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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean - Paperback

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by Luisa Marcela Ossa (Editor), Debbie Lee-DiStefano (Editor), Dania Abreu-Torres (Contribution by)This volume explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing specifically on how they negotiated shared social spaces and experiences to develop what in many cases would become a fusion of cultures.Author BiographyLuisa Marcela Ossa is associate professor of Spanish and area chair of the undergraduate Spanish program at La Salle Un...

Cultural Imperialism and the Decline of the Liberal Order: Russian and Western Soft Power in Eastern Europe - Paperback

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by G. Doug Davis (Author), Michael O. Slobodchikoff (Author)This book demonstrates that both Western and Russian soft power are corrupting the traditions of Eastern Europe. To combat perceived Russian aggression, Eastern Europe must embrace Western institutions and philosophy, thus destroying its own traditional culture.Author BiographyG. Doug Davis is associate professor of political science at Troy University. Michael O. Slobodchikoff is associate professor of political science at Troy Univ...

Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed - Paperback

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by Jack Rasmus (Author)In 1913the United States was one of the last major economies to establish a central bank. This book examines the history and evolution of central banking in the United States from the perspective of central banking functions such as aggregator of private lending to the federal government and the fiscal agent for the government.Author BiographyJack Rasmus is professor of economics at St. Mary's College. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Pu...

Cyprus under British Colonial Rule: Culture, Politics, and the Movement toward Union with Greece, 1878-1954 - Paperback

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by Christos P. Ioannides (Author)This study examines British rule in Cyprus from 1878 to 1954. The author analyzes the cultural and religious dimensions of Cypriot responses to British rule and the ways in which Greek Orthodox culture was a primary conduit for resistance to the colonial system.Author BiographyChristos P. Ioannides is associate professor and director of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN Publica...

Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising - Paperback

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by Joshua D. Atkinson (Editor), Linda Kenix (Editor), Linus Andersson (Contribution by)This volume examines the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The book focuses on three primary sites where such media have established growing influence in recent years: political parties, mainstream political news, and participatory media that allow for engagement.Author BiographyJoshua D. Atkinson is associate professor in the School of Media & C...

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific - Paperback

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by Michael Clarke (Editor), Matthew Sussex (Editor), Nick Bisley (Editor)The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates to what extent the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents an achievable vision of a China-centric order in Asia, exploring its major security implications for the region.Author BiographyMichael Clarke is associate professor at the National Security College at Australian National University. Matthew Sussex is associate profes...

The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World - Paperback

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by Naoko Koda (Author)The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan-US relations.Author BiographyNaoko Koda is associate professor at Kindai University. Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 11, 2022

Kurds in Turkey: Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences - Paperback

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by Lucie Drechselová (Editor), Adnan Çelik (Editor), Ayhan Işik (Contribution by)This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies. The contributions are assembled around four themes: women's participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance.Author BiographyLucie Drechselová is postdoctoral fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences Adnan Çelik is postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po Lille Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9...

Heidegger's Nietzsche: European Modernity and the Philosophy of the Future - Paperback

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by José Daniel Parra (Author)This text explores Martin Heidegger's thinking in response to Nietzsche's philosophy: beginning with the problem of European nihilism, moving toward a period of transition situated in-between classical and post-Cartesian ontology. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2023

Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives - Paperback

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by Hille Haker (Editor), Molly Greening (Editor), Philip M. Anderson (Contribution by)International scholars from different disciplines examine the experiences of unaccompanied migrant children before, throughout, and after their journeys and analyze US and European policy changes in national and international law. Several theologians explore new approaches to a Catholic social ethics of child migration.Author BiographyHille Haker is the Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral ...

Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature - Paperback

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by Anthony M. Wachs (Author), Jon D. Schaff (Author)Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century sought to free individuals from the constraints of authoritative cultural traditions and institutions, liberating the autonomous self. Yet this has given ri...

The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives - Paperback

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by Anthony Gierzynski (Author)This book provides theory and empirical research on entertainment media's effects on political perspectives. Included are experimental and survey research on the impact of shows such as Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and The Colbert Report, the genre of science fiction, and villain and leader character types.Author BiographyAnthony Gierzynski is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Vermont. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions...

Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences - Paperback

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by Rafiki Ubaldo (Editor), Helen Hintjens (Editor), Rafiki Ubaldo (Contribution by)This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whether the creative arts can promote healing and reconciliation, within communities, in pedagogy and in national - and international - popular culture.Author BiographyRafiki Ubaldo is a Rwandan-Swedish writer, scholar and photojournalist. Helen Hintjens is assistant pr...

Pandemics and Polarization: Implications of Partisan Budgeting for Responding to Public Health Emergencies - Paperback

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by Nathan Myers (Author)This book uses political science, public administration, and public health to examine infectious disease threats and political dysfunction putting Americans at risk. Failure to govern at the federal level affects essential public health activities at the state and local level, which the book states recommendations to address.Author BiographyNathan Myers is associate professor of political science and public administration at Indiana State University. Number of Pages: 2...

The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia - Paperback

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by David A. Schultz (Editor), Howard Schweber (Editor), Howard Schweber (Contribution by)This collection is a comprehensive and thorough assessment of the impact and legacy that Justice Antonin Scalia had on the Supreme Court. Chapters are written by leading legal and political science scholars of the Supreme Court and examine the lasting legacy of one of the most controversial Supreme Court Justices in American history.Author BiographyDavid A. Schultz is professor of political science at Ham...

The Democratic Arts of Mourning: Political Theory and Loss - Paperback

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by Alexander Keller Hirsch (Editor), David W. McIvor (Editor), Charles Fred Alford (Contribution by)This book reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. Through the narrative of the contributors, the book demonstrates how mourning is intertwined with politics and how politics involves a struggle over which losses and whose lives can, or should, be mourned. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 06, 2023

Good Trouble: How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better - Paperback

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by Brian Wolf (Author)This book argues that some of the most important deviants have been at the forefront of positive social change and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society.Author BiographyBrian Wolf is associate professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Idaho. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2021

The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State: Governance and Security Challenges in Africa - Paperback

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by W. Alade Fawole (Author)This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa's colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises, security challenges, and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science, political economy, sociology, African history, and African studies in general.Author BiographyW. Alade Fawole is professor in the Department of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University. Number of Pages: 254 Dime...

Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media - Paperback

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by Francine Banner (Author)Crowdsourcing the Law engages in-depth qualitative analysis of online discussions of contemporary sexual assault cases to explore how law is interpreted and applied by everyday participants on social media.Author BiographyFrancine Banner is attorney and associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 06, 2021

Vindicating the Commercial Republic: The Federalist on Union, Enterprise, and War - Paperback

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by Anthony A. Peacock (Author)Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist, this book contends thatthe most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutions of government so much as with the non-institutional features of American constitutionalism, specifically its advocacy for greater union, the development of an unparalleled culture of enterprise, and provision for war. Key to understanding why these features were so critical to The Federalist is the work...

Tenure at a Crossroads, Again?: An Examination of the Devolution of Higher Education in the Age of Corporatization - Hardcover

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by G. L. a. Harris (Editor), Dwight Vick (Editor), Arleen T. Dodd-Nufrio (Contribution by)Tenure at a Crossroads, Again? goes beyond the explication of tenure to explore the contemporary challenges facing academia at the K-12 and higher education levels. This edited volume is unique in the sense that it grapples issues from multiple viewpoints-that of the university/college administrator and professor, to the K-12 educator. The book examines increased expectations and how existing policies ha...

Politics, Hollywood Style: American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma - Hardcover

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by John Heyrman (Author)This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films' major themes about politics, ideology, and representation of race and gender over the past several decades.Author BiographyJohn Heyrman is professor of political science at Berea College. Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 20, 2017

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by David Lowenthal (Author)Shakespeare's Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeare's most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demonstrates his political thought and his poetic genius.Author BiographyDavid Lowenthal is D'Alzon Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: March 23, 2018

Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break - Paperback

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by Ostap Kushnir (Author)This book explains Ukraine's and Russia's post-Cold War developments by applying the framework of political symbolism and collective memory. The key historical experience of both nations is analyzed to construct a workable model of their domestic and external activities.Author BiographyOstap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland. Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 05, 2021

Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children: When Work is Not Enough - Hardcover

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by Andrea L. Ziegert (Author), Dennis H. Sullivan (Author)This work assesses the possibilities and limitations of reducing poverty among families with children by increasing the work effort of the adults in those families. Following a historical review of family poverty since 1995, the authors present several policy simulations, including increased employment, a higher minimum wage, more generous tax credits, a child allowance, and reduced childcare or medical expenses. Specific policy propos...

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy - Paperback

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by Christopher K. Andrews (Author)This book uses empirical data to qualify contemporary social concerns regarding automation and jobs, while raising questions about the increasing creep of unpaid work into Americans' leisure time.Author BiographyChristopher K. Andrews is assistant professor of sociology at Drew University. Number of Pages: 206 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 05, 2020

The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars - Paperback

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by Joel R. Campbell (Author), Gigi Gokcek (Author)This book examines politics in terms of space fiction, international relations and theory, using the Star Wars and Star Trek television and movie franchises to illustrate these dimensions.Author BiographyJoel R. Campbell is associate professor of political science at Troy University. Gigi Gokcek is associate professor of political science at Dominican University of California. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes P...

Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc - Paperback

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by Juliane Fürst (Editor), Josie McLellan (Editor), Maria Alina Asavei (Contribution by)This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines alternative subcultures in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the era of late socialism. The contributors analyze how these marginal communities rejected mainstream socialist culture, sought ideological and physical space from the state, and contributed to the demise of the USSR.Author BiographyJuliane Fürst is senior lecturer in twentieth-centur...

Flannery O'Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness - Paperback

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by Jerome C. Foss (Author)Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why O'Connor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.Author BiographyJerome C. Foss is associate professor of politics at Saint Vincent College. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9 ...

The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape - Paperback

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by Jenifer Parks (Author)This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims.Author BiographyJenifer Parks is associate professor of history at Rocky Mountain College. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated...

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization - Paperback

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by Casey Ryan Kelly (Author)Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines how food television represents cultural difference in an age of globalization and multiculturalism. Casey Ryan Kelly analyzes popular food television programs to illustrate how representations of food normalize global economic, political, and cultural inequalities.Author BiographyCasey Ryan Kelly is associate professor of critical communication and media studies at Butler University. Number of Pages...

Party and Nation: Immigration and Regime Politics in American History - Paperback

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by Scot J. Zentner (Author), Michael C. Lemay (Author)Party and Nation examines party competition in American history through the lens of debates over immigration, an issue central to national identity. The authors argue that today's divide between nationalism and multiculturalism represents a dramatic change in the very nature of the party regime in the United States.Author BiographyScot J. Zentner is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. Michael C. L...