Political Science
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The Power of Finance: Financialization and the Real EconomyFinance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since the 1970s the realm of finance has burgeoned, reaching well beyond its traditional funding roles. These processes of financialization have occurred alongside that of globalization and the continued dominance of a...
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Exploring the Thought of Karl PolanyiThe work of Karl Polanyi has become a central reference point for scholars working in a variety of traditions and disciplines within the social sciences, including international relations, international political economy, economic sociology, and economic anthropology. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Polanyi's...
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The Japanese EconomyThe Japanese economy was once considered a "miracle". Although still the world's third largest economy, it continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including both the Asian and...
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Establishing an occupational health & safety management system based on ISO 45001Improve employee safety, reduce workplace incidents and create better, safer working conditionsAccording to a report from the ILO (International Labour Organization), there are more than 2.78 million deaths and 374 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses per year as a result of occupational accidents or...
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Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our DemocracyWe all know something has gone wrong: people hate politics, loathe the media and are now scared of each other too. Journalist and one-time senior political advisor Tom Baldwin tells the riveting--often terrifying--story of how a tidal wave of information overwhelmed democracy's sandcastle defenses...
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Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in BetweenMirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria, anthropologist and linguist Ed Pulford sketches...
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Cyril Ramaphosa: The Path to Power in South AfricaFor a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led South Africa's huge mineworkers' union against the apartheid...
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Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and the Lakota's Struggle for JusticeIn 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border. People from many Native American tribes were joined by non-tribal environmentalists, including...
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Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and GenderQueer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West,...
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An Oral History of the Palestinian NakbaIn 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has...
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Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle EastA muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting...
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Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century'Lucid, fluent and compelling' - Observer 'We need writers like Andrews ... These are truths we need to be hearing' - New Statesman Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism,...
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One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRAA history of "the Troubles" the radical politics of Republicanism The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical...
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The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 HitmanThe compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel ngel Tobar's small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad--the...
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Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in ChinaA feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government. Featured in the Washington Post and the New York Times.On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a...
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Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl KautskyTrotsky and Slavoj iek defend revolutionary violenceWritten in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj iek argues that...
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and ExoneratedInnocent, but imprisoned--troubling stories of wrongful convictionSurviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-- overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification--found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit....
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American Foreign Policy and Its ThinkersMagisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself,...
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented LivesThese remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. "[fill] a gap in our understanding of [immigration] by humanizing the people at the center of an otherwise cold debate" (Huffington Post) They arrive from...
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature"A primal account of an unstifled world." --Bill McKibben"A dazzling command of science and relentless faith . . ." --Naomi Klein A wide-ranging collection of essays from leading environmental commentator on how politics and big business threaten our daily lives, our society, and the...
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