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    Andromache

    Greek & Roman Classics

    Unabridged

    1 hour 31 min

    Euripides' classic tragedy in a full cast audio production. After Troy fell to the Greeks, Andromache, the wife of the slain Trojan king Hector, was taken as prize and given to Achilles' son Neoptolemus as his concubine. He treated her kindly, and in the fullness of time she bore him a son. But Neoptolemus went on to take as his wife Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, but she could bear him no ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Development to Democracy

    The Transformations of Modern Asia

    Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Public Workers

    Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962

    From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Public Workers in Service of America

    A Reader

    Series series Working Class in American History
    From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2018

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Guidelines and recommendations for the most common outpatient conditions – from sources you can trust!•The most current disease screening, prevention, and management recommendations at your fingertips ... Read more

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  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

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  • The Polarizers

    Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

    by Sam Rosenfeld ...
    "Rosenfeld's insightful study of the development of political parties since World War II is highly instructive for our current moment." — Kirkus ReviewsEven in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Wisconsin

    Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition

    This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the role of government in the state to fit his own conservative ideology.In The Battle for Wisconsin, the ... Read more

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  • Rich People's Movements

    Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent

    by Isaac Martin ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence. Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf? Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea ... Read more

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  • Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger

    School Segregation in Rochester, New York

    by Justin Murphy ...
    In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger**, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy argues that Rochester's educational disparities stem from historical and ongoing racial segregation.** Education reform alone cannot resolve racial inequity; cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.Through interviews and documents, Murphy shows how discriminatory policies and personal prejudice ... Read more

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  • From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

    The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in ... Read more

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