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Displaying records 181 through 190 of 2006 |
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $1.75
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jim Risen::Judy L. Thomas
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.460973
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Publication Date: 1998-01-07
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Abortion has been at the emotional center of America’s culture wars for a generation. Ever since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has in many ways defined American politics, creating an ideological demilitarized zone between liberals and conservatives. Above all, the twenty-five-year war over abortion has been responsible for the most significant social phenomenon of our times—the political and cultural mobilization of Evangelical America. Furthermore, it has served as the lightning rod for the most intense and prolonged debate on the issue of separation of church and state since the founding of the nation.Now for the first time, in a compelling and very human narrative, Wrath of Angels traces the rise and fall of the American anti-abortion movement and reveals its critical role in the creation of the Religious Right. The book explores why the passionate battle to end abortion failed to achieve its goal and yet in the process became one of the most important—and least understood—social protest movements of the twentieth century. The anti-abortion movement was the catalyst that convinced Protestant fundamentalists to end their long cultural isolation, leaving their church pews for the streets. And, while they failed to change the law, they were transformed themselves, emerging as one for the most potent political forces in America at the end of the century.James Risen, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and Judy L. Thomas, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, are widely acknowledged as the leading journalistic experts on the anti-abortion movement. Their narrative history captures all the drama of the abortion battles of the past twenty-five years and reveals how a movement with its roots in the Catholic left’s antiwar protests of the 1960s was gradually transformed into a rallying point for the newly muscular Religious Right. Wrath of Angels documents the origins of the use of civil disobedience in the anti-abortion movement and offers the definitive explanation of why the movement ultimately descended into violence—and collapsed as a political force. It tells the compelling story of the shootings of abortion doctors in the 1990s and draws upon exclusive interviews with the anti-abortion extremists who have been convicted of these crimes.Anti-abortion activism represents the largest social protest movement since the 1960s. With clarity and objectivity, Risen and Thomas unleash the stormy wrath of angels, the volatile eruption of fundamentalist fury into American politics.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kimberly Springer
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Publisher: NYU Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.48896073
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Publication Date: 1999-08-01
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Reading Level: 395
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Description: "A valuable resource…the names of the authors and activists within it are undoubtedly ones we will encounter again and again over the decades to come."
—Sojourner Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement. Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements, the Million Man March, black feminism, anti-rape movements, mass incarceration, the U.S. Congress, welfare rights, health care, and labor organizing. Detailing the impact of post-1960s African American women's activism, they provide a much-needed update to the historical narrative. Ideal for course use, the volume includes original essays as well as primary source documents such as first-hand accounts of activism and statements of purpose. Each contributor carefully situates their topic within its historical framework, providing an accessible context for those unfamiliar with black women's history, and demonstrating that African American women's political agency does not emerge from a vacuum, but is part of a complex system of institutions, economics, and personal beliefs. This ambitious volume will be an invaluable resource on the state of contemporary African American women's activism.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $16.94
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Manufacturer: Nordic Africa Institute
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Legassick
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Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
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Dewey Decimal Number: 968.06
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 262
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Description: The impact of the concept(s) of armed struggle for the notion(s) of democracy in South(ern) Africa is the focus of this paper. Originally submitted to a conference on (Re-) Conceptualising Democracy and Liberation in Southern Africa, held in Windhoek, Namibia during July 2002, it argues from the point of departure of the personal involvement of the author in the issues raised.The author was part of a group which criticised the strategy of armed struggle in the ANC. With this paper he inspires a debate, which can claim relevance for current issues of democracy in South Africa and the Southern African region more generally. Given the degree of personal involvement of its author, this analysis is contemporary history based on personal insights, and provides arguments for a necessary discussion.
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Price: $42.50
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Sale: $40.95
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James M. Jasper
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 1998-02-03
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Reading Level: 530
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Description: In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms.
"A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest."—Library Journal
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Manufacturer: Beyond the Pale Publications
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ardoyne Commemoration Project
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Publisher: Beyond the Pale Publications
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Publication Date: 2003-02-01
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Reading Level: 558
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Price: $74.95
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Sale: $64.64
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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: Nick Sireau
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.55610941
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Publication Date: 2009-01-06
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of "Make Poverty History," a high profile episode of social movement protest in the UK. The book follows the campaign throughout its lifetime and explores how attitudes towards government and political opportunities influenced the negotiation of communications.
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Price: $47.95
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Sale: $24.50
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: L. Weinberg
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.62
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Publication Date: 2001-05-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: This collection brings together distinguished scholars who have come to believe that democracies have a special proclivity to stimulate political violence. Cold War preoccupations and tendencies to ignore historical experiences have obscured this characteristic, as has a naive assumption that when appropriate peaceful means for settling disputes are provided, the "need" and thus the likelihood for violence dissipates. But the more we know about this feature of democracy the more effective our responses will be.
The violence associated with elections is the dominant concern, analyzed on a general level and in particular case studies, such as in Israel, Italy, eastern Europe and the US. Forms of violence more conspicuous in, but not exclusive to democratic states receive special attention, for instance ethnic strife, riots, and terrorism. The focus is on national politics, but the impact of democratic institutions in shaping international responses to violence receives attention too.
Finally, some very general issues are scrutinized. What does a persistant history of violence signify for national developments? Why do democracies have a proclivity for violence and can one make sense of Thomas Jefferson's dicta that democratic states need violence periodically to sustain themselves?
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $7.65
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Manufacturer: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Barkun
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Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.43
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Publication Date: 1986-09
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Reading Level: 246
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Sale: $21.00
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Manufacturer: Berghahn Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Scott Christofferson
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.94051
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Publication Date: 2004-07
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Reading Level: 294
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Description: During the late '70s, the French intellectual denounced left-wing totalitarianism. This paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. This title argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ramor Ryan
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Publisher: AK Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484092
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: "What separates Ramor's work from the other outstanding young writers is the content of what he is doing. I've never seen anything close to his work"-Eddie Yuen, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism "From Belfast to the Bronx and Chiapas to Kurdistan, Ramor Ryan has shown a lifelong commitment to social justice, a questioning mind and an ability to incorporate historical currents into his work."-Mick McCaughan, Latin American Correspondent to the Irish Times An epic debut, Ramor Ryan's nonfiction tales read like Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries crossed with Hunter S. Thompson's wit and flair for the impossible. A shrewd political thinker and philosopher with a knack for ingratiating himself into the thick of any social situation, Ryan has been there and lived to tell about it. As much an adventure story as an unofficial chronicle of modern global resistance movements, Clandestines spirits the reader across the globe, carefully weaving the narrative through illicit encounters and public bacchanals. From the teeming squats of mid-90's East Berlin, to intrigue in the Zapatista Autonomous Zone, a Croatian Rainbow Gathering on the heels of the G8 protests in Genoa, mutiny on the high seas, the quixotic ambitions of a Kurdish guerilla camp, the contradictions of Cuba, and the neo-liberal nightmare of post-war(s) Central America we see everywhere a world in flux, struggling to be reborn. Ramor Ryan is a rebellious rover and Irish exile who makes his home between New York City and Chiapas.
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