Political Science
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Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental ActivismThirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained prominence as an activist fighting to...
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Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates Over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic?second Edition, Revised and ExNow widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beard's...
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Brandeis on DemocracyPhilippa Strum, our foremost authority on Louis Brandeis, gathers together for the first time a sterling selection from his most provocative and profound writings. A kind of "Portable Brandeis," this book provides a concise and readable guide to the thought of a truly great...
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The Presidency of Gerald R. FordThis is the first comprehensive study of one of our most popular yet most misunderstood presidents. Reaching well beyond the image of Ford as "healer" of a war-torn and scandal-ridden nation, John Robert Greene extends and revises our understanding of Ford's struggles to restore...
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Capitalism as Oligarchy: 5,000 years of diversion and suppressionCapitalism as Oligarchy is an essay on wealth inequality that offers a simple lens by which to better understand our social world. It argues that the concept of 'capitalism' is an intellectual dead-end for it imposes unneeded complexity, wrongly insists on being new and...
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Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamIn this book of utopian prophecies, the problems of contemporary human society are theorized and textually rectified. The authors expose the dysfunctions embedded in modern life, from shoddy architecture to the existence of police. Featuring over 125 chapters, countless footnotes, an extended bibliography, four...
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How I Beat Satan...and the I.R.S.Comply with the law and be free Keep your money 12 different ways and be fully compliantThis book is short, easy to read and completely 'non-technical'. You will find an interesting personal testimonial about how the author found harmony between God's law and man's...
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Our Federal Government: Its True Nature and CharacterFor forty years from the ratification of the Constitution, it was well understood that the American States were united in a political compact in which certain of their powers had been entrusted to a common agent, while their essential sovereignty and its attendant rights...
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One Freeman's War: In the Second American RevolutionAmazing true story about American heroes who dared to challenge tyranny at every level. (Adventure, Philosophy, Intelligence) Ordinary citizens had the government running scared With a background in International Business, Rex Freeman was recruited heavily by the C.I.A. to do work overseas under 'private...
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Real Fake News: Techniques of Propaganda and Deception-based Mind Control, from Ancient Babylon to Internet AlgorithmsPresident Trump and his alternative media supporters call the mainstream fake news. The mainstream calls the alternative media fake. But who is telling the truth? What is fake news? And are there parameters to define it?Fake news is everywhere and always has been. From...
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The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five NationsThe authors interviewed over 5,000 citizens in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. to learn political attitudes in modem democratic states. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from...
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Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and JapanThis is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial....
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Political Community and the North American AreaCan the North Atlantic Area become a "security community"--a community like some other historical groups, in which warfare among members becomes highly improbable? This is the central problem of international organization; it is the problem attacked by this book as part of a larger...
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Intermediaries in International ConflictFew scholars have attempted to evaluate critically the role mediators play in managing international conflicts. Thomas Princen examines where mediation fits in the larger realm of diplomatic practice, going beyond the usual state-centric focus to account for the mediating activities of a wide range...
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Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the WarsIn this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational...
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California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental LeaderA political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the present Over the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy...
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Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in ChinaHow individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities Over the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal...
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Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American SuburbA close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decision Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a...
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Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global EraDuring the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is...
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Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political HistoryClassical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government, the "rule of the few." Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but instead emerged alongside, and in...
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