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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This book empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them. 

Providing a rational framework for legislation, the original essays published in this collection expose and develop a range of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory in a way which will engage and interest legal...

Focusing on the 'problem' of pleasure Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism uncovers the organizing principles by which the legal subject was colonized. That occidental law was complicit in colonial expansion is obvious. What remains to be addressed,...

This book is an essential guide to the full range of arguments surrounding　affirmative action. Following the debate, as no other collection does,　from all the early foundational articles to up-to-date selections, the book presents the strongest...

How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from...

Sayed Khatab takes a literary approach in his study of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most influential political thinkers for contemporary Islamists, who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden.

This textbook provides a comprehensive collection of influential essays that present a balanced survey of the major ideas that have come out of political philosophy in the last two decades.

A fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of Fascism as both ideology and practice

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin's first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of...

Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science...

Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. Social constructionist explanations of human kinds like race, gender, and homosexuality are commonplace in the social sciences and humanities, but what...

Me Too But Never Again is a collection of intimate stories from women who have overcome sexual abuse and trauma and have shared their journey of healing, forgiveness, and triumph over tragedy.This anthology can help you to heal and overcome areas of your...

Muindi Fanuel Muindi's sixth book considers how, in the wake of the "non-events" of emancipation and decolonization, "global apartheid" and "planetary ecocide" became the primary means and ends of the "War on Terra" - the unnamable necropolitical war...

À la base de cette vie littéraire, souple, nuancée et subtile, on voit distinctement de la vie abondante, vivace, sans forme encore comme une force prête à toutes les déterminations, - le terreau, la nourriture chimique à même laquelle mangent les...

This book aims to explore the changing scope of the humanitarian response of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, comprised by the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Committee of the Red Cross, and the...

This book shows the economic populism in British and American political discourse providing a current insight into the way Boris Johnson and Donald Trump communicate with the general public by raising fears over security, immigration and technological...

One theme that has emerged from the recent literature on political economy concerns the transition to democracy: why would dominant elites give up oligarchic power? This book addresses the fundamental question of democratic stability and the collapse of...

Contemporary deep-reaching changes - whether in financial or real economy, in Europe's political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations - are also a challenge to philosophy...

« L’auteur a publié divers travaux de philosophie générale et de philosophie politique, qui tous traitaient, directement ou indirectement, du problème du rapport entre nature et surnature. Ce sont là...

Born in India, raised in Italy and Great Britain, James Strachey Barnes (1890-1955) was Secretary-General of the International Centre of Fascist Studies in Lausanne and a personal friend of Benito Mussolini. In the two books grouped in this volume,...

ABSTRACT The entire world is confronted with the problems of inter-group relations. The most challenging issue of contemporary society is to make unbiased and accurate perception and attitude towards social groups. It is very surprising that inter-group...

Parmenides delves into a profound philosophical discussion centered around Socrates' challenge to the revered Parmenides and Zeno. Employing the reductio ad absurdum method, Zeno argues against the pluralist view that things can be both like and unlike,...

阿尔图修斯无疑是联邦一词的奠基者和意涵赋予者，他把联邦一词的来源解释为来自feudo，意为封建领土，契约，协约，义务。正是怀着共同目的的一群人，在上帝的见证下，签署了一份契约，规定在他们中间通过某种正义的方式选出一位统治者，而其他人服从该统治者的号令。这种组织形式被作者命名为:联邦。家庭，则是最基础的联邦组成单位，或者更直白地说，家庭就是最小的联邦。一个国王能够通过让渡权利的方式，创造出一个和自己权利相同的国王吗？不可能的。因为被让渡权利者的权利，总是少于让渡者的权利。政治的过程和本质就是如此，在作者眼中...

本书是蒋百里1918-1920年同梁启超游欧之后的思想产物，具体包括意大利，法国，北欧等国家和地区的文艺复兴及宗教改革等方面的内容。蒋百里站在人文,艺术和史学的角度，俯瞰文艺复兴的兴起,发展过程，并以此来观照中国社会处于特殊时期的变革和发展，强调研究欧洲文艺复兴史对于中国的特殊必要性。This book is the product of Jiang Baili's travels to Europe with Liang Qichao from 1918 to 1920, and covers the...

I'm not convinced anything can truly convey the experience of the existential angst of living in this moment. I'm not sure there are words to capture the void, the perpetual emptiness. Nothing reverberating nothing, with nothing on the horizon. The...

This work was originally written as a PhD thesis at University of Southampton. It is inspired by The Butterfly Effect Theories to investigate lingua franca phenomena as complex adaptive systems within other complex adaptive systems. It focuses on...