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Somali NationalismAuthor: Saadia TouvalPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 04/14/2014Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9780674594357
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A Matter of PrincipleThis is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more...
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Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji JapanIn the last third of the nineteenth century, three Americans with diverse purposes sailed to Japan--the missionary William Elliot Griffis, the scientist Edward S. Morse, and the writer Lafcadio Hearn. They were to become part of the first generation of American experts on Japan,...
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Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of PeaceWaged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar...
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The Literary Underground of the Old RegimeRobert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame and fortune within the Republic...
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Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to ReaganMark Peterson investigates how recent presidents have engaged Congress on domestic policy issues. Rejecting the presidency-centered perspective on national government that is so firmly rooted in the popular imagination, he argues in this sophisticated analysis that the response of Congress to presidential initiatives is...
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Reality and Its DreamsRaymond Geuss is one of the most inventive and distinctive voices in contemporary political philosophy and a trenchant critic of the field's dominant assumptions. In Reality and Its Dreams, he challenges the "normative turn" in political philosophy--the idea that the right approach to politics...
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American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957Author: Joseph R. StarobinPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 05/29/2014Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81dISBN: 9780674368781
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Atatürk in the Nazi ImaginationEarly in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism--this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis has been almost entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Atat rk, the founder of modern...
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A Future for SocialismMany people point to recent events--the collapse of the Soviet Union, the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas--as proof that capitalism has triumphed over socialism once and for all. In A Future for Socialism, a noted economist argues that socialism is not dead but merely...
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The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923, Revised EditionHere is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the...
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Rise of the Military Welfare StateSince the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath the recruitment slogans, the army promised volunteers something more tangible: a social safety net including...
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Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of RevolutionIn the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation's seamen, whose labor took them far from home and...
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Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-StateAt the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois's The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe,...
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Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy"Powerful as well as highly engaging--a brilliant book."--Amartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they're working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to...
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Intelligence and Democratic ActionAuthor: Frank Hyneman KnightPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 02/05/1960Pages: 183Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50dISBN: 9780674181687
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A DialogueIn this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism,...
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The Causes of Wars: And Other Essays, Second Edition, EnlargedPublic consciousness of the threat of nuclear war is rising steadily. Responses to the nuclear dilemma are conflicting and often confusing. Never have we been more in need of information and perspective, for if we wish to avoid war we must understand it. Michael...
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Creating Capabilities: The Human Development ApproachIf a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how...
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The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South KoreaIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung...
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