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Rackets eBook Series

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  • The Drug War: A Trillion Dollar Con Game

    Rackets, #1

    by Brian Saady ...
    Series Book 1 - Rackets
    This three-book series, Rackets, presents the case for the legalization of drugs and gambling, along with the decriminalization of prostitution. It reveals the underlying corruption, hypocrisy, and abuses of power associated with the prohibition of these three vices.The war on drugs is a microcosm of far greater systemic problems with criminal justice and politics. This book shines a spotlight on ... Read more

    R166,03

  • Dealing From the Bottom of the Deck: Hypocritical Gambling Laws Enrich Crooked Politicians, a Select-Few Casinos, and the Mob

    Rackets, #2

    by Brian Saady ...
    Series Book 2 - Rackets
    Dealing From the Bottom of the Deck provides the full history of American gambling. There are certainly flaws with modern legalized gambling. However, the situation was far worse when this activity was entirely illegal and unregulated.This book takes you back to the days of the western frontier when disputes were often settled by gunfire and naïve gamblers were routinely bamboozled. Likewise, gang ... Read more

    R132,79

  • Decriminalized Prostitution: The Common Sense Solution

    Rackets, #3

    by Brian Saady ...
    Series Book 3 - Rackets
    Prostitution is an issue in which nearly every person’s opinion is set in stone. Decriminalized Prostitution: The Common Sense Solution defies the odds, and its readers walk away with an entirely new perspective.This is a timely release because sex work is now routinely conflated with human trafficking. A moral panic with similar patterns occurred roughly 100 years ago in the U.S. This book ... Read more

    R132,79

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  • This Is an Uprising

    How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

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    In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world.From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change ... Read more

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  • Strategic Studies

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    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo ...
    The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Military Innovation

    The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.

    by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky ...
    This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology and ... Read more

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  • Habeas Corpus after 9/11

    Confronting America’s New Global Detention System

    by Jonathan Hafetz ...
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  • A Post-Liberal Peace

    by Oliver Richmond ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace’s internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

    Based on the Book by Garry Kasparov

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Winter Is Coming tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Garry Kasparov's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Winter Is Coming includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles ... Read more

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  • Modern Hatreds

    The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War

    by Stuart J. Kaufman ...
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    Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds" as the answer. Dissatisfied as well with a purely rationalist explanation, he finds the roots of ethnic ... Read more

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  • Terror in Our Time

    by Ken Booth, Tim Dunne ...
    Written by two leading scholars, this book is an accessible overview of the global political consequences of the 9/11 terror attacks.The War on Terror has defined the first decade of this century. It has been marked by the deaths of thousands of people, political turmoil, massive destruction, and intense fear. Regardless of the name it goes under, the long war on terror will continue to affect ... Read more

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