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Encyclopedia of QatarQatar is the 158th country in the world in terms of size, and is located on a small peninsula in the Arabian Gulf covering some 11,581 square kms. The population is around 2.8 million, of which 313,00 are citizens, the rest being expatriate workers...
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Chinese Anti-Ship Cruise MissilesProvides one of a kind product brochures of Chinese cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles, along with anti-ASM systems. The editor gathered the material from 2006-2016 from air shows and defense exhibitions around Asia."For the intelligence community professional, scholar, journalist and student, Wendell Minnick's books...
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All Necessary Measures?: The United Nations and International Intervention in LibyaThe international intervention after the 2011 Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi was initially considered a remarkable success: the UN Security Council's first application of the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine; an impending civilian massacre prevented; and an opportunity fordemocratic forces to lead Libya out of...
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Taxation with Representation: A New Evil: The History of Dividing Our Nation through Class Warfare under the Guise of FairnessAs politicians from both sides of the political spectrum constantly deluge the citizenry with class warfare idioms and clichés, aided by the media, regarding tax policies, we, the people, continually are told the "rich need to pay their fair share." Or your favorite politician...
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The Dialectics of DependencyA foundational essay of class struggle published in English for the first time Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market,...
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Transforming Criminal Justice: An Evidence-Based Agenda for ReformAn evidence-based roadmap for how the American criminal justice system can be reformed This important volume brings together today's leading criminal justice scholars and practitioners to offer a roadmap for those who want to change the face of the American criminal justice system. This...
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Beyond Economic Migration: Social, Historical, and Political Factors in US ImmigrationOffers a critique of the economic model of immigration Most understandings of migration to the US focus on two primary factors. Either there was trouble in the home country, such as political unrest or famine, that pushed people out, or there was a general...
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Signs of DisabilityHow can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped "deaf person in area" road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie...
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Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental FuturePerspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the...
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The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries. More than 120,000 U.S. servicemen deployed to China, where Chiang Kai-shek's government carried out massive programs to provide them with...
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Climate Basics: Nothing to FearAfraid of the future? Don't be. When we're armed with the basic facts of climate, we can more easily spot the lies that the corrupt, corporate news media is trying to feed us. Some of those lies are huge. This small book gives us...
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Guns in American Society [3 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the LawGuns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law is a comprehensive and evenhanded three-volume reference resource for understanding all of the political, legal, and cultural factors that have swirled around gun rights and gun control in America, past and...
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Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in CambodiaCambodian history is Cold War history, asserts Y-Dang Troeung in Refugee Lifeworlds. Constructing a genealogy of the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, Troeung mines historical archives and family anecdotes to illuminate the refugee experience, and the enduring impact of war, genocide, and...
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Civil Society in South AsiaAre new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society mainly in India but also in Pakistan. Civil...
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The Politics of Polarisation: Conflictual Competition in Italy, Spain and GreeceFocusing on Italy, Spain and Greece, this book explores the extent of polarisation, as well as its causes, characteristics and consequences. It investigates varied manifestations of polarised politics including leader polarisation, policy polarisation and affective polarisation as well as providing case studies of polarised...
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Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics"A very timely book."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaHow cognitive biases can guide good decision making in politics and international relations A widespread assumption in political science and international relations is that cognitive biases--quirks of the brain we all share as human beings--are detrimental...
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The Power of Opposition: How Legislative Organization Influences Democratic ConsolidationProposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the main body representing both...
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Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and AnonymityAn in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Samuel Woolley argues that social media has democratized today's propaganda, allowing...
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Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James TullyJames Tully is one of the world's most influential political philosophers at work today. Over the past thirty years - first with Strange Multiplicity (1995), and more fully with Public Philosophy in a New Key (2008) and On Global Citizenship (2014) - Tully has...
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Conspiracy of Silence: Deception, Hypocrisy, and Bloodshed Under Muhammadu BuhariNigeria is rife with divisions, particularly between Christians and Muslims. Both groups aim at converting others, and so they are in direct conflict with each other. The bitterness came to a head when Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, succeeded his former boss, Musa Yar'Adua, upon...
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