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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by TechPolitics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our...
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The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the StateAuthor: Stephan LeibfriedPublisher: OUP OxfordPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 924Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.90dISBN: 9780198808923This title is not returnable
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Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's FoundlingsShortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights --...
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The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of LawIn this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have a natural right to pursue happiness so long as they respect the equal rights of others, and that governments are only justly...
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Authoritarian States: Ib History Course Book: Oxford Ib Diploma ProgramDrive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative approach...
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Marxist History-Writing for the Twenty-First CenturySince 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date. As the challenge of more recent events shows, however, history has not stopped and historical change continues to need explanation. There is still plenty of space for structural...
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Humiliation: Claims and ContextA pioneering work in the field of political and moral theory, Humiliation explores the complex and varied meanings, contexts, forms, and languages of humiliation within an interdisciplinary framework. While humiliation as a theme has found expression in both nationalist and socio-political thought in modern...
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Understanding Human DignityUnderstanding Human Dignity aims to help the reader make sense of current debates about the meaning and implications of the idea of human dignity, a concept that has probably never been so omnipresent in everyday speech, or so deeply embedded in political and legal...
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Climate Ethics Climate Ethics: Essential Readings Essential ReadingsThis collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source...
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Crime and Public PolicyCrime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and...
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Beyond War: The Human Potential for PeaceA profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our...
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The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismDuring the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had...
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The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of IdentityOver the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not...
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Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan NetworkA.Q. Khan was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden." A hero in Pakistan and revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a global clandestine...
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Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of...
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The American Senate: An Insider's HistoryWinner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013 The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber....
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James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of RightsToday we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and...
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Safire's Political DictionaryWhen it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and...
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Public Administration: Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of GovernmentPublic Administration: Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government presents public administration through the lens of politics and the policy-making power of the bureaucracy. By showing how the bureaucracy influences daily life, Smith and Licari bring the field of public administration alive...
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights MovementWinner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then...
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