The Silent Dismantling of Medicaid
The Silent Dismantling of Medicaid: An UnveilingImagine waking up to find your lifeline has vanished overnight. For millions of Americans in 2025, this nightmare is becoming reality.Did you know that a single administrative change could strip healthcare from more people than the entire population of New York City?"The Silent Dismantling of Medicaid: An Unveiling" exposes the hidden crisis threatening America's healthcare safety net. This meticulously researched expos矇 reveals: The invisible architecture eroding Medicaid from within$2.3 trillion in potential cuts lurking in the shadowsLives hanging in the balance - from rural Kentucky to Silicon ValleyThe threat of significant Medicaid cuts is no longer hypothetical-it's unfolding right now. In March 2025, the House Republican budget plan proposes $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade, with broader discussions targeting up to $2.3 trillion in reductions. Protests are erupting across the nation as Americans rally to protect their healthcare.This growing wave of civic engagement-from town halls to social media-of American citizens waking up, standing up and speaking up signals a nation ready to hold its elected officials accountable. Through compelling stories like Eleanor's-whose life-saving medication is suddenly unaffordable due to an unexplained "coverage parameter" shift-you'll uncover the human cost of these bureaucratic changes. This book doesn't just inform-it empowers. Engage with the material through thought-provoking chapter quizzes designed to deepen your understanding and fuel your advocacy. This isn't just about policy-it's about the moral fabric of the nation. As you turn these pages, you'll confront urgent questions: Who benefits from Medicaid's silent unraveling?What hidden levers of power are being pulled?How can ordinary citizens respond effectively to this invisible threat?Written with journalistic precision and narrative urgency, this book taps into the momentum of advocacy sweeping across America, providing knowledge and tools to protect one of the country's most essential safety nets.Are you ready to pull back the curtain? "I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge." - Neil deGrasse TysonThe truth may free you-but the cost of ignorance is far greater.
A Review of Ghanaian Emigrants
In recent years, Ghana has undergone major economic, social and political transformations. Given the significant emigration of the Ghanaian population and the recognition of the contributions of the diaspora, Ghanaian authorities are seeking to better understand this pool of talent residing abroad, which has great potential to contribute to the economic and social development of Ghana.
Delivering Quality Services to All in Alentejo
This publication is part of the OECD workstream on Preparing Regions for Demographic Change. It elaborates a case study for the Portuguese region of Alentejo and focuses on improving the delivery of educational services taking into account the multi-level governance context.
Towards an Integrated Health Information System in the Netherlands
Twenty-first century health systems have to be built around data and information. An integrated health information system enables the secure flow of data to where they can be used, to provide information to strengthen integrated care delivery, enable public health monitoring and management, and foster medical and health research and innovation.
A Review of Indonesian Emigrants
In recent years, Indonesia has undergone major economic, social and political transformations. Given the significant emigration of the Indonesian population and the recognition of the contributions of the diaspora, Indonesian authorities are seeking to better understand this pool of talent residing abroad, which has great potential to contribute to the economic and social development of Indonesia.
Assisting Care Leavers
Young adults who have lived in out-of-home care at some point during their childhood often struggle to build stable lives. This is not surprising: typically young care leavers not only have to overcome a difficult childhood, but also tend to receive less support during the crucial years of early adulthood than youth living with their parents.
Spies, Culture, and Society
A revealing look at the interrelationship between secret intelligence agencies and the wider societies and cultures they inhabitIntelligence agencies are traditionally understood as cloistered entities. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy, they conduct their activities relatively free from public scrutiny, and their assessments are ideally detached from the cultural and political biases that pervade our fallen world.Today, however, intelligence services have come in from the cold. They feature routinely in our popular culture and our political debates. Our ideas about them, from "deep state" conspiracy theories to popular tropes drawn from spy fiction and cinema, have even influenced the outcome of major elections. Likewise, as John Le Carr矇 once put it, intelligence officers do not sit "like monks in a cell" but are themselves products of the social, political, and cultural domains they inhabit. Spies, Culture, and Society brings together some of the world's leading experts on intelligence and its wider impact to explore different aspects of this reciprocal relationship between spies, culture, and society. The topics covered include the influence of spy films and novels, interactions between spies and journalists, the historical roots of the "deep state" conspiracy theory, Western intelligence and imperialism, and more. Together, these chapters showcase a new way of understanding intelligence agencies as fundamentally integrated into the cultures, societies, and political systems that they seek to analyze and protect.Offering meaningful insights for intelligence studies scholars, Cold War historians, and media scholars, this collection offers a new paradigm for understanding intelligence agencies as fundamentally integrated into the cultures and societies they seek to protect.
Society at a Glance
This fifth edition of Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific provides an overview of social indicators for the region. Quantitative evidence on social indicators such as poverty, social expenditures, and demographic trends across countries in Asia and the Pacific helps economies identify where they can learn from the experience of other countries.
Designing Legal Frameworks for Social Enterprises
Based on consultations with more than 80 experts, policy makers and stakeholders from 10 European countries, this manual explains the rationale behind legal frameworks for social enterprises, identifies the critical factors for legal framework design and recommends actions to ensure legislation fully meets the needs of social enterprises. It lays out the fundamental steps related to the life cycle of legal frameworks and provides options that policy makers can use in the design and implementation process.
Unlocking the Strategic Use of Public Procurement in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Subnational governments carry out more than 60% of total public procurement in OECD countries. As such, public procurement can offer a powerful tool for cities to boost local growth and advance their strategic priorities, ranging from innovation and inclusion to the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Health Data Governance for the Digital Age
Health data are essential to modern health care delivery, health system management and research and innovation, and must be well governed to foster their use while protecting privacy and data security. The 2016 OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governance provides a roadmap towards more harmonised approaches to health data governance across countries.
Afterlives of Discovery
In Afterlives of Discovery, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes traces global and national histories as they entangle through the concept and material life of Discovery across Colombia's evolution into a liberal settler colonial state. Rather than seeing Discovery as a singular event or bygone era, rhodes theorizes Discovery as a globally encompassing, racialized formation of domination and geographic speculation that continues to structure settler colonialism. Discovery's logics, they argue, are rooted in colonial and capitalist fantasies projected onto the racialized space and place of the colonized other. rhodes draws on critical theory, human rights research, and Colombian archives to challenge dominant narratives that maintain the Colombian armed conflict began as a Marxist insurgency in 1964. Instead, rhodes shows that the conflict is an extension of Discovery's ongoingness via projects of dispossession, extraction, whitening, and epistemic and political hegemony. Given that Colombia's national past, present, and future are grounded in Discovery, rhodes asks: How is it possible to build futures that escape Discovery's grasp?
Modern Political Campaigns
Dr. Michael D. Cohen, a 30+ year veteran of working on, teaching, and writing about political campaigns shows readers how campaigns are organized, explains state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and reveals how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. He combines academic insights and practical advice that will be of interest to practitioners and students considering careers in politics, and people interested in how elections are won. The second edition, updated to include a new chapter on how campaigns are using artificial intelligence and what that means for democracy, has been completely revised throughout to provide readers with an up-to-date understanding of how candidates succeed.
Modern Political Campaigns
Modern Political Campaigns brings together academic and practical considerations to help understand how professionalism, technology, and speed have revolutionized elections, creating more voter-centric races for public office. Cohen's masterclass overview will appeal to students and political activists interested in working in political campaigns.
Afterlives of Discovery
In Afterlives of Discovery, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes traces global and national histories as they entangle through the concept and material life of Discovery across Colombia's evolution into a liberal settler colonial state. Rather than seeing Discovery as a singular event or bygone era, restrepo rhodes theorizes Discovery as a globally encompassing, racialized formation of domination and geographic speculation that continues to structure settler colonialism. Discovery's logics, they argue, are rooted in colonial and capitalist fantasies projected onto the racialized space and place of the colonized other. restrepo rhodes draws on critical theory, human rights research, and Colombian archives to challenge dominant narratives that maintain the Colombian armed conflict began as a Marxist insurgency in 1964. Instead, restrepo rhodes shows that the conflict is an extension of Discovery's ongoingness via projects of dispossession, extraction, whitening, and epistemic and political hegemony. Given that Colombia's national past, present, and future are grounded in Discovery, restrepo rhodes asks: How is it possible to build futures that escape Discovery's grasp?
Public Policy and Democratic Backsliding in the UK
This book examines the rise of illiberalism within the British Conservative Party during the last few decades. It traces how the party's political agenda has become increasingly dominated by populist and nativist policy positions since the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in 2016, and the ways in which this has led to growing concerns over democratic backsliding.Moving beyond debates over the ideology and governing philosophy of the Conservative Party, this book focuses on the specific policy tools it has employed to carry out its political agenda. This includes changes to public spending and taxation, law and regulation, public management, and institutional reform. Bridging the gap between populism studies, UK politics and public policy, the book throws important light on the current state of British democracy, at a time when concerns over the growth of illiberalism and authoritarianism in democratic countries is high.
Uncharted
The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history.A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin's bullet, an electrifying eleventh hour candidate swap, dramatic and surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed doors, charges of a stolen election, game-changing blunders--the history-making 2024 presidential election is a political saga of Shakespearean proportions. In minute-by-minute detail, esteemed White House historian and political analyst Chris Whipple chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolds, documenting the true story of the Harris and Trump campaigns and the difficult, urgent decisions made in the back rooms of power, with the future of American democracy at stake.Alternating between the Biden/Harris/Walz and the Trump/Vance camps, Whipple tells the fly-on-the-wall story of campaign 2024, drawing on his unique access to exclusive sources on both sides, including conversations with members of the candidates' inner circles. Whipple goes behind the scenes of every headline-making moment to reveal how a post-debate intra-party rebellion forced Biden to step aside, how the nomination of Vice President Harris at a thrilling convention reshaped the race, how Harris rallied excited voters across generations and demographics, but ultimately could not overcome the underlying weaknesses of her campaign. Whipple also burrows inside Donald Trump's campaign to reveal startling new insights into how he overcame primary opponents and multiple prosecutions, rebranded his base to appeal to Gen Z voters, and forged powerful alliances with Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk.An intimate portrait of American politics on the edge, filled with previously untold stories, anecdotes, and insights, Uncharted is the authoritative account of this pivotal chapter in American politics. As he brings to life the most dramatic and important presidential campaign of the modern age and puts it into historical perspective, Whipple exposes how ambition, conviction, and resilience collide at the highest echelons of power, offering a deeper understanding of the forces that define a divided nation.
The American Mirage
How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in America In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary, many still view the United States as the land of opportunity. The American Mirage addresses this puzzle by exposing the stark reality of today's media landscape, revealing how popular entertainment media shapes politics and public opinion in an increasingly news-avoiding nation. Drawing on an eclectic array of original data, Eunji Kim demonstrates how, amid a dazzling array of media choices, many Americans simply are not consuming the news. Instead, millions flock to entertainment programs that showcase real-life success stories, such as American Idol, Shark Tank, and MasterChef. Kim examines how shows like these leave viewers confoundingly optimistic about the prospects of upward mobility, promoting a false narrative of rugged individualism and meritocracy that contradicts what is being reported in the news. By taking seriously what people casually watch every day, The American Mirage shows how rags-to-riches programs perpetuate the myth of the American Dream, glorifying the economic winners, fostering tolerance for income inequality, and dampening support for redistributive policies that could improve people's lives.
The Climate-Energy-Land Nexus in Indonesia
This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia.
State and Capitalist Development in India
This book seeks to encourage dialectical methods through the interaction of economic, political and social factors to approach social analysis.
Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe
This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic.
Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies
This interdisciplinary book presents an intervention into methodological practices in the subfield of Critical Terrorism Studies, and features established and early career scholars.
Activism and the Detention of Migrants
This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.
Computational Intelligence in Urban Infrastructure
This book consolidates experiences and research results in computational intelligence and its applications in urban infrastructure. It discusses various techniques and application areas of smart urban infrastructure including topics related to smart city management.
Routledge Handbook of University-Community Partnerships in Planning Education
This handbook explores two guiding questions - how can university-community partnerships in planning education work and how can they be transformative? This edited volume examines a variety of university-community partnerships in planning education, from a number of different perspectives, with a focus on transformative models.
The Populism-Euroscepticism Nexus
This book explores the modes of European Union (EU) contestation which are mobilized by populist parties and seeks to unearth the relationship of such contestation with populist discourses.
Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity
Institutionalised Dissent
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of a peculiar but now firmly established British institution - the Official Opposition - tracking its development since 1935.
Wonder City
Reimagining our cities for a sustainable and human-centric future In her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. This compelling journey into the world of urban development goes beyond the usual narra-tive, serving as a passionate call to action that encourages readers to actively participate in shaping the future of their cities. Ellsworth expertly navigates through complex themes such as affordable housing, urban plan-ning, historic preservation, and architecture. With a focus on major cities undergoing significant transformations, Wonder City offers an insightful examination of the challenges and opportunities that define contemporary urban life. At the core of this engaging narrative is a striking critique of the real estate industry's influence over urban landscapes. Ellsworth reveals how historic and culturally rich urban settings are increas-ingly being overshadowed by the rise of impersonal glass towers, a trend she argues is driven by the industry's grip on politicians and technocrats. This analysis is both eye-opening and unsettling, shedding light on the forces reshaping our urban environments. Wonder City is more than a critique, however. Ellsworth provides a pragmatic blueprint for revitalizing urban spaces. She champions the need for affordable housing, sustainable urban plan-ning, and architecture that respects and enhances the human experience. Her arguments challenge the prevailing economic theories behind housing supply and question the architectural ideologies that often justify the demolition of historic urban assets. This book is an essential read for urban planners, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of urban living. Ellsworth's clear, accessible insights into complex issues make Wonder City a vital contribution to the discourse on urban development, appealing to a broad audience that cares about the dynamics and future of city life.
On Oil
A journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and it is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments--in some cases, effectively become the government. In On Oil, Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades since. The latest in our Field Notes series, On Oil illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture, in Canada and elsewhere, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor considers as well the origin and application of early concerns over global warming and documents what oil companies have done to misdirect conversations about environmentalism and frustrate efforts to create lasting change. The twilight of oil is upon us and it is fighting to survive, even as we are ourselves fight to survive the climate crisis exacerbated by our dependence on it.
Particles of Truth
A compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution's deadly impact on human health--and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean air. Particles of Truth is a riveting account of the discovery of the critical health effects of air pollution told by Arden Pope and Douglas Dockery, who have been at the forefront of air pollution and health research for four decades. With an insightful foreword by former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, this compelling book provides an inside look at groundbreaking scientific research and ensuing political and public-policy battles. It presents evidence that air pollution is a major contributor to disease and death and that reducing air pollution saves lives. The book also delves into intense efforts to discredit and cast doubt on the science. Through firsthand accounts, Pope and Dockery bring the scientific discoveries regarding the health effects of air pollution and accompanying controversies to life. They describe the real-world challenges of conducting impactful research when public health clashes with economic interests and politics. Despite these challenges, they and their colleagues persisted, accumulating evidence that supports landmark clean-air legislation and pollution reduction efforts worldwide. More than an inside look at pioneering air pollution research and the hidden health burden of air pollution, Particles of Truth is a story of determination and perseverance by those working to protect air quality and our health; indeed, their efforts have contributed to improvements in public health and an increase in longevity. For anyone interested in public health, environmental quality, or public policy, this is a must-read book that takes you to the front lines of discovery and controversy.
Post-Soviet Graffiti
For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region, Post-Soviet Graffiti provides theoretical reflection on public space as a site for political action, a semiotic reading of signs and symbols, and street art as a form of text.The book answers the question of how we conceptualize avenues of dissent under authoritarian rule by showing how contemporary graffiti functions not only as a popular public aesthetic, but also as a mouthpiece of political sentiment, especially within the post-Soviet region and post-communist Europe. A purposefully anonymous and accessible artform, graffiti is an effective tool for circumventing censorship and expressing political views. This is especially true for marginalized populations and for those living in otherwise closed and censored states.Post-Soviet Graffiti reveals that graffiti does not exist in a vacuum; rather, it can be read as a narrative about a place, the people who live there, and the things that matter to them.
Global Maritime Military Strategy, 1980-2023
This open access book is an ambitious study about how to use comparative methods to analyze contemporary military strategy in the maritime domain. Based on the three strategic concepts of area denial, sea control and power projection, this book analyzes the intensive conventional capabilities of six major powers' military strategies. These include the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, the so-called 'sea powers, ' and Russia, China and India, which are usually recognized as 'land-powers.'Through the analysis, this book aims to accomplish the following three main objectives: 1. To reconsider the basic concepts of maritime military strategic studies, which have not changed for almost one hundred years, and to propose a new analytical framework based on the following three elements--as well as verifying the appropriateness of this framework. a. The capability with which a country can deny military threat against its territory through the maritime domain within the geographic theater, i.e., roughly one thousand to two thousand kilometers from its coastline (area denial). b. The capability with which a country can obtain military superiority or disrupt an adversary's military superiority in the open ocean (sea control). c. The capability with which a country can project military power from the maritime domain to other countries' territories, accomplishing military strategic objectives (power projection). 2. To verify the six major powers' long-term military strategic objectives, for example, whether the country aims to enhance its power in the maritime domain, or to project its military power to the other countries/areas beyond the maritime domain; to do this by analyzing each country's force building directions. In addition, this book assesses each country's capability for high-intensive conflict and unravels each security/military strategic objectives.3. By examining the strategic objectives of major powers, this book may contribute to establishing Japan's future defense strategy.
Post-Soviet Graffiti
For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region, Post-Soviet Graffiti provides theoretical reflection on public space as a site for political action, a semiotic reading of signs and symbols, and street art as a form of text.The book answers the question of how we conceptualize avenues of dissent under authoritarian rule by showing how contemporary graffiti functions not only as a popular public aesthetic, but also as a mouthpiece of political sentiment, especially within the post-Soviet region and post-communist Europe. A purposefully anonymous and accessible artform, graffiti is an effective tool for circumventing censorship and expressing political views. This is especially true for marginalized populations and for those living in otherwise closed and censored states.Post-Soviet Graffiti reveals that graffiti does not exist in a vacuum; rather, it can be read as a narrative about a place, the people who live there, and the things that matter to them.
Transcultural Perspectives in Literature, Language, Art, and Politics
This book explores the dynamics of transculturality through five sections: literature, translation and linguistics, cinema, communication, and politics. The contributors' diverse background in the Humanities allows for a wide enquiry into the far-reaching capabilities of transculturality both as an intellectual tool and as an identity in motion.
Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us
A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERA jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today's billionaires.As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world's wealth, they now dominate us to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. With their voracious consumption, unbridled resource exploitation, and relentless obstruction of climate action, they are rapidly undermining democracy and destroying the very viability of the earth for human life. Their staggering power and hoarding of wealth have prompted a number of G20 nations to consider imposing a wealth tax, aimed exclusively at the super-rich. In Canada, such a tax would apply only to those with wealth above $25 million. Yet it could collect $40 billion a year - funding public programs that could immensely improve the lives of millions of Canadians while clipping the wings of the super-rich. Billionaires would threaten to depart. But as they left the country that had nourished them and enabled them to grow so wildly rich, they'd face a hefty "exit tax" on the way out. Yes, change is possible.
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters "One of the greatest writers of our time." --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat, Weep Not, Child, and Petals of Blood are modern classics. Emerging from a literary scene that flourished in the 1950s and '60s during the last years of colonialism in Africa, he is now known not just as a novelist--one who, in the late '70s, famously stopped writing novels in English and turned to the language he grew up speaking, Gĩkũyũ--but as a major postcolonial theorist.	In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngũgĩ gives us a series of essays that build on the revolutionary ideas about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity that he set out in his earlier work. In a book that is intricate, nuanced, and accessible, he reaffirms the power of African languages to fight back against both the psychic and material impacts of colonialism, past and present. Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas also explores these themes through chapters on some of Ngũgĩ's contemporaries, including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. A book with immense relevance to our present moment, Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas works both as a wonderful introduction to the enduring themes of Ngũgĩ's work as well as a vital addition to the library of the world's greatest and most provocative living writers.
Operation Nightfall
Winner - Literary Titan Book AwardWinner - 2025 International Impact Book Award, Historical Fiction - Historical Mystery/ThrillerA secret war. A shattered mission. A betrayal buried inside British intelligence. In 1948, as postwar Europe fractures and Stalin's grip spreads across Eastern Europe, two British operatives are sent behind the Iron Curtain on a mission that no one expects them to survive. Former SOE agent Luba Haas and newly minted MI6 officer Natalie Jenkins are tasked with supporting the Polish resistance and reactivating a long-silent sleeper agent. But from the moment they cross into Soviet-occupied territory, they know something is wrong. The operation has been compromised. There's a mole inside British intelligence. Hunted by the Soviet MGB and Polish security forces, cut off from all support, and surrounded by their enemies, the women must navigate a web of coded signals, dead drops, and shifting loyalties - where every ally could be a foe, and every message could be a trap.Based on declassified Cold War intelligence files and inspired by the real-life insurgencies that followed World War II, Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies blends historical fiction, spy thriller suspense, and military realism into a gripping page-turner. This female-led espionage novel is perfect for readers who love Cold War novels, resistance stories, and high-stakes covert operations.Written for fans of spy novels, espionage fiction, and military thrillers, this is a compelling addition to the world of historical fiction best sellers 2025. It explores the human cost of betrayal and the moral complexity of trust under pressure - appealing to readers who enjoy spy thriller books grounded in true events and layered with psychological tension.If you're drawn to Cold War conspiracy, intelligence sabotage, and the shadow wars that defined post-WW2 Europe, this story belongs on your shelf. With rich detail, sharp pacing, and powerful characters, it's a must-read for fans of historical spy novels, fans of Kate Quinn, William Boyd, and Alan Furst, and readers who crave both action and depth. Enter the world of resistance and betrayal - where survival depends on silence, and trust is the most dangerous weapon of all. "Packed with historical details, spy tradecraft, and brimming with intrigue, Wegener's story will leave you gutted, affected, heartbroken, and, most of all, wanting more." - I.S. Berry, Author, The Peacock and the Sparrow, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year, Winner - Edgar Award for Best First Novel"Savage and tender, exciting and moving, Operation Nightfall is a stellar exploration of the brooding years after WWII, offering readers the feeling of first-hand experience with the uncertainty, drama, and danger of life in that storied era." - Independent Review of Books"Spiraling ever deeper into the historical tension, strategic alliances, and brinksmanship of Cold War politics, Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies by Karl Wegener is a classic spy-vs-spy thrill." - Self-Publishing Review"Tense, Intricate, and unflinchingly real; A stunner!" - The Prairies Book Review
Is There a War on Surburbia? Calling a Truce in the Battle Over Land Use
Disrupting Silence
Disrupting Silence tackles the urgent issue of rape culture and its depiction in youth literature, providing an indispensable guide for educators dedicated to fostering a safe and just learning environment. This groundbreaking volume presents innovative pedagogical strategies and critical analyses aimed at equipping teachers to effectively address sexual violence in the classroom.. The book is structured into three insightful sections. "Making Space for Conversations about Rape Culture in Schools" illustrates how educators can harness the power of social media and young adult literature to engage students in meaningful dialogue. "Critical Analysis of Youth Texts" offers deep dives into young adult novels, highlighting their potential to reflect survivor experiences and critique institutional betrayals. "Critical Understandings, Teaching, and Application" introduces creative approaches, such as using graphic novels and media representations, to dismantle rape myths and promote critical literacy. Developed for secondary teachers, Disrupting Silence would also be a valuable addition to post-secondary courses in Education, English, Gender Studies, and Sociology. This is a vital resource for high school and college educators, teacher preparation programs, and anyone committed to social justice and student well-being. By addressing the complexities of rape culture head-on, this book empowers educators to facilitate critical conversations, cultivate empathy, and inspire action among students, making it an essential addition to any educational curriculum. Don't miss the chance to transform your classroom and contribute to the broader fight against rape culture with Disrupting Silence. This volume promises to equip you with the tools and insights necessary to make a lasting impact on your students and society.
