Political Science
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil WarOne of the best history books I've read in the last few years. --Chris HayesThe previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence...
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Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk RoadThe saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, who completed an epic sixteen-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India, is a splendid story of human struggle and triumph. One of China's great heroes, Xuanzang is introduced here for...
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Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money MastersA revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels. ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the...
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An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American DreamJulian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father comes a...
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The Psychology of Peace: An IntroductionJust as health providers study disease and its prevention, understanding the causes of violent behavior and how to prevent such behavior is a basic cornerstone for those who are working towards a healthy society. Another parallel: maintaining physical health involves positive practices; similarly, positive...
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The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques RousseauAs one of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this edition of First and Second Discourses contains abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations.Author: Roger D. MastersPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 10/15/1969Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.21h x...
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Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's FutureReset introduces an astonishing parade of characters: sultans, shahs, oil tycoons, mullahs, women of the world, liberators, oppressors, and dreamers of every sort. Woven together into a dazzling panorama, they help us see the Middle East in a new way--and lead to startling proposals...
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Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of PowerA riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America. Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss....
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Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative IntroductionThis book's introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organised around puzzles and questions to which undergraduates can relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers...
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Reeling in Russia: An American Angler in RussiaIn the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile journey across Russia. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that was the birthplace of Stalin's gulag. He...
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Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on TrialThe study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To...
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of DreyfusIn the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, a defeated and humiliated France split into cultural factions that ranged from those who embraced modernity to those who championed the restoration of throne and altar. This polarization--to which such iconic monuments as the Sacre-Coeur...
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Woodrow Wilson: A BiographyThe first major biography of America's twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America's foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars. A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president--he helped create the regulatory bodies and...
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Revolution Against Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American IndependenceA bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin...
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Breaking Democracy's SpellIn this timely and important work, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political system that people in the West generally view...
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Political Economy of InformationApproximately five million people worldwide speak Albanian. The opening of Albania in the 1990s to broader trading and diplomatic relations with other nations has created a need for better knowledge of the language and culture of this country. This book teaches the student to...
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Castrochavismo: Crimen Organizado en Las AméricasLa intensidad y el compromiso de Carlos S nchez Berza n con la democracia, la ley y la institucionalidad en Am rica Latina le han convertido en el martillo m s efectivo y demoledor contra esa suerte de reg menes que l engloba bajo...
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Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern LibertyIt is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications....
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Transcritique: On Kant and MarxKojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani's transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of...
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Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal JusticeHuman rights activists Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national...
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