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This groundbreaking investigation by a renowned psychologist and neuroscientist proves it: We vote with our hearts, not our minds

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"This book critiques what the author sees as a growing global cult of information through three case studies examining Indian anti-poverty initiatives"--

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"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--

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For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right's rise to political power.

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Today The Prince is still seen as the Bible of realpolitik, read by strategists, businessmen and political animals everywhere as the ultimate guide to gaining and maintaining power in a dangerous world.

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Four generations of Americans know Ralph Nader as the man who stands up for consumer and worker rights, an advocate on the leading edge of political and social issues from car safety in the '60s to recent protests against the World Trade Organization. This landmark collection brings Nader's writings together for the first time.

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A deeply reported and intimately human view of the struggle for democracy in Burma, through the lens of one young activist who risked everything to fight against one of the world's most repressive governments.

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In profiles of Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the author demonstrates how these thinkers were so deluded by the ideologies and convulsions of their times that they closed their eyes to authoritarianism, brutality, and state terror.

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The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both

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In these impactful first-person essays, a selection of Repeater authors come together to write about what heroism means to them, trying to imagine a new kind of hero figure for the twenty-first century.

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The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war.

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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, the author argues, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. He unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers - Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss.

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"The smartphone is the defining commodity of the twenty-first century, pitting ordinary peoples' desire for entertainment, connection, and justice against government and corporate drives for control and profit"--

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Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.

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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political thought.

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The historic filibuster that now-Presidential-candidate Bernie Sanders delivered on the Senate floor in 2010- denouncing income inequality, corporate greed, and tax cuts for the wealthy- now with an updated introduction that illustrates how the speech set Sanders on a course for the White House.

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The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of any nation today aren't lines on a map but columns in a census tabulation

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These selections from the many writings of Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, and newspaper columns, to articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines.

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A former hostage in the tribal areas of Pakistan returns to meet his kidnappers and uncover how political kidnappings and ransomings take place in the shadows of the world's most lawless territories.

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A "bracingly iconoclastic" (New York Times) critique of global development that points a way toward respect for the poor and an end to global poverty