Political Science - General

Justice is a theme that courses throughout the literature of Judaism, and yet, it would be difficult to find anything beyond an occasional journal or book article that directly addresses the subject for a variety of reasons that are discussed in this book. Writing...

Author: William HughesISBN-10: 0595215513ISBN-13: 9780595215515Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.08w x 0.72d

"When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea, and sand; Reggae Music, Cannabis, and "irie" people like Usain Bolt, People living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. However, this book analyzes this motif,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Between 1720 and the mid-nineteenth century, the legal framework of England remained static, while the country went through an economic and social evolution known as the Industrial Revolution. This book addresses the apparent discrepancy between the developing economy of 1720-1844 and the stagnant legal...

America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times. As alarm increases over how the government will balance the budget, handle the debt, and maintain prosperity for the future, the minutia of debts and deficits remains incomprehensible to many....

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of security...

The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy is a detailed study of legal, economic, political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the Internet in Indonesia at the turn of the twenty-first century. Hill and Sen detail the emergence of the Internet into...

This highly acclaimed introduction to the politics of the European Union (EU) is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised to offer the most up-to-date and accessible guide to the major issues and areas of debate. Author: Alex Warleigh-LackISBN-10: 0415414679ISBN-13: 9780415414678Publisher:...

These are the most powerful private citizens in America: the Washington lawyers whose impact is hidden--and made effective--in the halls of Congress and the hearing rooms of the regulatory agencies. Drawing on his training as a lawyer, Mark Green describes the tactics that influential...

From Eisenhower to Obama, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the policies Congress and the president have proposed and passed to protect the environment over time. The U.S. federal government first began to consider legislation to protect the environment and natural resources in...

The U.S. experiences a major crisis about every eighty years, and the last big crisis started more than eighty years ago. If history is any indicator, argues author Tom Osenton, we are in the very early stages of the next major crisis--one that could...

In the past 65 years, the United States Supreme Court has outlined, through its decisions, its conceptions of the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. media. Analyzing every Supreme Court media case from 1931 to 1996, this book explores the changes in how the...

This unique empirical study investigates how the method of judicial selection significantly affects state-supreme-court policies in several important areas of law--business, criminal procedure, and family law. After examining different theories and surveying the research about judicial selection, this comparative study of policies in six...

Noted experts examine America's power to go to war historically and recently, now that the Cold War has ended. They propose ways that the Congress and the president might develop a new working consensus for dealing with the use of military or paramilitary force...

As apartheid's crisis has deepened, so interest in South Africa's past, present and future has increased. With this, scholarly and popular writing on the country has proliferated. This 1100-entry bibliography guides the scholar or interested layman through the relevant literature on South Africa and...

Although the military has historically played a pivotal role in Latin American politics and society, until now little attention has been paid to the complex set of civilian-military relations in each country. This collection of essays, the product of a long-term research program organized...

This provocative study was developed to uncover the thought processes of the best-selling authors from 1850 to 1920 concerning the subject of success. Based on the conviction that the reading of novels strongly influences social values and behavioral expectations, a number of key discoveries...

This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrates how and why collective bargaining has become the basic and accepted procedure in the settlement of disputes between labor and management.Author: UnknownISBN-10:...

Conflict and Accommodation focuses on the political behavior of the 600,000 men in the coal and steel industries, to reveal a fascinating correlation between labor-management conflict and the fortunes of American socialism. Nash presents data from election returns, newspapers, union journals, government reports, and...

Prominent experts on Marxist ideology from the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, India, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and the United States exchange views on Soviet policies and attitudes toward the use of nuclear weapons.Author: John Somerville, Rose SomervilleISBN-10: 0313225311ISBN-13: 9780313225314Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/1981Pages: 180Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Author: David L. WeimerISBN-10: 0313222479ISBN-13: 9780313222474Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/1980Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Author: Charles Lee Dearing, Wilfred Owen, UnknownISBN-10: 0313223017ISBN-13: 9780313223013Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/1980Pages: 474Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d

Author: Leon HurwitzISBN-10: 0313212570ISBN-13: 9780313212574Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/1981Pages: 211Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Author: Peggy A. RabkinISBN-10: 0313206708ISBN-13: 9780313206702Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/1980Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Author: William Angus Sinclair, UnknownISBN-10: 0313201994ISBN-13: 9780313201998Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1978Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how...

There are more than 600 Federal district judges serving today, and they decide some 230,000 civil cases each year. About 90% of the decisions they reach are final. Lyles argues that these lower court judges not only influence the flow of information to the...

Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concise review of contemporary theories of social and economic development will find this second edition invaluable. The coverage spans the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, political economy, geography, and management....

In the Year of Simpson, the country was caught in the throes of the biggest story ever. No other single news event in our history could match the sheer scope and intensity of coverage given to the O. J. Simpson murder case. But the...

The extent to which law circumscribes the activities of states is an old dilemma in international law. The traditional position of the states has been that some areas of international relations are not susceptible to legal resolution. This arises from a desire to protect...

AFTA is ASEAN's response to the world-wide movement toward regional economic integration. Recent economic debate centers on measuring the impact of regional economic integration as a means of achieving persistent growth and facilitating structural adjustment. Park evaluates the long term effects that AFTA should...

Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only...

The know-how and materials required to produce biological warfare agents are the same as those required for medical and veterinary products; biological warfare technology is quickly spreading across the globe. In this new study, Barend ter Haar argues that a policy of nonproliferation might...

Author: Wilbur EdelISBN-10: 0275906078ISBN-13: 9780275906078Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/1981Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Author: A. HeertjeISBN-10: 0275906418ISBN-13: 9780275906412Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/1981Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Lorn S. FosterISBN-10: 0275901017ISBN-13: 9780275901011Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1985Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.56h x 6.40w x 0.86d

This book explores the role and status of local and regional authorities (also referred to as 'subnational authorities' or 'SNAs') in European Union law, and reveals the existence of two parallel yet opposed constitutional imaginations of the supranational legal order. Through a survey of...

The authors -economists and scientists- seek in various ways to make regulation more sensible and effective.Author: Robert W. HahnISBN-10: 019521174XISBN-13: 9780195211740Publisher: Hodder Education PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/1996Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.34w x 1.05d

Author: William LaForgeISBN-13: 9798989699285Publisher: Sunwater InstituteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2025Pages: 664Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d

Author: Piotr BardzikISBN-10: 3033113095ISBN-13: 9783033113091Publisher: Piotr BardzikLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Adrianus TurnebusISBN-10: 1024511391ISBN-13: 9781024511390Publisher: Hutson Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2025Pages: 838Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.95lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.75d

A memoir with a dash of history This is an insightful and witty account of the adventures of a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and an ancient warrior queen - 17 centuries apart.Young was a novice broadcast journalist when she was catapulted into...

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days...

Locked, loaded, and unlike anything you've read before.The right to keep and bear arms-written into the US Constitution as a safeguard of liberty-is under relentless attack. This is more than a policy dispute; it's a battle for the balance of power between the people...

Locked, loaded, and unlike anything you've read before. The right to keep and bear arms-written into the US Constitution as a safeguard of liberty-is under relentless attack. This is more than a policy dispute; it's a battle for the balance of power between the...

Many Americans have never heard the name Volodymyr Zelenskyy until very recently. Although Zelenskyy made brief headlines in 2019, in association with a certain scandal, even then, most of the headlines focused on the other party involved, and the name Zelenskyy didn't have much...

The Controversy of Climate Change is intended to dispel the myth that climate change is caused by human activities adding vast amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The book outlines the reasons the myth exists and continues to be propagated as well as...

This study explores the intricate arrangements that serve the power and profit interests of the ruling classes. It examines how capital-driven approaches and life-colonizing construction goals form the backdrop to the events and analyses presented in these articles. Each contribution, regardless of its conclusion,...