Political Science
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Russia in the Pacific: The Quest for Great Power RecognitionRussia in the Pacific approaches the puzzle of why Russia, with much of its huge territory straddling Asia, has not had more success in establishing a position as a great power in the Asia Pacific. Russian leaders from Nicholas II in the late nineteenth...
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Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian IslamismHow Islamism became a leading force in the Palestinian resistance In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. Skare reveals how the phenomenon has been continuously shaped and developed by the fierce...
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Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others FailWhy do some states thrive, grow their economies and uplift their people, while others, facing similar challenges, slide into low growth, social dysfunction and failure? After decades of work on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, bestselling author...
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Rethinking Financial Behaviour: Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday LifePension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios. Deviating from this is often deemed irresponsible and irrational. However, this assumption overlooks uncontrollable factors like caring duties,...
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Rethinking Ageism: Age and Ageing in an Ageist WorldOlder adults may be the world's fastest growing demographic. Yet they remain vulnerable to biases and barriers that would be intolerable if directed at others. Such an indictment puts the onus on deconstructing the idea of ageism in terms of what it means ("a...
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Restoring Science and the Rule of LawScience and the rule of law are the two pillars of modernity. Even though both result from the attempt to employ reason to limit the exercise of power in the scientific and the political sphere, they bear in themselves the germs of their own...
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Rebooting Canada: A Fresh StartPeople often complain about current Canadian governmental structures. They believe we are stuck with this system, fearing that change is impossible. But we can enhance the quality of life for all members of our Canadian society.In Rebooting Canada: A Fresh Start, author and accountant...
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Rebooting Canada: A Fresh StartPeople often complain about current Canadian governmental structures. They believe we are stuck with this system, fearing that change is impossible. But we can enhance the quality of life for all members of our Canadian society.In Rebooting Canada: A Fresh Start, author and accountant...
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Race and Liberty in America: The Essential ReaderIn this long-awaited updated edition of Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, editor Jonathan Bean draws on timeless and urgent insights from America's most principled anti-racist standard-bearers--and they could not be more relevant for our troubled and polarized time. In 2009, when...
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Public Communication and Democracy in Latin America: Is Democratic Dialogue Possible in Fragmented Societies?The book examines alternatives proposed and implemented by governments, civil society organizations, social movements and companies in Latin America to democratize public communication and overcome its current problems, such as the dissemination of alternative facts and fake news, anti-scientific discourse, harassing, discriminatory and hate...
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Populism and Time: Temporalities of a Disruptive PoliticsThis book addresses the untapped theoretical encounter between populism and time. It argues that this enquiry can augment analyses of the history, contemporary political practice and theory of populism, by identifying and critically engaging with its appearances, disappearances, and its failure to emerge within...
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Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin's RussiaSince Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency in 2012, protection and promotion of so-called 'traditional values' has played a prominent role in the Kremlin's propaganda campaigns. From the large-scale demonstrations in 2011-2012 to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conservative social values...
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Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the MaghrebToday, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has...
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Poems of PerceptionAuthor: Brian GeerdtsPublisher: Nico 11 Publishing & DesignPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9781957351698
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Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy AirA compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution's deadly impact on human health--and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean air. Particles of Truth is a riveting account of the discovery of the critical health...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "bracing" (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from a "public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" (The New York Times)--now in hardcover for the first time "Timothy Snyder reasons...
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On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands ItThe "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value--and how it can be strengthened Do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism,...
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On Marx: Revolutionary and UtopianWhen Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not...
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Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost TheoryIs revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks...
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Okinawa: Great Power Competition and the Keystone of the PacificOkinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Located between the tip of Japan's mainland and Taiwan, it hosts key US military bases, which have played a contested and controversial role on the island. In addition, the sovereignty of some of Okinawa's outlying...
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