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Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic. An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades and spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting, Fagan experienced it himself as a young man and brings a deep understanding to the crisis.

For close to a decade, the US government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will "eat our lunch," in the words of Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China's military power and economic growth. Van Jackson and Michael Brenes argue that great-power competition with China is misguided and vastly underestimates the costs and risks that geopolitical rivalry poses to economic prosperity, the quality of democracy, and, ultimately, global stability.

For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been presented as a beacon of global goodwill, delivering billions in aid to developing nations for humanitarian relief, economic growth, and democracy-building. However, beneath its noble mission lies a tangled web of corruption, mismanagement, and political maneuvering that has quietly drained billions of taxpayer dollars into the hands of unaccountable contractors, corrupt foreign officials, and shadowy organizations operating with little oversight. In The USAID Scandal: How Billions Disappeared, ...

In an era where technology knows no boundaries, the tools of war are no longer confined to the hands of states or regulated industries. From 3D-printed firearms and improvised explosives to consumer drones repurposed for combat, the democratization of violence is reshaping the global security landscape and challenging the very foundation of state power. Democratizing Violence: The Rise of Open-Source Warfare and the Decline of State Control delivers a groundbreaking exploration of how technological innovation, open-source principles, and globalized knowledge sharing are empowering ...

Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was “grown.” Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a “mainline mama,” a parent facing the task of raising a child—while still growing up herself—with an incarcerated partner.

Americans love Donald Trump, and the legacy mainstream media simply cannot understand why. And this mere fact drives them bonkers! The book you are about to embark on includes two distinct sections. We will first detail exactly how Americans feel about Donald J. Trump, and then we will show how this differs greatly from the opinions of the media. In Part One, we will detail the thirteen reasons why Americans love Donald Trump. And when we say Americans, we specifically mean normal, everyday people. Someone who doesn’t live, eat, breathe and dream politics. Someone who gets up, swigs some ...

Discussions of the First Amendment often focus on specific freedoms that the text cites, including religion, press, and assembly. But philosopher Tara Smith’s new book usefully reminds us that those particular freedoms—and many more that Smith and the other contributors examine—are united by a crucial principle: intellectual freedom. The book demonstrates that the free mind is indispensable for a free society. —Nadine Strossen Tara Smith’s masterful celebration of intellectual freedom is both subtle and forceful. She unhesitatingly carves out a place for herself as a warrior for ...

A moving, often provocative, and ultimately vital collection of firsthand accounts of people living through the Boko Haram conflict. From abducted girls to brash soldiers, and from community leaders to simple fishermen, this collection provides an insight into the realities of those living through the conflict, making this an essential cultural archive. The World Was in Our Hands covers themes of patriarchy, the economy, climate change, and corruption, to paint a picture that is much broader than what has been captured through news coverage.

How many times have you wanted to object, disagree, or opt out of something-but ended up swallowing your words, shaking your head, and just going along? Analyzing cases from corporate corruption to sexual abuse to everyday acquiescence at work, the doctor's office, and in our personal lives, award-winning organizational psychologist Dr. Sunita Sah delves deep into why the pressure to comply is a corrosive and often invisible force in our society.

In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police Department officers. What transpired during this troubled time cast a bright light on the contemporary relationship between the press and police in the United States. The relationship between these two fundamental institutions is, however, a long and complicated one.

WOMEN'S LIVES MATTER: The opening Chapter of FROM LOVE TO FEAR reveals how very prevalent domestic violence is within the United States. While a woman is murdered by her husband or boyfriend every 3 to 4 hours of each day, domestic perpetrators frequently commit mass murder as well. Such casualties often include children, family members, and friends who try to protect her, and even the police who at times let their guard down. Chapters 2 and 3 not only discloses that all batterers are not all one and the same relative to their traits, behaviors, psychopathology, frequency of abuse, ...

Uncover the inspiring stories of bravery and activism in the face of war with this powerful collection of essays and poems. Written by the front-line protestors at the Russian Embassy in Dublin, this book takes you on a journey of hope and courage as fifty determined individuals come together to stand against Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.