Not Just Politics

DescriptionOn the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other pri...

A number of Montesquieu's lesser-known discourses, dissertations and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first time fully tra...

DescriptionDemocracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested su...

DescriptionThis volume approaches questions about gender and the politics of appearance from a new perspective by developing the notion of aestheti...

The research for this extensive, two volume project. represents a comprehensive effort to establish a complete context from which the sport of body...

A well-known text, this book aims to help students not just of law, but also of sociology, economics and politics, to understand administrative law...

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

DescriptionThis comprehensive textbook by the editor of Law and the Internet seeks to provide students, practitioners and businesses with an up-to-...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Road Not Taken takes a new perspective on the course of social welfare policy in the twentieth century. This examination looks at th...

DescriptionWritten by leading subject expert Christine Mallin, Corporate Governance combines clear, accessible discussion of theory with a wealth o...

DescriptionIn this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a ...

DescriptionCardinal D sir -Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation durin...

DescriptionLaboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political scie...

DescriptionThe art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife--from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians...

International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral treaties are in place just to protect the environment...

Reducere. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and deliberate bleeding of India... was the] greatest c...

In a country riven by regional differences, All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a shared national health agenda. It shows that heal...

Reducere. Beginning with Heidegger is an in-depth examination of the influence that Martin Heidegger's inceptual thought exerted on Leo Strauss, Richard Rort...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides Congress with nonpartisan analysis of how proposed legislation will impact the feder...

Reducere. Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the 1780s revolutions and terrori...

Reducere. Everything a crossword solver could ever need -- in one complete volume! Who won the Academy Award for best actress in 1993? What's another word fo...

Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and e...

Reducere. Does the Bible have authority in a world committed to relative truth? The understanding of absolute, objective truth has been largely lost. Spend j...

DescriptionIs CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerf...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Reynell Bellamy joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists soon after it was founded, and in the role of National Inspecto...

Reducere. Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent stru...

DescriptionIn chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger seeks not just to explore the successes and failures...

From the racial defamation and mocking tone of "Mexican" restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with ...

Reducere. The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwe...

"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Bar...

Reducere. People ask us how to support the Community Of Israel. This is how: Buy this very small book and subsidize the costs related to the evangelistic boo...

Reducere. Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political...

Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institut...

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of th...

Reducere. Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good!It's a surprising assertion. Isn't PC culture all about kindness? About protecting victimized groups...

The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narr...

DescriptionThis book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising author...

A leading political theorist's groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophyThroughout the history of political ph...

Reducere. The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes not just wealth an...

Reducere. Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting an...

Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependen...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most contro...

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, fi...

DescriptionLike the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Cox RichardsonWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ben-Dror YeminiThe Industry of Lies is one of the greatest frauds of recent decades - a fraud of historic, even epic, propo...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

Reducere. In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science...

Violence is not just physical; like everything in life, it bears spiritual implications. Thus, nonviolence offers more than just a method for resis...

Reducere. We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises ha...

Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new pe...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America, a sharp political playbook for how Democrats ca...

Reducere. Being a citizen requires more than just being a resident.If you intend to vote in 2020 or beyond, then you should read this book before you vote. I...

DescriptionBetween the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As pa...

Militant Normals, written by one of the conservative movement's wittiest commentators, is a no-holds-barred takedown of the preening elites who hav...

Reducere. Vienna, located at the heart of Europe was the city of choice for American, British, German and Russian spymasters in their merciless trade, to plo...

Reducere. Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest comp...

DescriptionWhere Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J. Trump--to understand what makes the forty-fifth president of the United States tick--it is ...

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Reducere. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an emp...

Reducere. The xenophobic backlash against refugees and immigrants gets put under the lens as we are introduced to those living through this emotional tide cr...

Reducere. The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and tho...

Reducere. MAKING OUR OWN HISTORYA User's Guide to Marx's Historical Materialism by Jonathan White As global capitalism lurches from one crisis to the next we...

Reducere. How has great progress in the science of medicine over two centuries of research changed the way it is accepted and practiced today? Or has it?Vien...

Reducere. The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics--only to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his...

Reducere. DescriptionMichael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a...

Reducere. A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and country music legend Ti...

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range...

Reducere. Description Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in phy...

Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into th...