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Modern Saudi ArabiaThis thematic encyclopedia examines contemporary and historical Saudi Arabia, with entries that fall under such themes as geography, history, government and politics, religion and thought, food, etiquette, media, and much more.The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, known for its petroleum reserves and leadership role in...
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Masters: The Invisible War of the Powerful Against Their SubjectsFrom the breweries of Colorado and the faculties of Harvard to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Marco D'Eramo guides us through the places where a new war has been thought out, planned and financed. It's a real war, though it has been fought...
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Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese StateChina's breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as...
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Mangaddicts: French Teenagers and Manga ReadingJust pronounce the word "manga" and conflicted representations of media reception emerge: either passive teenagers immersed in Japanese fictional worlds, or hyperactive fans. To understand what drives a variety of teenagers to read manga, we conducted empirical research among French readers enrolled in secondary...
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MAGA Mindset: Making YOU and America Great AgainMAGA MINDSET: How to Make YOU and America Great Again is not a traditional political analysis of Donald Trump or the success of his political campaign, which would be boring and useless to you. MAGA Mindset is an overview of the cultural forces that...
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Live Theory: The Aronowitz ReaderStanley Aronowitz was a towering figure on the American Left for over sixty years. Both a tireless organizer and a militant social and political theorist, Aronowitz was a highly perceptive analyst of class power. He was dedicated throughout his career to the development and...
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Liberty's Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the StateIf there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obama's presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state. Its expansion has followed a pattern: First, expand federal powers beyond their constitutional limits. Second, delegate those powers to agencies and away from elected...
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Liberating the United Nations: Realism with HopeThe United Nations (UN) has always loomed large in international conflicts, but today accepted wisdom declares that the organization has lost its way. Liberating The United Nations is a thorough review of its founding and history that tracks critical junctures that obscured or diverted...
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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and HistoricismLeo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good command of...
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'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile DisorderThe Bolsheviks led the workers to power in the October Revolution of 1917. To ensure its survival, they grappled with the task of spreading the revolution beyond Russia. 'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder was written in 1920 to educate the newly-formed communist parties of...
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Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal PoliticsA rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn't look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics--with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right--are now more likely to...
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Lebanon Is Burning and Other DispatchesMuch of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements' success.This collection of short...
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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental FailureDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.In 2016, 1,100 mainly minority residents of a low-income housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana, received a letter...
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Land of Extraction: Property, Fracking, and Settler ColonialismExplores fracking's dual impact on settler colonial culture and sustainability Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction unravels the complex web of relationships between humans, places, and the environment, all bound by the concept of private property. It presents a thought-provoking analysis...
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Labor Relations in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries: Study GuideThis Study Guide is designed to be used with the textbook Labor Relations in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries. It is intended to assist students in comprehending basic terminology and principles of labor relations and the law, to relate those principles to unique features...
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Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the EndThis explosive national bestseller is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour--and the chaos it unleashed in the world. America's chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside...
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Islam and Nazi Germany's WarWinner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post "Must-Read" In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi...
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Inventing Future CitiesHow we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities.Author: Michael BattyPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 06/18/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.87dISBN: 9780262548656About the AuthorMichael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London and the author of Cities and Complexity and...
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International Law and the Public: How Ordinary People Shape the Global Legal OrderIn International Law and the Public, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace investigates the public as a crucial, often overlooked, actor in international law. He asks just who is it that counts in the operation of the international legal order. Defying conventional wisdom that sees governments, leaders,...
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International Human Rights Law and PracticeNow in its fourth edition, Bantekas and Oette's textbook on international human rights law is the key text around the globe for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in law and other disciplines with a human rights dimension. It covers theoretical approaches to rights as...
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