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Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political TrialsSpectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense...
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Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the CaucasusGeorgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics of the USSR. Yet Stalin's Georgian heritage, intimate knowledge of Caucasian affairs,...
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California's Recall Election of Gavin Newsom: Covid-19 and the Test of LeadershipCalifornia went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 2021, the state faced another political turning point with the threatened recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Less than two years after Newsom's overwhelming election victory, more...
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Latin American Politics and DevelopmentFor over forty years, Latin American Politics and Development has kept instructors and students abreast of current affairs and changes in Latin America. Now in its tenth edition, this authoritative yet accessible introduction has been updated throughout. Organized on a country-by-country basis, Latin American...
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Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday AnarchyColin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward's life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods and charting the...
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Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin ZooIn 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating a symbol of endurance in the heart of a shattered city....
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Why You Should Give a F*ck about FarmingThere is no farmers and others. If you eat or wear clothes, the decisions you make influence farming. 'Eaters will be the ultimate arbiter of where and how food is grown and how the land is cared for ... We all have a stake...
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The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of PeaceSometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India's external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its...
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In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland EcuadorIn the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories...
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The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to ProtectBeginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948, and extending to the present day, the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, China, United Kingdom, and...
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Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary ConfinementBased on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers...
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Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed.Plan S for shock: the open access initiative that changed the face of global research This is the story of open access publishing - why it matters now, and for the future. In a world where information has never been so accessible, and answers...
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Ukraine's Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian WarThis is the first book to analyse the Russian-Ukrainian war from a regional perspective considering the role played by the Dnipropetrovsk region as the country's forpost (outpost) in Russia's war against Ukraine. In the Soviet Union, Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city due to its...
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What Have You Left Behind?Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.In 2015, a year...
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Prophecy Before Vision: Learning to See and Altering the FutureIt does not matter what kind of organization you lead: You can become a prophet who clearly sees the future-and you can learn how to alter it with the Prophecy before Vison methodology. James Michael Matthew, the founder and chairman of JM Prophecies Corporation,...
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Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-Profit ServicesePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve? Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity...
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Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American GovernmentFew topics are as timely as the growth of government. To understand why government has grown, Robert Higgs asserts, one must understand how it has grown. This book offers a coherent, multi-causal explanation, guided by a novel analytical framework firmly grounded in historical evidence....
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The Economic Foundations of Fascism"Even the most superficial readers of the popular Press know today that Communism means the public ownership of the means of production. Fascism, on the other hand, Is still regarded principally as a political movement; The economic implications of the term are generally ignored....
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The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the WorldThe Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion),...
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The Vatican and Permanent NeutralityThe essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely...
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