State and Society, Paperback

The Creation of the French Royal Mistress. From Agnes Sorel to Madame Du Barry, Paperback - ***

204,99 RON

Explores the sociogenesis and development of the French royal mistress, examining the careers of nine of the most significant holders of that title...

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Kenyan, Christian, Queer. Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa, Paperback - Adriaan Van Klinken

204,99 RON

Examines the role of religion in LGBT activism in Kenya. Offers case studies of creative forms of queer visibility through which Kenyan LGBT indivi...

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Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, Paperback - Stanislav Grof

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. This accessible an...

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What Deters and Why: The State of Deterrence in Korea and the Taiwan Strait, Paperback - Michael J. Mazarr

202,00 RON

As part of a series of reports in which RAND researchers examine the established concepts of deterrence and develop a framework for evaluating the ...

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Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats. Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, Paperback - Steffen Hertog

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In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an unto...

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Contested Politics in Tunisia. Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State, Paperback - Edwige Fortier

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After Tunisia's 2010-11 uprising and the downfall of its dictator, a period of transformation occurred as new actors and groups rushed to actively ...

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Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan. Transformation and the Regulatory State, Paperback - Masahiro Mogaki

199,99 RON

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

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Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State, Paperback - Shannon Speed

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

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In the Presence of Audience. The Self in Diaries and Fiction, Paperback - Deborah Martinson

196,99 RON

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Deborah MartinsonNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 11Cover type: P...

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American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy (Updated), Paperback - Peter Dale Scott

196,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Peter Dale ScottNow in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book ma...

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The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census, Paperback - Debra Thompson

194,99 RON

By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Sche...

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Policing Iraq. Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State, Paperback - Jesse Wozniak

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Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis, Paperback - Kenneth Waltz

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What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civiliz...

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The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith, Paperback - Paul Sagar

193,99 RON

DescriptionHow David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized ...

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Spatial Ecologies. Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory, Paperback - Verena Andermatt Conley

193,99 RON

This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebv...

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Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction, Paperback - Nathan P. Jones

192,99 RON

Timely and authoritative, Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction provides crucial insight into why Mexico targets some drug networks...

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Transformation and Continuity in Lakota Culture: The Collages of Arthur Amiotte, Paperback - Arthur Amiotte

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryFine ArtThrough his artwork, Arthur Amiotte offers insight into the early reservation peri...

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Deportable and Disposable. Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant, Paperback - ***

191,99 RON

Studies popular tropes in the United States for Mexican immigrants, tracing the history and usage of terms that were shaped by race, class, and nat...

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Provincial Battles, National Prize?: Elections in a Federal State, Paperback - Laura B. Stephenson

191,99 RON

In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election c...

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Spinning the Secrets of State: Politics and Intelligence in Australia, Paperback - Justin T. McPhee

191,99 RON

What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...

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Mardi Gras Beads, Paperback - Doug MacCash

191,99 RON

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. The first in a...

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China's War on Smuggling. Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965, Paperback - Philip Thai

190,99 RON

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

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Football in the Middle East. State, Society, and the Beautiful Game, Paperback - ***

189,99 RON

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdNumber of pages: 336Collection: Georgetown University, Center for International and Regional Studies, School ...

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Naming the Leper. Poems, Paperback - ***

189,99 RON

As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illne...

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Screen Love, Paperback - Tom Roach

187,99 RON 201,99 RON

Reducere. In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate normal life before the pandemic. In Screen ...

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Germany Speaks: By 21 Leading Members of Party and State, Paperback - Joachim Von Ribbentrop

187,99 RON 201,99 RON

Reducere. In 1938, a year before the outbreak of the Second World War, the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched a campaign in Britain in o...

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Bringing the State Back In, Paperback - Peter Evans

185,99 RON 199,99 RON

Reducere. Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as poten...

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Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China. State News and Political Authority, Paperback - Emily Mokros

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Anarchy State and Utopia, Paperback - Robert Nozick

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Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our ag...

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Welfare State Reader, Paperback - ***

182,99 RON

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.

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The Next Welfare State?: UK Welfare After Covid-19, Paperback - Christopher Pierson

182,99 RON

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

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Killing Justice in the Lone Star State. Calling Time on Texas Death Row, Paperback - Michael O'Brien

182,99 RON

Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases. The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reform...

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Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK. State of the Nation, Paperback - William at the University of Manchester) Shankley

182,99 RON

50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this 'state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand ...

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Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region, Paperback - Robert Bauman

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. Mid-Columbia region history mirrors common American West multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In "Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance...

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When Cities Lobby. How Local Governments Compete for Power in State Politics, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Julia (Assistant Professor of Politics, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University) Pays...

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The Time Has Grown Short. Rene Girard, or the Last Law, Paperback - Benoit Chantre

179,99 RON

In this rich exploration of Rene Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoit Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Ro...

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God and Caesar in China. Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions, Paperback - ***

177,99 RON

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergo...

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From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America, Paperback (6th Ed.) - Walter I. Trattner

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

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In Pursuit of Prosperity: Education in North Carolina as the United States Becomes a Wealthy Nation, Paperback - Larry K. Monteith

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Reducere. During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-...

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Securing the State, Paperback - David Omand

175,99 RON

Sir David Omand served as Intelligence and Security Coordinator in the Cabinet Office from 2002-2005, coordinating counterterrorism strategy. He dr...

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Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection, Paperback - Paul A. Passavant

175,99 RON

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990...

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Nervous State. Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, Paperback - Nancy Rose Hunt

175,99 RON

Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts...

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Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World. The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors, Paperback - ***

175,99 RON

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

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State-Building in the Middle East and North Africa. One Hundred Years of Nationalism, Religion and Politics, Paperback - ***

175,99 RON

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

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Governing in the Shadows. Angola's Securitised State, Paperback - Paula Cristina Roque

175,99 RON

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Paula Cristina RoqueNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 28Cover type...

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In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest, Paperback - David A. Neiwert

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCovering the timely topic of militia activity in the Northwest, this book is based on interviews with Patriot extremists and gives reade...

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Security as Politics. Beyond the State of Exception, Paperback - Andrew W. Neal

173,99 RON

Using archival research and interviews with politicians, Andrew W. Neal investigates security politics from the 1980s to the present day to show ho...

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State of Exception, Paperback - Giorgio Agamben

173,99 RON

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefin...

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National Identity and State Formation in Africa, Paperback - ***

173,99 RON

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Paranoid Visions. Spies, Conspiracies and the Secret State in British Television Drama, Paperback - Joseph Oldham

171,99 RON

Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy d...

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Rescaling the State. Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance, Paperback - Rhys Jones

171,99 RON

Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, fo...

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Book of Lord Shang. Apologetics of State Power in Early China, Paperback - Yang Shang

170,99 RON

Compiled in China in the fourth-third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society. In Yuri Pine...

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Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism, Paperback - Molly C. Michelmore

170,00 RON

Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they ...

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Proud to Be. Writing by American Warriors, Volume 8, Paperback - ***

169,99 RON

Showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the US, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, A...

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The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State, Paperback - Dan Blumenthal

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesme...

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Securing the State and its Citizens. National Security Councils from Around the World, Paperback - ***

169,99 RON

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

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Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, Paperback - Stephanie Y. Evans

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to s...

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Learning Whiteness. Education and the Settler Colonial State, Paperback - Jessica Gerrard

167,99 RON

As racism persists across the world, we need to understand the role of education in sustaining white supremacyPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Jess...

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Refuge. How the State Shapes Human Potential, Paperback - Heba Gowayed

167,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Heba GowayedIllustration(s): 4 tables.Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 2...

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Disabled State, Paperback - Deborah Stone

167,00 RON

A book about the defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state. It is a work that pulls apart social categories like "disability...

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Rise of the Civilizational State, Paperback - Christopher Coker

164,99 RON

An in-depth look at Xi Jinping's China and Putin's Russia, proposing the idea of the 'civilizational state' set on challenging the liberal internat...

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Window Seat on the World: My Travels with the Secretary of State, Paperback - Glen Johnson

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Reducere. Unless they've lost a passport abroad, most Americans have little appreciation for the reach and scope of the US Department of State or the perils ...

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State. Past, Present, Future, Paperback - Bob Jessop

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Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to defi...

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Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World, Paperback - William Mitchell

162,99 RON

Trump. Brexit. The alt-right. It's increasingly apparent that old political notions--believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history--are now re...

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Resist the Punitive State. Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons, Paperback - ***

162,99 RON

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

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Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company, Paperback - Keith C. Petersen

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPotlatch, Idaho, was a company town--a community completely owned by a large lumber firm. This is the story of the Pacific Northwest in ...

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Nationalism and the State, Paperback - John Breuilly

162,99 RON

Combining historical perspective and theoretical analysis, this book provides an overview of modern nationalism. The text explores the recent devel...

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$New York State Test Prep: 8th Grade Math Practice Workbook and Full-length Online Assessments: NYST Study Guide, Paperback - Lumos Learning imagine$

New York State Test Prep: 8th Grade Math Practice Workbook and Full-length Online Assessments: NYST Study Guide, Paperback - Lumos Learning

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Reducere. This NYST practice workbook is carefully designed to help your student succeed on the 2020 New York State Tests.Lumos tedBook for Grade 8 Math NYST...

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Botero: The Reason of State, Paperback - Giovanni Botero

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Niccolo Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argum...

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$New York State Test Prep: 7th Grade Math Practice Workbook and Full-length Online Assessments: NYST Study Guide, Paperback - Lumos Learning imagine$

New York State Test Prep: 7th Grade Math Practice Workbook and Full-length Online Assessments: NYST Study Guide, Paperback - Lumos Learning

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Reducere. This NYST practice workbook is carefully designed to help your student succeed on the 2020 New York State Tests.Lumos tedBook for Grade 7 Math NYST...

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