Political Science
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MomusMomus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and universal man of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism....
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Principles of Social Justice (Revised)Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to...
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The Warren Court and American PoliticsThe Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren was the most revolutionary and controversial Supreme Court in American history. But in what sense? Challenging the reigning consensus that the Warren Court, fundamentally, was protecting minorities, Lucas A. Powe, Jr. revives the valuable tradition of...
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EmpireImperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and...
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The Trouble with PrincipleStanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with...
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End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with The Resumption of History in the New CenturyNamed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel...
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We the People, Volume 2: TransformationsConstitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of...
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What Are Freedoms For?We generally suppose that it is our right to freedom which allows us to make the choices that shape our lives. The right to have an abortion is called freedom of choice because, it is said, a woman should be free to choose between...
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World Affairs CompanionFrom Simon & Schuster, The World Affairs Companion is Gerald Segal's essential one-volume guide to global issues that you can't afford to miss. The World Affairs is a fascinating, facts-at-your-fingertips guidebook for the newswatcher, armchair strategist or student of international politics, and the first...
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Common GroundEvery time a shooting makes national headlines, the same debates erupt: Is the problem guns or mental health? Why is the United States unique in its gun violence problem? Can we reduce this violence while protecting the right to bear arms?Newtown, Connecticut, native and...
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Chosen?: Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictoeThe conflict is only seemingly' beyond solution, because all historical-political problems have solutions, if there is enough courage, honesty, and steadfastness. � In Chosen?, Walter Brueggemann explores the situation in modern-day Israel that raises questions for many Christians who are easily confused when reading...
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Theology of PeaceThis gift from one of the greatest twentieth-century Protestant theologians, Paul Tillich, is a collection of hopeful, realistic writings on peace from the years Tillich spent in America. Beginning in 1937, the book documents Tillich's pre-World War II hope of resistance to Hitler and...
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The Politics of Ancient IsraelIn this volume, Norman Gottwald reconstructs the politics of ancient Israel within the larger political environment of the ancient Near East. He questions the prevailing view that the Hebrew Bible, supported by archeological evidence when necessary, should be the primary source to diagram the...
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The Great Nation: Unitarian Europe - From Brest To BucharestJean-Fran ois Thiriart (1922-92) was, without doubt, one of the most significant pioneers of the project of a united Europe that has been espoused by several contemporary European geopolitical thinkers such as, for example, Alain de Benoist, Robert Steuckers, Claudio Mutti and Aleksandr Dugin....
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One Day in May - Bleiburg 1945The Bleiburg Tragedy is named after the town of Bleiburg, Austria, the location of a post-World War Two surrender of Croatian refugees to the Communist Yugoslav Army. This exclusively Croatian surrender on 15 May 1945 was distinct from other surrenders in post-war Austria. The...
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Endgame: Secret Talks and the End of ApartheidThe full story of behind-the-scenes encounters between ANC leaders and a select few Afrikaners in the turbulent eighties, told for the first time by someone who was there himself: Stellenbosch philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. These highly confidential talks, held behind closed doors in England,...
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Lead Time: A Journalist's EducationThe essential Garry Wills, Lead Time offers a provocative view of a pivotal era in America from one of our most esteemed historians. In this collection of essays, written between 1968 and 1982, Wills explores American culture, politics, and mores, and demonstrates his astute...
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Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. on"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished writers of our time, Name-Dropping charts the political landscape of the...
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Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic InnovationThe rise of open data in the public sector has sparked innovation, driven efficiency, and fueled economic development. While still emerging, we are seeing evidence of the transformative potential of open data in shaping the future of our civic life, and the opportunity to...
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McWherter: The Life and Career of Ned McWherterMcWherter, The Life and Career of Ned McWherter, is a biography of Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter (1930-2011) whose rise from sharecropper's cabin to the Governor's Residence is one of the most fascinating chapters of Tennessee political history in the late 20th Century. Written by...
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