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  Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the...

  Matthew Feldman, Paul Jackson

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  This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy.
  
  Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using ‘doublespeak’, aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately crafted slogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right’s attempts at ‘repackaging’ contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstream European and American tastes.

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  People Power and Change -...

  Marshall Ganz

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  At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, and Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change. Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and work. In People, Power, and Change, Ganz distills for students, practitioners, and activists the principles he has gleaned over the last half-century of creating collective action. Ganz explores the forces, craft, and learned skill of organizing and provides an actionable framework for how to actually do it. He focuses the book on the creation and substance of relationships, the fuel of values and narrative, the resources and power of strategy, the necessity of structure, and the accountability of action. Across these five organizing ideas, Ganz weaves in his personal experiences from a lifetime of organizing in iconic social movements and campaigns to illustrate how collective action actually works and to build the practices and skills that must be developed to do it with intention and with success.

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  How to Survive a Terrorist...

  Federal Emergency Management...

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  Recent improvised explosive device (IED) and active shooter incidents reveal that some traditional practices of first responders need to be realigned and enhanced to improve survivability of victims and the safety of first responders caring for them. This multi-disciplinary edition translates evidence-based response strategies based on military experience in responding to and managing casualties from IED and/or active shooter incidents and from its significant investment in combat casualty care research into the civilian first responder environment. 
  Table of Contents:
  Executive Summary 
  Purpose 
  General Information:  
  Improvised Explosive Device 
  Active Shooter 
  Take an Active Role in Your Own Safety: 
  Explosions 
  Active Shooter Incident 
  First Responder for Improving Survivability in Improvised Explosive Device and/or Active Shooter Incidents 
  Background: 
  Defining First Responders 
  Defining the Threat 
  Military Lessons Learned and Civilian Adaptation 
  Improvised Explosive Device Incidents 
  Active Shooter Incidents 
  Hemorrhage Control 
  Protective Equipment 
  Response and Incident Management 
  Responder Guidelines: 
  Hemorrhage Control 
  Protective Equipment 
  Response and Incident Management 
  Summary 
  Threat-based Scenarios: 
  Large-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack 
  Medium-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Medium-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Small Scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Involuntary Suicide Bomber  
  Discovery/recovery of Homemade Explosives (Not an Attack)  
  Active Shooter With Access Denial to First Responders  
  Active Shooter in a Public Commercial Facility  
  Active Shooter in an Open, Outdoor, Unbounded Location  
  Active Shooter in a Public Sports Complex 
  Provide First Aid After Improvised Explosive Device and/or Active Shooter Incidents 
  Stop the Bleeding and Protect the Wound
  First Aid for Specific Injuries
  List of Major Bombing Incidents in the United States 2007-2017 
  List of Major Mass Shootings in the United States 2007-2017

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  Give Me Liberty - A Handbook for...

  Naomi Wolf

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  As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are becoming increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in disorder, if not on the road to functional collapse. Although it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells you how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately the nation.

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  “Spirits that I’ve cited … ?” -...

  Josette Baer

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  Baer’s biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis studied law at Charles University in Prague in the 1920s and had his own law firm in Bratislava in the 1930s. After the Munich Agreement of 1938, he went into exile to France and Great Britain, where he worked at the Czechoslovak broadcast at the BBC for the exile government of Edvard Beneš. After the Second World War, Clementis’ political career at the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry blossomed: In 1945, he became Assistant Secretary of State under Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. After Masaryk’s mysterious death in 1948, Clementis was appointed Foreign Minister. 
  
  This biography offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of a Slovak leftist intellectual of the interwar generation who died at the command of the comrade he had admired since his youth: Generalissimus Stalin.

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  Disgrace - Global Reflections on...

  Joanna Bourke

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  Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence—including institutions, ideologies, and practices—but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal, and rape—and violence-free world.

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