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Elie Mystal
Bad Law

In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today---an urgent …

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Samuel Moyn
Gerontocracy in America

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the …

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Sami Moubayed, Fakhri Al-Barudi
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri Al-Barudi

Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in 1889, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria, universally …

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

"The story of the American Right is often told as the fusion of the free market and religion. Yet recent decades have seen the rise of a new fusionism which turns to nature and science to defend natu…

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Robin Andersen
The Complicit Lens

A media scholar examines how US establishment outlets echo Israeli narratives on Gaza, miminimizing atrocities like the Flour Massacre as "aid-related deaths" to whitewash genocide and excuse wa…

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Aaron Graham
Tropical Leviathan

Tropical Leviathan examines the political and economic history of the colonial state of Jamaica in the age of revolution and abolition. It analyses the ways in which Jamaica's economy attempted but eventu…

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Matthew J Clavin
Symbols of Freedom

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American…

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Nubar Hovsepian
Edward Said

Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete's temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab--Is…

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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Peter Ricketts
Peace Makers

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.' -- Tim Bouverie'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in …

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Rozina Ali
Seasons of Fury

This sweeping narrative history chronicles the U.S. government's broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence---from an award-winni…

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

lieferbar ab 27.2.2026.

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Andrew Lison
100% Utilization

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growt…

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Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary
Ungovernable Spaces

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate t…

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Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

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