NPR Music's roundup of the year's 21 best hip-hop albums is themed around the politics of race, space and place.
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream by Open Mike Eagle
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With the first song of his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy, Open Mike Eagle reintroduced himself by...
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Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
Book
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and...
Information Society and its Manifestations: Economy, Politics, Culture
Borut Roncevic and Matevz Tomsic
Book
The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in...
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform
Book
In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political,...
Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe
Book
'Now is a time of systemic change, at all levels. This is a call for rejuvenation, radicalization,...
The Comparative Politics of Education: Teachers Unions and Education Systems Around the World
Book
Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic...
Drifting into Politics: The Unfinished Memoirs of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman
Tawfik Ismail and Ooi Kee Beng
Book
This is the unfinished autobiography of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, the medical doctor who held key...
Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Kim Phillips-Fein and Richard R. John
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Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and...
Budgetary Politics in American Governments
Book
This comprehensive book describes and analyzes the substance and politics of public budgeting at the...