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You and the State: A Fairly Brief Introduction to Political Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Jan Narveson (Author)This unusual introduction to political philosophy draws on its history and main theories_classic liberal, democratic, socialist, radical_with an eye to how each sees the place of the individual in the political order.Author BiographyJan Narveson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. He has written and lectured widely on moral and political subjects. Narveson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was ...

The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 - Paperback

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by Gary A. Donaldson (Author)In this engaging book, Gary A. Donaldson tells the story of Kennedy versus Nixon with a sharp eye for the salient political developments and a keen sense of the drama of an election that was unlike any other the nation had experienced. The election of 1960 was an orchestrated political drama, organized as a sweeping campaign from coast to coast and staged for a national television audience. This made it the first modern campaign in which the television media chang...

The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara - Paperback

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by James G. Blight (Author), Janet M. Lang (Author)The Fog of War provides the background behind the Academy Award-winning documentary by Errol Morris. In this intriguing work, editors James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, who served as academic advisors on the film, bring together film transcripts, documents, dialogues, and essays to explore the issues raised by Robert McNamara's life and work.Author BiographyJames G. Blight and Janet M. Lang served as academic advisors for Errol Morris's film....

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist - Paperback

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by Roger Z. George (Editor), Robert D. Kline (Editor), Matthew M. Aid (Contribution by)Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for inf...

Servants of Wealth: The Right's Assault on Economic Justice - Paperback

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by John Ehrenberg (Author)In this bold new book, political scientist John Ehrenberg critically analyzes the rise of an ideologically coherent Right. He dissects their themes of military weakness, moral decay, racial anxiety, and hostility to social welfare to reveal their central organizing objective of protecting wealth and assaulting equality.Author BiographyJohn Ehrenberg is professor of political science at Long Island University. He is the author of Civil Society: The Critical History of...

Charting a New Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation - Paperback

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by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Author), Mauricio A. Font (Editor)For decades F. H. Cardoso has been among the most influential of Latin American scholars, his writings on globalization, dependency, and politics having reached a world-wide audience. This book, the third by Cardoso to appear in English, is the first to incorporate essays written during his tenure as president of Brazil. The transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach is nowhere better documented than in this broa...

The Regulators: Anonymous Power Brokers in American Politics - Paperback

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by Cindy Skrzycki (Author)The Regulators is a fresh look at how the regulatory system works in Washington and how it affects the life of every American.Author BiographyCindy Skrzycki is a business columnist for The Washington Post, specializing in the nexus between government, business, and regulation. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.98 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: February 25, 2003

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom - Paperback

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by Andrew E. Busch (Author)In Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom, Andrew E. Busch goes beyond economic and foreign policies to examine Reagan's understanding of statesmanship. Busch analyzes Reagan's conscious attempt to strengthen the separation of powers, federalism, and traditional rhetoric, and his efforts to revive the notion of limited government in a Constitutional Republic. In this important new study, Busch concludes that Ronald Reagan's politics of freedom-found in his discou...

CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth - Hardcover

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by Jerry Lembcke (Author)Jerry Lembcke delves into the origins of CNN's 1998 story about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam using nerve gas on defectors and how it came to be believed, not only by those who told it, but by news reporters and the public. In his investigation, Lembcke shows that the myth of Operation Tailwind originated in the fiction of popular culture, the unreliability of memory, and the conspiracy-minded, ultra-Right wing, fundamentalist Christian community.Author BiographyJerry Lemb...

Making China Policy: Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations - Paperback

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by Ramon H. Myers (Editor), Michel C. Oksenberg (Editor), David Shambaugh (Editor)This thoughtful volume is the first to evaluate comprehensively the formation and execution of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan during the crucial twelve years of the Bush and Clinton administrations. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources, a group of leading international experts explores the increasingly complex environment facing policymakers in the wake of the tragic events of Tiananmen, particularl...

The Antifederalists: Men of Great Faith and Forbearance - Paperback

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by David Siemers (Author)The Antifederalists: Men of Great Faith and Forbearance couples a wide variety of Antifederalist documents with insightful commentary to provide the first truly representative and up-to-date work on this important political group. David J. Siemers's carefully selected works and clear explanations bring out the variety among Antifederalists and the chronological development of the ratification fight.Author BiographyDavid Siemers is professor of political science at the...

The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality: A Response to John Rawls - Paperback

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by David Peddle (Author)The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality provides a compelling contribution to the discussion of the separation of church and state. Showing how the principles of freedom and equality on which separation is based have a religious origin, this book provides a vivid alternative to the construction of public reason in John Rawls's Political Liberalism.Author BiographyDavid Peddle is associate vice president academic of Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of...

Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal - Paperback

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by Lucas Richert (Author)Using a balanced methodological approach, Conservatism, Consumer Choice, and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era explores American pharmaceutical regulation and connects political, cultural, and business history to capture the relationship between Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators, pharmaceutical companies, and interest groups. Rooted in both qualitative and quantitative sources, Richert's book goes inside the FDA to reveal an intriguing...

The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives - Paperback

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by Per L. Bylund (Author)This book shows the effects and implications of regulation on how the market functions, with an emphasis on how regulation affects economic actors in other parts of the economy. It focuses on how re-allocation of resources due to real change versus artificial change caused by regulation affects the choice situation of individual actors.Author BiographyPer L. Bylund is assistant professor of entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the Scho...

Approaching the U.S. Constitution: Sacred Covenant or Plaything for Lawyers and Judges - Paperback

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by Kerry L. Hunter (Author)This book argues that, given the political power the Supreme Court enjoys today, the answer to preserving the separation of powers, democracy, and the American commitment to unalienable human rights is to encourage the Court to intentionally serve as the nation's collective conscience, just as it did in Brown v. Board of Education.Author BiographyKerry L. Hunter is full professor in the Department of Political Economy at the College of Idaho. Number of Pages: 174 Di...

Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on The Spirit of Laws - Paperback

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by David W. Carrithers (Editor), Michael a. Mosher (Editor), Paul a. Rahe (Editor)In what constitutes the only English-language collection of essays ever dedicated to the analysis of Montesquieu's contributions to political science, the contributors review some of the most vexing controversies that have arisen in the interpretation of Montesquieu's thought. By paying careful attention to the historical, political, and philosophical contexts of Montesquieu's ideas, the contributors provide fre...

Politics and the Twitter Revolution: How Tweets Influence the Relationship between Political Leaders and the Public - Paperback

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by John H. Parmelee (Author), Shannon L. Bichard (Author)Politics and the Twitter Revolution: How Tweets Influence the Relationship between Political Leaders and the Public, by John H. Parmelee and Shannon L. Bichard, is the first comprehensive examination of political Twitter use. Multiple methods and theories reveal why political leaders are followed, the persuasive power of political tweets, Twitter's effects on political polarization, and the significance of Twitter as a political innovat...

Italian Critics of Capitalism - Paperback

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by Lorella Cedroni (Editor), Norberto Bobbio (Contribution by), Luigi Einaudi (Contribution by)The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of theories of democracy and capitalism in twentieth century Italy starting from Vilfredo Pareto. The book is the first (and the unique) collection of Italian classics on capitalism, it is an important contribution for an organic and general overview of the Italian contemporary political thought.Author BiographyLorella Cedroni is an as...

Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling - Paperback

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by David J. Gauthier (Author)This book explores the ethical and political implications of the debate between Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas on the question of Place. It relates their debate to larger disagreements concerning ontology and ethics, the status of humanism, and the relationship between worldliness and transcendence. Ultimately, in an epoch characterized by tribalism and globalization, the Heidegger-Levinas debate illuminates the need for a contemporary politics of place tha...

Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together - Paperback

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by Staughton Lynd (Author), Alice Lynd (Author)Young people are rediscovering a vision that 'another world is possible' and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean to devote a lifetime to these ideals.Author BiographyStaughton Lynd and Alice Lynd have edited Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History; Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians; Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers; ...

China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History - Paperback

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by Dong Wang (Author)China's Unequal Treaties offers a study, based on primary sources, of the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression 'Unequal Treaties' to refer to the treaties written between 1842 and 1943. Although the expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and English historiographies, China's Unequal Treaties is the first study of the phrase and its interpretations.Author BiographyDong Wang is distinguished professor of history a...

Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention - Paperback

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by Raju G. C. Thomas (Editor), Gordon H. Bardos (Contribution by), Milica Z. Bookman (Contribution by)Editor Raju G. C. Thomas and contributors examine underlying issues regarding the sources of religious nationalism and ethnic conflict, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states, and the principle of self-determination and the right of secession from an existing state.Author BiographyRaju G. C. Thomas is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University. ...

The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881-1908 - Hardcover

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by Wendy McElroy (Author)In her pioneering work, The Debates of Liberty, Wendy McElroy provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most remarkable and influential political phenomena in America: the anarchist periodical Liberty and the circle of radicals who surrounded it. Liberty, which is widely considered to be the premier individualist-anarchist periodical ever issued in the English language, published such items as George Bernard Shaw's first original article to appear in the Unit...

Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Aurel Kolnai (Author), Daniel J. Mahoney (Editor), Pierre Manent (Foreword by)We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense ...

The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra - Paperback

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by Roger Boesche (Author)The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya. Kautilya's treatise Arthashastra stands as one of the great political books of the ancient world, its ideas on the science of politics strikingly similar to those of Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Clausewitz, and even Sun Tsu. Roger Boesche's excellent commentary on Kautilya's voluminous text draws out the essential realist ar...

Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare - Paperback

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by John A. Murley (Editor), Sean D. Sutton (Editor), John E. Alvis (Contribution by)Political science is becoming ever more reliant on abstract statistical models and almost divorced from human judgment, hope, and idealism. William Shakespeare offers the political scientist an antidote to this methodological alienation, this self-imposed exile from the political concerns of citizens and politicians. The contributors to this volume, esteemed scholars of political science, show us that Shakespe...

The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Paperback

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by Laurence Davis (Editor), Peter Stillman (Editor), Tony Burns (Contribution by)The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of ...

Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism - Paperback

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by Roger Boesche (Author)One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on various specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought.Author BiographyRoger Boesche is professor of politics and Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Societ...

Race, Religion, and Politics: Toward Human Rights in the United States - Paperback

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by Stephanie Y. Mitchem (Author)This book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power and privilege. Drawing on both historic and recent examples, Stephanie Mitchem introduces readers to the ways race has been constructed in the United States, discusses how race and religion influence each other, and assesses how they shape political influence. Mitchem concludes with a chapter looking toward possibilities for in...

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Report copyright infringementby Antonella Vannini (Author), Ulisse Di Corpo (Author)Supercausality implies a change of paradigm, according to which life is finalized and guided by attractors, and wellbeing is reached converging towards these attractors.Supercausality merges qualitative with quantitative, objective with subjective, visible with invisible, opening the way to a new era in which science and spirituality merge in a new vision of reality.The applications and implications of superca...

A political and general history of the District of Tinnevelly, in the Presidency of Madras, from the earliest period to its cession to the English Gov - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Caldwell (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2019 ...

Fallen Heroes: African Leaders Whose Assassinations Disarrayed the Continent and Benefitted Foreign Interests - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Janvier Tchouteu (Author), Janvier T. Chando (Author)No continent has experienced half the political assassinations, coup d'états, internal and external wars, civil unrest, and economic upheaval s since the second half of the twentieth century that Africa suffered. Yet, hardly any serious pundit would say that the hands of foreign forces that are out to secure their "so-called interests" in the continent or that want to gain new ones, were not in most of these ...