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Human Acts
A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian. In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, den…
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- 9781101906743
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- 226 p. ; ill. ; 20.5 cm
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- 895 KAN h
The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and res…
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not …
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- 9781250787651
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- 319 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
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- 320 KHA t
How Democracies Die
How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and wh…
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- 9780241438787
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- 312 pages : illus. ; 20 cm.
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- 321.8 LEV h
All The King's Men
When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
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- 9780156004800
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- 661p; bw; pbk
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- 823 WAR a
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
WHY ARE SOME NATIONS RICH AND OTHERS POOR, DIVIDED BY WEALTH AND POVERTY, HEALTH AND SICKNESS, FOOD AND FAMINE? Is it culture, the weather, geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made p…
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- 9780307719225
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- 529 pages.: illus.; 21 cm
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- 330 ACE w
The Army and Politics in Indonesia
"A comprehensive description of the Indonesian Army's history of political involvement. Crouch's incredible knowledge of so many facets of intrigue and manipulation, of names, dates, enemies and friends, and specific circumstances under which each attempted coup and counter effort was made if phenomenal. His attention to the supporting literature and his own personal experiences in-country cert…
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- 9789793780504
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- 384 p.; 21 cm
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- 959.803 CRO a
Gulag
Gulag adalah neraka bagi rakyat Uni Sovyet di bawah kekuasaan Stalin yang tersembunyi dari mata dunia. Tak seorang pun mampu luput darinya, termasuk pemuka agama, wanita, bahkan anak-anak. Dengan gaya bertutur yang tangkas dan lincah, kadang berbau satiris, Solzhenitsyn menuturkan operasi penangkapan, kamp kerja paksa, suasana batin dan derita fisik para tahanan, dan orang-orang yang secara men…
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- 9786022914518
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- 15x23.5cm; pb; bw; 636p
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- 947.0842 SOL g
Zaman Peralihan
Zaman Peralihan adalah kumpulan tulisan Soe Hok Gie tentang kondisi Indonesia di era peralihan kekuasaan Soekarno ke Soeharto. Rangkaian sejarah yang menunjukkan pada kita bahwa zaman boleh beralih, namun akar dari semuanya tak boleh tercerabut, yaitu kemanusiaan kita sebagai bangsa. Ini akan menjadi penuntun jalan kita untuk pulang dan mengeja kembali kebangsaan kita di antara carut marut dan …
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- 9789799471208
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- 14.5x20.5cm; pb; bw; 308p
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- 320.9598 GIE z
Common Ground: A Political Life
Justin Trudeau’s candid memoir reveals for the first time the experiences that have shaped him over the course of his life, revealing how his passion for politics took root. From his childhood at the prime ministerial residence of 24 Sussex to his leadership of the Liberal party, Trudeau captures the formative moments of his upbringing, including the influence of his father, Pierre, who was p…
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- 9781786071569
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- 15x23cm; pb; bw; ill; 357p
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- 971.064092 TRU c
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large share…
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- 9781984877895
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- 336 p.; 23 cm
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- 302 MCN z
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