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The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 - Hardcover

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by Fouad Ajami (Author)How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are the implications of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism? Fouad Ajami seeks to answer these and related questions in his illuminating study of the constraints and possibilities facing the Arab world today. The book is divided into three parts. The first documents the political and intellectual...

Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations - Paperback

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by Peter D. Feaver (Author)How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on s...

When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them - Paperback

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by Teresa Ghilarducci (Author)A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I'm Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes behind the increasingly precarious economics of old age in America and proposing a bold plan to guarantee retirement security for every working citizen. Retirement is one of the hallmarks of a prosp...

Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 - Paperback

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by Donald a. Ritchie (Author)George Pendleton Prize With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to liberal--and liberalism itself was redefined in the process. Electing FDR is the first book in seventy years to examine in its entirety the 1932 presidential election that ush...

The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 - Paperback

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by Joel H. Silbey (Author)This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.Back JacketImagine a society in which parties dominate the political system. They select the candidates, articulate distinct ideologies, oversee the conduct of elections, virtually monopolize political communications, mobilize voters, organize legislatures, struc...

Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe - Hardcover

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by Fred C. Abrahams (Author)In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe's most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read "decadent" Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the Albania...

The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal - Paperback

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by Joshua Ramey (Author)In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work: Western esotericism, specifically the lineage of hermetic thought that extends from Late Antiquity into the Renaissance through the work of figures such as Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno. In this book, Joshua Ramey e...

Every Day is an Act of Resistance - Paperback

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by Carol Tarlen (Author), Julia Stein (Editor), Jack Hirschman (Introduction by)This book is simply a treasure. Carol Tarlen's poems bring the human and political together in rich, heart-felt ways. I can't help wishing Carol was still with us, but we should all be extremely grateful to have this fine collection of her work out in the world as a legacy and tribute to her compassion for others, and her passion for writing and for life. She had an uncompromising commitment to the truth without s...

On The Nature Of Revolution: The Marxist Theory Of Social Change - Hardcover

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by Herbert Aptheker (Author)On The Nature Of Revolution: The Marxist Theory Of Social Change by Herbert Aptheker is a comprehensive analysis of Marxist theory and its application to social change. The book delves into the nature of revolution, exploring the causes and effects of social transformation from a Marxist perspective. Aptheker examines the role of class struggle in revolutionary movements, as well as the impact of economic, political, and cultural factors on social change. He also e...

Engineering in the Pacific Theater: History of 1629th Engineer Construction Battalion - Paperback

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by Robert D. Meinke (Author)The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. The documents in this collection cover the areas on the Vietnam Conflict, Korean War, and the U.S. Civil War, to name a few. This is one of those documents. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x...

Office of Strategic Services, OSS: Organization and Functions - Paperback

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by Schools of Training and Branch (Created by)This booklet is designed to supplement the lectures on OSS organization. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required for military operations, and with planning and executing programs of physical sabotage and morale subversion against the enemy to support military operations. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9.69 x...

Security Clearances: Due Process for Denials and Revocations by Defense, Energy, and State: Nsiad-92-99 - Paperback

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by U. S. Government Accountability Office ( (Created by), U. S. Government Accountability Office ( (Created by)Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the due process practices at the Departments of Defense (DOD), Energy (DOE), and State for individuals that have security clearances denied or revoked, focusing on: (1) the agencies' practices for suspending individuals' security clearances; (2) whether the agencies give individuals access to their investigative records; and (3) wheth...

Forty Years of Scotland Yard: A Record of Lifetime's Service in the Criminal Investigation Department - Paperback

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by Frederick Porter Wensley (Author)""Forty Years of Scotland Yard"" is a memoir written by Frederick Porter Wensley, who served in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for his entire career. The book covers his experiences and insights into the workings of Scotland Yard, one of the world's most famous police forces. Wensley provides a detailed account of his time working on some of the most high-profile cases of the day, including the Jack the Ripper murders, the theft of the Irish Cr...

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by Lillie Dupuy Vanculin Harper (Editor)Colonial Men And Times is a historical book written by Lillie DuPuy VanCulin Harper. The book is a detailed account of the lives of men during the colonial period of American history. The author explores the social, political, and economic aspects of life during this time and provides an in-depth analysis of the various roles that men played in shaping the country's history.The book covers a wide range of topics, including the lives of the early settler...

Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations - Paperback

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by H?ctor Dom?nguez Ruvalcaba (Author)What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended the fields of sex and gender, becoming a metaphor for addressing such cultural phenomena as hybridization, resignification, and subversion? Further still, what ...

Giovanni Sartori: Challenging Political Science - Paperback

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by Michal Kubát (Editor), Martin Mejstřík (Editor)Giovanni Sartori (1924-2017) was a founder and icon of contemporary political science. A number of his books and articles have become part of the theoretical and conceptual basis of the field, and of social science in general. This volume brings together selected essays that examine Sartori as a scholar, university professor and intellectual. It is unique in covering all three aspects of Sartori's academic work: comparative politics, social sc...

El Manifi esto Comunista (Ilustrado) - Capítulo Dos: La Burguesía - Paperback

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by Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Author), George S. Rigakos (Editor)"La burguesía, con el rápido perfeccionamiento de todos los medios de producción, con las facilidades increíbles de su red de comunicaciones, lleva la civilización hasta a las naciones más salvajes. El bajo precio de sus mercancías es la artillería pesada con la que derrumba todas las murallas de la China, con la que obliga a capitular a las tribus bárbaras más ariscas en su odio contra el extranjero. Obliga a todas l...

La Asamblea Constituyente de Venezuela (2017-2019): El Leviatán de la democracia - Paperback

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by Carlos Ayala Corao (Author), Rafael Chavero Gazdic (Author)Este libro de los profesores Carlos Ayala Corao y Rafael Chavero G., despu s de hacer una referencia hist rica de los antecedentes de las asambleas constituyentes en la historia de Venezuela, incluida la convocada en el a o 1999; analiza todos los actos ejecutados por sta ltima, en sus dos a os de funcionamiento desde su instalaci n en agosto de 2017.En particular, el libro estudia como dicha Asamblea Constituyente ha usurpado la...

Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech - Paperback

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by Ronan Lee (Author)The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands of hours of interviews and testimony from the Rohingya themselves to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. Casting new light on Rohingya identity, history and culture, this will be an essential contribution...

The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence - Paperback

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by Dennis G. Molinaro (Editor)Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The alliance was integral to shaping domestic and international security decisions during the Cold War, yet much of the intelligence history of these countries remains unknown. In The Bridge in the Parks, intelligence scholars from across the Five Eyes come together to present case studies detailing the varied successes and s...

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by U S War Department (Author)This pamphlet is one of a series made available by the U.S. War Department (now the Department of Defense) in 1944 under the series title G. I. Roundtable. These pamphlets were distributed for the supposed purpose of providing material that orientation and education officers could use in conducting group discussions or forums as part of "off-duty education programs." In reality, this pamphlet was intended to prime the public mind for the transition into the post-...

Religion And The Global Resurgence of Violence: Connection of the Abrahamics - Paperback

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by Kizito Chike Osudibia (Author)The world today is greatly challenged and assaulted by various kinds of violence. The most embarrassing and, perhaps the most easily perpetrated form of violence, is the violence performed in the name of religion. Violence has been used to propagate religious causes; violence has equally been used to maintain the status quo ante; and yet violence pervades all three Abrahamic faiths. Religious violence as seen from this study is both interdenominational and int...

Essentials of Political Ideas: For Pearson Edexcel Politics A-Level - Hardcover

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by Kathy Schindler (Author), Andrew Heywood (Author)Refreshed and completely restructured to align with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this is the new edition of Andrew Heywood's highly respected introduction to political ideas, ideologies and thinkers for A-Level students. Essentials of Political Ideas is the only Edexcel-specific text on ideas on the market. Suitable for flexible use across all ideas components of the A-Level course, it offers full coverage of both the core...

Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s-1960s - Paperback

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by Yann Béliard (Editor), Neville Kirk (Editor)In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played by working people, their experiences, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. How central was the intervention of the metropolitan Left in the liquidation of the British Empir...

Performing Sovereign Aspirations - Hardcover

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by Bart Klem (Author)To-be-or-not-to-be dilemmas abound in the study of separatist insurgencies. Such movements create state-like institutions, which are simultaneously real and unreal. This book offers a performative perspective to confront these interpretative dilemmas. It offers an unprecedented rendition of Sri Lanka's Tamil nationalist movement. Open Access. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How Covid-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation - Paperback

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by Adri?n Sotelo Valencia (Author)In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adri?n Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms,...

(Mis)Management of Sub-Nationalism and Diversity in

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by Godfrey Berinde Asiimwe (Author)The book revisits the complexity of the "modern nation" building project of African countries like Uganda, over pre-existing entities like Buganda. Through discourse analysis, the work historically unravels the intricate interlaces of self-preservation agency from the dawn of the new order through the supra "nationhood" architecture. It engages dominant narratives and streamlines critical analysis of the rationale and strategies of sub-nationalisms against t...

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by Aris Project (Author), Conflict Research Group (Prepared by), C. Brown (Editor)Various authors have noted that violence is often a double-edged sword within combat settings, particularly those involving a resistance movement fighting an asymmetric conflict against the security forces of a stronger incumbent government, with both sides vying for the sympathies of a local population. Atkinson and Kress noted that "on the one hand violence is needed to fight the other side and perhaps deter i...

The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food - Hardcover

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by Julie Guthman (Author)A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do...

Gathering Evidence: (The Evidence of Things Not Said) Essays and Diaries collection - Paperback

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by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Author)Gathering Evidence (The Evidence of Things Not Said) is a collection of two diary cycles and two essays. The diaries are from the period, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. The diaries gives an insight into life in Zimbabwe during these periods, 10 years ago. You find the political situation laid bare, the religious fanaticism, social constructions, the dream state, love life of the character, the weather, anything that the character thought to shone light on, and it esp...

Trade Union Studies in the UK and Kenya - Paperback

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by Nigel Flanagan (Author), Shiraz Durrani (Author)Nigel Flanagan brings a distinct perspective to the problems of trade union organising. In this account he draws on his own experiences as an activist, shop steward, strike organiser and working for the global union UNI. The book has be very well received and after six impressions this revised and enlarged edition is also being published in a Kenyan version with our partners, Vita Books - Nick Wright. Nigel Flanagan's Our Trade Unions: What C...

Development of a Smart Tourism Destination - Hardcover

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by Zlatka Todorova-Hamdan Genka Rafailova (Author)This monograph presents a summary of theory and good practices, research results, and a model and strategy for the development of a smart tourism destination using the Varna Municipality in Bulgaria as an example. It begins with a theoretical overview and analysis of the characteristics of smart cities and smart tourism, sustainable development of tourism and tourism destinations, aspects of urban planning and management of a tourism destinati...