Political Science
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Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North AmericaWritten by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of...
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Interpreting Discrete Choice ModelsIn discrete choice models the relationships between the independent variables and the choice probabilities are nonlinear, depending on both the value of the particular independent variable being interpreted and the values of the other independent variables. Thus, interpreting the magnitude of the effects (the...
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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global SunbeltThis volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes...
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The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I: Welfare States in the Knowledge EconomyWelfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preservinghuman skills and capabilities. Yet,...
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What Makes an Assembly?: Stories, Experiments, and InquiriesA crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies. Assemblies are ancestral, transcultural ways of coming together as a community. Over the past decades, multiple social movements have reappropriated these forms of collective organisation as a prominent...
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Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern NigeriaA comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its...
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Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from PersecutionIn this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons. The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas, Dante,...
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Covid-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Population in Southeast Asia: Vaccine, Diplomacy and DisparityThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens, non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job retention, freedom of movement, vaccine...
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Cuerpos Desnudos No Le Temen Al AguaIn 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who...
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Monumental Fury: The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our PastRecent years in America have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalized, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction, claiming that pulling down public statues is a negation of an entire cultural heritage....
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Preparing Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations: Contemporary PerspectivesThere are more than 1.8 million nonprofits in the United States and at least 3 times that many internationally. Workers in these nonprofits and civil society organizations increasingly look to academic programs to provide leadership and management training. This edited volume is designed to...
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The Laws of War, Affecting Commerce and ShippingThe Laws of War, Affecting Commerce and Shipping, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...
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The Crimes of England (Esprios Classics)Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his...
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Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and FallThe pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also suffering the unintended...
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European Union Politics 7th EditionAuthor: Michelle CiniPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/01/2022Pages: 554Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.19lbsSize: 9.72h x 7.56w x 1.10dISBN: 9780198862239
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American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our TimeAmerica has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning...
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The Chancellors: Steering the British Economy in Crisis TimesWhen the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall and diminishing other ministries in the process. It also successfully fought off attempts...
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The NAACP in Washington, DC: From Jim Crow to Home RuleFounded in March 1912, DC branch of the NAACP quickly became the leading organization advocating for the city's Black community.President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the African American community of DC and...
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Intergovernmental Relations: State and Local Challenges in the Twenty-First CenturyWho governs? On the surface, such a question should be easy to answer by simply reading the law. Taking a deeper examination, it is one of the most hotly contested questions, often without a clear-cut answer. With recent controversies in the United States related...
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Air Pollution and Climate Change: The BasicsThis book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global. It discusses how these four types of pollution are manifest in today's society and examines the scientific and policy challenges that stand in the way of progress. Written in a...
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