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The War for Syria: Regional and International Dimensions of the Syrian UprisingExamining the international dimensions of the Syrian conflict, this book studies external factors relating to the Uprising. It explores the involvement of outside powers and the events' impact both on regional and international level. Syria was widely perceived to be essential to the regional...
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The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex WorldWith transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports...
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Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice: A Field Manual for Helping Professionals and VolunteersRecasting burnout as a crucial phase of service, Building Resilience Through Contemplative Practice uses real-world case studies to teach professionals and volunteers unique skills for cultivating resilience.Viewing service and burnout as interdependent throughout phases of stability, collapse, reorganization, and exploitation, the book uniquely combines...
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Church and State in American History: Key Documents, Decisions, and Commentary from Five CenturiesChurch and State in American History illuminates the complex relationships among the political and religious authority structures of American society, and illustrates why church-state issues have remained controversial since our nation's founding. It has been in classroom use for over 50 years. John Wilson...
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International Relations Narratives: Plotting World PoliticsThis book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining 12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids. It demonstrates the pervasive nature of storytelling and considers narratives as a means of causal explanation in the human sciences.By introducing...
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Is Davis a Traitor: ...Or Was the Secession of the Confederate States a Constitutional Right Previous to the Civil War of 1861? (ConstitutHistorian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under constitutional law. The author poses the question: did Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America, commit treason by initiating the secession and thereby...
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Anarchism and Other EssaysAmong the pioneers of radical thought, there are few names more important than that of Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who made her life a study in the struggle against the authoritarian state, the privileged and upper class bourgeois forces that array against the common man...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before theJoseph Story's extensive narration of the United States Constitution is grounded in the social and political history of the text, and the meticulous researches of the author. This edition includes all of the author's notes. At over half a million words, the commentaries of...
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Les Origines de la France Contemporaine. Deuxième Édition.Title: Les Origines de la France contemporaine.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,...
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The End of Protest: A New Playbook for RevolutionIs protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in...
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan DisasterThe key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post. The United States went to Afghanistan on...
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Newton's Football: The Science Behind America's GameIn the bestselling tradition of Freakonomics and Scorecasting comes a clever and accessible look at the big ideas underlying the science of football. Did you hear the one about the MacArthur genius physicist and the NFL coach? It's not a joke. It's actually an...
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The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic FrontThe Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a 'belligerent' Vladimir Putin to their east - waging war on Ukraine - and 'expansionist' NATO to their west, these NATO members have increasingly been the subject of unsettling headlines in both Western and...
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Das Albanesische Element In Griechenland: Was Man Über Die Thaten Und Über Die Schicksale Des Albanischen Volks Von Seinem Ersten Auftreten In Der GesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Engendering Social PolicyThe articles collated in this text explore: how social policy constructs gendered relations; the difference/equailty debate; representations and discourses in social policy; the tensions and issues associated with restructuring domestic relations; and feminist alternatives to mainstream social policy solutions. The book adopts a comparative...
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Court Culture in DresdenThis is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual...
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Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political ScienceThis important new text provides a broad-ranging introduction to the 'new' institutional theories which have become increasingly influential in recent years and gives an assessment of their application and utility in political analysis.Author: Vivien Lowndes, Mark RobertsPublisher: Red Globe PressPublished: 05/24/2013Pages: 248Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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The Eclipse of Great Britain: The United States and British Imperial Decline, 1895-1956The decline of Great Britain as a world power was the result of long-term economic change and two world wars. Except in a few areas, American authorities did not set out to supplant Britain: indeed until the Second World War they were hesitant about...
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Communism in Russia: An Interpretative EssayAfter the Revolution in October 1917, Soviet Russia tried to establish an alternative form of social organization based on the ideology of communism and the practices of Soviet democracy. This system inspired millions and achieved the industrialization of Russia, but ultimately it failed. The...
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Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology: From Adam Smith to Max WeberMarx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology offers an original interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy as the basis of a critique of modern economics and sociology. The core of the book is an account of Marx's theory of alienated labour as the basis of...
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