Political Science
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The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals): Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern EuropeBooks of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 7, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling...
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The Politics of Nostalgia: Class, Rootlessness and DeclineFor ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Electoral systems...
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The Political Logic of Cultural Revival: Ethnic Visibility, Linked Fate, and Electoral Politics in AfricaAuthor: Amanda Lea RobinsonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.42w x 0.90dISBN: 9780198909712
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The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White EvangelicalismWhat do we learn about white evangelicalism from those raised by its heroes? From historian Holly Berkley Fletcher, herself a missionary kid, comes this first-of-its-kind examination of how the experiences of missionary kids illuminate broader currents in American Christianity. As sidekicks to their parents'...
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The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power'I have nominated this book as my Book of the Year. I read over 30 books a year in the course of my work, so this it is in a good field.'Prof Guy Standing, author of The Precariat'A formidable effort... It has family resemblances...
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The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in AfricaThrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is...
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The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy"For years," William Pfaff writes, "there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the successful postwar American policy of 'patient but firm containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies...has over decades turned into a vast project for ending tyranny in the world....
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The Handbook of Global Energy PolicyThis is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume. Maps the emerging field of global energy policy both for scholars and practitioners; the focus is on global issues,...
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The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern IrelandThis book examines theatre and performance produced since the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in the context of growing discontent with the failure of the peace in Northern Ireland to deliver genuinely transformative forms of social justice. The economic expansion that attended the peace accord...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military-Civil FusionAdvanced commercial technologies offer new opportunities for defense applications that could greatly affect military power and metrics of military advantage. This is relevant when it comes to civilian-based technological innovations found in the emerging 'fourth industrial revolution, ' such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems,...
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The Federalist PapersThe Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays in which three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became this country's supreme law. Written by the iconic American statesman, Alexander Hamilton, the original US chief justice, John Jay,...
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The Duping of America: How we have been deceived into thinking abortion is acceptable, and the scientific, legal, moral and philosophical pro"The Duping of America" is the result of two years of research and thorough examination of multiple facets of the abortion debate, with more than 150 citations from medical, scientific, legal and ethics experts. The goal of the book is to educate readers about...
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The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle Over Ratification 1787-1788: A LibrThe ultimate record of the nation's birth, now in a collector's boxed set: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new national plan to replace the Articles of Confederation and then submitted it to conventions in...
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindOrganised crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal...
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindThe Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a classic and fascinating crowd psychology study authored by Gustave Le Bon and first published in 1895. In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to...
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The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas EmpireA new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the...
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The Battle for TaiwanTaiwan is a geopolitical hotspot. Militarily, financially and on what values will govern the world. For China's leader, Xi Jinping, it is a prestige project to incorporate Taiwan into mainland China including using military force. This can lead to a great power conflict between...
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The Airport as Urban Territory: The Spatial Effects of Singapore's Changi AirportA new framework for understanding how airports interact with their surrounding region. Airports are major drivers of economic development. While firmly rooted in local landscapes, they serve as vital links to global networks. However, the massive infrastructures and externalities of airports--like noise and pollution--create...
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Systems from Hell: Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social InstitutionsExamines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.This book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, other...
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Surprise, Security, and the American ExperienceSeptember 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security...
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