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Persuasion in SocietyThis fully-updated fourth edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving perspectives from rhetoric, critical theory, and social science and applying their insights to practical political, social, and business contexts. This text examines current and classical theory through the...
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Desastre: Historia Y Política de Las Catástrofes / The Politics of CatastropheUna historia de las catástrofes deslumbrante, original y repleta de ideas para el futuro que pone en perspectiva el ya conocido como annus horribilis.Los desastres son difíciles de prever, pero en la actualidad deberíamos estar mejor preparados contra las catástrofes que los romanos cuando...
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Versailles: Das Wagnis Eines Demokratischen Friedens 1919-1923Paris 1919. Politiker und Diplomaten stehen vor einer Aufgabe, der sich noch keine Generation zuvor stellen musste: die Schaffung einer globalen Friedensordnung nach dem Ende eines Krieges, der erstmals die ganze Welt erfasste. Für die Liberalen am Verhandlungstisch war das Ziel ein Frieden im...
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Im Schatten Des Great Game: Deutsche Weltpolitik Und Russischer Imperialismus in Zentralasien 1871-1914Russisches Zarenreich und britisches Empire pokerten im Great Game um Zentralasien als Schlüsselposition im internationalen Mächteringen. Das deutsche Kaiserreich verfolgte die Entwicklungen zwischen Indus, Pamir und Kaspischem Meer aufmerksam.Denn Bismarck und seine Nachfolger suchten Gelegenheiten, um Spannungen oder offene Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Zar und Queen...
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Vorlesungen Über Ästhetik: 1798-1827August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845) ist eine der zentralen Figuren der deutschen Romantik; seine Bedeutung für die deutsche Geistesgeschichte kann nicht hoch genug eingeschätzt werden. Er hat als Kritiker und Theoretiker der deutschen Literatur über die Romantik hinaus wichtige Impulse gegeben. Als Gelehrter steht Schlegel...
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Crossing the Border: West Papuan Refugees and Self-Determination of PeoplesThe West Papuan claim to the right of self-determination was denied by a series of political acts by the United States, the Netherlands, Indonesia and the United Nations, in the 1960s. The result was the spasmodic flight of thousands of refugees over the next...
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Citizens Against Crime and Violence: Societal Responses in MexicoMexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico's most affected regions,...
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Citizens Against Crime and Violence: Societal Responses in MexicoMexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico's most affected regions,...
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Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times: Urgency for ActionVolatile social dissonance in America's urban landscape is the backdrop as Valerie A. Miles-Tribble examines tensions in ecclesiology and public theology, focusing on theoethical dilemmas that complicate churches' public justice witness as prophetic change agents. She attributes churches' reticence to confront unjust disparities to...
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Kierkegaard and the New Nationalism: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Attack Upon ChristendomNationalism is a globally resurgent phenomenon. From Britain to India to the United States of America, we find nations vociferously reasserting their own sovereignty, ethnic composition, and intrinsic superiority. Thomas J. Millay demonstrates how Kierkegaard's ascetic voice speaks directly to our present crisis.Kierkegaard and...
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White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility: Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment ParadigmWhite ignorance is a form of collective denial that aggressively resists acknowledging the role of race and racism. It dominates our political landscape, warps white moral frameworks and affective responses, intervenes in white self-conceptions, and organizes white identities. In this way, white ignorance poses...
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Analyzing Drama: A Student CasebookThis play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry...
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The Body FamilyThis visceral and revelatory poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke digs deeply into a personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to...
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Breaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United StatesIn his latest book, veteran socialist writer Kim Moody provides a masterful analysis of the political impasse which has shaped the rise of a new socialist movement in the United States: recurring economic and political crises, sharp inequality, state violence, and climate catastrophe proceed...
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Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and CagesABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition.Connecting movements for social justice with ideas for how activists can support and build on this...
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Too Scared To Tell, The Dark Side of Telling the TruthToo Scared To Tell is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered -"Should I tell?" Unfortunately, the irony of telling about a crime or misdemeanor is that those who do so are often treated harshly because speaking up is often viewed as more...
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Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late CapitalismIn this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a...
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Remaindered LifeIn Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms...
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Rethinking the American Animal Rights MovementAlong with Civil Rights and Women's liberation, Animal Rights became one of leading social moments of the twentieth century. This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, while placing animal rights in context...
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Turkey's Neo-Ottomanist Moment - A Eurasianist OdysseyTurkey's Neo-Ottomanist Moment, A Eurasianist Odyssey, is the most comprehensive account to date of the transformation of Turkey's foreign policy related to its regime change. With first-hand knowledge, Cengiz Çandar tells the story of the emergence of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's revisionist Turkey in global...
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