Political Science
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Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the TerribleIvan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time. This acclaimed biography of one of Russia's most important and tyrannical rulers is not...
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Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left: Interviews and Essays, 1993-1998Murray Bookchin has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the 1930s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in New York City and engaged in support work for those fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War.Now, for the first time in book...
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Enemy of the People: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought backEnemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma's catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees - and how a people fought back.When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC...
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Creating Connections: Celebrating the Power of GroupsIn this collections of papers, the reader will find exciting and innovative group work practices with a range of populations, including group work with First Nations girls, abusive men, disadvantaged youth and women with breast cancer who find healing through their participation in Dragon...
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Sickle Cell and Deaths in CustodySickle cell is a multi-system disorder that in the USA and the UK predominantly, but not exclusively, affects those of black and minority ethnic communities. The disorder is not widely understood, so, when a sudden death of a black man in official custody is...
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Discovering Child Poverty: The Creation of a Policy Agenda from 1800 to the PresentChild poverty is currently regarded by many as the 'number one' issue in Britain. Yet it has not always been so high on the policy agenda. What were attitudes to poor children 200 years ago? How did child poverty emerge as both a quantifiable...
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The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution. Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi is complemented by Tom Nairn's cool and elegant appraisal to tell the astonishing story of those heady days. Paris is a seething battlefield of...
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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl SchmittThe writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no...
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Adventures in MarxismA new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto included laudatory references to Marx in venues as unexpected...
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Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai JinhuaDai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Cinema and Desire presents Dai Jinhau's best...
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Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After CommunismIsaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility for the fate of its country and a belief in the transformative power...
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Politics: The Central TextsThis selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volume Politics presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative to Marxism and social democracy. The explanatory part of the work rejects the search for a lawlike...
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Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the BodySkateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of...
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Methods for Community Participation: A Complete Guide for Practitioners'Somesh Kumar has compiled this useful collection with the intention of promoting creativity, experimentation and growth. This is, then, a source of ideas and advice, not a set of marching orders.' - Robert Chambers. This book combines the concept, practice and application of participatory...
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No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and TravellersThe shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a home They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish...
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Bioterror and Biowarfare: A Beginner's GuideIn an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made...
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Magna Carta: Origins and LegacyMagna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring its contents. Annulled by the pope within weeks of being issued, it...
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An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?"With a brilliant display of forensic advocacy, one of the greatest legal minds on the international stage forces a shameful but inconvenient truth upon the world.--Helena Kennedy, QCWinner Polemic of the Year, The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015On April 24th, 2015 people around...
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Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War IIJuan Pujol Garcia, better known as Garbo, was perhaps the most influential spy of World War II. By feeding false information to the Germans on the eve of the D-Day landings he ensured their absence in great numbers from Normandy's beaches. This allowed the...
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Prisoner 155: Simón RadowitzkyA beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Sim n Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world. The author/illustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016. Radowitzky appears in a few...
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