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Social Movements, Protest, and Contention #07: Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics
by Michael P Hanagan  Publisher Comments As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance, cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where...
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Quotable War or Peace
by Geoff Savage Publisher Comments Quotations on war and peace selected from a wide range of soldiers, statesmen, clergy, thinkers, pacifists, and entertainers, spanning from ancient to modern times....
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No More Killing Fields
by David A Hamburg Publisher Comments David A. Hamburg--doctor, teacher, hostage negotiator, presidential advisor, and more--has seen a lot in his 77 years and has a message for the 21st century: An ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure when it comes to deadly international...
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Practical Peacemaking in the Middle East: Volume II the Environment, Water, Refugees, and Economic Cooperation and Development
by Steven L. Spiegel Book News Annotation The second of two volumes that discuss the issues addressed by the ongoing 1991 Madrid peace process, then focus on cooperative endeavors to solve problems of arms control, the environment, water, refugees, and economic cooperation and development...
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Moral Architecture-World Peace
by Helena Cobban Publisher Comments Based on the views expressed by a contingent of Nobel Peace Prize laureates--including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and East Timorese independence activist Jos Ramos-Horta--who gathered at the University of Virginia in 1998, this book...
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Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War
by George Melnyk Publisher Comments Noted academics, politicians and activists examine Canada's decision not to support the recent U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Each contributor opposed the U.S. action and discusses how Canada's non-involvement might impact the future of Canadian...
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Targeting Senior Voters: Campaign Outreach to Elders and Others with Special Needs
by Susan A Macmanus Publisher Comments Seniors are America's most dependable voters; they vote in all elections and contests on the ballot. But definitions of seniors are changing and so, too, must the campaign outreach techniques and strategies used by candidates, consultants, political...
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Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas
by Gene Desfor Publisher Comments Massive protests have disrupted global summit meetings from Seattle to Quebec City and from Gothenburg to Genoa. These demonstrations let the world know that resistance to globalization remains strong and vibrant. Not as clearly heard, though, are...
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There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization
by V Bennholdt Thomsen Publisher Comments In this book a group of distinguished authors explodes the defeatist myth that ‘there is no alternative’ to corporate sponsored globalization. Theoreticians and activists from feminist, environmental, anti-imperialist and anti-racist...
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Citizen Muckraking: Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day
by Center For Public In Publisher Comments The Center for Public Integrity has amassed stories of people who have fought city hall and won. From how to use the Freedom of Information Act to conducting interviews for effective investigative reporting, "Citizen Muckraking" shows how to fight the...
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The 1960s Cultural Revolution (Greenwood Press Guide to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century)
by John C. Mcwilliams Publisher Comments Progressing at a dizzying, frenetic pace, the 1960s were synonymous with rebellion and conflict. No other decade in the 20th century was so tumultuous. This gripping and engagingly written guide to the forces that shaped the 1960s cultural revolution...
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Words Over War (Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict)
by Melanie Greenberg Publisher Comments The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with...
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Gender Develop Advocacy (Oxfam Focus on Gender)
by Koos Kingma Publisher Comments Advocacy for gender equality occurs at all levels of society--from grassroots women demanding community-level change to sophisticated coalition-building that promotes change to international trade laws. Articles in this collection chart the experience...
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How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
by Felix Dodds Publisher Comments Organizations spend considerable resources taking staff to international meetings, often without understanding how these meetings work. This book is a unique guide on how to participate and be heard at intergovernmental meetings, whether as a stakeholder...
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In Search of the Fourth Freedom
by Howard Brembeck Publisher Comments In Search of the Fourth Freedom offers a timely and provocative prescription for reducing the growing threat posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It goes beyond conventional thinking in challenging the world to replace the law of force...
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Party Organization and Activism in the American South
by Robert P Steed Book News Annotation Contributors to a baker's dozen of papers probe perennial issues pivoting around the debatable decline and changes in the political party system--bearing Southern accents in this case. In a tripartite analysis (individuals in organizations, activities...
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Sending Your Government a Message: E-mail Communi- Cations Between Citizens and Governments
by C Richard Neu Publisher Comments Sending Your Government a Message explores the possibility of expanded personalized citizen-government electronic communication....
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The Business of America; How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Paths for the Twenty-First Century)
by Saul Landau Publisher Comments When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and...
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Peace/Mir: An Anthology of Historic Alternatives to War (Peace and Conflict Resolution)
by Charles Chatfield Publisher Comments This ambitious anthology, a unique, joint undertaking of the Institute Of Universal History in the United States, documents the long search for alternatives to war in order to help students and teachers, scholars and civic-minded people to explore ways...
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Making Peace Healing a Violent World
by Carolyn Mcconnell
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