Political Science - General

Originally published in new York 1924. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original...

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social...

So many nations today, large and small, are faced with compelling global and local circumstances, breaking acute crises, and lingering long-term chronic problems that demand leaders and followers to cope as best they can. However, there's a growing suspicion in most everyone's minds-from the...

A prequel to the authors previous monographs on the Great War and the Foundations of the Spanish Civil War, this book analyses the troubled and often violent path of Spain to modernity. During the nearly 30 years of history explored (18921921), the country appeared...

This book is a copy of the Cuneiform inscription from the stele in the Louvre Museum in Paris.The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings...

Can architectural discourse rethink itself in terms of a radical emancipatory project? And if so, what would be the contours of such a discourse?Author: Nadir LahijiISBN-10: 1782797378ISBN-13: 9781782797371Publisher: Zero BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2016Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven....

Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa-as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the "failure" of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence...

The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all...

First published in 1988. Over sixty years have passed since Allied armies landed in Normandy with the purpose of liberating western Europe and destroying Hitler's Third Reich. Despite this passage of time and extensive writings on the landings in France, officers and historians are...

U.S. Army aviation expanded dramatically in both size and breadth of activities after its inception in 1942, but much of its post-World War II history, particularly after the establishment of the Air Force as an independent service by the national Security Act of 1947,...

Provides detailed case studies from the Vietnam war and Operation Iraqi Freedom.Author: Richard E. Killblane, Transportation Corps History OfficeISBN-10: 1780390246ISBN-13: 9781780390246Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2010Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.27d

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's System of Economical Contradictions: Or, the Philosophy of Misery, was originally published in 1846 in French and translated by Benjamin R. Tucker and published in 1888.Author: Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Pierre-Joseph ProudhonISBN-10: 1725566761ISBN-13: 9781725566767Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2018Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize:...

Areopagitica by John Milton. A Speech For The Liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet,...

Ex 3:14 14 And God said to Moses (Donald J. Trump), "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, (the United States of America) 'I AM has sent me to you.'" NKJV About the Author...

Stemming from the author's thoughts as a citizen and student, The Sinking Ship: A Critical Analysis of Multiculturalism in Postcolonial Cameroon is a modest, but absolutely, undeniably important assessment of the gains, whether positive or negative, that multiculturalism has earned for Cameroon since after...

This book argues that the mainstream definitions of corruption, and the key expectations they embed concerning the relationship between corruption, democracy, and the process of democratization, require reexamination. Even critics who did not consider stable institutions and legal clarity of veteran democracies as a...

In the 21st century, amid converging global political, social, and economic forces we are questioning the fundamental values we hold true, driven by an antagonism between different schools of philosophy--between left- and right-wing politics. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of western political philosophy...

According to international statistics, the world is currently undergoing one of the largest refugee catastrophes in modern history. This humanitarian crisis has stimulated the mobilization of countless private and public rescue and relief efforts. Yet, deep-seated concerns over potential breaches of national security and...

- Ever found yourself with your back against a wall, trying to disengage yourself from a one-sided debate with one of your liberal acquaintances? - How many times have you been irrefutably right on a matter and yet unable to convince the other person?...

Everyone who was alive remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy was shot; but that's just a brief moment in time. What shaped the country--and even the world--wasn't that brief moment...it was how we rebuilt. This book follows the 30 days following...

Hypocrisy as a word didn't necessarily have the strong negative connotation that it does today, but as the word has evolved it has come to describe situations where people assume a virtuous persona for public consumption, while acting in less savory ways behind the...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and...

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine that criticizes institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795,...

Kant's Master Work Published in 1797, The Philosophy of Law Rechtslehre] stands as one of the most significant late works by the great Prussian philosopher. Though he lived in an atmosphere of political and social repression, it is evident that Kant was sensitive to...

"Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice" is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second, it is a book about the social/cultural relationship...

Endorsements: Wipf and Stock is to be congratulated for making Beverly Wildung Harrison's Our Right to Choose newly available. Recognized as a classic in its field from its publication in 1983, Our Right to Choose is as compelling--and needed--today as it was then. -...

Two of the reformers who led the effort to stop the carnage in Africa were Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement, upon whom Conan Doyle based the characters of Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton in The Lost World. Although these two were later...

This book is about the past and continuing debate over the causes of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It brings together readings that best exemplify the widely varying answers that historians, political scientists, social scientists, policymakers, journalists, and novelists have given to...

Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? What is the relationship between religious conviction and partisanship? Does religious identity reinforce or undermine other political identifications like race, ethnicity, and...

The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the visibility and importance of presidential speeches in determining the effectiveness and popularity of the President of the United States. Not surprisingly, this development has also witnessed the rise of professional...

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "POLITICS" AND "ADMINISTRATION" According to Goodnow, politics is concerned with policy and other expressions of state will. Administration is concerned with the faithful execution of enacted legislation. He observes that administration has a tendency to overstep this boundary and concedes that...

While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after...

A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.Author: David Ownby, Mary F. Somers HeidhuesISBN-10: 1563241994ISBN-13: 9781563241994Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1993Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.96w x 0.81d

Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.Author: Murray a. RubinsteinISBN-10: 1563241935ISBN-13: 9781563241932Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1993Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.59lbsSize:...

No episode in African history is more controversial than the Mau Mau Uprising, and within it, no figure more polarizing than Waruhiu Itote, or "General China." China led Mau Mau guerrillas in a daring struggle against the British colonial government and its "loyalist" allies...

All Trumped Up: Our Lionhearted President, is a campus preacher's chronicle of the campaign, election and first 100 Days of President Donald J. Trump. How could a conservative Christian minister, knowing of Trump's two divorces, reputation as a womanizer, past supporter of liberal politics,...

The House Intelligence Committee holds its first hearing on Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Rarely do we get to realize we are watching history "in the making." I Believe this hearing will mark the beginning of one of the most turbulent and...

In the dying months of my seventy-eighth birthday in the year 2011, something clicked within me. I was remembering a historic undelivered letter and the private and painful burden I bore for a time to keep this letter undelivered. My reflections took me back...

This Handbook describes an implementation process for core training as recommended in Implementation Guide G441.12A, Radiation Safety Training, and as outlined in the DOE Radiological Control Standard RCS - DOE-STD-1098-99]. The Handbook is meant to assist those individuals within the Department of Energy, Managing...

One day, the author - a former student in A. S.Neill's Summerhill School in Suffolk - had this stunning insight: The time may now be ripe for something really thrilling and fascinating, that could transform the whole concept of school and education. Something that...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Arthur Brooks Lapsley, Abraham LincolnISBN-10: 1532859708ISBN-13: 9781532859700Publisher:...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Arthur Brooks Lapsley, Abraham LincolnISBN-10: 1532859694ISBN-13: 9781532859694Publisher:...

Author: Brad PowerISBN-10: 1530593883ISBN-13: 9781530593880Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2016Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.16d

First published in 1893, "Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism" is a scientific treatise by Joseph John Thomson (1856 - 1940), an English physicist and Nobel Laureate. Thompson was most famous for his discovery of the electron, which was the very first...

Volume 3--The 'Clothing' of Effective Policing: Cultural Competency, Spirituality and Ethics continues my discussion about the humanity of policing. For this writing, I give attention to the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional dimensions of humankind.I use clothing metaphorically to describe more than something to cover...

There is a documented growing lack of trust in our government, a representative democracy, precipitated by a myriad of convoluted issues. Fortunately, there still is a general acceptance of perceived political wrongdoings because Americans are patriotic and believe their democratic government is the best...

Author: Robert J. Bunker, John P. SullivanISBN-10: 1524545627ISBN-13: 9781524545628Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2016Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d

"Removal of the Ponca Indians" from Carl Schurz. Confidante of Lincoln, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, a major-general in the Civil War, a U.S. Senator from Missouri, Secretary of the Interior in the Hayes administration, author of a biography of Henry Clay, president of the...

Political Theory and the Human Predicament: An Introduction to Major Political Thinkers presents the work of important political theorists from Plato to Marx. The primary source material introduces students to the political and ethical questions theorists have, with varying degrees of success, tried to...