Political & Social Science

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When graduate students of Communication study the Ethics of Communication, it is usually in terms of Rhetoric, public presentation and, more pointedly, plagiarism, lying, and propaganda.

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“Take our inner demons and our gooeyness for loss-aversion, add to it an ideology like nationalism (which manifest like an epidemic), and give it military high-tech and you have a dangerous

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“Our future depends on the Blue Revolution that Cynthia Barnett advocates, for, as the ancients knew long before modern science did, ‘Water is life.’”

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“The contributors to this volume are all very interesting people, but one has a sneaking suspicion that they might have taken way too much LSD at some point in their carbon footprints.”

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“Informed decision making is crucial for those in positions of responsibility—such as politicians who may influence scientific and environmental policy. Mr.

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“The Palmer Raids are being cited in more and more books and articles as we turn our attention to immigration policy, and forced deportation.

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“Throughout The Queer Art of Failure, Ms. Halberstam holds a mirror up to our culture, albeit one that is, from time to time, a bit fogged by the warmth of her own breath.

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“This book does what books like this should: provoke thought and conversation in addressing issues that are highly uncomfortable.

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“The evolution and revolution of liberal thought is chronicled in this well-written book about how we got to where we are today. . . .

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“[Dr. Kornfield] addresses an audience impatient with platitudes, one that understands that the Buddhist path offers no shortcuts.

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“The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream is a riveting read for both academics and laypersons.

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“If there is something [John McWhorter] doesn’t do well, we won’t find it in his new work, What Language Is . . .

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In 2005, the CW television network debuted a paranormal series that followed the adventures of two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who travel the country fighting the forces of darkness.

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“Author McDermott’s book is not a duplication of ‘the same old, same old.’ It is a noble effort to advance the common understanding of the variables at play in this complicated and importan

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“An astute, vigorous, and candid participant-observer who seeks to radicalize the conditions by which Arab men and women can find satisfying, secular, and sensible lives together.”

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Former Ambassador and U.S. Special Envoy on Afghanistan Peter Tomsen’s first book has much to commend it.

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“This ‘Net backlash’—not withstanding our current communications shift—is revving up to full gear.

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“This is the best book of the year. . . . If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.”

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“Before the Paparazzi is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated press photographer Arty Pomerantz’s love letter to the art of press photography during a different time, in a world that no lo

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“wonderful and intensively researched . . . a fascinating, thoroughly engaging exploration of India. . .

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“. . . one of the hardest books you will ever read because it is so devastating and harsh and truthful, . . .”

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“Yoani Sanchez is a remarkable woman.”

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In Brothers in Arms: The Story of Al Qa’ida and the Arab Jihadists Camille Tawil opens up the world of the jihadis in the years between the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan and Septemb

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A read through this rather gentle, inquisitive look at small-town weekly newspapers could be beneficial to your health. It may even lower your big city blood pressure.

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