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John Carson
The Measure of Merit

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear …

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Katarzyna Person
The Hour of Revenge

The Hour of Revenge explores how the pursuit of retribution and physical vengeance shaped the emotional landscape of Holocaust survivors and others in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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Elie Mystal
Bad Law

In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today---an urgent …

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as …

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Samuel Moyn
Gerontocracy in America

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the …

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Peter Ricketts
Peace Makers

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.' -- Tim Bouverie'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in …

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No Island Is an Island

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of government po…

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Sami Moubayed, Fakhri Al-Barudi
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri Al-Barudi

Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in 1889, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria, universally …

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Robin Andersen
The Complicit Lens

A media scholar examines how US establishment outlets echo Israeli narratives on Gaza, miminimizing atrocities like the Flour Massacre as "aid-related deaths" to whitewash genocide and excuse wa…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as …

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Aaron Graham
Tropical Leviathan

Tropical Leviathan examines the political and economic history of the colonial state of Jamaica in the age of revolution and abolition. It analyses the ways in which Jamaica's economy attempted but eventu…

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Nina M Moore
Toeing the Line

The first up-close look at how Supreme Court affirmative action rulings approximated America's racial politics between 1978 and 2023.Toeing the Line takes us on the first ever deep dive into the constitut…

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Matthew J Clavin
Symbols of Freedom

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American…

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Nina M Moore
Toeing the Line

The first up-close look at how Supreme Court affirmative action rulings approximated America's racial politics between 1978 and 2023.Toeing the Line takes us on the first ever deep dive into the constitut…

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Rozina Ali
Seasons of Fury

This sweeping narrative history chronicles the U.S. government's broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence---from an award-winni…

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Nubar Hovsepian
Edward Said

Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete's temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab--Is…

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Sona Kazemi
Disabling Relations

How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations , Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, …

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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