Political Science
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Ontology of Social Being, Volume 2 MarxA study of essential philosophical categories in Marxism.Author: Georg LukacsPublisher: Merlin PressPublished: 01/01/1978Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.51w x 0.42dISBN: 9780850362275This title is not returnable
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Principles of Kinesic Interview and InterrogationHow do you interpret a person's behavior during their interview? Some people say it's an innate quality that can't be taught. But anyone who's read Stan Walters' Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation knows that is FALSE. The overwhelming success of the first edition...
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Judgment, Imagination, and Politics: Themes from Kant and ArendtJudgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of...
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Agricultural Policy in Disarray, Volume 1From any coherent policy perspective, agricultural policy in the United States is in total disarray. Not surprisingly, persistent and pervasive rent-seeking by well-funded lobbies explains many of the complex and often internally inconsistent federal programs that fall under the umbrella of US agricultural policy....
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The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human LibertyOffers an account of Alexis de Tocqueville's thought and life. Lawler attempts to make clear the understanding of the human condition that is at the foundation of Tocqueville's mixed view of human liberty, and provide an understanding of liberty that does justice to human...
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A Safety Net That Works: Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income AmericansThis is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area's successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things...
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The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and MisruleIn this wide-ranging study, Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates that some of the most basic of today's domestic and foreign policies have been buttressed or justified by what turns out to be misanalysis or misuse of available facts and figures. The Tyranny of Numbers not only...
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Demanding Liberty: An Untold Story of American Religious FreedomReligious liberty is one of the most contentious political issues of our time. How should people of faith engage with the public square in a pluralist era? Some citizens hope to reclaim a more Christian vision of national identity, while others resist any religious...
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Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in MexicoOaxaca is known for many things--its indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textiles--but not for mental health care. When one talks with Oaxacans about mental health, most say it's a taboo topic and that people there think you "have to be crazy to go...
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Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-PalestineSAGE Memory Studies Journal & Memory Studies Association Outstanding First Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2019 Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this rich ethnographic study offers an innovative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It...
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First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of YugoslaviaIn First Do No Harm, David Gibbs raises basic questions about the humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in U.S. foreign policy for the past twenty years. Using a wide range of sources, including government documents, transcripts of international war crimes trials,...
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Tennessee Government and PoliticsTennessee Government and Politics offers a timely and comprehensive new survey of the state's political evolution. With its concise historical analysis, up-to-date presentation of contemporary issues, and appended state constitution, Tennessee Government and Politics will serve as a primary text for any course on...
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Fixing the System: A History of Populism, Ancient and ModernIn the current climate of dissatisfaction with democratic Western political and economic systems, this is a timely book that demonstrates a true political Third Way. Populism is distinguished from other political movements by its insistence on two things conspicuously missing from modern systems of...
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Pedagogy of the HeartThis book represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire, who has been acclaimed one of the most important educators of the twentieth century. Pedagogy of the Heart is filled with Freire's reminiscences of his early life and meditations under my mango tree....
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To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the PoorThe long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the...
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Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security StateThis collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. Rather than attempt to delimit what constitutes so-called faith-based aid and institutions or to reify the concept of the state, they seek...
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How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence CrisisIn the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account...
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Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens"Completely honest and highly informative. To look at a legislative body is to observe democracy in the raw--with all its diverse characters and influences and its many conflicts, compromises, and achievements. Dede Feldman, a first-rate observer and chronicler, shows us the insides of the...
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Beyond the Eagle's Shadow: New Histories of Latin America's Cold WarThe dominant tradition in writing about U.S.-Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor "talons of the eagle," continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this...
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Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian MexicoWhen President Benito Ju rez died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1872, the Mexican government declared a seven-day period of mourning. Nearly the entire population of Mexico City filed past Ju rez's body as it lay in state in the National Palace. Over...
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