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  • The Politics of Torture

    by T. Lightcap ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Why did it happen? Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? Instead of an indictment, this book presents an explanation. Crises produce rare opportunities for overcoming the domestic and foreign policylogjams facing political leaders. But what if the projects used to address the crisis and provide cover for their domestic policy initiatives come under serious ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Examining Torture

    Empirical Studies of State Repression

    Edited by T. Lightcap, J. Pfiffner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the "War on Terror" has sparked fervent debate among citizens and scholars surrounding the human rights of war criminals. Does all force qualify as "necessary and appropriate" in this period of political unrest? Examining Torture brings together some of the best recent scholarship on the incidence of torture in a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Violence of Organized Forgetting

    Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is ... Read more

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  • Utilitarianism - The Original Classic Edition

    by Stewart Mill ...
    Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. One of the most influential contributors to this theory is considered to be John Stuart Mill.John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, ... Read more

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  • The Ground Truth

    The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11

    by John Farmer ...
    From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren?t told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues? work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there was a further story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to ... Read more

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  • Among the Heroes

    United Flight 93 & the Passengers & Crew Who Fought Back

    by Jere Longman ...
    The New York Times bestseller about Flight ninety-three's brave men and women on September eleven, 2001—the day that changed how Americans view the world and themselves."A powerful reconstruction of the flight's final moments. . . . Made me think of John Hersey's Hiroshima ." — New York Times Book ReviewOf the four horrific hij... ... Read more

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  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

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  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    by Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift ...
    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Read more

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  • Hatred's Kingdom

    How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

    by Dore Gold ...
    A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country! ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought

    Individualism, Relationalism, and American Politics

    by D. Brockman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of government in the market. This book shows that the fight over policy involves a fundamental disagreement about who we are as human beings: independent individuals, or essentially social creatures. ... Read more

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  • Resolving the Cyprus Conflict

    Negotiating History

    by M. Michael ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    By placing the conflict in its historical, ideological, ethno-political and geostrategic context, the book extends beyond conventional realist approaches and lays bare those less visible dimensions that are often ignored by analysts and policy-makers alike. ... Read more

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  • Women Intellectuals in Post-68 France

    Petitions and Polemics

    by I. Long ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals. This book aims redresses this balance by studying these forgotten intellectuals creating a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France. ... Read more

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