The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975, Paperback - Michael Schudson

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Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of Ameri...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservative--and it shaped today's consti...

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Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

Reducere. In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or eve...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

An exploration of China's Communist Party as a cultural rather than a political entity, defining the experience of a fifth of humanity.

If you've ever wanted to force open the secretive doors of government, this is the guide you need.Publisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Heather BrookeNu...

This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. The book focus...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Michael A. PetersNumber of pages: 213Collection: CounterpointsPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 ...

Reducere. Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public fig...

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte a...

Reducere. Tales from the Cold War is one man's memoir about his service time in Germany during the Cold War. Colonel Michael D. Mahler (Ret.) first went to G...

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Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Alex RobertsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

An engaging and potentially controversial critique of Fleet Air Arm operations during an immensely critical period of world history.Publisher: Pen ...

This comprehensive history traces the complex development of Kurdish distinctiveness from the beginnings of Islam through the decline of the Ottoma...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Sanjeev RoutrayNumber of pages: 368Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey L. KidderIllustration(s): 3 halftones, 6 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

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Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...

Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

Fifty years after the term "meritocracy" was coined, this book asks where the idea of meritocracy has led.Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdNumber ...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detaile...

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Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing lit...

Reducere. DescriptionAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vie...

DescriptionAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political st...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

Reducere. As a teenager, Eddie Buczynski had dreamed of becoming a Jesuit Priest. Rejected by the Church because of his questioning mind and budding homosexu...

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DescriptionThis book is our sixth Small Wars Journal-El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016 and 2017. The theme of this anth...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

The purpose of The Transparency of Things is to look clearly and simply at the nature of experience, without any attempt to change it.A series of c...

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Publisher: Lotus PressAuthor(s): Mas VidalPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lect...