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The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma

Why Election Observation Became an International Norm

by Susan D. Hyde ...

Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan ... Read more

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Why did election monitoring become an international norm? Why do pseudo-democrats—undemocratic leaders who present themselves as democratic—invite international observers, even when they are likely to be caught manipulating elections? Is election observation an effective tool of democracy promotion, or is it simply a way to legitimize electoral autocracies? In The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma, Susan
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Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning

Lessons from Metaketa I

Edited by Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, Gareth Nellis ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are numerous. Yet do informational campaigns influence voter behavior and increase democratic accountability? Through the first project of the Metaketa Initiative, sponsored by the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research ... Read more

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Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are numerous. Yet do informational campaigns influence voter behavior and increase democratic accountability? Through the first project of the Metaketa Initiative, sponsored by the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research
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Election Fraud

Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation

Edited by Thad E. Hall, Susan D. Hyde, R. Michael Alvarez ...

Series series Brookings Series on Election Administration and Reform
Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country. Yet election fraud and, more broadly, electoral manipulation remain remarkably understudied concepts. There is no consensus on what constitutes election fraud, let alone how to detect and ... Read more

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Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country. Yet election fraud and, more broadly, electoral manipulation remain remarkably understudied concepts. There is no consensus on what constitutes election fraud, let alone how to detect and
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Haggard House

A place as decayed and strange as the family inside.

by Elisabeth Rhoads ...

Narrated by Rocco Narva, Alex Hyde-White, Lauren Lewis, Susan Hanfield ...

Unabridged

11 hours 35 min

A FOREWORD REVIEWS EDITOR'S PICKAt the far edge of town stands a dwelling the villagers call Haggard House—a place as decayed and strange as the family inside.1859, the village of Nomaton, Michigan. After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's, ... Read more

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A FOREWORD REVIEWS EDITOR'S PICKAt the far edge of town stands a dwelling the villagers call Haggard House—a place as decayed and strange as the family inside.1859, the village of Nomaton, Michigan. After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's,
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Staying Put

Adapting the Places Instead of the People

by Susan Lanspery, Joan Hyde ...

Series series Society and Aging Series
Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People" emphasizes the disabilities and abilities of environments instead of ... Read more

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Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People" emphasizes the disabilities and abilities of environments instead of
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Far Futures

by various authors, Greg Bear, Greg Bear, Donald Kingsbury, Donald Kingsbury, Poul Anderson, Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Joe Haldeman, Charles Sheffield0, Charles Sheffield1, Claire Bloom2, Judy Young3 ...

Narrated by various narrators4, Vikas Adam5, Paul Boehmer6, Susan Hanfield7, Alex Hyde-White8, Stefan Rudnicki9 ...

Unabridged

16 hours 53 min

Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, ... Read more

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Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology,
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The Mummy!

A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

by Jane C. Loudon ...

Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, John Lee, Stefan Rudnicki, Kate Orsini, Paul Boehmer, Robertson Dean, Arthur Morey, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Nan McNamara, Tom Newth, various narrators ...

Unabridged

18 hours 10 min

Published anonymously in three volumes in 1827, when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy! is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that—to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it—is filled with striking similarities to our modern world, including a form of the internet. But it is also filled with brilliant flights of fancy: her court ladies wear hair ... Read more

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Published anonymously in three volumes in 1827, when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy! is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that—to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it—is filled with striking similarities to our modern world, including a form of the internet. But it is also filled with brilliant flights of fancy: her court ladies wear hair
... Read more
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The Best of Bova, Vol. 3

by Ben Bova ...

Narrated by Ben Bova, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Margy Moore0, Stefan Rudnicki1, various narrators2 ...

Unabridged

19 hours 57 min

The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society—a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are ... Read more

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The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society—a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are
... Read more
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Fight for Liberty

Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump

Narrated by Aaron Abano, Ewan Chung, Nimo Gandhi, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Jane Oppenheimer, Eric Pollins, Paul Rogan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy -- reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord.Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties are gaining traction in Europe, Vladimir Putin tightens ... Read more

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Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy -- reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord.Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties are gaining traction in Europe, Vladimir Putin tightens
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Queers Destroy Science Fiction!

Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue; The Stories

by Seanan McGuire, Gabrielle de Cuir, Sigrid Ellis3, Steve Berman5 ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White0, Stefan Rudnicki1, various narrators6, John Lee7 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers Destroy Science Fiction! shows just how wide the ... Read more

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Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers Destroy Science Fiction! shows just how wide the
... Read more
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Hell's Brood

An Eve of Light Story Collection

by Harambee K. Grey-Sun ...

Narrated by Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Julia Hochtner, Josh Petersdorf, Laurie Catherine Winkel ...

Unabridged

5 hours 30 min

In the Eve of Light universe, no one is safe from what hides beneath the gossamer of superficial reality.A struggling singer who travels to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can provide.A small-time criminal who finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin begins to dream of the big time, until he ... Read more

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In the Eve of Light universe, no one is safe from what hides beneath the gossamer of superficial reality.A struggling singer who travels to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can provide.A small-time criminal who finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin begins to dream of the big time, until he
... Read more

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The Best of Bova, Vol. 2

by Ben Bova ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam, Gabrielle de Cuir, Paul Baymer, Moira Quirk, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, T. J. Storm, Mirron Willis, various narrators0 ...

Unabridged

15 hours 31 min

The second volume of the best stories from legendary hard science fiction writer Ben Bova, the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society.The stories included in this volume span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy.Here are ... Read more

$32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The second volume of the best stories from legendary hard science fiction writer Ben Bova, the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society.The stories included in this volume span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy.Here are
... Read more

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