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  • Deliberating Police Reform

    Managing Agonism Through Dialogue on Long Island

    by Philip Dalton ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    What happens when a mandate for justice becomes a blueprint for preserving power?Examining how Long Island's two major counties-Suffolk and Nassau-responded to New York State's mandate to reform and reinvent policing in the wake of George Floyd's murder, Deliberating Police Reform draws on interviews, historical context, and detailed analysis of reform taskforces to reveal how deliberative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Public Policy Argumentation and Debate

    A Practical Guide for Advocacy, Second Edition

    by John R. Butler, Philip Dalton ...
    Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy, Dalton and Butler offer practical guidance for determining the fundamental issues that make up a controversy and what expectations public audiences will have for advocacy based on the issues and the burdens of advocates challenging or defending the status quo. Through examples that span a wide range of advocacy situations and subjects of ... Read more

    $39.29 USD

  • Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication

    by Philip Dalton, Eric Mark Kramer ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    Public expression in the United States has become increasingly coarse. Whether it’s stupid, rude, base, or anti-intellectual talk, it surrounds us. Popular television, film, music, art, and even some elements of religion have become as coarse, we argue, as our often-disparaged political dialogue. This book’s contention is that the U.S. semantic environment is governed by tactics, not tact. We ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Public Policy Argumentation and Debate

    A Practical Guide for Advocacy

    by Philip Dalton, John R. Butler ...
    Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic debate formats. Beginning with the assumption that readers have already developed a basic capacity to argue, they offer practical guidance for determining the fundamental issues that make up a ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    A Year of Black Resistance and Power

    by Desmond Cole ...
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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    The author of Race for Profit carries out "[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class ... Read more

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  • Duffy

    Stardom to Senate to Scandal

    by Dan Leger ...
    He cast himself as the ultimate insider, Parliament Hill’s man in the know. It made him a household name and one of the Canada’s bestpaid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the ... Read more

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  • Practical Ethics In Public Administration

    by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo ...
    Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public ... Read more

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  • Becoming Abolitionists

    Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

    by Derecka Purnell ...
    **A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICKNamed a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021""Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love—one that we can accomplish together if only we decide to."—Nia Evans, Boston Review**For more than a century, activists in the United States have ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Competitive Debate

    The Official Guide

    by Richard Edwards ...
    The bible for debaters and their coaches.Nearly every high school and college in America has a debate club and/or a debate team. There are hundreds of competitions at the county and state level, culminating in heated national competitions. Yet, at many high schools and colleges, coaches are drawn from the history or English departments with little or no experience in the highly structured ... Read more

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  • Losing Confidence

    Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy

    by Elizabeth May ...
    A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist.We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either the US or the Canadian systems. Attack ads run constantly, backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike are muzzled ... Read more

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  • Undoctrinate

    How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools―and What We Can Do About It

    by Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder, John H. McWhorter ...
    Are your kids being indoctrinated in school?Unfortunately, it’s increasingly likely. From “social justice” to critical race theory, and from advocacy and activism campaigns to planned “action weeks,” teachers and schools nationwide are abandoning neutrality in the classroom, embracing political agendas and partisan aims, and expecting students to get on board.Meanwhile, students with doubts or ... Read more

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