Political activism / Political engagement Books

""Ensayos sobre Pol������tica y Literatura"" es una obra del escritor franc�����s Victor Hugo, publicada en 1846. En ella, el autor aborda temas pol������ticos y literarios de su �����poca, como la democracia, la libertad, la igualdad, la educaci������n...

Das Buch ""Die Gesetzliche Einf�����hrung der Deportation im Deutschen Reich (1897)"" von Felix Friedrich Bruck behandelt die Einf�����hrung der Deportation als Strafma�����nahme im Deutschen Reich. Bruck analysiert die Gesetze und Verordnungen, die die...

Das Buch ""Die Gerichtsverfassung der Stadt Braunschweig: Bis zum Jahre 1374"" von Willi Varges, welches 1890 ver������ffentlicht wurde, besch�����ftigt sich mit der Gerichtsverfassung der Stadt Braunschweig bis zum Jahr 1374. Der Autor untersucht die...

Dissertatio Historico-Juridica Inauguralis, De Origine Systematis Representativi, auctore Tadama, Regnero Gulielmo, anno MDCCCXXXIII edita, est opus quod tractat de origine systematis representativi. In hac dissertatione, auctor historiam systematis...

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The Poll For Members Of Parliament, For The Borough Of Maldon (1826) is a historical document that records the results of the election for Members of Parliament in the Borough of Maldon in 1826. The book contains a list of candidates who contested the...

""Registration Cases, 1886 and 1887"" is a historical book written by Arthur Patrick Cleary. The book serves as a supplement to ""The Franchises and the Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland"" and focuses on the registration cases that took...

The Finances Of The City Of New York is a book written by Ma, Yin Ch'U and published in 1914. It is a comprehensive study of the financial system of the city of New York, focusing on the revenue and expenditure of the city government. The book covers a...

""The Education Bill of 1906 for England and Wales as it Passed the House of Commons"" is a historical document written by Anna Tolman Smith. The book provides a detailed account of the Education Bill of 1906, which was a landmark piece of legislation...

Social Inequalities and Modern Socialism is a book written by William Dodsworth in 1894. The book explores the concept of social inequalities and the role of modern socialism in addressing them. Dodsworth argues that social inequalities are a result of...

This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in that country.

In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced to implement the most...

This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa.

This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.

Although the literature on terrorism is vast, there are many gaps in it. This book helps to fill these lacunae with entries from top terrorism scholars and counterterrorism practitioners in the world.

The major contribution of Antiterrorism and Threat Response: Planning and Implementation, 2e is the detailed instruction and practical advice on how to see the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in physical protection systems and upgrade them to meet the...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism could lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices, and community structures.

This book presents findings from a research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, which examined whether linguistic content analysis can indicate whether groups will engage in terrorist violence.

This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime. 

This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of 'Mega-Events' - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...

This book is the first comprehensive academic study of German right-wing terrorism since the early 1960s available in the English language. It offers a unique in-depth analysis of German violent, extremist right-wing movements, terrorist events, groups,...

Narges Kalbasi Ashtari, a British/Iranian, life took an unexpected turn when she lost her parents at a tender age. Determined to make a difference, she embarked on a mission to aid orphaned children, leading her to the state of Odisha in India at just 21...

Decency and Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling Nation, takes the reader on an information pack journey looking at the events that transpired leading up to and during the Trump Presidency. Describing those elements that defined, and haunted the one...

The book examines the influence of context in which elections in contemporary India take place. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers of Indian politics and South Asian studies.

Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote, self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856), Victoria (1857) and New South Wales (1858). A vital text for scholars of democracy, Australian Studies, Political Science,...

This title has been fully updated to provide a comprehensive guide to identifying man-made threats to an organization, determining the vulnerabilities to those threats, specifying security upgrades to mitigate those threats, and acquiring and...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Finnish electoral democracy, expertly detailing both its typical representation of a stable European party democracy and its particularities such as, a personalized electoral system, a fragmented party...

Social media platforms have transformed the political landscape by revolutionizing information dissemination, citizen engagement, and public opinion formation and change. Political discourse during the 2020 election revealed political disharmony and a...

This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional political parties have lost support throughout Latin...

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This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing the actions taken by the Bush administration during the so-called "War on Terrorism" and their compliance with international law. Thomas McDonnell...

A social anxiety currently pervades the political classes of the western world, arising from the perception that young people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics. Voter turnout among 18-25 year olds continues to be lower than other...

Women, Men, and Elections sheds new light on gendered political behaviour by analysing the relationship between policy supply and gender gaps in vote choice across elections in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and multiple Western...

A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy.The Making of the President: 1960...

"Provocative and compelling." --New York Newsday "Both entertaining and insightful."--Washington Post Book World "It should be on the required reading list." --Chicago Sun-Times What Obama Means by Jabari Asim, renowned cultural critic and author of...

Wouldn't you love to abolish the IRS . . .Keep all the money in your paycheck . . .Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn . . .And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system? Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the...

In Staying Safe, Juval Aviv, a counterterrorism expert and international security consultant, outlines the essential tools for becoming personally responsible for the security and safety of yourself and your loved ones. You will learn how to safeguard...

This book establishes new theory and knowledge in the area of third sector organizations (TSOs) in Asia. Its purpose is to draw the attention of Asia's TSOs to the importance of good governance. The book documents a variety of...

Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical...

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the...

The history of Protestant mission in the world has unfolded in step with the history of the modern marketplace, defining missions success in marketplace terms. Scott Bessenecker points toward a view of missions freed of false attachments to material...

In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper...

Here is a story of  political prisoners, prisoners in addition to Flynn; white, black and Puerto Rican—and the reactions of fellow inmates and personnel to them. Her book is an early expose of the conditions that are now brought to wide public...