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  • Dictator's Dilemma Dictator's Dilemma
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    Dictator's Dilemma

    Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true...
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  • Citizens by Degree Citizens by Degree
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    Citizens by Degree

    Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
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    Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

    In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and...
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  • The Last Republicans The Last Republicans
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    The Last Republicans

    A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words. In this revealing, often poignant work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the...
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  • Master of Disguise, The Master of Disguise, The
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    Master of Disguise, The

    From the author of Argo comes an unforgettable behind-the-scenes story of espionage in action. In the first ever memoir by a top-level operative to be authorized by the CIA, Antonio J. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save...
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    A View from the Horizon A View from the Horizon
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    A View from the Horizon

    In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential  political reformers  tells his life story with frank disclosure. Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South...
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  • Breaking the Internet Breaking the Internet
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    Breaking the Internet

    "An essential read for mayors, county officials, and any local digital champion wanting to make a difference."Dr. Christopher Ali, associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of Farm Fresh BroadbandBroadband is not affordable or...
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  • Burny The Carefree Cowbird Burny The Carefree Cowbird
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    Burny The Carefree Cowbird

    Burny the Cowbird shows his cowbird friends an easier life. Cowbirds by nature are brood parasites, meaning that they use other birds to raise their young. This is just one of the many tricks that Burny uses to show how socialism gives the...
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  • Capitol Hill's Criminal Underground Capitol Hill's Criminal Underground
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    Capitol Hill's Criminal Underground

    Richard Lawless’s Capitol Hill’s Criminal Underground: The Most Thorough Exploration of Government Corruption Ever Put in Writing is a no-holds-barred tell-all about the bad guys of Capital Hill and Wall Street, including the Department of...
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  • A Manual for the use of the General Court for 1921 A Manual for the use of the General Court for 1921
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    A Manual for the use of the General Court for 1921

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Ireland's Opportunity a Plea for Settlement by Conference Ireland's Opportunity a Plea for Settlement by Conference
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    Ireland's Opportunity a Plea for Settlement by Conference

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Uus den Deurfchen Deuflchriften, Briefen und Refolutionen Uus den Deurfchen Deuflchriften, Briefen und Refolutionen
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    Uus den Deurfchen Deuflchriften, Briefen und Refolutionen

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • The Sociology of Postmarxism The Sociology of Postmarxism
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    The Sociology of Postmarxism

    Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship to 'the social', A Sociology of Postmarxism develops key postmarxist arguments in an engaging...
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  • Democracy Online Democracy Online
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    Democracy Online

    Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the...
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  • Economic Justice and Democracy Economic Justice and Democracy
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    Economic Justice and Democracy

    In Economic Justice and Democracy Robin Hahnel argues that progressives need to go back to the drawing board and rethink how they conceive of economic justice and economic democracy. He presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that...
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  • International Law and Boundary Disputes in Africa International Law and Boundary Disputes in Africa
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    International Law and Boundary Disputes in Africa

    Africa has experienced a number of territorial disputes over land and maritime boundaries, due in part to its colonial and post-colonial history. This book explores the legal, political, and historical nature of disputes over territory in the African...
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  • Interfaith Advocacy Interfaith Advocacy
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    Interfaith Advocacy

    Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant,...
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  • The Unfinished Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Unfinished Transition to Democracy in Latin America
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    The Unfinished Transition to Democracy in Latin America

    This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary - a usually overlooked political actor - and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order...
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  • Journalism and Eyewitness Images Journalism and Eyewitness Images
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    Journalism and Eyewitness Images

    Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even...
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  • An Empire of Ideals An Empire of Ideals
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    An Empire of Ideals

    Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan's imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan's imagination is "chimeric," that is,...
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  • Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan
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    Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

    Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development...
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  • Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change
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    Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change

    Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue...
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  • Putting Terrorism in Context Putting Terrorism in Context
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    Putting Terrorism in Context

    This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world.The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers...
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  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations
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    Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating...
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  • Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel
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    Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel

    This is the first book in English to examine the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing in particular on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. The book analyses the ongoing cultural encounter between...
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  • Thinking International Relations Differently Thinking International Relations Differently
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    Thinking International Relations Differently

    A host of voices has risen to challenge Western core dominance of the field of International Relations (IR), and yet, intellectual production about world politics continues to be highly skewed. This book is the second volume in a trilogy of titles that...
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  • The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia
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    The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia

    This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an...
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  • Rethinking Democracy and the European Union Rethinking Democracy and the European Union
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    Rethinking Democracy and the European Union

    While the Lisbon treaty was meant to clarify the European Union's role and political identity, it remains a challenge for politicians and decision-makers to define. Rethinking Democracy and the European Union looks at both the concept of the EU as a...
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  • India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007 India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007
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    India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007

    This book analyses India's relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India's foreign policy from the Partition and its...
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  • Power and Influence in India Power and Influence in India
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    Power and Influence in India

    Taking cognisance of the lack of studies on leadership in modern India, this book explores how leadership is practiced in the Indian context, examining this across varied domains - from rural settings and urban neighbourhoods to political parties and...
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  • Diversity in Europe Diversity in Europe
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    Diversity in Europe

    From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are...
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  • Emerging Trends in Indian Politics Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
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    Emerging Trends in Indian Politics

    This study presents 13 articles interrogating themes likely to impinge on India's 15th general elections in 2009. These were written following intense discussion between the contributors and use available data as well as original data and analysis. The...
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  • The Case for Multinational Federalism The Case for Multinational Federalism
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    The Case for Multinational Federalism

    Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts...
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  • US Domestic and International Regimes of Security US Domestic and International Regimes of Security
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    US Domestic and International Regimes of Security

    This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'.The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into...
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  • U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa
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    U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa

    As Africa's strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command...
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  • The Military and the State in Central Asia The Military and the State in Central Asia
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    The Military and the State in Central Asia

    The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth...
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  • European Governmentality European Governmentality
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    European Governmentality

    This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization. The integration of Europe is a process of fundamental social change: a process of constructing a European society and of...
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  • Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe
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    Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe

    This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe.Discussing key questions relating to the future of...
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  • State Violence and Human Rights State Violence and Human Rights
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    State Violence and Human Rights

    State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices - rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands - take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to...
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  • Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
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    Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

    This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a...
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  • India's Nuclear Debate India's Nuclear Debate
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    India's Nuclear Debate

    Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India's 'attentive' public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting - and even feeling a need for - a more...
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