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  • Whistle Stop

    How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman

    by Philip White ...
    President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats, and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace, charm, and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman’s virtues were simpler, plainer, more direct. The challenges he faced—stirrings of civil rights and southern resentment at home, and communist aggression and brinkmanship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Worker Directors

    A Sociology of Participation

    by Peter Brannen, Eric Batstone, Derek Fatchett, Philip White ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation offers an exploration of industrial democracy and the role of worker participation in corporate decision-making. Drawing on extensive research and case studies, the authors delve into the emergence and implementation of worker-director schemes, with a particular focus on the British steel industry during a period of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Our Supreme Task

    How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance

    by Philip White ...
    The year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves in the grip of the Soviets. The Red Army occupied a large German territory, and the Kremlin was manipulating post-war food shortages, labor disputes, and social unrest in Greece, France, and Italy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Plant Stress Physiology

    by Lakshmi Praba Manavalan, Henry Nguyen, Rana Munns, Vadim Demidchik, Eric Ruelland, Anjana Jajoo, Suleyman I Allakhverdiev, Chiara Pucciariello, Pierdomenico Perata, Peter Ryan, Emmanuel Delhaize, André Läuchli, Stephen R Grattan, Jill Farrant, Keren Cooper, Joanne Bentley, Amelia Hilgart, Marcel Jansen, Michael Wisniewski, Ian R Willick, Lawrence Gusta, Philip White, Paula Ponrac, Halford J W Dace ...
    Completely updated from the successful first edition, this book provides a timely update on the recent progress in our knowledge of all aspects of plant perception, signalling and adaptation to a variety of environmental stresses. It covers in detail areas such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, oxidative stress, pathogens, and extremes of temperature and pH. This second edition: Presents ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

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  • How the World Works

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times), this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really workOffering something not found anywhere else, How the World Works is pure Chomsky, but tailored for those who are new to his work. The book is made up of meticulously edited ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Anarchism and Other Essays

    by Emma Goldman ...
    Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter. ANARCHISM: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong ... Read more

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

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  • Living in the End Times

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis “of fierce brilliance” (Guardian).There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

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  • The Peasants War

    by Ernest Bax ...
    The time was out of joint in a very literal sense of that somewhat hackneyed phrase. Every established institution - political, social, and religious - was shaken and showed the rents and fissures caused by time and by the growth of a new life underneath it. The empire - the Holy Roman - was in a parlous way as regarded its cohesion. The power of the princes, the representatives of local ... Read more

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  • The 2016 Contenders: Scott Walker

    by Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post ...
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories.Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's immovability, ... Read more

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  • The Great Gap

    Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

    Edited by Merike Blofield ...
    The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global inequalities, have made understanding this relationship ever more crucial. In The Great Gap, Merike Blofield seeks to contribute to this understanding by analyzing inequality and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD