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Ever wonder what it would be like to have no crime in the United States; to have no criminal courts or judges. The cost of crime in this country is estimated to be around one trillion dollars a year. Can you imagine what it would be like to have that...

In the final days of the Watergate scandal, it was hard to determine who was in charge of the government. Power brokers, sensing a dying presidency, cared little about the office and worked to cut themselves the best deal in Washington. For all the right...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

New England's Struggles For Religious Liberty is a historical book written by David Barnes Ford in 1896. The book explores the religious history of New England from the colonial period to the late 19th century. It examines the various religious movements...

""History of King Charles the Second of England"" is a comprehensive account of the life and reign of King Charles II, written by the renowned historian Jacob Abbott. The book covers the period from Charles' birth in 1630 to his death in 1685, tracing...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Question Before Congress: A Consideration Of The Debates And Final Action By Congress Upon Various Phases Of The Race Question In The United States (1918) is a historical book written by George Washington Mitchell. The book provides a comprehensive...

Bodies in Revolt argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could humanize capitalism by turning employers into care-givers, creating an ethic of care in the workplace. Unlike other feminists, Ruth O'Brien bases her ethics not on benevolence,...

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm,...

The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by...

Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK.

The Social Science Wars have precipitated a renewed interest in the character, purpose and methods of social science. Positivists and naturalists are criticized by interpretivists and critical theorists, while quantitative researchers are challenged by...

"Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge of the world through its narratives, and forces us to...

Building on his seminal contributions to the field, Robert W. Cox engages with the major themes that have characterized his work over the past three decades, and the main topics which affect the globalized world at the start of the twentieth-century...

Global Feminist Politics examines the changing global context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms. It acknowledges the existence of dissent and debate among feminists, asserting that such debate leads to innovation in theory and practice...

Conspiracy theories are no longer just a curiosity for afficionados but a politically salient theme in the age of Trump, Brexit and "fake news". One of the countries that has been entrapped in conspiratorial visions is Turkey, and this book is the first...

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at...

Preface Introduction Christianism, Nationalism, Economism Economism and the Challenge of Earthism The Marketization of Society The Bretton Woods Institutions The McNamara Years Structural Adjustment A Coherent Opposition The Development Paradigm of the...

Preface Technical Note List of Maps Acknowledgements Glossary Russia's Encounter with Islam: (622-1480) Russia and its Muslim Neighbours: 1480-1881 Russia's Umma and Modernization at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Muslin's under Soviet Rule:...

Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction - A Conceptual Framework - A Simple Macro Production Model - The Classical Theory and Its Critique - Technical Change and the Profit Rate - The Capitalist Determination of Technical Change - The Consistent Path...

A collection of essays introducing and assessing the work of political theorist Wendy Brown. Includes an original essay by Brown and a reply to her critics.

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex...

Longtime political analyst and commentator Tod Lindberg goes beyond punditry to address how Jesus's words and teachings--once a radical set of ideas--have come to define our concept of government and our vision for society.

"Absence or lack is where the optimism of engineering and technology can meet the gaps of present reality for some and build an improved reality for everyone." - R. Shrivaths IyengarR. Shrivaths Iyengar has been described as many things-loyal son,...

Phil is a typical speciesist, enjoying veal parmesan, wearing leather, and buying household products that were tested on animals. Never does he question his speciesism—until he goes on a blind date with a vegan named Safiya and shortly after is...

The Assasssination Bureau kills people for cash, but it also has a social conscience. The leader of the Bureaujustifies these murders as to the social good - until he accepts a contract on himself. Truly in Jack London fashionnit is not to be outdone...

Lenin wrote this book in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. He did this because there was lettle awareness or thought between the state and revolution during the period of the Second International (1889-1914). This work by Lenin...

This book openws your eyes to Jesus walking again from the lilies of Galilee to the thorn of Golgotha. Dr. Reinhold Niebur, famed theologian, has said of this novel: "While unorthodox, it is thoroughly reverent. Some orthodox Christians might not...

Jack joined Kelly's Industrial Army at Oakland, CA in 1894 and headed for Washington, D.C.; he wrote of his experiences on the road. He reccorded his thinking while America was changing dramatically as it headed into the 20th Century. As the Army...

One of Bruno Traven's novels (jungle series) about the Mexican Revolution and the State of Chiapas where a simple Indian becomes the leader (known as The General) of a band of Indians who out maneuver the Mexican army and take their weapons (machine guns...

Eugene Debs ran for President 5 times as the candidate of the Socialist Party of America. The last being in 1920 while he was in a fe3deral penitentiary. He received nearly 1,000,000 votes in that election. He had been convicted by a federal court in...

Extremism does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, extremism is a relative concept that often emerges in crisis situations, taking shape within the tense and contradictory relations that tie marginal spaces, state orders, and mainstream culture. This...

A company of scholars survey the spectrum of southern politics and politicians and attempt to answer the question "Is there a southern political tradition?"

In a world of constant change, how does one balance life as an individual, as a person of faith, as a citizen? Anton K. Jacobs, author, clergyman, and professor, addressed this challenge for eight years in his bi-weekly newspaper column, My Country, My...

Authors PrefaceIt is impossible for a man to learn, what he thinks he already knows! Most Americans believe that the U.S Government is protecting privacy rights and private property. The sad truth is, through the Act of 1871, and HJR 192, our government...

“Your writing is terrific.” - Stephen Stone,editor of www.RenewAmerica.us.“The unveiling of a masterpiece. A classicworth reading over and over.” - The authorAlthough Martin Luther King, Jr. had a well-written “dream,” OUR FOUNDINGFATHERS ‘HAD A DREAM,’...

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