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Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction
Providing an accessible introduction to some of the key areas of modern political thought, this book uniquely combining historical and philosophical approaches to the subject. It also describes the writings and ideas of the most influential …
In this volume, Peter Ackerman, an authority on non-violent strategy, and Jack DuVall, a veteran writer, show how popular movements used non-violent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country …
By combining the powerful prose of Richard Wright with the startling photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein, this book poignantly depicts the lives of black people in America during the Great Depression. 80 photos.
masterly portrait of contemporary Spainfully revised, expanded, and updated. Modern-day Spain is a country changing at bewildering speed. In less than half a century, a predominantly rural society has been transformed into a mainly urban one. A …
The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority
Including transcripts of secretly recorded speeches from Kunstler's FBI files.
This landmark collection brings the writings of consumer and workers's rights advocate Ralph Nader together for the first time, creating a remarkable portrait of the activist.
Learning from International Public Management Reform - B
Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens, self-…
"Roll over Derrida: "Literature and Revolution" is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the …
This is a new kind of book on public management. Using conversations, cases and original sources, it engages, in a challenging and amusing way, with the key themes and problems of the field. After writing many conventional books and articles …
Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market
devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
Inclusive Citizenship Volume 1: Meanings and Expressions
The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, …
How and why does someone become a terrorist? Are there common causes? Is there a terrorist personality? To understand the psychology of those who engage in terrorism, John Horgan draws on interviews with terrorists and analyses current evidence …
Politics from Above, Politics from Below: The Middle East in the Age of Economic Reform
Even today, economic liberalization is widely supposed to replace the tyranny of the state with the freedom of the individual, and, therefore, the uniformity of politics from above with the liveliness and color of politics from below. This book …
In lieu of a White House policy seminar that never happened, specialists and former government officials offer background information and context for a US president on relations between that country and Russia. The 21 memos were presented at an …
Macro Social Work Practice: A Strengths Perspective (with Infotrac(r))
Providing an in-depth introduction to community and organizational practice, this macro practice text gives students a philosophical foundation of core macro practice concepts and skills. This text utilizes the strengths perspective as its …
New Public Management: An Introduction
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector …
No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809). And no individual has a better claim to be the world's first international revolutionary. His …
An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, "Going Postal" explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued—and baffled—America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-…
The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
With typical brio and boldness, Slavoj Zizek argues in The Fragile Absolute that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th …
The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
"What is globalization? Here is one of the best answers. It is the constant revolutionizing of production' and the endless disturbance of all social conditions.' It is everlasting uncertainty.' Everything fixed and frozen' is swept away, ' and …
Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond
At few times in recent history have we seen a war so insistently and openly signaled as the U.S.'s looming war on Iraq. According to Rahul Mahajan, the coming war is a culmination of a process that the United States started with the Gulf War, …
Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics
British politics has been crucially shaped by England's role as pioneer of capitalism, by the experience of Empire, and by the particular form of its union with Scotland, Ireland and Wales. With the decline of Empire the attempt to bridge Europe …
Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration
The mass movement of people across the globe constitutes a major feature of world politics today. The first comprehensive overview of various positions within political philosophy on immigration, this original text offers a radical critique of …
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African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation
AFRICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY: A MOSAIC IN TRANSFORMATION is the first single-authored textbook to examine continuity and change in African politics and society from the pre-colonial era to the present. It fills the needs of those with little …
The National Security Legacy of Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman's national security legacy, as documented here by Truman scholars and political leaders on the 50th anniversary of the end of his presidency, is marked by a series of noteworthy foreign policy initiatives. Credited with …
Books > Politics & Government > Political structure & processes
Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War
"The war in Iraq has been a victory of moral fervor over moral clarity. The first without the second is a curse on itself. James Carroll brings to bear-I hope not too late-the moral clarity we so badly need." -Garry Wills With the words "this …
The State: Theories and Issues
Broad-ranging in its coverage, this major new text introduces all the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues in relation to globalization, new forms of governance, the changing public/…
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Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences
Fred Halliday examines the causes and rise of Islamic fundamentalism and how terror became an instrument of political and military conflict. Sobering and encouraging, Two Hours That Shook the World provides a reasoned approach to what the future …
Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order
In this impressive collection, key thinkers and leading commentators explore new dimensions of war, peace, terrorism, and world order following September 11, 2001.
This is a collection of some of the most peculiar, shocking and hilarious numbers that shape our world.