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  Faces Behind These Systems - 3...

  Nk Yahushua

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  True story of how the government single handedly stole NK's identity. For NK, life has been anything but a walk in the park. 
  When NK Yahushua set out with her friend and her dog for a sunset hike in L.A.’s famous Griffith Park, she set out toward her own demise. Before the night was over, N.K would be racially profiled by a park ranger, arrested without cause, and falsely imprisoned miles away from her Los Feliz home. And that would only be the beginning. 
  For the next decade and a half, NK finds herself swirling helplessly in the merciless grip of a prideful and discriminatory judicial system. Despite her doctoral degree, she loses her ability to secure gainful employment due to her criminal record's unnamed dark mark with her home in foreclosure and her future hanging precariously in the balance. NK sets out to determine exactly who placed her on California’s blacklist and why. What she discovers is the shocking evidence of nefarious activity within America’s insidious injustice system.  
  Will she live to see her record cleared and her life restored?

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  A Macat Analysis of Robert A...

  Astrid Norén-Nilsson

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  Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City by American political theorist Robert A. Dahl was a game-changer when it was first published in 1961, and remains one of the most influential books ever written in the field of political science.
  
  Here Dahl argues that American liberal democracy is a pluralist system in which policy is not, as you might think, shaped by a small group of powerful individuals. Rather, power is distributed among a number of competing groups, with each of these groups seeking to influence decisions.
  
  Dahl provides evidence for this by making a case study of the decision-making process in New Haven, Connecticut, where only the mayor has power in all areas. The city’s “highly competitive two-party system” leads Dahl to view the entire United States as New Haven writ large.
  
  Who Governs? is a key text of pluralist democratic theory, the thinking that dominated the way America studied the notion of power in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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  Daesh - Islamic State's Holy War

  Anthony Tucker-Jones

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  Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec  The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda and Daesh. This book draws on his experience to assess Islamic States brutal Holy War that has brought terror and mayhem to the four corners of the globe.The emergence of terror group Islamic State, or Daesh, has created one of the greatest threats to global security in the twenty-first century. Spawned from the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, it carved out an Islamic caliphate straddling both failed countries. Since then it has wantonly despoiled world heritage sites, engaged in regional genocide and conducted regular terror attacks against capital cities across the world, killing irrespective of race, color, creed, gender or age.Like its predecessor, al Qaeda, Daeshs most potent and insidious weapon is franchise terrorism. It has inspired clutches of deadly wannabee terrorists who have carried out a wave of what can be best described as war crimes, killing innocent civilians. In this perceptive assessment Tucker-Jones highlights how the West has become caught up in what is essentially a civil war between Shia and Sunni Islam, with deadly results.

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  IRA Terror on Britain’s Streets...

  Dick Kirby

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  It is little known today that, in January 1939, the IRA launched a bombing campaign, codenamed The S - or Sabotage - Plan on mainland England. With cynical self-justification, they announced that it was not their intention to harm human life but in just over a year, more than 300 explosive devices resulted in 10 deaths, 96 injuries and widespread devastation. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and many other towns and cities were targeted.  On 25 August 1939, detectives in London defused three devices set to detonate that afternoon at 2.30 and arrested four terrorists. At the same time an identical bomb exploded in Coventry city centre killing five civilians and injuring 50, the highest body count of the campaign.  Numerous arrests were made nationwide but ill-trained personnel and additional national security resulting from the threat of Nazi invasion caused the campaign to falter and fade away in early 1940. The author, a former detective, is well qualified to write this book, having spent 18 months in Northern Ireland combatting terrorism, for which he was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Imbert, for displaying ‘courage, dedication and detective ability’.

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  Inside British Intelligence -...

  Gordon Thomas

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  “Rollicking, readable new history of Britain’s famous spy organization.” —Los Angeles Times 
   
  A complete and up-to-date account of the two oldest and still the most powerful, secretive intelligence services in the world: MI5, the security service, and MI6, the secret intelligence service, which have been in existence for over a century. This is a story of spectacular triumphs, treachery, their frigid relationship, their untold work with the CIA, Mossad and the spy services of Europe, and their part in the fight against terror. It is also the story of two agencies led by men who are enigmatic, eccentric and controversial and who ruthlessly control their spies. From the unique partnership between Mossad and MI6, how MI5 and MI6 became a breeding ground for Soviet spies post-war, their exploitation of the collapse of the Soviet Union and their role in biological warfare, and including how both services monitor the spies of every nation based in London, it reads like fiction. But it’s not. 
   
  Based on prodigious research and interviews with significant players Inside British Intelligence is packed with new and startling information. 
   
  “An irresistible picture of an age of global terrorism, drug trafficking and economic warfare.” —Sunday Telegraph 
   
  “ . . . a fascinating cast of moles and double agents, whistle-blowers and politicians. For the ambience of the closed world that inspired James Bond and George Smiley, this book is a winner.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “A well-written page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Thomas brings to the agencies histories a high level of expertise, a fluent style, accessible to lay reader and expert alike.” —Booklist

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  Desegregating Texas Schools -...

  Robyn Duff Ladino

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  This study of school integration struggles in 1950s Texas demonstrates how power politics denied black students their constitutional rights.   In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet it took more than a decade of struggle before black students gained full access to previously white schools. Mansfield, Texas, a small community southeast of Fort Worth, was the scene of an early school integration attempt. In this book, Robyn Duff Ladino draws on interviews with surviving participants, media reports, and archival research to provide the first full account of the Mansfield school integration crisis of 1956.   Ladino explores how politics at the local, state, and federal levels ultimately prevented the integration of Mansfield High School in 1956. Her research sheds new light on the actions of Governor Allan Shivers—who, in the eyes of the segregationists, validated their cause through his actions—and it underscores President Eisenhower’s public passivity toward civil rights during his first term of office.   Despite the short-term failure, however, the Mansfield school integration crisis helped pave the way for the successful integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Thus, it deserves a permanent place in the history of the civil rights movement.

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