Political Science
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern EuropeA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast...
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1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989...
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Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and PracticeAn essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitioners Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development,...
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Origins of Containment: A Psychological ExplanationThe description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.Author: Deborah Welch LarsonPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 01/21/1989Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.10w x 1.01dISBN: 9780691023038
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973"A revealing selection . . . [a] heroic service." -- New York Times Book Review "Endlessly fascinating . . . Essential for students of late-twentieth-century history and the American presidency." -- Kirkus Reviews "[A] monumental effort . . . Astonishing." -- Austin American-Statesman Between...
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Ancient Rome: A Military and Political HistoryAncient Rome is a concise, comprehensive political and military history of the Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476 AD. Christopher Mackay describes how military events undermined...
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Plato: LawsPlato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. It offers sustained reflection on the enterprise of legislation, and on its role in the social and religious regulation of society in all its aspects. Many of its ideas...
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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger: Volume 11"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways....
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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America"An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class."--The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social...
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State of Empowerment: Low-Income Families and the New Welfare StateOn weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four...
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Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors After the SpringThe advent of the Arab Spring in late 2010 was a hopeful moment for partisans of progressive change throughout the Arab world. Authoritarian leaders who had long stood in the way of meaningful political reform in the countries of the region were either ousted...
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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and ResponsibilityUsing the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight....
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyIn this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller -...
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression have made a comeback. He lays bare the 2008 financial crisis--the greatest since the 1930s--tracing it to the failure of...
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The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout HistoryWhen Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occasionally violent clashes between Americans and Japanese began. Walter LaFeber has written the first book to tell the entire...
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American DiplomacyFor more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims...
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much...
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Walking with the ComradesFrom the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to...
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The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRSWouldn't you love to abolish the IRS . . .Keep all the money in your paycheck . . .Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn . . .And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system? Then the...
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The Republic of Venice: de Magistratibus Et Republica VenetorumAt a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini's sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice...
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