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  Confronting Saddam Hussein -...

  Melvyn P. Leffler

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  America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post–Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations. 
   
   
   
  In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P. Leffler analyzes why the US chose war and who was most responsible for the decision. Employing a unique set of personal interviews with dozens of top officials and declassified American and British documents, Leffler vividly portrays the emotions and anxieties that shaped the thinking of the president after the shocking events of 9/11. He shows how fear, hubris, and power influenced Bush's approach to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At the core of Leffler's account is his compelling portrait of Saddam Hussein. Rather than stressing Bush's preoccupation with promoting freedom or democracy, Leffler emphasizes Hussein's brutality, opportunism, and unpredictability and illuminates how the Iraqi dictator's record of aggression and intransigence haunted the president and influenced his calculations. Throughout, Leffler highlights the harrowing anxieties surrounding the decision-making process after the devastating attack on 9/11 and explains the roles of contingency, agency, rationality, and emotion.

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  Tackle Football and Traumatic...

  Daniel S. Goldberg, Christopher...

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  American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a product that is dangerous to those who use it—or, in this case, those who play it. Daniel S. Goldberg explores the connections among traumatic brain injury, collision sports, and the industry's continuing efforts to manufacture doubt. Focusing especially on youths and adolescents—the most vulnerable population that comprises over 99% of tackle football players in the US—Goldberg addresses the ethical and social implications of their participation in tackle football. 
   
   
   
  As the tackle football industry has consistently worked to mask the health hazards, it has used a particular tool that has proved highly effective in achieving this subterfuge: the manufacture of doubt. Goldberg advocates for using public health laws as a tool for countering these efforts at obfuscation, and he outlines specific policy proposals intended to address the population health and ethical problems presented by tackle football. 
   
   
   
  The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury. Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

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  A Rare Recording of Mr Fred Rogers

  Fred Rogers

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  On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at risk of being reduced to $10 million. Subcommittee chairman, Senator John Pastore (D-RI), unfamiliar with Fred Rogers, is initially indifferent towards him. Over the course of Rogers' 6 minutes of testimony, Pastore's demeanor gradually transitions to one of awe and admiration as Rogers speaks. 
   
  Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 - February 27, 2003), better known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.

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  The People Want - A Radical...

  Gilbert Achcar

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  'The people want' - thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the 'Arab Spring'. ?While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they also laid bare a deep structural crisis. In this landmark work, Middle East analyst Gilbert Achcar examines the socio-economic roots and political dynamics of the regional upheaval. He assesses the peculiarities of the region's states and regimes, and sheds light on the movements that use Islam as a political banner. Achcar argues that the Arab Spring was but the beginning of a long-term revolutionary process - a perspective confirmed by a second wave of uprisings in 2019 - and outlines the requirements for a solution to the crisis. This new edition features a preface drawing a balance sheet of the upheaval's first decade.

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  Approach Without Caution: The...

  James Haskell

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  Is there always someone else to blame for your failures? 
  Afraid of putting the real work in to achieve your goals? 
  Are you sick of just being average and do you want to start winning? 
  It’s time to drown out self-doubt and the distracting noise of everyday life, to conquer your fears and approach challenges without caution. 
  One of rugby’s most ferocious flankers and successful players, James Haskell has always strived to be at the very top of his game. To achieve a global rugby career, he knew he had to keep his body strong. To go on to found an award-winning production company and become a successful DJ and bestselling author, he knew he had to keep his mind even stronger. 
  Revolutionary and revealing, Approach With(out) Caution presents James Haskell as you’ve never known him. James takes the lessons he’s learned, both on and off the pitch, and turns them into a five-pillar plan to help you take control of your life. 
  In this latest biography from Sunday Times bestselling author James Haskell, the sports icon shares his personal journey of growth and fitness, revealing how he maintained a healthy mind and body throughout his successful rugby career. His approach to life, both on and off the pitch, is a testament to his mental strength and dedication. 
  For fans of Rachel Murphy (Just A Child), Joe Marler (Loose Head), Luke Upton (Hard Men of Rugby), Peter Crouch (How to Be an Ex-Footballer), and Jonny Wilkinson (Jonny). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN...

  Francis Fukuyama

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  In The End of History and the Last Man, political scientist Francis Fukuyama presents one of the most provocative theses of the contemporary era: after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy not only emerged as the dominant political model, but also represents the culmination of humanity’s ideological evolution. 
  With clear prose and rigorous argumentation, Fukuyama draws on thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche to develop an ambitious vision: if history is a struggle of ideas, then liberalism has triumphed over its rivals—fascism and communism—on political, economic, and moral grounds. From this perspective, humanity has reached its ultimate form of organization, at least structurally. 
  However, this claim is neither triumphalist nor naive. Fukuyama acknowledges the challenges that liberal democracies face: nationalism, religion, economic inequality, and especially the threat of the “last man,” a passive, conformist figure concerned solely with personal well-being. The author warns that although liberal ideology has prevailed, the human yearning for recognition, identity, and purpose remains alive. History may have ended, but human dilemmas persist. 
  This book offers not only a deep historical and philosophical reading but also challenges the reader with fundamental questions: What does it mean to be free? Can a society live without transcendent ideals? Are we condemned to comfort, or are we capable of reinventing our purpose? 
  Ideal for readers interested in politics, philosophy, contemporary history, and social theory, this work has become a classic of modern political thought. A brilliant, controversial, and deeply relevant text that invites reflection on humanity’s destiny in an age of uncertainty. 
     
   

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