'To Save the People from Themselves'. The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions, Hardback - ***

In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Justine N (American Society of International Law) StefanelliNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 20...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

This volume explores the social and political forces behind constitution making from a global perspective. It combines leading theoretical perspect...

Focusing on a conflict in Alabama during the 1980s, Robert Daniel Rubin considers how conservative evangelicals forged a political identity. To pro...

Reducere. The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the tr...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using indi...

Reducere. Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder detail the history of "one person, one vote" in American political theory and politics, and tell the story of...

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Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon administration to the policy's cris...

DescriptionThough early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

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Reducere. At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than...

Which language should we use in philosophy: technical or common language? Medieval philosophers and Renaissance humanists differed widely on this m...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): John ManshreckIllustration(s): 30 Illustrations, black and white; 15 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 252Col...

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...

Reducere. An incredible and moving account of one man's journey into the world of lions, why they are fast disappearing and what can be done to save them fro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William D. WillisFrom Colonization to the Space Race, this is the story of America's successes and failures. Learn how a li...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

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Presents an anthology of Irish American poetry. This book collects the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poe...

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Publisher: BenBella BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan A. KraneNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Description"This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this...

An absorbing account of the birth of surrealism and the interpersonal comings and goings of the key players among the painters and writers who made...

Publisher: HalsgroveAuthor(s): David ParkerIllustration(s): Black and white photographsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 221 x ...

Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the pr...

This book examines the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, an ancient colonial court, and how the Caribbean community, specifically, the fifte...

Podcaster and former TMZ host Van Lathan Jr. writes a sharp, funny, and brutally honest, cultural critique of the unspoken obstacles and extreme an...

Reducere. The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutralit...

The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

Reducere. Istv n Mesz ros's bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. Drawing on the theoretical argument...

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Reducere. A Book Whose Time Has Finally Come The world has changed a lot since 1990. George H.W. Bush was in the White House, John Paul II was in the 12th ye...