Political Science - General

The oldest of human institutions, monarchy has been tried in a range of variations through the ages. The absolute power of kings and emperors gave way to constitutional monarchy before losing popularity in the modern age. This compelling guide traces the history of monarchs...

A conference was convened in Geneva in 1949 for the purpose of revising the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and the Hague Convention of 1907 relating to the protection of war victims. The conferences established the texts of four Conventions which are now undergoing the...

More than simply ushers and Sunday School teachers, the women of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church were influential leaders in the congregations of Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Senior and Junior. Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era explores these women's lives...

Years of mismanagement, corruption, and unwarranted military interventions in national affairs have left the country in an abysmal pit; efforts to move forward seem so little compared to the journey ahead. The enormity of the problem leaves many presidents little choice but to tinker...

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement. Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists in the United States, revealing how these...

We live in a world full of contradiction and paradox, a fact of which perhaps the most fundamental illustration is this: that the existence of a problem of knowledge depends on the future being different than the past, while the possibility of the solution...

"Clear, accessible, and very informative...a successful and inviting text."--Review of Metaphysics"If only there were more books like this one! Jacob Howland's The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy opens up the wealth of the experience of reading Plato's Republic by carefully demonstrating how the dialogue...

The message of "We Still Hold These Truths" is even more urgent now than when it was written in 2004. Goaded by Republican demagoguery and caught in an economic malaise, a fierce anger has arisen among much of the public against the Democrat's progressive...

The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, came as a tremendous shock to Americans. Accustomed to success and victory in every aspect of life, they found the Pearl Harbor disaster nearly impossible to understand. Thus, almost immediately the...

The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media,...

Should public funds be used to support nonpublic education? Controversy over that question has raged since the early 19th century. In the 1990s this debate centers on elementary and secondary school tuition vouchers, sometimes called "scholarships," which feature numerous plans with varying levels of...

A concise analysis of the decay of the merchant marine through the failed policies that have been imposed upon the industryThe Abandoned Ocean offers an in-depth appraisal of United States maritime policy from the establishment of a merchant marine immediately after the Revolutionary War...

"Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism."--Josh FrankFrom the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't...

Ten distinguished observers confront the pervasive attack on the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization, and reflect on the fate of EuropeOs legacy. OCaustic and convincing...a thought-provoking collection of essays.O NNorman Davies, Wall Street Journal.Author: Hilton KramerISBN-10: 1566635810ISBN-13: 9781566635813Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage:...

Essays on the lives of workers, the formation of class during the Gilded Age, and the lives of African American enslaved people and freedmen Finally available in paperback, Power and Culture is the last work by America's most influential labor and social historian, the...

Author: Ethel SimpsonISBN-10: 1557281351ISBN-13: 9781557281357Publisher: University of Arkansas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1999Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.30lbsSize: 14.55h x 9.32w x 1.41d

With the publication of Leviathan, in the midst of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes alienated himself from both sides of the war, by arguing against the divine right of kings (to the dismay of Royalists) but in favour of absolute monarchy (to the...

Saudi Arabia faces a time of uncertainty. The life its rulers once enjoyed from the sale of oil is now threatened by newly emerging reserves from Iran and the United States. Saudi Arabia's aged, ailing monarch has defied decades of custom by naming his...

As ISIS tore through the regions of Syria and Iraq, they brought with them a caustic and terrible ideology, one obsessed with appropriating history to their own benefit. The Crusades, a nearly two-hundred-year period encompassing one of the most romanticized epochs in history, stands...

14 U.S. Presidents since WWII. 14 different ways to reach the top. After The Game of Persuasion - 36 ways to influence your audience, the second book of the series sheds light to a different world of influence, the world of politicians. The Game...

The best of Aaron Clarey's blog, "Captain Capitalism" for the Fall quarter of 2015. Cindy Moran modeling.Author: Aaron ClareyISBN-10: 153700932XISBN-13: 9781537009322Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2016Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.22d

2015 Reprint of Original 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th...

Author: Bertrand RussellISBN-10: 1613820860ISBN-13: 9781613820865Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2011Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

Newcomers to Rousseau's works and those who are familiar with his writings will find something to surprise them both in this wide variety of short pieces from every period of his life. Among the important theoretical writings found here are the "Fiction or Allegorical...

This book is about the transformation of Europe into 'Eurabia', a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate its ideological message, is the Euro-Arab...

The Nicomachean Ethics is an important work written by Aristotle. This work focuses on virtue and moral character, both playing key roles in th defining of Aristotelian ethics. This publication is made up of ten individuals books based largely on notes from Aristotle's lectures...

This book includes essays on the phenomenon of the "guido" its origins and its relationship to the Italian/American community. The writers share their own views on a phenomenon that, in December 2009/January 2010, was filling newspapers and television programs, in reaction to the then...

Monthly in cities around the world, bicyclists take over the streets in an "organized coincidence" called Critical Mass. Riding along several hundred strong, hooting and hollering, whistling, laughing and singing; it is a coup on wheels, a clever tactical strike against our oil-dependent culture....

Another illusion-shattering piece from the man The New York Times called arguably the most important intellectual alive. In 1970, about 90per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment and 10per cent for speculation. By 1990, these figures had reversed.Author: Noam...

The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples? Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: "We...

Skilfully navigating Libya's eventful past, this fully updated edition of Ronald Bruce St John's authoritative work includes an in-depth examination of the 2011 rebellion that finally put an end to over 40 years of Qadaffi's authoritarian rule. From early Greek settlements to the infamous...

It is impossible to think of the intellectual landscape of Britain today without recognising the power of Crosland's The Future of Socialism in all aspects of the political debate. Still relevant 50 years after it was first published, Crosland's masterwork was a radical reworking...

Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, consumption, global trade, medical tourism, and humanitarian intervention. It is both topical and important. How we resolve (or fail to resolve) the dilemmas of global...

This is a uniquely comprehensive and up-to-date volume spanning nine regions and 38 Islamic countries around the world. More than a billion Muslims have their lives in such matters as marriage, divorce, maintenance, paternity and the custody of children governed by certain aspects of...

Plutocratic insurgency represents an emerging form of insurgency not seen since the late 19th century Gilded Age. It is being conducted by high net worth globalized elites allowing them to remove themselves from public spaces and obligations-including taxation-and to maximize their ability to generate...

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of "glocalization"; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new...

This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today's most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix trans erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. What are the promises and perils for Germany, and...

A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria's tragedy to a clash of stereotypes The violence that has ravaged Algeria in recent years has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and humanitarian intervention, Algeria's tragedy...

Author: James R. Hansen, Nasa History OfficeISBN-10: 1780396910ISBN-13: 9781780396910Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 760Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.08lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.56d

Flanked on the east and west by the world's two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonetheless, the U.S. military had early expanded far beyond what was needed to insure security from external threats. Concomitant with the...

Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the secret meetings of free masons, illuminati, and reading societies. Collected from good authorities, By John Robison, a. M. The THIRD EDITION. 1798. Were this all, the harm would...

John Dewey's Democracy and Education addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the...

Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People's Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....

"Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani was unique in many respects. He was a political activist who had never allowed himself any respite in his political struggle since the age of 14 till he died at 91. And unlike most political leaders of our region,...

From crises in the world's financial markets to the breakdown of natural systems that support human life and well-being, The Future in Plain Sight is a powerful and unsparing look at what lies in store for us in the coming decades. For more than...

Maulana Azad is considered one of the greatest Urdu writers of the 20th century. He has written many books including India Wins Freedom, Ghubar-e-Khatir, Tazkirah, Tarjumanul Quran, etc. It is often said that his book India wins Freedom is about his political life and...

Lawrence Kudlow is a familiar face on Wall Street and in Washington. As a free market supply-side economist with a career spanning three decades, he is armed with exceptional knowledge and a unique perspective on America's economic landscape. In this collection of his 2016...

Author: John DeweyISBN-10: 1936041871ISBN-13: 9781936041879Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2011Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Author: Willem M. FloorISBN-10: 1933823127ISBN-13: 9781933823126Publisher: Mage PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2006Pages: 660Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.22lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.33d

If there was an unexpected emergency, do you have a 72-hour emergency kit stored in your car that will get you home safely? And when you arrive will there be enough food, water and medical supplies to see you and your loved ones past...