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Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy ChangeUnder what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory....
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Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the PresentAt a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is...
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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of...
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Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese HistoryCultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston...
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The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American IdealsIn this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage...
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The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and ProgressToday we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The...
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WatergateFeaturing a new afterword, this fast-paced, clear, comprehensive account of the Watergate scandal contains new information about the scandal and probes the deep flaws of character that led to it. Here is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal--based on the most recently released...
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About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton"Mann's colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly we] have managed our ties with the world's most populous nation." --The Washington Post Book World Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience,...
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The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster CareIIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City's operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system's inequities. Wilder, as the case came to be...
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and PoliticsWith intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes--one governing commerce, the other, politics--and explores what happens...
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late VictoriansIn a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative.Author: Gertrude HimmelfarbPublisher: VintagePublished: 10/27/1992Pages: 492Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.56w x...
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Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social RealityIt was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers...
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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, I assume you did...
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Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of...
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American GirlsThe award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary project. Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together. --The New...
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A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in AmericaA Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary...
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Reveille for RadicalsLegendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active...
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The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights MovementHow the misuses of Martin Luther King's legacy divide us and undermine democracy In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women's rights...
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The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided EuropeA Marginal Revolution Best Book of the YearWinner of the Shulman Book Prize A noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe's geopolitical rivalries, natural gas and deals based on it unite Europe's nations in mutual self-interest. Three decades after the fall of...
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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama CanalThe Panama Canal's untold history--from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal's American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course...
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