Political Science
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Italy and the Middle East: Geopolitics, Dialogue and Power During the Cold WarItaly played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century. It was a junior partner in the strategic plans of NATO and warmly appreciated by some Arab countries for its regional...
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Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and EnlightenmentAn award-winning journalist's extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years--a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance that's "the best of the genre, profound, poetic, and sorrowful" (The Atlantic). In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos,...
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Resisting ExtortionCriminal extortion is an understudied, but widespread and severe problem in Latin America. In states that cannot or choose not to uphold the rule of law, victims are often seen as helpless in the face of powerful criminals. However, even under such difficult circumstances,...
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of AmericaThe New York Times bestselling author explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship Most of human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, or tribes. The concept of the citizen, an idea we take for granted,...
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Royal Capitalism: Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in ThailandThanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX (1946-2016)...
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Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral AutocraciesOpposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliances. At best, they allocate only one candidate to contest against the incumbent...
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Networks for Social ImpactA broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems Networks for Social Impact takes a systems approach to explain how and when networks make a social impact. Michelle Shumate and Katherine R. Cooper argue that network design and...
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Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Volume 2: Nonlethal Chemical Agents and Biological Warfare AgentsThe Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Volume 2: Pathogens, Mid-Spectrum, and Incapacitating Agents, Third Edition provides rapid access to key data to response professionals and decision-makers on a broad range of agents and pathogens.This volume presents information on a wide range of...
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New Jersey Driver's Practice Tests: 700+ Questions, All-Inclusive Driver's Ed Handbook to Quickly achieve your Driver's License or Learner's Permit (CWant to Ace your New Jersey MVC Driver's License Exam, even if you've never Driven before? Are you afraid of failing your driver's license test? Or have you failed the test before and still aren't sure what the right answers are? Do you want...
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Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns"Hunter Biden is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to examining corruption within the Biden family during the time that Joe Biden was vice president."-Peter Schweitzer, Investigative Journalist on Fox News (January, 2020)The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and the...
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Rebels in Government: Is Sinn Féin Ready for Power?The February 2020 general election in the Republic of Ireland sent shockwaves through the country's political system. Sinn Féin, ahead of all other parties in terms of first preference votes, secured its place as a potential coalition partner, a role it has been playing...
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Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 MomentExiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918 and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, the book argues, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British...
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Human Rights as Human Independence: A Philosophical and Legal InterpretationCan human rights be claimed against agents other than states, such as transnational corporations and global governance institutions? Does the authority of human rights depend on international law-making, or do they have a moral status that must be honored even in the absence of...
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People Forced to Flee: History, Change and ChallengePeople in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes -- war, conflict, violence, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change -- are as familiar to readers of the news as to students of the...
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology The Conquest of Bread & Mutual Aid A Factor of EvolutionTwo works in one collection. The Peter Kropotkin Anthology will awaken in you a new perspective as Peter Kropotkin viewed the communist society in which he lived during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Story 1: The Conquest of Bread The Conquest of Bread,...
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The Mutual Aid A Factor in EvolutionMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays explore the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (or ""mutual aid"") in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and...
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Public Investment Criteria: Using an Interregional Input-Output Programming ModelExplains how the trade pattern among regions is variable and is endogenously determined by the impact of public investments such as highways and high-speed railways Demonstrates that the public investment pattern reflects the opportunity cost of the assigned budget that could be spent for...
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The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of DemocracyOver a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested notions of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship and belonging. Two opposing ideas...
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We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political RevolutionThe executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing rise, climax, and decline of one of the great political movements in American history--the forty-year reign of the conservative movement, from the election of Ronald Reagan to the Republican Party's takeover by...
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The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing AuthenticityDioramas are devices on the frontier of various disciplines. Their use developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at developing the educational dimension of museums. This book examines the anthropological dioramas of two North American museums in the early twentieth century: the American...
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