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Arrestato a Milano il 13 ottobre 1820 per la sua adesione alla Carboneria, Pellico trascorrerà quasi dieci anni nelle carceri austriache, prima a Venezia e poi nella sinistra fortezza dello Spielberg in Moravia. Le mie prigioni non è solo la cronaca di una detenzione,...
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Cactus
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2026-03-04
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Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1921, Trasformazione della democrazia è il libro cruciale nella formazione della teoria politica di Vilfredo Pareto, un'opera che a oltre un secolo di distanza conserva intatta la sua provocatoria attualità. In questo libro, il grande...
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Cactus
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2026-02-26
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, barone di Montesquieu, è stato molto più del teorico della separazione dei poteri che i manuali ci hanno consegnato. Magistrato, viaggiatore instancabile e pensatore tra i più originali dell'Illuminismo, fu l'uomo di due capolavori pubblici:...
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Cactus
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2026-02-25
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In this "forcefully persuasive book" (Joyce Carol Oates), the president of Princeton reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discourse and foster mutual respect Conversations about higher...
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Basic Books
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2025-09-30
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A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsOur human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards....
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Penguin
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2024-05-02
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An "essential guide" (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark In State of Silence, political historian Sam Lebovic uncovers the...
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Basic Books
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2023-11-21
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A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers.
Started in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-05-01
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'Superb... authoritative, thoughtful and terrifying in equal measure', The Secret Barrister'Astonishing. Detailed, dispassionate and definitive. An urgent warning and work of major importance', James O'Brien0n 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In eleven pages it locked...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-10-13
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Nautilus Book Awards' Better Books for a Better WorldA Movement in Words and Images Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its early days in Baltimore,...
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Legacy Lit
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2022-10-11
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From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis...
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Penguin
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2022-07-28
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Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50% of the global workforce. Surprisingly, scholars know little about informal workers' political or civil society participation. An informal worker is anyone who holds a job and who does not pay taxes on...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-15
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Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50% of the global workforce. Surprisingly, scholars know little about informal workers' political or civil society participation. An informal worker is anyone who holds a job and who does not pay taxes on...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-15
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Provides an up-to-date introduction and analysis of the US political scene written from a comparative perspective, newly revised and updated throughout American Politics and Society in an accessible introduction to the main institutions of the US federal government,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2021-10-26
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The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan explores what it has meant for the two countries to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for...
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OUP India
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2021-10-20
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It is believed that law and violence generally share an antithetical relationship in liberal democracies. Lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed as a means to resist and undo that. Violent Modernities attempts to establish that...
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OUP India
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2021-06-25
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A comprehensive exploration of how police forces have become militarized—both in equipment and mindset—and what that means for American democracy.“Fascinating and at times wrenching.” ―The New Yorker The last days of colonialism taught...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-06-01
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A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance,...
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Virgin Digital
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2021-05-27
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In these turbulent times, defined by ideological chasms, clashes over social justice, and a pandemic intersecting with misinformation, Americans seem hopelessly divided along fault lines of politics, race, religion, class, and culture. Yet not everyone is accepting the...
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Polity
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2021-05-13
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For nearly as long as there have been electoral districts in America, politicians have gerrymandered those districts. Though the practice has changed over time, the public reaction to it has remained the same: gerrymandering is reviled. There is, of course, good reason...
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Polity
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2021-05-04
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