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  • Amakomiti
    Trevor Ngwane
    Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa’s shack settlements, where more than 9 million people live, Trevor Ngwane finds thriving shack dwellers’ committ...
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    187,16 €

  • The Communist Republic
    Paul Haedo
    This is a collection of Marxist/Communist Theory written by Paul Haedo. This theory primarily covers the Transitionary Socialist State, how it would look like, how it would operate, and how it will help lay the groundwork and foundation towards Communism for the country of The United States of America.The successful liberation of the Proletariat, from the necessity of having to...
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    16,49 €

  • Kurdish Women’s Stories
    Houzan Mahmoud
    Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror beginning in the 1960s, to the fight against ISIS today, violence, revolution and questions around identity, agency, survival and resistance have been at the forefront of women’s lives for decades. This book is a collection of these ...
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    126,57 €

  • Servants of the Devil
    Since the end of the Cold War, liberal capitalism has spread worldwide without any significant ideological rivalry, characterized by the frenetic search for an ever-increasing return on capital and constantly-increasing profits, a generalized un-concern for the moral values of liberalism, and for social inequalities and human misery.The book, Servants of the Devil: The Facilita...
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    58,10 €

  • Around the Corner
    John W. Davis / John WDavis
    Mr. Davis gives us a film noir collection of intriguing, heart breaking, and insightful essays. Real people and actual events emerge from this collection in ways you won’t forget. Each draws us deeper into the questions we raise when we demand others serve in the secret world for their country.In Around the Corner we find more thought provoking true stories from the Cold War, i...
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    21,07 €

  • Muerte de la democracia
    Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
    La cuestión sobre qué carácter tiene de la derecha contemporánea ha sido muy debatida en Europa en los últimos años, sobre todo en Alemania, naturalmente. Miremos lo que ha sido el fascismo y el nazismo del siglo XX. El fascismo italiano, como el fascismo japonés, han sido fenómenos de expresión de una gloriosa confianza en el futuro de una nación, de un pueblo y de una supuest...
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    7,99 €

  • How to Create Smart Villages
    Henry Chesbrough / Solomon Darwin / Werner Fischer
    The COVID-19 crisis is a game-changer that will eventually benefit rural economies around the world. Around 3.4 billion people are living in rural areas lacking access to resources, tools, knowledge, and markets to find their way to prosperity. The exodus of millions of migrant workers from cities and back to their villages in India demonstrated that digital infrastructure that...
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    17,89 €

  • Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Professionals
    Tracy Brown Hamilton
    Welcome to the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) field! If you are interested in a career in this field, you’ve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various profession...
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    52,17 €

  • Jewish Defense League
    Steven Siesser
    The use of violence to extract political gains is not a new phenomenon in American society as some of our leaders would have us believe. Our history is coated with incidents of violence: The treatment of Native Americans, the enslavement of blacks, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Civil War draft riot in New York, the post-civil war treatment of blacks, the Pullman Strikes, the civ...
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    17,68 €

  • Disasters and Social Reproduction
    Peer Illner
    Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. What happens when natural disasters add to their misery? This book looks at the broken relationship between the federal government and civil society in a time of crisis. Mutual aid has gained renewed importance in providing relief when hurricanes, floods and pandemics hit, as cuts to state spending put sign...
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    127,33 €

  • ¿Son coherentes las ONGD valencianas?
    Cristina Ramón Luipáñez
    Con la pregunta sobre la coherencia de las ONGD, se trata de analizar la problemática atribuida a estas en el caso concreto valenciano. Si bien es cierto que el consenso es amplio acerca de la legitimidad ex ante, también lo es que no existen estudios de casos locales pormenorizados, ya que los realizados hasta ahora basan sus conclusiones en organizaciones con representación a...
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    19,50 €

  • Estado delincuente
    Carlos Tablante
    Estado delincuente. Cómo actúa la delincuencia organizada en Venezuela es un informe clave para entender la descomposición del Estado venezolano.Probablemente, mientras el lector venezolano lee estas líneas, a su alrededor habrá un Estado secreto que trabaja, vive del Estado oficial,  lo pervierte  y se aprovecha de él.  Un Estado que ha sido señalado de traficar con drogas, ma...
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    18,64 €

  • THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK EVER PUBLISHED
    Jerry Day / Paul Craig Roberts / Søren Roest Korsgaard
    'In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'George Orwell.In seventy-eight essays, seven prominent social critics question everything from government authority to COVID-19 in what has been called, 'the most dangerous book ever published.' This thought-provoking and empowering, even 'criminal,' anthology is a major challenge to the establishment, th...
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    42,60 €

  • Human Rights and Public Goods
    Diana Fuguitt / William F. Felice / William FFelice
    This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty. William Felice and Diana Fuguitt emphasize the critical links between international human rights law, international political economy, and global organizations to formulate effec...
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    162,55 €

  • Human Rights and Public Goods
    Diana Fuguitt / William F. Felice / William FFelice
    This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty. William Felice and Diana Fuguitt emphasize the critical links between international human rights law, international political economy, and global organizations to formulate effec...
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    58,77 €

  • Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism
    Imogen Richards
    Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neoliberal, late modern capitalist finance they condemn. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 Social Unrest
    Bernard Yeung
    This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019–2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which became effective in 1997, defines "one country, two systems" in Hong...
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    33,62 €

  • Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 Social Unrest
    Bernard Yeung
    This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019–2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which became effective in 1997, defines "one country, two systems" in Hong...
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    69,16 €

  • Tourism, Terrorism and Security
    International tourism has been a target for terrorist agents seeking to cause political instability and economic disruption in the West. This book lays the foundations of a new understanding of tourism security by discussing the nature of tourism, tourists, and terrorists. ...
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    152,66 €

  • IRAN - The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions
    National Council of Resistance of Iran / NCRI U.S. Representative Office / NCRI U.SRepresentative Office / NCRI- US
    This report shows how the Iranian regime is involved in procuring and manufacturing weapons and military equipment with the objective of exporting terrorism and warmongering, regional meddling by sending weapons and missiles to expand terrorist attacks, and resorts to terrorism.This manuscript highlights the consequences of lifting of arms embargo on the Iranian regime, and mak...
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    22,28 €

  • Encountering extremism
    Encountering Extremism presents a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of a profoundly important subject: preventing and countering extremism. The volume presents a valuable multidisciplinary analysis of both theoretical and practical aspects related to extremism. The volume provides an overview of the timeliest debates on the topic and the possibility for the reader to 'enco...
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    157,03 €

  • Derechos feministas y humanos en el Perú: decolonizando la justicia transicional
    Pascha Bueno-Hansen
    En 2001, después de una generación de conflicto armado interno y de autoritarismo, el Estado peruano estableció la Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación. Pascha Bueno-Hansen sitúa la Comisión, los movimientos feministas y de derechos humanos, así como las organizaciones no gubernamentales relevantes en un contexto internacional e histórico para descubrir las dificultades y avance...
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    36,40 €

  • Breaking Boundaries
    Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making. ...
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    42,95 €

  • Babylon Unveiled
    Jennifer DeMaster
    In 2019, the United States withdrew from the Syrian War, took out ISIS leader Baghdadi, and by January 3, 2020 the most dangerous shadow terrorist leader, Iran’s Qassem Soleimani had been neutralized in Baghdad. News narratives were quick to paint both Baghdadi and Soleimani as respected leaders while simultaneously decrying the Kurds in Syria.  But what is the real story behin...
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    13,78 €

  • Babylon Unveiled
    Jennifer DeMaster
    In 2019, the United States withdrew from the Syrian War, took out ISIS leader Baghdadi, and by January 3, 2020 the most dangerous shadow terrorist leader, Iran’s Qassem Soleimani had been neutralized in Baghdad. News narratives were quick to paint both Baghdadi and Soleimani as respected leaders while simultaneously decrying the Kurds in Syria.  But what is the real story behin...
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    22,96 €

  • Exploring the Tripod
    Nalanda Roy
    Exploring the Tripod: Immigration, Security, and Economy in the Post-9/11 United States is an exploration of the changing relationship between immigration and security in the post-9/11 United States. While extensive research has been done about the effect of 9/11 in the US, whether the effect is related mostly to the socio-economic situation or not is largely ignored. The curre...
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    115,73 €

  • El auge de la brutalidad organizada
    Sinisa Malesevic / Mónica Granell Toledo
    Frente a la creencia generalizada de que la violencia organizada experimenta un declive continuo a lo largo de la historia, este libro ofrece un análisis sociológico en profundidad que revela que, en realidad, va en aumento. Malesevic demuestra que la violencia está determinada por la capacidad organizativa, la penetración ideológica y la microsolidaridad, más que por las tende...
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    24,00 €

  • Anti-American Terrorism
    Dennis A Pluchinsky
    Volume I examined the policies and actions in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations that contributed to the creation of anti-American grievances which in turn fueled the rise of anti-American terrorism overseas and domestically during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Volume II chronicles the high-water mark of anti-American terrorism overseas that occ...
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    128,30 €

  • Anti-American Terrorism
    Dennis A Pluchinsky
    Volume I examined the policies and actions in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations that contributed to the creation of anti-American grievances which in turn fueled the rise of anti-American terrorism overseas and domestically during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Volume II chronicles the high-water mark of anti-American terrorism overseas that occ...
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    55,88 €

  • The reimagined party
    Katharine Dommett
    This book offers unprecedented insight into what the public want from parties. Presenting new data on public perceptions and desires, it diagnoses a wish for re-imagined parties, and considers how parties may wish to respond. ...
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    144,97 €