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2024
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English
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5 stars
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"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century,...
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Ali R. Rahimi
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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In 'Democracy in Iran: Establishing the Rule of Law and Empowering People,' Ali R. Rahimi offers a groundbreaking exploration of Iran's ongoing struggle for democracy in the face of entrenched authoritarianism. Much like Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum, this book dives deep into the mechanisms of autocratic regimes, focusing on how Iran's leadership undermines democratic values while also examining the global implications of such systems. Rahimi...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
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Optimum Publishing International
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Since the beginning of organized societies, power and leadership have operated in human hierarchies, which are concentrating power in an accelerating manner, according to the comprehensive analysis of Dr. Anders Corr in his book The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy & Hegemony. Hierarchy is the "institutionalization of power," according to Dr. Corr's The Concentration of Power, an institutionalization that is concentrating and...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further...
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2018]
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English
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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Wilson explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage to Prince Albert and his pivotal influence even after death and her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with her Highland servant John Brown, all set against the backdrop of a momentous epoch in Britain's history -- and the world's.
8. Joe Steele
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Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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A what-if novel that "envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation is-and what it means to be American... President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market crash still casts its dark shadow over the country. Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates-New York governor Franklin...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST-exams, autocracy, stability, and technology-from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE-and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity...
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English
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"This book identifies four distinct functions of American higher education that colleges and universities have acquired over the past two hundred years and that are integral to liberal democracy: social mobility, citizenship education, the discovery and communication of knowledge, and the cultivation of a pluralistic society. Each chapter takes up one of these functions to analyze and assess"--
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today's Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia's prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst of his country. He now lives in exile and, like many Russians who live abroad, he longs for the day when he can return to a free and democratic Russia. This book is Khodorkovsky's account of what is happening in Russia today and what could happen in the...
12. Wake up America
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Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Few people living in the US today have any real appreciation or understanding of the wholesale sociopolitical changes, which have occurred in the US just since the Vietnam War-to say nothing about the pre-Vietnam War era. Until recently, the changes have been insinuated into US society so gradually few realize that a significant majority of the changes are so antithetical to fundamental US constitutional principles and values that they threaten the...
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Publisher:
Amelia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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At a time when our nation is tumbling down the rabbit hole of plutocracy and autocracy, this unusual book is a much-needed cry for sanity and a call for ordinary Americans to rebel against what the author terms "organized lust for money and power by controlling corporations." Read. Rebel. Organize. Mobilize.
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"An examination of the future role of the South China sea in international relations and a tour of the nations surrounding the South China Sea and their interests in the region. In exploring each of these countries individually, Kaplan clearly shows where the conflicts may arise and why they will be challenging for the international community"--
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Publisher:
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Russia is the largest country on Earth, and it's home to about 120 ethnic groups. The Eurasian Republics include Armenia, Moldova, and Georgia. What does it mean to be a citizen of the countries in this region? How do governments function there today? Readers will discover the answers through informative text, fact-filled sidebars, authentic photographs, and exciting primary sources. Surveyed are the historical events, movements, and people who have...
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Publisher:
Global Connections, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Photos of clandestine activity in 1962 in the Soviet Union and Cuba disturb US super spy Edgar Kelly, codenamed the Sheriff, and his Posse. He fears the Cold War, the struggle between democracy and autocracy, has taken a perilous and unpredictable turn. To find out what is unfolding, he needs eyes on the ground. He's frustrated because the KGB has Cuba and the USSR locked down. In desperation, he takes a calculated risk and is able to slip spies into...
17. Weak Strongman
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Why we need to look beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies-and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting...
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Series:
Imperium volume 2
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Lieutenant Lord Thomas Kinago sets out from the Imperium homeworld for the Autocracy of the Uctu, a galactic region with a geckolike overlord known, eponymously, as the Autocrat. Thomas is ostensibly on a pleasure cruise with his cousin Jil to enjoy the pleasures of the Gecko culture. In fact, Thomas is on a mission for the mysterious Mr. Frank, the head of the secret service, to discover how prohibited goods, including a small fighter ship, are being...
19. Tamara
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Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa - a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence - for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint...
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Publisher:
Open Agenda Publishing inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned political theorist John Dunn, University of Cambridge. Through an engaging dialogue format, John Dunn candidly shares his deep insights on the historical development and current significance and future of democracy in different parts of the world and the relevance of political science departments in achieving democracy and other worthwhile goals. This carefully-edited...