Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Hardcover - Wendy Brown

Reducere. Why, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or nea...

A prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness.Why do walls marking ...

Reducere. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. I...

In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public servi...

Reducere. Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its ...

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shif...

BBC TV presenter Jules Hudson looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, design and cultural heritage. Publis...

Reducere. In the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of a lifetime. Who will make a candy m...

Offers compelling glimpses of modern Native American life and the different ways that Native Americans and whites interact, fight, and resolve thei...

Reducere. 730. That's how many days I've been trapped. 18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out. Jin, Mei Yee, and Dai all live in the Walled C...

World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker returns with a sweeping new epic fantasy

Reducere. Magnetic resonance is a medical imaging technique which is used for taking detailed pictures of the soft tissues and organs of the body through rad...

Reducere. This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global...

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily incre...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

Reducere. DescriptionCenturies of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volum...

Reducere. An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?, " and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometime...

Reducere. In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violen...

"The Odd Ones" is a 30-page picture book appropriate for the preschool through kindergarten age group."The Odd Ones" is a book themed to support ch...

The true story of three women (Priska, Rachel and Anka) who entered Auschwitz in 1944 whilst pregnant. Amazingly, all three, and their babies, surv...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst- and second-generation immigrants to the US from all around the world collaborate with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald to create...

Journey with Frida as she flitters along, encouraging the forest creatures to express themselves creatively. This is a full-color hardback 8x8" pic...

The U.S. Army established Fort Monmouth in June 1917, just a few months after Congress declared war on Germany. It initially served as a signal tra...

Reducere. Archie Morningstar's dad drives a taxi through outer space! And with the help of a talking cat named Pockets, Archie and his dad help fight crime a...

Reducere. Archie Morningstar fights crime across the universe alongside his dad and Pockets the talking cat. In his sixth adventure, the space taxi navigatio...

Reducere. In one month Jeremy Fink will turn thirteen. But does he have what it takes to be a teenager? He collects mutant candy, he won't venture more than ...

Reducere. Archie Morningstar fights crime across the universe alongside his dad and a talking cat. In book 4 of the high-flying Space Taxi series, Archie is ...

Reducere. DIVERGENT meets MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA in this dark YA thriller set within the walls of a lawless slum city, where Jin Ling searches for her lost sist...

Walled kitchen gardens were found in the grounds of most large country houses in Britain and Ireland. They were designed to provide a continual sup...

Reducere. Finally a children's book to explain why some parents choose to use marijuana as a way to relax and connect with their kids. For years, this natura...

A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; Sta...