Political Science
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Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of IsraelRefuge Must Be Given details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harbored negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel in the United States. The book explores, for the first time, Roosevelt's partnership with the Quaker leader Clarence...
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Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic MissilesSince the 1979 revolution, the ruling establishment of Iran has developed and articulated a defense strategy reflective of the country's Iran-Iraq war experience and its international isolation. Its asymmetrical warfare doctrine, use of irregular forces in military campaigns, deployment of ballistic missiles, use of...
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Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate ChangeFracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in the US also directly harm the health and livelihoods of people in front-line communities, who are disproportionately poor and...
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The Anthropology of Peace and Reconciliation: Pax HumanaThis book offers a uniquely comparative, case-study perspective on the anthropology of peace and reconciliation. In the contemporary world, the end of violent conflict often gives way to one, or a combination, of five interventions designed to strengthen "peace" and facilitate "reconciliation". These interventions...
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Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third WorldA historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide. In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries...
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Essentials for Civil DialogueDuring turbulent times, many feel frustrated or inadequate when communicating personal opinions about current events or policies. Parents are attempting to introduce values of empathy and courtesy to their children. Corporations are trying to balance fiduciary interests while acknowledging society's turmoil, and circles of...
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Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-EvaluationThis book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed.The author argues that, despite recent efforts to speak of overlapping consensuses and discursive congruence, the fundamental categories that constitute "Islam" and "Liberalism" remain very different, and that these differences...
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Karl MarxKarl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The sheer range of his achievements, and the depth of his critical insights, continue to speak to...
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Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and GovernanceNeoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce....
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The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max WeberThe historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of his work. Mommsen's classic book, first published in 1974 under the title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic...
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The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial NamibiaDrawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. In addition to its eye-opening depictions of the...
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EconomicsIn this book the author presents principles of economics and uses them to draw further conclusions on law and morality. A substantial section of the book contains examples that illustrate the concepts propounded. Topics addressed in the book include: the determination of prices through...
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Emotional Intelligence: 13 Ways To Boost Your EQ And Stop Offending People (Becoming The True Empath)Are You Struggling To Understand A Language That Is Beyond Words? Do you find it hard to control your thoughts?Are you always offending people?Friends never want to hang out with you?Want a change in your life?Discover what is emotional intelligence? Emotional Intelligence is the...
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The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Volume 33How China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the...
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¡Vamos a Avanzar!: The Chaco War and Bolivia's Political Transformation, 1899-1952In Vamos a avanzar! Robert Niebuhr argues that despite widespread corruption, a lack of skills, and failed policies, Bolivian leaders in the first half of the twentieth century created a modern state because of the profound role of warfare over the Chaco. When President...
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The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights2022 PROSE Award Finalist in ClassicsAlthough the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the parallel confluences...
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The Republican Party of Texas: A Political HistoryOn July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled to gain a foothold in the Lone Star State, which had...
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History of International Relations: A Non-European PerspectiveExisting textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.The volume is...
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Citizen ScienceCitizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated...
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Co-Production and Co-Creation: Engaging Citizens in Public ServicesCo-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible...
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