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Displaying records 171 through 180 of 2006 |
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Price: $36.00
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Sale: $36.00
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Manufacturer: Twayne Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carter
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Publisher: Twayne Publishers
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.330973
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Publication Date: 1997-07-22
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Reading Level: 166
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Description: Series Editor: Robert D. Benford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Social Movements Past and Present offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the way Americans think and live. Each volume is written by a specialist drawing on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology and political science.
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Price: $200.00
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Sale: $95.61
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Roger S. Powers
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.6103
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Publication Date: 1997-01-01
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Reading Level: 610
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Description: Covers tactics, leaders, and famous actions
From Solidarity's passive/aggressive faceoff with communism to the courageous sit-ins and marches of the Civil Rights Movement, here is the first systematic survey of peaceful confrontations between the forces for the status quo and the forces for change. All the important events, tactics, and leaders are covered: Women's suffrage, blockades, IRA hunger strikes, monkey wrenching, Charter 77, the Clamshell Alliance, Rosa Parks, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and many more.Focuses on critical issues
Clear, comprehensive, and authoritative, the Encyclopedia examines such critical contemporary issues as violence, the nature of power, conflict resolution, the mechanisms of social movements, the application of moral authority, and defines and surveys the underlying assumptions and prevailing thinking of all activists for change. A practical blueprint for peaceful protest-the first and only work of its kind
For this first systematic treatment of the subject, expert contributors from around the world have written essays on key persons, events, ideas, works, institutions , groups, and methods. The result is a primer and practical guide on all aspects of nonviolent action. There is an introduction, a listing of the entries by category, and a comprehensive index. Special features:
* First and only encyclopedia on the subject
* Spotlights the most important peaceful struggles of the 20th century
* Examines l04 nonviolent movements, campaigns, and events
* Profiles 70 activists and scholars, including a dozen Nobel Peace Prize laureates
* Surveys 42 organizations that have led nonviolent movements
* Details 40 methods of peaceful protest
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $22.89
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Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4840952
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Publication Date: 2008-01-29
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures—on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas—global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth—Another Japan is Possible examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the local—that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups—and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.62
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mike Marqusee
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Publisher: Verso
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.83092
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Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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Reading Level: 326
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Description: Ali has been a player on the world stage for so long, it's hard to remember that before his metamorphosis into a cultural icon holding the Olympic flame aloft he was a cultural lightening rod. Hero to some, traitor to others, he managed to land powerful punches both in and out of the ring. What changed him from athlete to personality to a heavyweight of global reach? "At the core of the Ali story," Mike Marqusee reminds us, "is a young man who made daunting choices and stuck to them in the face of ghastly threats and glittering inducements." Redemption Song explores those choices in the context of the turbulent times in which they were made. Ali and the '60s were a naturally synergistic fit. It was a time of great change, and Ali, the seeker, had remarkable access to the fomenters of that change. They, in turn, had a prime influence on his symbolic rebirth and reemergence. As Redemption Song recounts, the night the young Cassius Clay upset Sonny Liston for the title in 1964, he skipped the traditional post-fight party and headed straight for Miami's black ghetto where he met with Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and the running back Jim Brown, an early advocate of black rights in sports. The next morning, announcing to the white world that "I'm free to be what I want" and "I don't have to be what you want me to be," he confirmed rumors about his conversion to Islam. Clay was dead; long live Ali. The conversion to Islam was only one of Ali's "daunting choices." As Marqusee moves through the decade, he carefully traces Ali's choices to confront the establishment and stand as a symbol of civil rights and the anti-war effort; his relationships with Malcolm X, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King; and the importance of his travels to Africa. There's plenty of boxing too--Liston, Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, George Foreman; the ring, after all, was his arena. Marqusee, though, is more interested in how Ali expanded that arena to take in the kinds of fights that go beyond the ropes. It's a tall order, but Redemption Song fulfills it with solid reporting and worthy analysis. --Jeff Silverman
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $4.92
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Manufacturer: New Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: New Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 345.7731102
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Publication Date: 2006-08-07
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: On the stand with yippies, black panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s.
"Conspiracy? Hell, we couldn't agree on lunch."—Abbie Hoffman
Michael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago Eight trial.
Opening at the end of 1969, the trial brought Yippies, antiwar activists, and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges arising from the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The defendants openly lampooned the proceedings, with Abbie Hoffman blowing kisses to the jury and the defense bringing a Viet Cong flag into the courtroom. The judge ordered Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers bound and gagged for insisting on representing himself. And an array of celebrity witnesses appeared, including Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Arlo Guthrie, and Allen Ginsberg, who provoked the prosecution by chanting "Om" on the witness stand.
This book combines an abridged transcript of the trial with astute commentary by historian Jon Wiener. A foreword by defendant Tom Hayden examines the trial's relevance for protest today, and drawings by legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer help re-create the electrifying atmosphere of the courtroom.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $30.93
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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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Publisher: Zed Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.042
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Publication Date: 2007-02-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the developments which have brought about a new, global wave of inclusiveness and democracy.
From Brazil to Bangladesh, a new form of participatory politics is springing up. Featuring contributions detailing how such movements have worked in Latin America, Europe and Africa, the book analyzes the impact they have had on the democratic process. By opening up the political sphere in this way, the authors contend, these grassroots movements truly have created "spaces for change".
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Price: $41.95
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Sale: $37.95
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Manufacturer: Central European University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Szabolcs Szita; Sean Lambert
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Publisher: Central European University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318350943912
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Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Set in the tumultuous moments of 1944–45 Budapest, this work discusses the operations of the Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee. Drawing out the contradictions and complexities of the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews during the final phase of World War II, Szita suggests that in the Hungarian context, a commerce in lives ensued, where prominent Zionists like Dr. Rezso Kasztner negotiated with the higher echelons of the SS, trying to garner the freedom of Hungarian Jews. Szita's portrait of the controversial Kasztner is a more sympathetic rendition of a powerful Zionist leader who was later assassinated in Israel for his dealings with Nazi leaders. Szita reveals a story of interweaving personalities and conflicts during arguably the most tragic moment in European history. The author's extensive research is a tremendous contribution to a field of study that has been much ignored by scholarship-the Hungarian holocaust and the trade in human lives.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Bates
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1993-09
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: An account of the 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin sheds light on the event while also chronicling the anti-war movement. 50,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $42.10
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Amalia Pallares
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.119808661
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 288
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $5.98
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Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Armand White
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Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.47
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Publication Date: 1995-05-01
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Reading Level: 480
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