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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Naomi Wolf
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.490973
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Publication Date: 2007-09-05
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Winner of the 2008 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD in the category of Social Change/Activism In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century‚’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.
The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties.
In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us‚–with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine‚’s revolutionary pamphlets‚–that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
“Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all tend to take very similar, parallel steps. The Founders of this nation were so deeply familiar with tyranny and the habits and practices of tyrants that they set up our checks and balances precisely out of fear of what is unfolding today. We are seeing these same kinds of tactics now closing down freedoms in America, turning our nation into something that in the near future could be quite other than the open society in which we grew up and learned to love liberty,‚” states Wolf.
Wolf is taking her message directly to the American people in the most accessible form and as part of a large national campaign to reach out to ordinary Americans about the dangers we face today. This includes a lecture and speaking tour, and being part of the nascent American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots efforts to ensure that presidential candidates pledge to uphold the constitution and protect our liberties from further erosion.
The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate‚–spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots‚–to save our liberty and defend our nation.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Milton Friedman::Rose Friedman
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
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Publication Date: 1990-11-26
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $13.24
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Luther King
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1196073
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Publication Date: 1990-12-07
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Reading Level: 736
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Description: "We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Luther King
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.092
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Publication Date: 1992-02-28
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history. This anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s courageous dream and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words in a concise and convenient edition. As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword, "This collection includes many of what I consider to be my husband's most important writings and orations." In addition to the famed keynote address of the 1963 march on Washington, the renowned civil rights leader's most influential words included here are the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," the essay "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," and his last sermon, "I See the Promised Land," preached the day before he was assassinated. Editor James M. Washington arranged the selections chronologically, providing headnotes for each selection that give a running history of the civil rights movement and related events. In his introduction, Washington assesses King's times and significance.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.97
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Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Julie Flint::Alex de Waal
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Publisher: Zed Books
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 962.7043
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Publication Date: 2008-05-13
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: The humanitarian tragedy in Darfur has stirred politicians, Hollywood celebrities and students to appeal for a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Beyond the horrific pictures of sprawling refugee camps and lurid accounts of rape and murder lies a complex history steeped in religion, politics, and decades of internal unrest.
Darfur traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infamous Janjawiid and other rebel groups, including the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement. It also analyzes the confused responses of the Sudanese government and African Union. This thoroughly updated edition also features a powerful analysis of how the conflict has been received in the international community and the varied attempts at peacekeeping.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.25
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Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Publisher: Modern Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.44
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Publication Date: 2002-05-14
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power of the state, On Liberty is essential reading for anyone interested in political thought and theory. As Bertrand Russell reflected, “On Liberty remains a classic . . . the present world would be better than it is, if [Mill’s] principles were more respected.”
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned endnotes and commentary by Dale E. Miller, and an index.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $15.74
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philippe Sands
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.48
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Publication Date: 2008-05-13
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary rendition. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention and holds the individual gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for their failure to safeguard international law. The Torture Team delves deep into the Bush administration to reveal: · How the policy of abuse originated with Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, and was promoted by their most senior lawyers · Personal accounts, through interview, of those most closely involved in the decisions · How the Joint Chiefs and normal military decision-making processes were circumvented · How Fox TV’s 24 contributed to torture planning · How interrogation techniques were approved for use · How the new techniques were used on Mohammed Al Qahtani, alleged to be “the 20th highjacker” · How the senior lawyers who crafted the policy of abuse exposed themselves to the risk of war crimes charges |
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.49
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Erich Fromm
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: Owl Book Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.44
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Publication Date: 1994-09-15
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm’s work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.24
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph P. Shapiro
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.3
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Publication Date: 1994-10-25
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $7.20
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 959.105
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Publication Date: 1998-01-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in 1989 by the ruling military junta SLORC. She paints a vivid, poignant yet optimistic picture of her native land in this collection of writings from her imprisonment. Aung San Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
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