen Cao Ky,Marvin Wolf,Cao Kỳ Nguyäên |
"The history of the Vietnam War has rarely been told from the Vietnamese perspective - and never by a leader of South Vietnam, a nation that ceased to exist in 1975. In Buddha's Child, Nguyen Cao Ky … |
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Can we put an end to sweatshops?
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Archon Fung,Dara O'Rourke,Charles Sabel,Archon Fung |
"Knowing that information about the conditions of workers around the world can influence what consumers buy and what governments regulate, Dara O'Rourke, Archon Fung, and Charles Sabel argue that mak… |
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Tales from the left coast
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James Hirsen,NewsMax,James L. Hirsen |
"It's common knowledge that Hollywood leans left. This peculiar phenomenon would not be all that important if it weren't for the fact that celebrity status has come to mean power. We're not talking a… |
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Not on our watch
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Don Cheadle,John Prendergast |
Presents a call to action on behalf of the genocide victims of Sudan's Darfur, describing the brutalities taking place there and outlining six strategies for making key differences. |
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The irony of democracy
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Thomas R. Dye,Harmon Zeigler |
In high school, we studied a book called "The Irony of Democracy" (ours).
It explained in depth an via both history, demographics and statistics how (this is the irony:) That the system favors eli… |
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What About the Workers?
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Peter Fairbrother,Pavel Krotov,Michael Burawoy,Clarke, Simon |
Most writing on the dramatic events in the former Soviet Union has been based on the assumption that Russia is engaged in a transition from “state socialism” to capitalism, and focuses on political a… |
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Latin American political economy in the age of neoliberal reform
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Smith, William C.,William C. Smith,Carlos H. Acuna,Eduardo A. Gamarra,Eduardo Gamarra |
"Series of well-written, multidisciplinary articles examines market-oriented reforms instituted by most Latin American countries during 1980s-90s. Emphasizes impact of market reforms on political sys… |
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Dead heat : global justice and global warming
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Paul Baer,Tom Athanasiou |
"Today's record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and floods foreshadow an increasingly unstable future. The Bush Administration, meanwhile, has chosen to reject the Kyoto Protocol, deny the consequence… |
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Does California's welfare policy explain the slower decline of its caseload?
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David Mancuso,Thomas E. MaCurdy,Margaret O'Brien-Strain,Thomas E. Macurdy |
xv, 83 p. : 23 cm |
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Joost Elffers,Robert Greene |
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it… |
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Prince Bertram the Bad
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Arnold Lobel,Sue Coe,Holly Metz |
A very naughty prince makes one mistake too many when he shoots a stone at a witch. |
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American dream, global nightmare
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Ziauddin Sardar,Merryl Wyn Davies |
There is something deeply wrong with America. The American dream has become a global nightmare from which we all need to awake as quickly as possible. In this hard-hitting sequel to their best-sellin… |
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Italy
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Spencer Di Scala,Spencer M. Di Scala |
From the Publisher: This essential book fills a serious gap in the field by synthesizing modern Italian history and placing it in a fully European context. Emphasizing globalization, Italy traces the… |
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India in the world order
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Baldev Raj Nayar,T. V. Paul |
"Two scholars come together to examine India's relationship with the world's major powers and its own search for a significant role in the international system. Central to the argument is India's bel… |
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Go With Me
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David Armstrong,Joseph J. Trento,Castle Freeman |
The turbulent nation of Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is far more popular than George W. Bush, possesses a nuclear arsenal built with technology from the United States and Europe, and financed with… |
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Presidential elections
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Aaron Wildavsky,Nelson W. Polsby |
Describes and analyzes the process by which Presidents of the United States are nominated and elected, appraises voting behavior and the influence of nonparty, independent activists, and suggests pos… |
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Electoral Realignments
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David R. Mayhew |
"The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a scien… |
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American elections
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Robert Dudley,Robert L. Dudley,Alan Gitelson |
"With highlights on the historic 2000 election, best-selling authors Robert Dudley and Alan Gitelson provide a look inside the rules that drive and shape elections in the United States.".
"Presentin… |
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How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
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Ann Coulter |
Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellect… |
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Reinventing Collapse
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Dmitry Orlov |
In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the … |
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