Political Science

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by Smedley D. Butler (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speec...

The Private Investigator Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Protect Yourself, Get Justice, or Get Even - Paperback

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by Chuck Chambers (Author)Chuck Chambers has seen it all in his 22 years as a P.I., working thousands of cases. His hands-on experience and hard-nosed detective work has made him one of the most sought-after private investigators in the business.Here, Chambers shares his insider expertise, with true case histories from his files, tricks of the trade, and step-by-step advice to help readers be able to: - Catch a cheating spouse- Uncover hidden assets, monetary malfeasance, and fraud- Tail and ...

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by Chong-Un Ch'oe (Author), Choi Jung-Woon (Author), Jung-Woon Choi (Author)The book explores the implications of the democratic movement that took place in Gwangju, a southwestern city of Korea, in May 1980 when military paratroopers brutally crushed a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doo-hwan, who was about to become the country's president. Because of the event now known as the Gwangju Uprising, 191 people perished and 852 were wounded. In The Gwangju Uprising, Cho...

Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study - Paperback

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by Henry Hakam?ki (Foreword by), Adnan Husain (Foreword by), Breht O'Shea (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2024

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World - Paperback

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by Ajay Singh Chaudhary (Author)Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done? To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power, wealth, and security of "business-as-usual" and all...

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy - Paperback

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by Carol Anderson (Author), Dick Durbin (Foreword by)As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award, NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPL From the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin, now with a...

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern - Paperback

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by J. Sakai (Author)Settlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time. Al...

Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies - Paperback

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by Dodo J. Thampapillai (Author), Matthias Ruth (Author)Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics, as well as the principles of ecological resilience, this book is divided into five key parts, which include extensive coverage of environme...

The Warsaw Pact, 1985-1991- Disintegration and Dissolution - Paperback

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by Matej Bily (Author)This book analyzes the last phase of the Warsaw Pact, based on unusually large-scale archival research conducted in many countries. Author BiographyMatěj B?l? is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic. Number of Pages: 478 Dimensions: 0.99 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 26, 2024

Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process - Paperback

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by Shameer Modongal (Author)Upturning the traditional view of religion as a source of conflict, this book studies Islamic perspectives of international conflict resolution, re-interpreting the possibility of Israel-Palestine reconciliation beyond traditional secular frameworks.Author BiographyShameer Modongal is currently Assistant Professor in West Asian Studies at the University of Kerala. He completed his doctoral studies in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New...

Tackling Difficulties in Tax Administration Reform: Reducing the Tax Burden of China - Hardcover

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by Jia Kang (Author), Liang Ji (Author), Cheng Yu (Author)This book explores China's tax system- one of the largest in the world, it operates on a quite different logic in taxing income, property and capital gains compared with most other countries. In an effort to reduce income inequality and continue to drive robust growth, a lively debate about the reform of China's tax system is taking place. In this book, some of China's most prominent thinkers on the topic share their insights and propo...

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by Lisa Dellmuth (Author), Jonas Tallberg (Author) Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2024

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by Luis L. Schenoni (Author) Number of Pages: 326 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context (COLOR) - Paperback

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by Lada Kolomiyets (Editor)For many Ukrainians, 1991 was a crucial point when their long-held dream of independence came true. The image of the future life in independent Ukraine was then almost identical to folklore images of Ukraine as the land of milk and honey. "Living the Independence Dream" takes a multi-dimensional look at the period of regained independence as a time of advancement towards the realization of collective dreams shaping the post-Soviet nation, even through everyday disap...

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by Timothy Twining (Author) Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 12, 2024

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by Tom K. Reynolds (Author)Ever since his neighborhood movie theater closed, Scott Ryan has had one dream-reopen the theater and run it successfully, recreating the feeling of film community that he experienced when first came to Seattle. But that won't be easy, even after he buys the old theater many questions remain about if it can be run successfully. And not everybody shares Scott's dream, certainly not his son Jackson. A junior at Truman High Jackson thinks his father's dream is old fash...

TM 5-623: Pavement Maintenance Management - Paperback

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by United States Department of the Army (Created by)The United States Army Publishing Directorate is the Army's leader in publishing and delivering informational products worldwide. Their main mission is to supply official authenticated information to enhance the readiness of the total force. Some product topics include: Army Regulations, Engineering Technical Manuals, Administrative Publications, Circulars and Pamphlets. This is one of their documents. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.37 x...

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security - Paperback

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by Fiona S. Cunningham (Author)How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversaries How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma of fighting limited wars, only China has given information-age weapons such a prominent role. While other countries have preferred the traditional options of threatening to use nuclear weapons or fielding capabilities for...

Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics - Paperback

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by Jesse Covington (Author), Bryan T. McGraw (Author), Micah Watson (Author)A Natural Law Framework for Evangelicals TodayDuring a time when political conversations are marked by deep polarization and difficult decision-making, what resources do evangelicals have to think critically and theologically about public life?For political theorists Bryan T. McGraw, Jesse Covington, and Micah Watson, a crucial resource is to be found in natural law, a rich tradition of Christian political thought oft...

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by Miriam R. Lowi (Author) Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Me and the generals of the Revolutionary Council - Paperback

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by Kyi Win (Malcolm) Sein (Author)Myanmar is once again at a critical crossroad with a general election and important decisions to be made. These memoirs look back to events leading up to 1960 and put on record some of the critical developments and situations of national importance that the author was involved in and witnessed during many years of carrying out the policy directives from the Revolutionary Council Chairman. Number of Pages: 534 Dimensions: 1.08 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date...

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal - Paperback

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by Terence Ball (Author), Richard Dagger (Author), Daniel I. O'Neill (Author)Now in its 12th edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the tradition of clear, concise and comprehensive explanation to the ideas and ideals that shape our political world. The text defines each ideology in terms of the four functions ideologies perform - explanation, evaluation, orientation, and political program.Author BiographyTerence Ball received his Ph.D. from the University of Califor...

The Maga Diaries: Life Among the Fanatics, Extremists, and True Believers That Created the Modern Right - Paperback

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by Tina Nguyen (Author)This explosive "must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our democracy" (Brian Stelter, New York Times bestselling author) chronicles the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine. Her very first job was working for a little-known journalist named Tucker Carlson. She's chugged Mountain Dews with the first Breitbart writers, pour...

The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) - Hardcover

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by Michael McCarthy (Author)Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it. Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today, finance guides and constrains our politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. In this groundbreaking work, McCarthy develops a political and social theory of institution...

Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power - Paperback

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by Dean S. Hartley III (Author), Kenneth O. Jobson (Author)In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains--land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger contest for power; a contest for cognitive superiority. Written by experts in military operations research...

Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal - Paperback

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by Julie Greene (Author), Lisa Adams (Other)When acclaimed labor historian Julie Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored a cache of first-person essays written in 1963 by the Afro-Caribbean people, mainly Jamaican and Barbadian, who migrated to the Isthmus of Panama to work as diggers, track shifters, or domestic servants in the Canal Zone. Held at the Library of Congress and stored in Box 25 of the Isthmian Histo...

We Tried to Tell Y'All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives - Paperback

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by Meredith D. Clark (Author)Author BiographyMeredith D. Clark, (@MeredithDClark; she/her/hers), is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where she also serves as founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change. Clark is a two-time graduate of Florida A&M University, and earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her r...

Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations - Hardcover

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by Abiodun Williams (Author)Kofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations. Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in world affairs. Williams discusses the challenges he faced during his tenure from 1997 to 2006 and how he dealt with them. The volume sheds light on the importance of leadership for the performance of ...

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis - Paperback

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by Peter Marcuse (Author), David Madden (Author)Author BiographyPeter Marcuse is Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has written extensively in English as well as German, in the US, the UK and various other European countries. His work has also appeared in newspaper and magazines such as the Nation, New York Newsday, Monthly Review, Shelterforce and many others. David Madden is Assistant Professor in the ...

The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves - Hardcover

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by Alexandra Hudson (Author)Alexandra Hudson, daughter of the "Manners Lady," was raised to respect others. But as she grew up, Hudson discovered a difference between politeness--a superficial appearance of good manners--and true civility. In this timely book, Hudson sheds light on how civility can help bridge our political divide. From classical philosophers like Epictetus, to great twentieth-century thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr., to her own experience working in the federal governmen...

Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home - Paperback

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by Fida Jiryis (Author)After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present-a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father, Sabri, a PLO l...

Beginning Research in Political Science - Paperback

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by Carolyn Forestiere (Author)Beginning Research in Political Science covers both research design and data analysis and takes a learn-by-doing-approach to guide students through all of the steps needed to complete a research project on one of 14 potential topics concerning differences in public opinion for important contemporary issues, such as views on income or gender inequality or support for the death penalty or abortion. Each chapter builds from the previous chapter with step-by-step ins...