Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, Paperback - Timothy Mitchell

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Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how ...

Reducere. What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dictato...

Reducere. For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instill order and yet flexible enough to...

DescriptionIn the past decade, South Africa's miracle transition has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as wa...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): C Kyung-SupNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

DescriptionIndividual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand,...

Using the work of Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and anticolonialism, this book is an interdiscipl...

Reducere. In RAGING TWENTIES, Pepe Escobar smashes a triple-wide jumbo bulldozer of erudition and insight through the painfully narrow and now Big Tech-forti...

Reducere. In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg called "a hero of American consciousness" describes his transformation from boh...

DescriptionThis introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudica...

This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth centur...

DescriptionNamed for its mythical leader Captain Rock, avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821 24 in Ireland was notorious for its...

This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking be...

Reducere. The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): C Kyung-SupNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

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DescriptionThis book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad 'Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of...

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Mitchell A. SeligsonNumber of pages: 435Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 225 x 181 x 25Cover typ...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and P...

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Reducere. DescriptionA pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sarah-Neel SmithIllustration(s): 42 color illustrations, 20 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 2...

In this timely study, world renowned Middle Eastern and Western scholars and advisers provide expert analyses of the contemporary affairs of the ME...

Stakeholders in the operation of American elections are keenly focused on policy reform, resource allocation, administrative professionalism, voter...

When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journe...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Mitchell PlitnickNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

DescriptionFor the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion...

Reducere. The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who b...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement a...

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