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  The Race for the Áras 2012 -...

  Tom Reddy

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  Political intrigue, high drama and farce characterised Ireland s presidential campaign of 2011.
  Consistent opinion poll-topper David Norris was the first to declare and the first to crash out after it was revealed he had appealed for clemency for his former lover who was convicted of statutory rape of a teenage boy.
  A month later, he was back in the race. A media frenzy erupted again when it emerged that new party leader, Micheál Martin, had tried but failed to convince broadcasting legend Gay Byrne to run for Fianna Fáil.
  Fine Gael's Enda Kenny favoured parachute candidate Pat Cox but Gay Mitchell bucked party HQ and won the nomination.
  Weeks later, both he and Special Olympics organiser Mary Davis laid claim to the exact same slogan as they unveiled their poster campaign!
  Martin McGuinness was a surprise entry into the field and was dramatically confronted and challenged throughout the campaign about his past as an IRA commander.
  Former presidential candidate Dana was the final entrant into the field. When her campaign car skidded off the road it launched speculation about an assassination attempt. But it was the revelations on the final TV debate on Frontline and a fake tweet that became a game changer for Dragons Den star Seán Gallagher and resulted in the election of poet and politician Michael D. Higgins with over one million votes to secure the Áras.
  The whole story is here, recalling the highs and lows in the most gripping election ever.

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  Marx Capital and the Madness of...

  David Harvey

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  Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century: his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to address the technological, economic, and industrial change that has followed Capital's initial publication. 
  In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey not only provides a concise distillation of his famous course on Capital, but also makes the text relevant to the twenty-first century's continued processes of globalization. Harvey shows the work's continuing analytical power, doing so in the clearest and simplest terms but never compromising its depth and complexity. 
  Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason provides an accessible window into Harvey's unique approach to Marxism and takes listeners on a riveting roller coaster ride through recent global history. It demonstrates how and why Capital remains a living, breathing document with an outsized influence on contemporary social thought.

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  Visions of Utopia - Philosophy...

  Professor Fred Baumann

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  With the characteristically human abilities to reason and imagine comes, apparently inevitably, the longing for imaginary but plausible places and conditions where everything is exactly as it should be and all our needs and desires are satisfied, including the need not to be jaded by satisfaction.
   
  Professor Fred E. Baumann looks at what some philosophers have had to say on this subject, mostly in the form of stories about utopias. Five are written by great philosophers and the last by a challenging, nearly contemporary American scholar. All have exerted great influence on the history of thought or have expressed influential currents of thought. Professor Baumann's lectures not only examine these texts, but also address the results of attempting to put these utopias into practice.

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  The 9 11 Commission Report -...

  Kelly Moore, Thomas R. Eldridge,...

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  It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United
  States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were
  efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border
  security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers
  demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the
  United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security
  policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.
  Contents: 
  A Factual Overview of the September 11 Border Story
  The September 11 Travel Operation – a Chronology
  Terrorist Entry and Embedding Tactics, 1993-2001
  The Redbook
  Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot
  Al Qaeda's Organizational Structure for Travel and Travel Tactics
  Immigration and Border Security Evolve, 1993 to 2001
  The Intelligence Community
  The State Department
  The Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Planning and Executing Entry for the 9/11 Plot
  The State Department
  The Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Finding a Fair Verdict
  Crisis Management and Response Post-September 11
  The Intelligence Community
  The Department of State
  The Department of Justice
  Response at the Borders, 9/11-9/20, 2001
  The Department of Homeland Security

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  The State We Need - Keys to the...

  Michael Meacher

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  At a time when great issues are crying out for resolution - financial and economic stagnation, an increasingly polarised society, global paralysis over climate change, and spiritual emptiness and loss of vision throughout the West - politics is dominated by spin and manipulation. Too many people feel confused, cynical and angry ... and poorly represented by a remote political elite in Westminster. Despite the crash, that elite are still clinging to the same old ideas that have been tried and found wanting; we're still being told that we're not allowed to think outside the box of Thatcher's capitalism. This book opens up a whole new vista - one that is radical but also practical. It presents a different model for business, a restructured banking system, an alternative economic policy, a reconfigured power structure, an industrial policy geared to the revival of manufacturing, a sharply different approach to employment and welfare, as well as inequality in society, and a fundamental reassessment of the handling of climate change. The State We Need answers the cry of the alienated many. It delivers a full analysis of the problems facing the British state, and offers the comprehensive, resonating vision of Britain for which we've all been waiting.

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  Taking America Back for God -...

  Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L....

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  Taking America Back for God points to the phenomenon of "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is—and should be—a Christian nation. At its heart, Christian nationalism demands that we must preserve a particular kind of social order, an order in which everyone—Christians and non-Christians, native-born and immigrants, whites and minorities, men and women—recognizes their "proper" place in society. The first comprehensive empirical analysis of Christian nationalism in the United States, Taking America Back for God illustrates the influence of Christian nationalism on today's most contentious social and political issues. 
  Drawing on multiple sources of national survey data as well as in-depth interviews, Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry document how Christian nationalism shapes what Americans think about who they are as a people, what their future should look like, and how they should get there. Americans' stance toward Christian nationalism provides powerful insight into what they think about immigration, Islam, gun control, police shootings, atheists, gender roles, and many other political issues—very much including who they want in the White House. Taking America Back for God is a guide to one of the most important—and least understood—forces shaping American politics.

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