Political Science
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of WarIn Riding the Tiger, Leon Aron, an acclaimed Russian studies scholar and a Moscow native who was sanctioned by President Vladimir Putin's regime, chronicles the transformation of Russian politics and society under Putin. Through hundreds of Russian-language sources, Dr. Aron shows how Putin uses...
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Revolutionary Emotions: The Roots of Revolutionary WavesAuthor: Silvana ToskaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/25/2024Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.51h x 6.57w x 1.06dISBN: 9780197774861
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Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power PoliticsWhy did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of...
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Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class"Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between 'rednecks' and 'barbarians'" Fran?oise Verg?s, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder"Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and...
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Reasons to RebelThe 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples' livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination.There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just...
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Propagandopolis: A Century of Propaganda from Around the WorldA trove of 20th- and 21st-century propaganda imagery used by regimes around the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and beyondDo you know what propaganda looks like? A mural showing Saddam Hussein on horseback. A poster featuring Chinese climbers carrying a bust of Mao to...
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Progress and Poverty - The Complete Works of Henry George"Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it." - Emma Lazarus In this landmark text, Henry George lays out his study...
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Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth ReconstructionPoles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-depth interviews with scholars, community leaders, and laity in Poland and the U.S., Stark-Blumenthal dispels myths,...
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Plato's Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, DialecticianThis book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally,...
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Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our WorldIndia is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores India's astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse. She...
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Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as RefugeHow do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? How do we bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek in the face of such overwhelming...
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Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House: Psychologists Assess the PresidentsPersonality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present truly scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work dramatically improves the state-of-the-art in classifying presidents and predicting performance in the White House. Dr. Steven Rubenzer and...
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Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign PolicyUpdated with a new preface by Gilbert Achar, covering events since 2007 including the late-2023 renewal of military conflict between Israel and Hamas, this new edition provides readers with an essential critical perspective on the US role in the Middle East.The volatile Middle East...
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Party Transformation in Congressional PrimariesThe process through which candidates run for Congress has fundamentally changed in the twenty-first century. These new dynamics of primary competition have contributed to party transformation in Congress. Though many believe that primaries contribute to polarization, this book shows that primary voters do not...
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On Government"The creature you have to deal with, Romans, is not just a villainous crook" Cicero (106-43BC) was a key figure in the Roman Republic and a witness to its dramatic collapse into a dictatorship. The seven works collected here expound his passionate belief in...
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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceAlthough the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages,...
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N?minas Seguridad Social y Contrataci?n Laboral 2024La presente gu?a ofrece un manual pr?ctico tanto para la formaci?n como para la consulta de los aspectos m?s comunes de la gesti?n laboral en las empresas. Aborda, en primer lugar, el contenido b?sico de la relaci?n laboral, con las caracter?sticas de los distintos...
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New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United StatesIn 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands...
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New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United StatesIn 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands...
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New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal StateA historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the New Deal. Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt's efforts to...
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