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Orthodox Christian Perspectives on WarMany regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had strong ties to Orthodox Christianity. Yet policy makers, religious leaders, and scholars often neglect Orthodoxy's resources when they reflect on the challenges of war.Through essays written by prominent...
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Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking InstitutionsIn 1988, Brazil's Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens, civil society organizations, and public officials have undertaken the slow, arduous task of building new institutions to ensure that Brazilian citizens...
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Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants occupied, while...
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Morals and PoliticsWhen Moral und Politik was first published in Germany it provoked heated debate both in and out of the classroom. It even prompted Vittorio Hösle's critics to publish a collection of essays that responded to his provocative arguments. Available for the first time in...
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The Treatise on Law: (Summa Theologiae, I-II; Qq. 90-97)In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas's The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosophy and jurisprudence, fluently and accurately presents the Latin and English translation of this important work. Henle provides the necessary background for an informed reading...
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Marxism and ChristianityContending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as...
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The Logic of SufficiencyWhat if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it...
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Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and DocumentsCritical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section...
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Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global EconomyMany writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization,...
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Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social SciencesThe use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to...
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Stories from Palestine: Narratives of ResilienceStories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising their own constructive agency.In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda...
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Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the WorldA panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.In Global Gay, Fr d ric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South...
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Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of FascismHow the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage...
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Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017-1217How Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction.Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to...
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Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution BuildingWater is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social controversy on a global scale, and the management of...
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The Democracy SourcebookThe Democracy Sourcebook offers a collection of classic writings and contemporary scholarship on democracy, creating a book that can be used by undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of courses, including American politics, international relations, comparative politics, and political philosophy. The editors...
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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon WorldHow small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid...
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Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native PeoplesHow native people--from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa--have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations....
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Carbon Capture and Storage: Efficient Legal Policies for Risk Governance and CompensationA theoretical and practical analysis of the complex liability issues raised by carbon capture and storage systems for containing greenhouse gases.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems inject highly compressed carbon dioxide gas deep into geological formations in order to contain the gas, and its...
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Experimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal AgeA celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market.In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's...
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