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In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan This title describes how these ordinary people conceive of citizenship, how they acquire and exercise power, and how religious ideas and institutions contribute to their successes.

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An essential guide to the new face of electoral politics in America, this book provides an examination of the political mobilization of Latinos and Latinas through the churches and the influence of being of the Catholic faith, enabling an understanding of the social and cultural dynamics at play.

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Reveals the untold story of the people who struggled to get asylum seekers out of detention and change government policy. Some like Petro Georgiou, Julian Burnside and Phillip Ruddock, are very well known. Others are not as famous but felt compelled to follow their consciences.

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Examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. This work recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises like the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being fired have caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades.

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In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic cleansing.

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Democratic-leaning urban areas in states that otherwise lean Republican is an increasingly important phenomenon in American politics. Blue Metros, Red States explores this phenomenon by analysing demographic trends, voting patterns, economic data, and social characteristics of twenty-seven major metropolitan areas in thirteen swing states.

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Unveiling extremely sensitive information for the first time, Bamford exposes the role the NSA played in numerous Soviet bloc Cold War conflicts and discusses its undercover involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Develops critical perspectives on a variety of body technologies and implicates biotechnology and plastic surgery in the subversion and reconstruction of late 20th-century discourses of the body and the body politic.

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A comprehensive analysis of the rise of Boko Haram from a small religious cult to a major terrorist group, placing them within the context of Nigerian politics and the international War on Terror.

In 2009, Nigerian security forces stormed a religious cult by the name of Boko Haram, killing its leader and thousands of followers.

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Interspersed with history, this book delves into the roots of the unholy war being waged against the backdrop of an evolving extremist threat worldwide.

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Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats discretionary practices.

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Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats discretionary practices.

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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .

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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .

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The symbiotic relationship between the US and Latin America has been filled with bitterness and anguish at its worst, and hope and cooperation at its best. This book offers an introduction to the important events in the diplomatic, military, social, and economic history of the relationship between the United States and countries of Latin America.

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Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.

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Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.

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Unravels the many layers of the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, it is a forensic investigation into one of Australia's most celebrated over achievers.

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Americans are awash in debt, and the U.S. economy is in trouble. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever it has become one of the defining aspects of American life, and the ramifications are becoming clearer by the day.