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The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020This book assesses the impacts of the right within the US and UK, forty years on from their initial effects upon economic and social orthodoxies. It argues that one way of understanding the main developments in the political economies of the major Anglophone countries...
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Nation and Class in the History of the Kurdish MovementThis book covers over a century of history, from the emergence of Kurdish nationalism in the interwar period to the 2010s when, for the first time in modern history, Kurdish forces controlled two autonomous political entities in Iraq and Syria, as well as over...
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Marx, Spinoza and Darwin: Materialism, Subjectivity and Critique of ReligionMarx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors--certainly with differences among themselves--consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze. Thus, when Spinoza declared that...
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Illuminating Policy for Health: Insights from a Decade of Researching Urban and Regional PlanningThis book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing. With a critical realist lens, the book provides a methodology for sophisticated health focussed policy analysis which situates public health within complex political processes and systems. The application of that lens is demonstrated...
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Urban Youth Unemployment, Marginalization and Politics in MenaThis book focuses on Arab youth marginalization along intersectional lines of gender, ethnicity and social class in four cities: Jerusalem, Amman, Cairo, and Tunis. The author explores how the political and economic climates in each city influence the life prospects of youth and uncovers...
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Nachrichtendienste in Der Weltgesellschaft: Systemtheoretische PerspektivenNachrichtendienstforschung ist, vor allem in Deutschland, häufig stark geschichts- oder praxisorientiert ausgerichtet. Gesellschaftstheoretische Arbeiten zu Nachrichtendiensten sind Mangelware. Das Buch adressiert diese Lücke unter Rückgriff auf systemtheoretische Herangehensweisen. Diese erlauben eine theoretisch fundierte Betrachtung grundlegender Inhalte von Nachrichtenwesen wie Geheimnissen, den Umgang mit Unsicherheit...
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A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Composed Originally for the Use of the Senate of the United StatesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Contemporary China Review 2022 Summer Issue: 当代中国评论 (英文版)2022 夏The summer of 2022 is an unusual one. The Russian-Ukrainian war shifted from a stalemate to a strategic counter-offensive in Ukraine. Against the backdrop of this huge geopolitical conflict, Taiwan Strait also became tense again with the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
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岁月有痕---國務卿索要的政治犯: THE TRACES OF YEARS:A Chinese poli30 多年前發生的六四運動,已經過去三分之一個世紀了,作爲那場運動的當事者和見證人,我從來都無法停止去思考這場給我一生帶來影響的運動意味著什麽,它有怎樣的歷史意義和價值。 本書從最開始構思到寫作完成歷經 30 餘年,包括從監獄裏面夾帶出的很多手稿,以及出獄後我在南京悄悄的錄製了一些音頻,轉存在香港一位友人處,直到我到達洛杉磯後才開始整理所有的書稿,斷斷續續地完成這本書。 吳建民,八九年六四運動南京學運高自聯主要領導人之一。六四後組黨"中國民主前線",擔任主席。一九九零年被中共國家安全局南京市局發佈〇〇一號逮捕令,後被中 共定罪"組織領導反革命集團主犯",判刑十年。一九九一年美國總統老布希安排時任國務卿詹姆斯-貝克"六四"後首次正式訪華,向中共政府索要的主要政治犯之一。(參見中共外長錢其琛回憶錄《外交十記》第191頁)。一九九七年經美國政府斡旋提前出獄。 二〇〇八年,率所在小區民眾向政府和SOHO國際開發商開展百日維權活動。二〇一五年流亡赴美。二〇一七年在Youtube開設自媒體頻道《建民論推墻》。閱讀點擊率上億人次。每日更新時政評論成為海外政經類經典欄目之一。二〇一八年《全民共振》發起人之一。Author: 吴建民 著Publisher: BlurbPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 322Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9798210599780This title is not returnable
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Roe and Wade: History of Roe and Wade, Overturning of Roe and Wade and it's Dissenting OpinionsIn the book Roe and Wade, the history of the roe v Wade ruling, the overturning of the ruling and the presenting dissenting opinions will be dissected in detail. The overturning of the Roe v Wade statute has brought about a lot of chaos...
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States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean: Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing RegionMoving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean. Organised into two main sections, the first section (The new centrality of the Mediterranean Basin: Trends and Dynamics) is devoted to the analysis of the...
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Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community PsychologyForewordWalter Mignolo (Argentina, Duke University)Recovering and re-centring decolonial thought in community psychology Garth Stevens & Christopher Sonn & Deanne Bell (South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand; Australia, Victoria University; Caribbean; University of East LondonDefining the key co-ordinates of a decolonial praxisNelson Maldonado-Torres &/or Sabelo...
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Not Paying the Rent: Imagining a Fairer CapitalismThis is a conversational book with chapters directly followed by responses from experts. The main authors propose that the failure in development is not due to capitalism but rather rentism, which is earnings based on political rather market returns. Rent prevents development and ingrains...
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Geo-Societal Narratives: Contextualising GeosciencesThis book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature.The authors introduce...
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The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in UkraineThe book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups. While the individual chapters each focus on one or a few facets of...
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Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate CrisisThis book asks how education can be developed to facilitate the radical social, cultural and economic transformations needed to deal with the ongoing climate emergency. The author illuminates important links between the work currently being done in climate change and education and the broader...
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Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations and Lgbt Human RightsThis book is the first study of multilateral LGBT human rights diplomacy viewed from the perspective of its practitioners: diplomats, LGBT activists, human rights experts and multilateral specialists. It demonstrates how diplomats and advocates work to promote LGBT rights on the world stage, often...
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Critical Theory Today: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual TraditionThis book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of 'post-truth' discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal management of the...
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G20 Rising Powers in the Changing International Development Landscape: Potentialities and ChallengesThis book aims to explore and contextualize G20 rising powers' increasing role in international development from a comprehensive and multidimensional perspective. This book will scrutinize the G20 rising powers' evolving role as international development actors around three research questions: 1) How do we contextualize...
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Social Media and Digital Dissidence in ZimbabweThis book proposes a new theorisation when studying cyber dissidents in an African digital sphere. It argues that social media dissidents are a recent development in a long lineage of dissidents in African societies. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the study locates contemporary...
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