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The official U.S. government report on Russian interference in democracy around the world! Most Americans were surprised to learn of Russian efforts to manipulate the results of the 2016 presidential election, and have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerabilities of our democracy. Here for the first time in an official U.S. government report is the fascinating and detailed account of how ex-KGB agent Vladimir Putin has used computer hackers,...
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth and striving to become one of the most spectacular...
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"Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Justin Farrell is assistant professor of sociology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown...
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Why do cities exist? Can't we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve the problems of our time?
Cities Matter answers those questions and more.
Jane Jacobs is known mainly as a thinker of all things urban. That she was. But Ramsay insists that she was also a very important-and much underestimated-economist. Jacobs innovated particularly...
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"The story of Juliana v. United States and the committed young people behind it will give you hope in the next generation." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Do our children have a right to inherit a livable planet? Is the government obliged to protect it? Twenty-one young people from across America have sued the federal government over climate change, charging that actions promoting a fossil fuel economy violate their constitutional...
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Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of reform preceding the collapse as opportunities for rebuilding (perestroika), rejuvenation, and openness (glasnost). For those in provincial cities across the Soviet Union, however, these reforms led to rapid...
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Un ouvrage nécessaire qui éclaire et alimente le débat sur l'idée du revenu inconditionnel.
L'idée d'instaurer un revenu inconditionnel réapparaît régulièrement dans le débat public français. Lors de la dernière campagne présidentielle, plusieurs personnalités politiques ont évoqué cette idée encore trop méconnue du grand public. Pour un revenu sans conditions reprend, en la complétant substantiellement et en l'actualisant, une...
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Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement, which had enjoyed more than four decades of economic, political, and cultural dominance. The government passed into the hands of the rightwing nationalist movement, marking a tumultuous episode in the history of both Israel and Jewish people at the start of the twenty-first century. Elmaliach chronicles the fascinating story of Israel's political transformation...
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For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the state's most passionate and progressive voices. Included are ninety-one selections from Roy Bedichek, Lou Dubose, Ronnie Dugger, Dagoberto Gilb, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, Larry McMurtry, Maury Maverick Jr., Willie Morris, Debbie...
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In Small is Possible Lyle Estill introduced the compelling story of the creation of a strong local economy by several committed entrepreneurs. Industrial Evolution shows how these same entrepreneurs kept their local economy alive in the face of economic downturn and uncertain times, emerging with a model of how industry might adapt and thrive in a post carbon future.
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When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumors of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established...
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This volume examines the historical connections between the United States' Reconstruction and the country's emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism,...
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In Asia and the Pacific, 1.8 billion people still rely on traditional cooking methods using fires and solid fuels. The wider uptake of cleaner cooking solutions is vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7 objective of universal access to modern, affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy. It is also important for the environment and human health. This publication presents the results of a study on household cooking practices...
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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic motives...
26835) John F. Kennedy and PT-109
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From the bestselling author of Guadalcanal Diary: The thrilling true story of the future president's astonishing act of heroism during World War II.
In the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, US Navy motor torpedo boat PT-109 patrolled the still, black waters of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Suddenly, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri loomed out of the darkness, bearing directly down on the smaller ship. There was no time to get out of...
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A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best.
For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot, as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter, around war-torn South Sudan, talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and...
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Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent.
Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional...
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What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into "property," while those responsible act with near-total impunity.
Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community...
26839) The Waste Makers
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An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life-the development of consumption for...
26840) A Brighter Future for Maldives Powered by Renewables: Road Map for the Energy Sector 2020–2030
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Maldives has no proven fossil fuel reserves, but it has abundant renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and ocean (tidal, wave, and ocean thermal), and has the potential to produce green hydrogen fuel using renewable energy. The coronavirus pandemic has impaired Maldives' economy, severely affecting its tourism industry, which is one the country's main economic drivers. The country's recovery will largely depend on the rapid transformation...
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