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Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta - Paperback

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by Peter Dale Scott (Author), Freeman Ng (With), Robert Hass (Foreword by)The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott's poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our "second nature."Author BiographyPeter Dale Scott is a poet and author of many books including The American Deep State: Big Mone...

Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds - Paperback

$79.36

by Cengiz Çandar (Author), Eugene Rogan (Foreword by)Providing a unique record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist nature of the Turkish state manifested in Erdoğan's "New Turkey," Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on Turkey and details account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes.Author BiographyCengiz Çandar is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Stockholm University ...

Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Posture in a Divided America - Paperback

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by Stephen D. Perry (Editor), Stephen D. Perry (Contribution by), Pauline A. Andrea (Contribution by)This book examines the take-a-knee protests, incorporating analysis of media coverage, impact on attitudes and behaviors, and racial, religious, gendered, and political perspectives. The analysis allows readers to recognize both positive and negative prejudice and to proscribe possible solutions for political divisiveness. Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Public...

Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space - Paperback

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by Namrata Goswami (Author), Peter A. Garretson (Author)The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.Author BiographyNamrata Goswami is an independent scholar. Peter Garretson is senior fellow in defense studies with the American Foreign Policy Council. Number of Pages: 464 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: Ma...

Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution - Paperback

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by Sarah L. Swedberg (Author)In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could ...

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice: Navigating Independence and Changing Political Environments - Paperback

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by Harold A. Young (Author)This book examines the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, an ancient colonial court, and how the Caribbean community, specifically, the fifteen former British colonies of the Caribbean Basin, are navigating their changing political environments during the transition to its own extraterritorial court, the Caribbean Court of Justice.Author BiographyHarold A. Young is assistant professor at Austin Peay State University. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9 x...

The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma - Paperback

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by Mohammed Girma (Editor), Rt Lord Paul Boateng (Foreword by), Mohammed Girma (Contribution by)Mohammed Girma is international advocacy officer at the International Bible Advocacy Centre, visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology, and research associate at the University of Pretoria.Author BiographyMohammed Girma is international advocacy officer (IBAC), visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology and research associate at the Univers...

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by Ehud Eilam (Author)This book examines the transition in Israel's military doctrine and analyzes Israel's conflict with hybrid forces since 2006 compared with the high intensity wars in 1948-1982.Author BiographyEhud Eilam is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from Bar-Ilan University and a former private contractor for the Israeli Ministry of Defense where he conducted research in different branches of the IDF. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN Publication Date:...

A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan - Paperback

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by Jack Patrick Hayes (Author)A Change in Worlds explores the environmental, economic, and political history of the Sino-Tibetan Songpan region of northern Sichuan from the late imperial Qing Dynasty to the early 21st century. A historically Tibetan region on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, with significant Han and Muslim Chinese populations, Songpan played important roles in the development of western and modern China's ethnic relations policies, forestry sector, grasslands and envi...

Saints in the Struggle: Church of God in Christ Activists in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 - Paperback

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by Jonathan Chism (Author)This book uncovers and examines the contributions made by black Pentecostals in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) to civil rights struggles in Memphis during the 1950s and 1960s. This book provides detailed description of prominent Memphis COGIC activists' engagements with local civil rights organizations.Author BiographyJonathan Chism is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illust...

The Santillana Codes: The Civil Codes of Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania - Hardcover

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by Dan E. Stigall (Author)This book provides a comparative legal analysis of the civil codes in force in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. The book also imparts insight into the work and life of the principal author of the Tunisian code-- a Jewish man of Tunisian origin named David Santillana.Author BiographyDan E. Stigall is an attorney with the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date:...

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by Sara MacDonald (Editor), Andrew Moore (Editor), T. D. Anderson (Contribution by)For seven seasons, AMC's Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America's tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising's "bad boys," the series investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring whether or not the American Dre...

Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns: Candidates' Use of New Media - Paperback

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by Janet Johnson (Author)This book explores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. Janet Johnson discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. Author BiographyJanet Johnson is lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas. Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 19, 2022

James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction - Paperback

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by Richard E. Wagner (Author)This book examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan's body of work, exploring the impact of his contributions on scholars today. Buchanan's prolific scholarship made strong contact with law, ethics, and political science, and offers insights for economists and scholars across the humanities.Author BiographyRichard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9...

Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All - Paperback

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by Holly Korbey (Author)The "new" civics has been updated and re-tooled for the phone-addicted, multi-cultural, globalized twenty-first century kid. From combatting "fake news" with fact checking in Silicon Valley, to reviving social studies and civic activism, journalist Holly Korbey documents the grassroots revival happening across the country.Author BiographyHolly Korbey is an education and parenting journalist who writes about teaching and learning for a national audience. Her work has ap...

Shattered Illusions: KGB Cold War Espionage in Canada - Hardcover

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by Donald G. Mahar (Author), Ward Elcock (Foreword by)This failed soviet KGB operation in Canada tells the story of two double agents, one Soviet and one Canadian. The Soviet was betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, captured by the KGB, imprisoned, and counted as dead until he reappeared 36 years later in a British embassy and traded back to Canada.Author BiographyDonald G. Mahar served 41 years in the RCMP Security Service, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and Communic...

War, Armed Force, and the People: State Formation and Transformation in Historical Perspective - Paperback

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by Walter C. Jr. Opello (Author)The interplay between warfare, military technology, and state formation is the focus of this text. Theoretically grounded in the bellicist approach to the study of war and state, which posits that war is a normal part of human experience, the book argues that the threat of war by predatory neighbors has been the prime mover of state formation.Author BiographyWalter C. Opello, Jr. is professor of Political Science, Emeritus, State University of New York, Oswego....

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis - Paperback

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by James G. Blight (Author), Janet M. Lang (Author)The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis recreates the drama of the Cuban Missile Crisis as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved. They poignantly document the rapidly shifting physical and psychological realities each leader faced, allowing the reader to experience the crisis as never before.Author BiographyJames G. Blight is the Center for International Governance Innovati...

The Navajo Political Experience - Paperback

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by David E. Wilkins (Author)Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with as much accessibility as thoroughness and detail.Author BiographyDavid...

A Passion for Justice: Emotions and the Origins of the Social Contract - Paperback

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by Robert Solomon (Author)Written with eloquence and passionate intelligence . . . [Robert Solomon's] provocative book offers a tool for looking at our actions, our institutions, and the hideously unjust world we inhabit.Author BiographyRobert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of numerous books on philosophy and business. Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 12, 1995

The Courts and Social Policy - Paperback

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by Donald L. Horowitz (Author)Winner of the Louis Brownlow Award for Public AdministrationIn recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. The courts have reached into many matters once thought to be beyond the customary scope of judicial decisionmaking: education and employment policy, environmental issues, prison and hospital management, and welfare administration--to name a few. This new judicial activity can be traced to various sources...

Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920 - Paperback

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by Linda G. Ford (Author)This book is an in-depth analysis of how the National Woman's Party's militancy evolved during the period of early twentieth century feminism and American suffrage as a response to the intransigence of male-centered government.Author BiographyLinda G. Ford is Assistant Professor of History at Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire. Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 1991

Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases: Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Andrew Yeo (Author), Isaac Kardon (Author)What challenges and risks do Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States' military strategy? How do the military postures of great powers interact and with what consequences for regional and global security? This book examines the emerging dynamics of geostrategic competition for overseas military bases and base access. The comparative framework adopted in this volume examines how the geopolitical interests of the United States, China, and ...

Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases: Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

$137.70

Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal - Paperback

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by David Brian Robertson (Author)Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions.Author BiographyDavid Brian Robertson is as...

Social Policies for Children - Paperback

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by Irwin Garfinkel (Editor), Jennifer L. Hochschild (Editor), Sara S. McLanahan (Editor)" Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future. Yet the status of children in America suggests that the nation's policies may not be serving them well. Infant and child mortality rates in the U.S. remain high compared to other western industrialized nations; child poverty rates have worsened in the past decade; poor health care, child abuse, and inadequate schooling and child ca...

Worse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide - Paperback

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by Mamtimin Ala (Author)This book explains how Uyghur rights have been diminishing under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has recently escalated into the cultural genocide of Uyghurs. Author BiographyMamtimin Ala was born in Atush, East Turkistan (aka XUAR, China), and holds a PhD in Philosophy, graduating with Magna Cum Laude, from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. As the former President of the Australian Uyghur Association based in Sydney, he advoca...

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by C. M. Vasey (Author)What was the Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazi's)? What did they believe? Where did these beliefs originate? What led them to commit such atrocities and war crimes? This work explores the philosophical and historical origins of Nazi ideology in concepts such as Social Darwinism, biological nationalism, Aryanism, and most notoriously, anti-Semitism.Author BiographyC.M. Vasey is a graduate of Leicester University and has written widely on modern history, including World W...

Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995 - Paperback

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by Robert Debs Heinl (Author), Nancy Gordon Heinl (Author)This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, includes new research and an updated version of the 1996 edition's orthography of Creole. Written in Blood remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language.Author BiographyRobert Debs Heinl, deceased, and Nancy Gordon Heinl, both writers and historians, lived in Haiti from 1959 to 1963. Robert Heinl ...

In Her Mother's House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing - Paperback

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by Wendy Ho (Author)Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her China-born grandmother and her U.S.-born mother and her own readings of other Asian American women writers. She finds in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenn...

From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy - Paperback

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by Robert C. Solomon (Editor), Kathleen M. Higgins (Editor), Roger T. Ames (Contribution by)In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, sixteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The essays unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the fir...

Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril? - Paperback

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by Alan Pearson (Editor), Marie Chevrier (Editor), Mark Wheelis (Editor)Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons comprehensively examines the scientific, military, legal, political, and social issues raised by the pursuit of such weapons, issues that urgently require the attention of scientists, military and civilian practitioners and policy makers, and broader civil society.Author BiographyAlan Pearson is director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Control Program at the Center for Arms Contro...