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Daring Democracy

Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

By: Frances Moore Lappé,Adam Eichen

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Daring Democracy

Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

By: Frances Moore Lappé,Adam Eichen

An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy. Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It’s not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It’s feeling powerless—in this case, fearing that to stand up for democracy is futile. It’s not, Lappé and Eichen argue. With riveting stories and little-known evidence, they demystify how we got here, exposing the well-orchestrated effort that has robbed Americans of their rightful power. But at the heart of this unique book are solutions. Even in this divisive time, Americans are uniting across causes and ideologies to create a “canopy of hope” the authors call the Democracy Movement. In this invigorating “movement of movements,” millions of Americans are leaving despair behind as they push for and achieve historic change. The movement and democracy itself are vital to us as citizens and fulfill human needs—for power, meaning, and connection—essential to our thriving. In this timely and necessary book, Lappé and Eichen offer proof that courage is contagious in the daring fight for democracy.

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Beacon Press

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0807023817

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The Quiller Memorandum

By: Adam Hall

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The Quiller Memorandum

By: Adam Hall

Spy thriller set in West Berlin where Englishmen and Germans are cooperating to flush out dangerous Nazis who are still at large years after World War II.

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233

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Macmillan

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0765309688

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9780765309686

The Trap

By: Tadeusz Różewicz,Adam Czerniawski

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The Trap

By: Tadeusz Różewicz,Adam Czerniawski

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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120

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Psychology Press

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3718658569

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9783718658565

With Paulus at Stalingrad

By: Wilhelm Adam,Otto Rühle

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With Paulus at Stalingrad

By: Wilhelm Adam,Otto Rühle

This memoir from an aide to, and fellow POW of, General Friedrich Paulus documents a unique perspective on the horror of Stalingrad. Colonel Wilhelm Adam, senior ADC to General Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, wrote this compelling and controversial memoir describing the German defeat, his time as a prisoner of war with Paulus, and his conversion to communism. Now, for the first time, his German text has been translated into English. His account gives an intimate insight into events at the 6th Army headquarters during the advance to Stalingrad and the protracted and devastating battle for possession of the city. In vivid detail, he recalls the sharp personality clashes among the senior commanders and their intense disputes about tactics and strategy, but he also records the ordeal of the German troops trapped in the encirclement and his own role in the fighting. The extraordinary story he tells, fluently translated by Tony Le Tissier, offers a genuinely fresh perspective on the battle, and it reveals much about the prevailing attitudes and tense personal relationships of the commanders at Stalingrad and at Hitler’s headquarters. “Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men of the abandoned 6th Army. The reader is presented with the hopeless situation faced by Paulus and his staff who, aware of the looming disaster from a very early stage are constantly denied the option of a withdrawal by Hitler and left to their catastrophic fate.”—Grossdeutschland Aufklarungsgruppe

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428

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Casemate Publishers

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1526723484

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9781526723482

Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care

By: Adam Walker

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Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care

By: Adam Walker

Through developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care', this book explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal, more collectively fulfilling, possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities: through labour, the body, and onto-epistemology. Art’s all too frequent a-criticality, cooption, or even complicity amidst these lineages is observed, and radical care and the disruptive arttext are developed as twin aspects of an alternative, resistant framework. The book contributes to the critical understanding of inequitable, abstracting processes’ growing determination of increasing parts of our world, and foregrounds art’s position amidst these. It also functions as an interface, both extending the fertile current discourse around care to a contemporary art focus, and at the same time exploring how radical art practices might contribute to a politics rooted in an ethics of care. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, studio art, philosophy and politics.

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210

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Taylor & Francis

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1003816401

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9781003816409

In Time of War

Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq

By: Adam J. Berinsky

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In Time of War

Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq

By: Adam J. Berinsky

From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in U.S. political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make this groundbreaking revelation, In Time of War explodes conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Adam Berinsky argues that public response to these crises has been shaped less by their defining characteristics—such as what they cost in lives and resources—than by the same political interests and group affiliations that influence our ideas about domestic issues. With the help of World War II–era survey data that had gone virtually untouched for the past sixty years, Berinsky begins by disproving the myth of “the good war” that Americans all fell in line to support after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The attack, he reveals, did not significantly alter public opinion but merely punctuated interventionist sentiment that had already risen in response to the ways that political leaders at home had framed the fighting abroad. Weaving his findings into the first general theory of the factors that shape American wartime opinion, Berinsky also sheds new light on our reactions to other crises. He shows, for example, that our attitudes toward restricted civil liberties during Vietnam and after 9/11 stemmed from the same kinds of judgments we make during times of peace. With Iraq and Afghanistan now competing for attention with urgent issues within the United States, In Time of War offers a timely reminder of the full extent to which foreign and domestic politics profoundly influence—and ultimately illuminate—each other.

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710

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University of Chicago Press

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0226043460

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9780226043463

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

An introduction to sign language linguistics

By: Trevor Johnston,Adam Schembri

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Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

An introduction to sign language linguistics

By: Trevor Johnston,Adam Schembri

This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an accessible overview of its grammar (how sentences are structured), phonology (the building blocks of signs), morphology (the structure of signs), lexicon (vocabulary), semantics (how meaning is created), and discourse (how Auslan is used in context). The authors also discuss a range of myths and misunderstandings about sign languages, provide an insight into the history and development of Auslan, and show how Auslan is related to other sign languages, such as those used in Britain, the USA and New Zealand. Complete with clear illustrations of the signs in use and useful further reading lists, this is an ideal resource for anyone interested in Auslan, as well as those seeking a clear, general introduction to sign language linguistics.

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338

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Cambridge University Press

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1139459635

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9781139459631

Socio-Economic Development

By: Adam Szirmai

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Socio-Economic Development

By: Adam Szirmai

Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing countries. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition includes new material on the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, the emergence of the BRICS economies, the role of institutions in development and the accelerated growth of economies in Africa and Asia. Taking a comparative approach, Szirmai places contemporary debates within their broader contexts and combines insights and theories from economics, economic history, political science, anthropology and sociology. Each chapter includes comparative statistics and time series for thirty-one developing countries. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this book is well-suited for students in interdisciplinary development studies and development economics, for policy-makers and for practitioners pursuing careers in developing countries. Visit www.dynamicsofdevelopment.com for additional resources.

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795

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Cambridge University Press

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1316240185

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9781316240182

The Euro at Five

Ready for a Global Role?

By: Adam Simon Posen

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The Euro at Five

Ready for a Global Role?

By: Adam Simon Posen

As a long-run competitor and collaborator with the dollar, the euro creates the potential for a bipolar international monetary system, offering unprecedented challenges and opportunities to economic policymakers. This book explores the euro's international role, its record till its fifth year, and its future.

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236

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Peterson Institute

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0881323748

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9780881323740

Play at Work

How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking

By: Adam L. Penenberg

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Play at Work

How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking

By: Adam L. Penenberg

A fascinating look at how games can help us learn, create, and innovate Once thought to be nothing more than diversions for children and nerds, games have become an integral part of everyday life. Educators are trying to make learning more fun by introducing games into the classroom while cutting-edge managers are doing the same in the workplace. Doctors, scientists, and entrepreneurs are deploying games to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems. But according to Adam Penenberg, it's not the games themselves that improve our lives, but rather smart game design and its impact on the brain that can lead us to become immersed in a task we find enjoyable. The individuals and institutions that have used games to achieve this effect are often rewarded with astounding results. Drawing on the latest brain science on attention and engagement plus his own firsthand reporting, Penenberg shows how organizations like Google, Microsoft, hospitals, and the military have used game design in bold new ways"--

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Portfolio

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1591847109

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Daring Democracy

Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

By: Frances Moore Lappé,Adam Eichen

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Daring Democracy

Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

By: Frances Moore Lappé,Adam Eichen

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Daring Democracy

Daring Democracy

The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

The Trap

The Trap

With Paulus at Stalingrad

With Paulus at Stalingrad

Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care

Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care

In Time of War

In Time of War

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

Socio-Economic Development

Socio-Economic Development

The Euro at Five

The Euro at Five

Play at Work

Play at Work

Daring Democracy

Daring Democracy

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