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The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population were living under quarantine. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options?

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

The shocking truth behind America's most controversial smartphone. When a $499 gold Android phone promised to "Make America Great Again," it ignited a firestorm that exposed the dark underbelly of political consumerism. The MAGA Phone: Made in China, Sold as American reveals the explosive supply chain scandal that turned patriotic marketing into a billion-dollar deception. This investigative expos uncovers how a single product became the ultimate symbol of manufactured nationalism, while secretly enriching foreign manufacturers at the expense of American consumers. Author Peter Hall takes ...

Throughout this book the following theme will be reiterated, often; every command, edict, decree, law, bylaw, regulation, rule, statute, bill, policy, vote, directive, guideline, instruction, control, political mandate or philosophy, that has ever existed involves regulating human action(s) in some way…and we have all been regulated since ancient times. This book is an abstract analysis of authority itself, but more than this it is the sum of the author’s critical investigation into its history, essence, meaning, purpose, as well as into its various applications, both modern and ...

In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it usually provides a "humane" death. In reality, however, not one of those things is true. Secrets of the Killing State pulls back the curtain on this clandestine punishment practice, presenting a view of lethal injection that states have worked hard to hide. Botched executions are a part of this story, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.