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Giving

"I wrote this book to encourage you to give whatever you can, because everyone can give something... And there's so much to be done, down...

The social contract

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Kikuyu social and political institutions

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The individual and society

The Power Broker - Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundre...

Political Control of the Economy

Speculations about the effects of politics on economic life have a long and vital tradition, but few efforts have been made to determine ...

Before the Best Interests of the Child

Readers may welcome some explanation why our three authors reversed the sequence of events by tackling the problems of beyond the best in...

Emerging Human Rights - The African Political Economy Context

This book, a collaborative effort by Port-Harcourt University, Nigeria, and the University of Denver, deals with important theoretical co...

In the Midst of Wars - An American's Mission to Southeast Asia

Edward Geary Lansdale (1908-1987) truly became a legend in his own time. His mission to the Philippines in the early 1950s as an Air Forc...

Germany and the Union of South Africa in the Nazi Period

This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign policy towards the Union of South Africa from 1933-1939. Making extensive use of u...

A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield

Israel's Leadership - From Utopia to Crisis

This book analyzes Israel's leadership from the rise of the Zionist movement to the present. That leadership, Abadi holds, has been decli...

Hobbes: Leviathan - Revised student edition

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of gre...

The Macedonian Conflict - Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World

Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asser...

Who Financed Hitler - The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933

Called "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism" by "The New Yorker", this highly acclaimed work of history unravels th...

Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States

A comprehensive reference work which provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the United States. Experts in the ...

It Takes a Nation - A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty - Updated Edition

As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clichés and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor...

The Oxford History of the British Empire - The Origins of the Empire

A five-volume comprehensive assessment of the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical...

Campaign Strategies and Message Design - A Practitioner's Guide from Start to Finish

Moffitt provides the strategies, decision-making approaches, and the message composition techniques needed to conduct successful public c...

The Rise and Decline of the State

This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day.

The Corrosion of Character - The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a ...

Europe Divided 1559-1598 2e

Europe Divided is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to a complex age of movement and conflict. Professor Elliott's strong narra...

Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements

These informative entries examine the full range of modern separatist movements and insurgencies in the world today, including coverage o...

Revolutions in Sovereignty - How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations

How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states? Daniel Philpott argues that two historical revolutions in ideas are respons...

Wedge - From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War Between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security

As riveting as the best spy thriller, "Wedge" explores the fractious relationship between the FBI and the CIA and how it has endangered n...

Jewish Americans and Political Participation - A Reference Handbook

This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and f...

To Kill a Nation - The Attack on Yugoslavia

Challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind Western rhetoric.

Orientalism - Western Conceptions of the Orient

Edward W. Said was a university professor at Columbia University. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated in Egypt and the United S...

Democracy in America

Classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors'...

September 11 - A Wake Up Call

IEEE Author of the year award. The only one that answers 'Why it happened' and 'How to prevent it in future.' Something beyond the imagin...

The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader

The Cannes Film Festival jury voted unanimously to award the 2004 Best Picture Award to Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. Since then it ...

Shifting Obsessions - Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption

This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institution...

The 9/11 Commission Report - Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks ...

What is Politics? - The Activity and its Study

What is politics? Is it a universal feature of all human societies, past and present? Is it tied to specific institutional arenas? Or is ...

A Theory of Justice

Though the revised edition of "A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extens...

America the Vulnerable - How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

In this powerful and urgently needed call to action, national security expert Stephen Flynn offers a startling portrait of the radical sh...

American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic...

Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller, as sh...

The City and Man

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics," Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' ...

Democracy and Its Critics

In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and...

Security as Practice - Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy making. It provides an in...

The Clash of Civilization

Huntington argues that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-Cold War world will be cultural, rather than ideological or economi...

Pre-Electoral Alliances, Coalition Rejections, and Multiparty Governments

Governing in coalitions is a central research field in comparative political science. This book explores how pre-electoral alliances and ...

The General Principles of EU Law

The European Court of Justice has profoundly influenced the development of the legal order of the European Union through the elaboration ...

Red Scotland! - The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932

William Kenefick explores the impact of left-wing political radicalism, industrial unrest, and the Russian Revolution on the Scottish peo...

Spying on the Bomb - American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more than...

Paul D. Wolfowitz - Visionary Intellectual, Policymaker, and Strategist

With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the wo...

Partisan Families

People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, frie...

Walden

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusett...

The Secret History of the American Empire - The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How To Change The World

New York Times bestseller From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an expos...

The Politics of Electoral Systems

This ground-breaking book is the first in over 20 years to examine the operation of electoral systems in 22 countries. This thoroughly co...

Conspectus - Or Tabular Synopsis Of The British Pharmacopeia, 1867 (1868)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

The Poverty of Philosophy

Written in the winter of 1846¿7 as a response to Proudhon¿s Système des Contradictions Economique ou Philosophie de la Misère, this is es...

The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders - Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

This book identifies the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice using the research and methodology of Vincent ...

The Hungarian Political System - About the Hungarian Democracy Series

A rendszerváltást és a magyar demokrácia 1988-2008 közötti húsz évét bemutató kötet, a hazai politikai elemző elitbe tartozó szerzőhármas...

Violence - Six sideways reflections

Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic syste...

The Next 100 Years - A Forecast for the 21st Century - A forecast for the 21st century

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of t...

Young people in post-Soviet Russia - Case study on feature film ¿We are From the Future¿ (Andrei Malyukov, 2008)

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 7, Uppsala University, course:...