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Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide - Paperback

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by Alex Alvarez (Author)Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity--ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. The author examines the ways in which resources and global migration patterns will be impacted by climate change and create conditions conducive to violent conflict. This new paperback edition features a new substantive introduction by the author that addresses how recent tumultuous political, s...

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts - Paperback

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by Barbara Brodman (Editor), James E. Doan (Editor), Dan M. R. Abitz (Contribution by)Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist.Author BiographyBarbara Brodman is professor emerita in the Department of History an...

Classical Political Philosophy in Popular Discourse: The Case of Poland - Hardcover

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by Zbigniew Rau (Author), Katarzyna M. Staszyńska (Author), Maciej Chmieliński (Author)Classical Political Philosophy in Popular Discourse combines two scientific paradigms --classical political philosophy and contemporary, empirical sociology. The chief aim of this unique scientific project is to explore, operationalize, and reconstruct a political doctrine appearing in social discourse, exemplified by Polish society.Author BiographyZbigniew Rau is professor of law at the University of Lódź ...

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book) 2020 - Paperback

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by U S House Of Representatives (Author)The Plum Book is a listing of over 9,000 civil service leadership and support positions (filled and vacant) in the Legislative and Executive branches of the federal government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointments, or in other words by direct appointment.Author BiographyThe Plum Book, is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Number of Pa...

Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Seth (Author)This book examines the unusual circumstances of de facto states, countries which are not considered to be sovereign nations by the international community.Author BiographyMichael J. Seth is professor of history at James Madison University. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 27, 2021

Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions - Paperback

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by Marlon A. Smith (Author)Reshaping Beloved Community examines the history of black male incarceration starting in the nineteenth century. This examination highlights how the label felon and the use of the prison was intentionally deployed to recast black men as dangerous and to justify the use of penal structures to systematically erase black radical projects.Author BiographyMarlon A. Smith is lecturer at the University of Houston. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat - Hardcover

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by Burcu Yasemin Şeyben (Author)After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in 2002, the AKP grew into an authoritarian government as it politically and culturally oppressed citizens and institutions. In Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat, Burcu Yasemin Şeyben argues that theatre was deliberately targeted because theatre institutions and companies embodied the cultural program of the statist and Kemalist cultural policy that ...

The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by William E. Scheuerman (Author)Scholarly and political interest in the controversial 20th Century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the last twenty years. This volume, focusing directly on Schmitt's complex ideas about law, situates his views within broader debates about the rule of law and its fate, taking seriously his Nazi-era political and legal writings.Author BiographyWilliam E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Indiana University. Num...

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism - Paperback

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by Dan Hassler-Forest (Author)From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.Author BiographyDan Hassler-Forest is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 ...

The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928 - Paperback

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by John Craig (Author)This book details extensive Klan activism in western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928, a region where two hundred thousand residents joined the KKK. The racist, nativist organization would be responsible for numerous acts of violence, including two large-scale deadly riots.Author BiographyJohn M. Craig is professor of history at Slippery Rock University. Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 29, 2016

Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution - Paperback

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by Ivan Bunin (Author), Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Translator), Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Introduction by)Here is Bunin's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time. Cursed Days is a chilling account of the last days of the Russian master in his homeland. He recreates the time of revolution and civil war with graphic and gripping immediacy. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6.26 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1998

Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange - Hardcover

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by Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Author)Now updated with new chapters on culture and populism, Globalization and Culture argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing. Its historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.Author BiographyJan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and ...

Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History - Hardcover

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by James Rovira (Editor), Cassandra Falke (Contribution by), Philip Goldstein (Contribution by)Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.Author BiographyJames Rovira is owner of Bright Futures Educational Consulting and founding pre...

Impartial Justice: The Real Supreme Court Cases that Define the Constitutional Right to a Neutral and Detached Decisionmaker - Paperback

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by Eric T. Kasper (Author)This book discusses the Constitutional right to a neutral decisionmaker, focusing on U.S. Supreme Court cases on the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a jury in criminal cases and to the due process requirements of an impartial judge and a neutral decisionmaker in quasi-judicial contexts. The work explores how these rights have evolved, and it critically examines relevant Court cases.Author BiographyEric T. Kasper is an associate professor of political science for the Uni...

Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement - Paperback

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by Reiland Rabaka (Author)This book critically examines the music and politics that emerged from the Civil Rights Movement as incredibly important sites and sources of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation. The book is primarily preoccupied with that liminal, in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music and black popular movements meet and merge.Author BiographyReiland Rabaka is professor of African, African America...

Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000 - Paperback

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by Tze May Loo (Author)This study examines Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese nation-state from 1879 to 2000 through the lens of cultural heritage. It also analyzes how the Japanese state and American occupation authorities have used heritage to govern Okinawa, and how Okinawans use it to negotiate, resist, and contest Japanese and American impositions of power.Author BiographyTze May Loo is assistant professor of history and international studies at the University of Richmond. Number o...

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by Paul R. Abramson (Author)David's Politics evaluates what we can learn about politics by studying David's life as presented in the Books of Samuel through the first two chapters of 1 Kings. I begin by discussing the rules for kingship set forth in Deuteronomy and carry this through to the elders' demand that the prophet Samuel appoint a king. Despite his reluctance he appoints Saul, who has many military successes. But when he fails when he fails to annihilate the Amalekites God withdraws h...

Protecting the Workforce: A Defense of Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains - Hardcover

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by Marquita R. Walker (Author)This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the global north and the global south by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights' violations.Author BiographyMarquita R. Walker is associate professor in the Department of Labor Studies, School of Social Work, at Indiana Univer...

The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction - Paperback

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by Christian Lotz (Author)The Capitalist Schema uses marxist philosophy to explain how money frames all social relations in our capitalist world and how money regulates and conditions social references to past and future social life. Consequently, modern life becomes ever more abstract and leveled, and all human desire becomes channeled towards profit and making money.Author BiographyChristian Lotz is associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Number of Pages: 191 Dimensi...

Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies - Paperback

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by Tanja Thomas (Editor), Merle‐marie Kruse (Editor), Miriam Stehling (Editor)Media and Participation in Post‐Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming in the research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrant conditions to the discussion - both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.Author BiographyTanja Thomas, Professor in Media Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany Merle‐Marie Kruse, research fellow at the Institute of Med...

Porosity between Politics and the Economy - Hardcover

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by Egidius Berns (Author), Frank Chouraqui (Editor)Porosity between Politics and the Economy addresses the relationships between politics and the economy in deeply original ways. It is a book motivated by a sense of urgency aroused by both the failure of modern capitalism and the environmental crisis. Egidius Berns argues that the relations between politics and the economy are porous, and he investigates the consequences of this porosity. By mapping out of a number of conceptual fault lines t...

Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere - Hardcover

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by Michael Hofmann (Author)Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere provides comprehensive guidance to understanding the complex methodologies of Habermas's global academic best seller. This timely guide parallels Habermas's publications from 2021 and 2022 about a new structural transformation of political will-formation caused primarily by the digital dominance of social media platforms.Author BiographyMichael Hofmann is professor of Communication and Multimedia Studi...

Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938 - Paperback

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by Julius Fein (Author)This book examines the ways in which the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d'Orsay) responded to the large number of German citizens who sought refuge in France between 1933 and 1938. Number of Pages: 322 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 31, 2022

A Politics of All: Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy - Hardcover

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by Dean Caivano (Author)In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by "the people" to obtain freedom and equality.Author BiographyDean Caivano teaches political science and history at Merced College. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN P...

Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution - Paperback

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by Glenn Diesen (Author)An analysis of Russian conservatism from the 19th century to contemporary Russia.Author BiographyGlenn Diesen is Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He was formerly employed by HSE Moscow. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2022

Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited - Paperback

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by Asma Abbas (Author)Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.Author BiographyAsma Abbas is associate professor of politics and philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2022

Postrevolutionary Iran: The Leader, The People, and the Three Powers - Paperback

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by R. R. Asaadi (Author)How have Iran's political institutions evolved since the revolution? This book is first a study ofthe structure of Iran's political institutions, of their composition and function in theory; andsecond an analysis of their evolution in practice over the first forty years of the Islamic Republicregime.Author BiographyR.R. Asaadi is instructor in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.47...

Fire Alarm: The Investigation of the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi - Hardcover

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by Bradley F. Podliska (Author)Fire Alarm: The Investigation of the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi offers an insider's view of the politically divisive Committee and details why it failed to deliver an accurate assessment of the events and potential shortfalls surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack that killed four Americans.Author BiographyBradley F. Podliska is former investigator for the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.63 x...

The Southern African Development Community Treaty-Nexus: National Constitutions, Citizens' Sovereignty, Communication, and Awareness - Hardcover

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by Korwa Gombe Adar (Editor), Dorothy Mpabanga (Editor), Kebapetse Lotshwao (Editor)Using various case studies as well as legal, communication, and awareness perspectives, this book examines the nexus of the people of Southern Africa, democratization, and integration in the SADC region.Author BiographyKorwa Gombe Adar is professor of international studies at the University of Botswana. Dorothy Mpabanga is associate professor of political and administrative studies at the University of Botswan...

Inhabiting the Earth: Anarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of Emancipation - Paperback

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by Martin Locret-Collet (Editor), Simon Springer (Editor), Jennifer Mateer (Editor)This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics. Author BiographyMartin Locret-Collet is Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Birmingham and works as a Research Associate for the Liveable Cities Project. Simon Springer is Professor of Human Geography, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Centre...

From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of

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by Mandy Turner (Editor), Luigi Achilli (Contribution by), Diana Buttu (Contribution by)This book analyses the impacts and responses to twenty-five years of "peace" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It focuses on understanding the various political economies that have emerged and how different communities have developed distinct coping strategies as well as new forms of political expression and mobilization.Author BiographyMandy Turner is the director of the Kenyon Ins...

Reinterpreting the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Changes the Law - Hardcover

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by Edward F. Mannino (Author)In the Senate Confirmation Hearings on his nomination, Chief Justice John Roberts memorably stated that he believed that the proper role of judges is "to call balls and strikes," an analogy repeated by Justice Kavanaugh in his hearings. This book makes clear, however, that the justices have often changed the strike zone. They have overruled past precedent, significantly expanded or limited prior rulings, created new constitutional rights such as that protecting sa...