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Reducere. Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organize...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nader HashemiAuthor: Danny PostelAs the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become...

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capit...

Developed in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Oxford's Course Companions provide extra support for students taking ...

DescriptionServing as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of...

Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and so...

Reducere. Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first bl...

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision, " (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record o...

Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisi...

An estimated 2-3% of the population is affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This is a chronic condition that significantly affects dail...

Reducere. The Seyder Tkhines, translated from its original Yiddish by noted tkhines scholar, Devra Kay, and centerpiece of this groundbreaking work, was a st...

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global p...

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strate...

Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that...

Reducere. "A beguiling tale of espionage. -- Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of ParisA twisting, sophisticated World War II novel f...

Reducere. How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western demo...

"A beguiling tale of espionage. -- Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of ParisA twisting, sophisticated World War II novel f...

The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts ...

Reducere. Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains on...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by ...

Reducere. Although seemingly bizarre and barbaric in modern times, trial by ordeal-the subjection of the accused to undergo harsh tests such as walking over ...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as fa...

A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really k...

For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to ...

Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of ...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...

Reducere. Filling a gap in the U.S. foreign policy textbook market, this innovative introduction shows students how real American foreign policy makers make ...

Reducere. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work...