Political Science - General

This book brings together experts and analysts in international space policy from academia, government, and corporations, and from the technical and legal spheres. It was felt that this broad cross section of expertise would result in the miltidimensional and multidisciplinary treatment this complex issue...

Author: Frank Shipper,Marianne Jennings,Marianne M. JenningsISBN-10: 0899300375ISBN-13: 9780899300375Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/1984Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Brantlinger discusses the current medical and legal trends in sterilization with special emphasis on people with disabilities. She explores the issues surrounding sterilization decisions from the perspectives of judges, lawyers, social workers, doctors, family planners, as well as the families and individuals themselves. Woven...

Author: Robert Morrison Maciver,UnknownISBN-10: 0837175356ISBN-13: 9780837175355Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/1974Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

In May 1999, over 50 distinguished scholars from all over the world gathered to honor Gordon Tullock, one of the most prolific, original, and versatile scholars of his generation. Tullock is best known for his pioneering work in Public Choice, the study of how...

Gerald Strauss offers a comprehensive study of a phenomenon of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe: the widespread opposition to Roman law and lawyers in sixteenth-century Germany. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again...

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the...

This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This guide is designed to help black students prepare for standardized tests, negotiate admissions, find a faculty mentor, choose a field of study, select the best curriculum, adjust to the campus, master technology, engage in research and publishing, secure graduate assistantships, develop a global...

William Mott examines the relationships between economic growth and international conflict in history and theory, developing and analyzing a set of observed empirical modern growth-conflict relationships over long periods, and presenting an explanation of the observations. After introducing the growth-conflict relationship as the unit...

Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials. The study considers mortality among a range of populations, according to differentials such as age, gender, race, ethnic origin, socioeconomic and marital status, and...

"Mr. Prime Minister, to achieve order in the casbah I have to act brutally toward people free of crime, too. I feel humiliated by this behavior. The situation has become a catastrophe. It's breaking us." So spoke an Israeli soldier when Prime Minister Shamir...

The war on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. Denial of Sanctuary highlights the limits of conventional thinking on the...

This fascinating account, by a Czech-speaking American diplomat who lived in Czechoslovakia from 1967-1969, describes the collapse of a repressive Communist regime, the subsequent unprecedented explosion of popular freedom, the surprise Soviet occupation, and the spirited passive resistance of the population until the gradual...

Assesses the causes and nature of violence in Northern Ireland and considers the possibilities for peace.Author: Alan O'DayISBN-10: 0275954145ISBN-13: 9780275954147Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/1997Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Throughout American history, the press has been incredibly adept at making the public aware. The history of the press in crisis situations is in many ways the story of public attitudes and the story of America. This book looks at the press over time...

This book examines the military organization, strategy, and tactics of the Salvadoran FMLN guerrillas during their efforts to overthrow the government. It is largely based on the authors' personal collections of guerrilla documents captured in the war, interviews with former and captured guerrillas, and...

Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the...

Author: ManzalaouiISBN-10: 0197222781ISBN-13: 9780197222782Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2012Pages: 648Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.90d

Years before he was famous as the co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson was writing astute essays about the evils of authoritarianism, prejudice, puritanism, and exploitation. The essays and interviews in this book span 45 years, from 1960 to 2005, responding to...

Published for the Centre for Igbo Studies at Abia State University, this study is the first book from the Centre. Aspects of the tradition of politics among the Igbo are examined, including religion, age, economy, history, leadership, structures, institutions, values, sex and gender. The...

Peter Beattie has been the premier of Queensland since 1998 and has long been admired for being 'one of the people'. Part memoir and part manifesto, this book explores: o the premier's upbringing and the effect it had on forging his values and political...

This introduction presents, in a readable, lively style, an overview of feminism as an essentially contested field of theory and political engagement. Renee Heberle offers readers a unique approach to studying feminisms in the plural, combining historical and theoretical perspectives on the academic and...

There are a handful of well-known European soldiers who volunteered to join the Patriot Army. They include Lafayette, von Steuben and Kosciuszko. However, there are many other Europeans who appear in the letters, journals, army orders and resolutions of the Continental Congress. Who these...

There are maybe four billion males on our planet, about two million in the United States, four million in Illinois, and thirty thousand in Lake Forest. Then there is me - one among billions. Am I unique? No. I am a well-off, midwestern, upper...

In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. More than three years have passed, making it the largest conventional war in Europe since World War II, with combined Russian and Ukrainian military and civilian casualties (dead and seriously wounded) exceeding 1 million.In...

Americans are living in frightening times. Political division, riots, and violence are plaguing our nation. Civil discourse is almost impossible to come by. But what if the weapon being used to promote these activities is as simple as the meanings of words? Redefining America...

In "Biden's Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor," Viktor Shokin gives an autobiographical account for his brief time as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2015-2016), which was abruptly ended through pressure by then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden,...

Nearly half a century after its passage, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act stands at a crossroads with its moral authority questioned and its global influence uncertain. Bribery Beyond Borders tells the remarkable true story of how the United States became the first nation to...

This book's basic thesis is that East Germans experienced a 'freedom shock' in 1989/1990. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk tells the fascinating story of East Germany since the break-up of the Soviet bloc as an unfinished struggle for freedom, the outcome of which will determine the future...

Gardening Leave - new and collected poetry is the first collection from writer and academic Eoin Devereux, and will be available from 451 Editions in Autumn 2025. This fine, debut volume will feature a mixture of new poetry and work previously published in journals...

The Gen Z Survival Guide to Neo- Fascism is a 62 page guidebook: part rebel manifesto, part self-healing manual, a no-fluff guide to recognizing the systems that are killing us and reclaiming the power to heal, resist, and rebuild. We have been fighting a...

This volume, "Documents Of The Assembly Of The State Of New York, Volume 31," offers a comprehensive look into the workings of the New York State Assembly. As a primary source, it provides invaluable insights for historians, political scientists, and legal scholars interested in...

The struggle of the Kurdish nation in Iran entered a new phase of modern nationalist movement since World War II, especially since the establishment of the Society for the Revival of Kurdistan (J.K.) in 1942. The J.K. was then transformed into the Kurdistan Democratic...

The Discharge of Electricity Through Gases is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Transnistria is often referred to, in both Russian and Western media, as a frozen ethnic conflict. It became another of the many "black holes" throughout the former Soviet Union, regions such as Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh and Abkhazia, where no long-term settlement has been reached and...

Chemical weapons are a threat to international security. According to an international convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), all chemical weapons fall under a stringent and irreversible disarmament regime that seeks the abolition of the use and existence of chemical weapons altogether. The CWC...

This edited book showcases how Global South scholars, particularly those from the Philippines, are not merely catching up with but actively reshaping the evolving landscape of visual data collection, production, and analysis. Bringing together multi- and interdisciplinary works, it highlights the use of visual...

This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia--the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor--and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been considered previously by any other theorist. The goal...

The Biblical Epistles of The Apostle Paul depicts the attempt of the Jews to disparage the spiritual and societal experiences of the Gentiles. Dr. Portis provides a current parallel view of Paul's characterizations of these issues through her description of the White supremacy ideology's...

I wish I could tell you when I began writing this book I had it all figured out and my broken pieces were mended. I wish I could tell you that life never brings challenges, trials or heartache when you find a relationship with...

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), as it existed originally, endured for a brief 192 days. It formed in the months leading up to November 1973 in Oakland, California. In concentrating their activities around the Berkeley area, the SLA had hoped to recapture the excitement...

What if you could delve into the profound mysteries of life and death, gaining clarity on the essence of being?Aristotle's enduring exploration of existence stands as a cornerstone in understanding the fundamental questions of life: What is it that animates us? How do we...

"Michael Serrapica's book is a great starting point for the average American today who finds himself confused over what he sees and hears about politics and government. What Serrapica has accomplished is to make sense for his readers the difference between fiction and fact....

9/11 caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, releasing thousands of toxic contaminants into the air as the fires burned for over three months. Yet the US Environmental Protection Agency consistently reassured residents, school children and office workers, "The air is...

International customary law prescribes a minimum standard of treatment with which all nations must accord -- aliens are entitled to "life, liberty, and property" while resident outside their own country. Based on a first-hand examination of original sources, this survey shows that, while the...

It is the purpose of this study to show how the rate-making rule and its procedure were developed, to consider the difficulties that were experienced under this rule, to discuss the new methods of rate making that commissions used during a period of rapid...

This title presents a uniquely human perspective on the quest to explore space and to understand the universe through the lens of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It considers early stories about the universe in various cultures; recent space fiction; the origins and...

Author: Leo MuddISBN-10: 1450547133ISBN-13: 9781450547130Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2010Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d