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by James Baldwin (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s - and still lights the way to understanding race in America today "So eloquent in its passion and so scorching in its candor that it is bound to unsettle any reader." - The Atlantic "Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to...

Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the Us Congress - Paperback

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by Melinda N. Ritchie (Author)Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportunities to advance their policy priorities. In fact, less than five percent of the bills that are introduced in Congress become law. Even the most tenacious legislators are confronted by bicameralism, partisan gridlock, chamber procedures, leadership's control of the agenda, and the diverse interests of 534 other memb...

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China - Paperback

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by Martin K. Dimitrov (Author)Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived. Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate th...

The Idea of Suicide: Contagion, Imitation, and Cultural Diffusion - Paperback

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by Michael J. Kral (Author)This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Author BiographyMichael J. Kral is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University, USA. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: December 18, 2020

Social Ontology of Whoness: Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Michael Eldred (Author)How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos...

Deliberative Democracy in Asia - Paperback

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by Baogang He (Editor), Michael Breen (Editor), James Fishkin (Editor)Featuring cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public deliberation in Asia. Many countries in Asia have long traditions of public deliberation, in both democratic and undemocratic settings, some of which continue today. Yet in the face of pressures from complex governance, popular protests and democratization, certain ...

Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality - Paperback

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by Ann Laura Stoler (Author)In this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes those frontiers, or the lines that define the contours of belonging and not belonging, are porous--often fixed and firm. For those on the "wrong side" of the fabulated division between inside and out, entry requirement...

Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation - Paperback

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by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Editor), Aim?e Craft (Editor), Aikau (Editor)What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.The essays in this collecti...

Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge After the October Revolution - Hardcover

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by Maria Chehonadskih (Author)Back JacketIn this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environme...

Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France - Paperback

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by Davide Panagia (Author)Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of "French theory." Panagia's book first shows what was missed in the reception of this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France's pedagogical milieu plays out ch...

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by Thomas Otte (Author)Leuthen (1757) is one of the best-known battles of the Seven Years' War, the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. It was a victory against the odds, over a vastly superior Austrian enemy who held the initiative in the war. Leuthen confirmed the reputation of Frederick II ('the Great') of Prussia as one of history's greatest military commanders. His victory rested on supe...

The Hampton Roads Conference: The Southern View - Hardcover

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by Lochlainn Seabrook (Author)The most famous and important meeting of the War for the Constitution (the American "Civil War") took place in Virginia aboard the U.S. steamer River Queen on February 3, 1865. And yet it receives barely a mention in our mainstream history books, except to say that "it was a futile effort that achieved nothing."Known as the Hampton Roads Conference (named after its location at the famous ship anchorage in southeastern Virginia), in attendance on one side of the t...

Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office - Hardcover

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by Ray Locker (Author)When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aides--the chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and the domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman--just three days earlier. Haldeman and Ehrlichman had enforced the president's will and protected him from ...

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World - Paperback

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by Linda Colley (Author)A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world.She bri...

The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 - Hardcover

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by Leonard N. Moore (Author)For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists and separatists. While some form of this rift existed within black politics long before the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his death--and the power vacuum it created--heightened tensio...

Why Trump? Why Some People Support Him- How the Rest of Us Can Respond: Why Some People Support Him- How the Rest of Us Can Respond - Paperback

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by Douglas Giles (Author)Why do some people support Trump? Why has the subject of Trump become the dominant subject of US politics? Why Trump? considers those questions and connected questions by exploring American history to show that the MAGA movement really isn't about Trump. Trump is a symptom far more than he is a cause. Realizing that simple reality opens the door to a deeper understanding of the particular strain of US political culture behind the movement that currently takes Trump as...

Fundamentals of Market Access for Pharmaceuticals - Hardcover

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by Eric Bouteiller (Author), Annie Chicoye (Author)This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems around the world, providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students, executives from companies, public decision-makers and payers interested in the field.Author BiographyEric Bouteiller is Adjunct Professor at China Europe International Business Sch...

Capital, Race and Space, Volume II: The Far Right from 'Post-Fascism' to Trumpism - Paperback

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by Richard Saull (Author)In this second volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the Western far-right from the end of World War II to its contemporary manifestations in Trumpism and Brexit. Focusing on its international causal dimensions, Saull draws on the theory of uneven and combined development to provide a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and mutations of the 'post-fascist' far-right. Despite the transformed geopo...

The Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1 - Paperback

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by György Lukács (Author), Erik M. Bachman (Editor), Erik M. Bachman (Translator)The second volume in the Luk?cs library, collecting and translating for the first time previously unavailable pieces of the Hungarian philosopher's works. How is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? The Specificity of the Aesthetic extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Luk?cs's theory of art was oragnized. This late work of...

Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership - Hardcover

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by Keith Oringer (Author), Michael Hymanson (Author)Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership presents the unique stories of fifteen industry legends, who transformed the industry from early private detective and small night watch companies, into large-scale contract security companies.Author BiographyKeith Oringer has a distinguished career in the security industry and currently serves as president of Security ProAdvisors, which he founded in 2015. The company is a le...

Contours of Israeli Politics: Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy - Hardcover

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by Hannah M. Ridge (Author)There is no single Jewish ethnicity, and no single Jewish ethnic group constitutes a clear majority of Jewish Israelis. These intra-Jewish differences permit a social hierarchy within the "in-group" - Jewish Israelis - that privileges the Ashkenazi Jews of European descent over Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews of Middle Eastern backgrounds. The timely Contours of Israeli Politics focuses on the socio-political ramifications of this hierarchy within the upper stratum of Israel...

The Semi-Future Democracy: A Liberal Theory of the Long-Term View - Hardcover

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by Andre Santos Campos (Author)Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can harm the future. This book proposes a novel theory of social time perception to address the short-term thinking of traditional institutions which threaten to stifle liberal democracies. The semi-future reconfigures liberal democracies' franchises, representative instruments, deliberative practices, accountability mechani...

For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts - Hardcover

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by Mario Blaser (Author)In For Emplacement, Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for contending with the momentous challenges facing the world, from anthropogenic climate change to rampant socioeconomic inequalities to the rise of neofascism. Blaser shows that the prevalent solutions to these problems--which often depend on intensifying globalization, technological development, and extractivism--only deepen these crises. Effectively addressing these issues, he suggests, might require grounding ou...

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by Scott Williamson (Author)Why are some autocrats more effective than others at retaining popular support even when their governments perform poorly? To develop insights into popular politics and governance across authoritarian regimes, this book stresses the importance of understanding autocratic blame games. Scott Williamson argues that how autocrats share power affects their ability to shift blame, so that they are less vulnerable to the public's grievances when they delegate decision-mak...

Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas - Hardcover

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by Ayşe ?ağlar (Editor), Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury (Editor), Ranabir Samaddar (Editor)Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of statelessness Sites of Statelessness examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness in contemporary times, something that defies any kind of a citizen/stateless binary. These policies are significant, the background of a shift in emphasis from ...

Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases: Learning from Successes and Failures - Hardcover

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by Bj?rn Elias Mikalsen Gr?nning (Editor), Stig Stenslie (Editor)Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases presents lessons learned and recommendations for producers and users of intelligence warning in their joint venture to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, and prevent future threats to national security. It presents and synthesizes the findings of 16 contemporary intelligence warning case studies undertaken by leading intelligence scholars and former intelligence practitioners. It is the fi...

History of Cuba: Cuba Libre! Cuban History from Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro - Paperback

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by Carlos Fernando Alvarez (Author)Learn Everything You Need to Know About the History of Cuba!Have you always been interested in Cuba, its people, its history and fascinated with Cuban beliefs? Then this book is essential!Cuba has a certain charm that may not be experienced anywhere else in the world. The culture of Cuba is vibrant and varied, and its music - rumba, timba, and salsa, among other music styles - has become globally renowned. As a former Spanish colony, it shares numerous cultu...

Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family - Paperback

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by Stephen Baskerville (Author)Taken into Custody' exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. No parent, no child, no family in America is safe. The legal industry does not want you to hear this story. Radical feminists, bar asso...

Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Approach - Hardcover

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by M. Jae Moon (Editor), Dong-Young Kim (Editor)This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the early phase, by surveying a sample of countries that are geographically, politically, and culturally diverse, particularly those representing the East and the West.Exploring nine countries, namely four Western countries (Finland, Germany, United States, and Sweden) and five Asia-Pacific countries (Ja...

Fake You - An Activist's Guide to Defeating Disinformation: Don't blame the people, don't blame the Internet. Blame the power - Governments, political - Paperback

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by Simona Levi (Author)This is THE activist's guide to defeating fake news and blocking policies that use disinformation to curtail civil rights and freedoms.Power has lied to us since the beginning of time. The methods and technologies used have differed, but lying is in power's DNA. In the institutional agenda, disinformation is used to say that the problem is with us (as usual) but, in fact, it's with them. We have had enough. This book shows how and why power has always created disinforma...

Care in Social Work with Children and Families: Theory, Everyday Practices and Possibilities for Social Change - Paperback

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by Maria Appel Nissen (Author), Mie Engen (Author), Andreas M?ller J?rgensen (Author)This book analyses the types of and possibilities for care in social work with families in situations where evidence-based programmes, standardised forms of risk-assessment and intervention, performance management and incentives to increase cost-effectiveness take precedence. Offering a new framework for understanding and exploring theories and practices of care in social work with families, it is structured ...

China, Russia and New Eurasian Order - Paperback

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by Emil Avdaliani (Author)This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the Eurasian vision of Russia and China and their perception of each other's Eurasian projects.Author BiographyEmil Avdaliani is Professor at European University (Tbilisi, Georgia). Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2024