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  • Premier's State
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    Premier's State

    'In May 1994, while I was going through pre-selection for the seat of Williamstown, I sat down at my desk at home and I wrote a note. I was thirty-nine years old and in that note I mapped out what I hoped would happen in my life.'By the time he was...
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  • Battle For Bennelong
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    Battle For Bennelong

    It was an historic moment in Australian political history. A sea of purple balloons filled a packed hall in Sydney's North Ryde, faces young and old beamed with the excitement of change, and one woman was set to make history and claim the seat from...
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  • Latham Diaries
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    Latham Diaries

    Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders—published within twelve months of his resignation from office—an historic first. The Latham Diaries are searingly honest bulletins from the front line of Labor politics...
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  • Power Of Speech
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    Power Of Speech

    The subjects of this book are five fascinating prime ministers—Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard—and how they view Australia. Until the 1960s, our nation believed itself to be British. Then, during a decade of...
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  • Very Public Solution
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    Very Public Solution

    Why is public transport so poor in Australian cities? Why can't it be more like the fast, convenient systems in Europe? Unlike Europeans, most urban Australians live on far-flung suburban blocks rather than in high-density apartments. Most urban travel...
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  • Asianisation Of Australia?
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    Asianisation Of Australia?

    '...we must combat blind ignorance with fact, and unreason with reason, and that is what this book is about.'—Don DunstanPauline Hanson was not the first person to sensationalise the effects of Australia's open immigration policy on the racial make-up of...
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  • Costello Memoirs
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    Costello Memoirs

    In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and...
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  • The Measure of Progress
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    The Measure of Progress

    Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure...
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  • Field Notes from Death's Door
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    Field Notes from Death's Door

    This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion, and what trying to save the world actually entails.In her early...
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  • The Housing Monster
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    The Housing Monster

    A house is more than four walls and a roof. From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict.The Housing Monster is a scathing graphic guide that takes one seemingly simple,...
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  • Safe Havens for Hate
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    Safe Havens for Hate

    Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremistsContent moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism...
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    Global Marxism Global Marxism
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    Global Marxism

    Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.
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  • Free Speech for Some Free Speech for Some
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    Free Speech for Some

    Has the First Amendment become a tool to promote the conservative agenda?On June 27, 2018, Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision in a free speech case, accused the Roberts Court majority of "weaponizing the First...
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  • Memoir of a Feminist Memoir of a Feminist
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    Memoir of a Feminist

    Roz McGrath is a woman living in the right time. She was fortunate to have been given an education at a time when women were encouraged to break out and pursue careers other than nursing, teaching and secretarial skills. She was on the cusp of a new era...
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  • VietNam Again and Again! VietNam Again and Again!
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    VietNam Again and Again!

    This book of poems has been in the works since the Vietnam War era.  Many of them have evolved and been refined over the years -- I could never let go of them.  Some are about The Vietnam War and the weapons of war; some illustrate the...
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  • No Kings, No Kooks... No Kings, No Kooks...
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    No Kings, No Kooks...

    From a working class New York Italian American family Sarnicola invites the reader into the world of security clearance investigations for the federal government and military. The book is not only a reflection of his coming of age but describes some of...
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  • LAST TRAIN TO FREEDOM LAST TRAIN TO FREEDOM
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    LAST TRAIN TO FREEDOM

    Last Train to Freedom is a story of a young Jewish couple with a small child escaping the Communist Soviet Union to the United States of America in the late nineteen seventies. The author's narrative is a raw account of a young Jewish woman growing up...
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  • From Ignorance to Insanity From Ignorance to Insanity
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    From Ignorance to Insanity

    We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban/Russia nuclear threat, the Cold War, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Bobby...
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  • Alabama Republican Party - 1867-2010 Alabama Republican Party - 1867-2010
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    Alabama Republican Party - 1867-2010

    This work is a historical overview of an emerging anti-slavery political party in a deep South state. The Alabama Republican Party was organized in the state capitol in Montgomery on June 4-5, 1867. The South, governed solely by Democrats, had been...
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  • The Donald Trump Turkey Shoot The Donald Trump Turkey Shoot
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    The Donald Trump Turkey Shoot

    “Only the Best Words? Only the Best People? Nonsense!”The Donald Trump Turkey Shoot is the author’s attempt—in weekly articles, spanning his presidency and arranged chronologically—to understand and portray Trump through...
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  • Delusion Confusion Collusion Delusion Confusion Collusion
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    Delusion Confusion Collusion

    This book contains information about our political parties and what is really going on behind the scenes. It can and will help individuals like yourself to make a sound and intellectual choices when voting in our elections this is a must read book...
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  • Women Behaving Courageously Women Behaving Courageously
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    Women Behaving Courageously

    Changing the world is women's workSince time began women of all ages, colours and creeds have stepped forward to say 'no' or 'enough' or 'there has to be a better way'. This is the story of 25 female warriors and dozens of female heroes. It's the story...
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  • How Essential Is Fluoride? How Essential Is Fluoride?
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    How Essential Is Fluoride?

    What Do The Experts Say?And just as importantly What do they NOT say?This book argues that experts have consistently exaggerated in their claim that fluorine should be considered an essential element for humans and suggests reasons why.Expert...
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  • Tell Me What You See Tell Me What You See
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    Tell Me What You See

    The unknown isn't so unbelievable in Dames’s hands.—George NooryAs the operations and training officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Psychic Intelligence Unit, Major Dames, with his team, used the practice of remote viewing to uncover...
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  • Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
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    Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China

    This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close...
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  • Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime
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    Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime

    This book investigates whether an international institution can alter state behaviour and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict. Kenneth Dombroski focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve...
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  • Doing Justice without the State Doing Justice without the State
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    Doing Justice without the State

    This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African societies, the Afikpo indigenous justice system employs restorative, transformative and communitarian...
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  • Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women
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    Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women

    This book argues that some women in Kuwait are using Islam in their discourse to justify women's right to equality and public participation, thus countering arguments that see Islam, democracy, and women's rights as inherently and culturally incompatible.
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  • Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
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    Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

    Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform...
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  • Governing Women Governing Women
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    Governing Women

    Using case studies from around the world, this volume argues that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than just additional women in politics: it requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support...
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  • The Costs of War The Costs of War
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    The Costs of War

    In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy.A new introduction provides an overview...
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  • Democracy for All Democracy for All
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    Democracy for All

    First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the...
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  • Endowed Endowed
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    Endowed

    Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with law's responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of women's reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and...
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  • Power and Politics in Globalization Power and Politics in Globalization
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    Power and Politics in Globalization

    Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, this book analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world. Rather than treating politics as contention for...
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  • Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy
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    Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy

    This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years.
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  • Negotiating Minefields Negotiating Minefields
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    Negotiating Minefields

    Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with...
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  • The Liberal Way of War The Liberal Way of War
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    The Liberal Way of War

    The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life,...
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  • Cloaked in Virtue Cloaked in Virtue
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    Cloaked in Virtue

    Xenos dissects the political ideas of Leo Strauss by careful attention to his full body of work. The result is a critical examination of Strauss's political theory and its influence on the neoconservative foreign policy of the Bush administration.
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  • Globalization or Empire? Globalization or Empire?
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    Globalization or Empire?

    In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do...
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  • The Declining World Order The Declining World Order
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    The Declining World Order

    This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the...
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  • Probationary Americans Probationary Americans
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    Probationary Americans

    Probationary Americans examines contemporary immigration rules and how they affect the make-up of immigrant communities. The authors' key argument is that immigration policies place race and class as important criteria for gaining entry to the United...
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  • The American Ideology The American Ideology
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    The American Ideology

    The American Ideology explicates and criticizes two notions of reason in society: efficiency and the concept of the reasonable. Despite their considerable appeal, these notions nowadays underwrite an orientation towards public policy that is both...
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  • The Affirmative Action Debate The Affirmative Action Debate
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    The Affirmative Action Debate

    This book is an essential guide to the full range of arguments surrounding affirmative action. Following the debate, as no other collection does, from all the early foundational articles to up-to-date selections, the book presents the strongest...
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  • The Politics of Asian Americans The Politics of Asian Americans
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    The Politics of Asian Americans

    Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American...
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