Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran

DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship an...

Showcasing texts by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors, this volume demonstrates the wealth of the political thought of early modern Portugal an...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies...

DescriptionThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum pra...

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual de...

These essential texts present the range of ideas developed by the men and women who made the Irish Revolution, as well as those who opposed it. Thi...

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

". . . rich in informative and comparative analysis . . . Considering the number and range of themes, the essays complement each other remarkably w...

A challenging historical survey that questions the foundations of modern Islam

Reducere. This book contains the most important interviews and speeches that Prof. Hudson has given over the past decade (2003-2012). They span the political...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

DescriptionMost of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricit...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A brand-new history of Scotland's radical war for democracy in 1820

This powerful, unsettling audiobook gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobe...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Maria BoletsiNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2013Dim...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents' is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929...

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.

Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

Reducere. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize w...

Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest d...

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist t...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Sigmund FreudNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 216 x 14Cover type: Paperback / s...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

Reducere. With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgivi...

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

Reducere. Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, d...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What ...

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur'an during recent decades. It particularly aims to explore the contribu...

This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the mod...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Francis FukuyamaNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time an...

Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time an...

Reducere. Arthur Waley s brilliant and definitive translation of one of the foremost of all mystical books, Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, has become a modern class...

An eloquent ethnographic account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians who have grown up in the period since Iran's...

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nina PowerNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...