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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 States,...

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 States,...

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 States,...

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, language: English, abstract: This paper addresses the risks posed by climate change in terms of financial instability. The objective is to derive counteractions and...

Document from the year 2022 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: A, University of Namibia (Rundu Campus), language: English, abstract: Research has shown that poverty is a man-made phenomenon. Historical interventions to redress its rampant manifestation, especially in...

'Most books on persuasion teach the few how to sway the many. With wit and vim, Guy has given us something else: an X-ray into the tactics of those trying to change our minds and behaviour.' Stephen Krupin, former speechwriter for Barack ObamaWhen Winston...

Prime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; some consider him...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Social change is more than a political statement or demand; it is a moral and spiritual imperative. If this is so, then it involves the whole human being in the way he perceives and thinks, feels and relates, and acts on and impacts the...

Losing America: Our National Crisis of Legalities vs. Justice How Our Own Laws Are Killing America: By: Imm d'CeazeLosing America: Our National Crisis of Legalities vs. Justice was written in the last half of 2020 through the first two months of 2021, when the...

This history of Winzig challenges the often-held view that Germany under Hitler resembled one vast concentration camp. Except for the Jews, the townspeople lived much as they had before 1933. A few Winzigers profited and a few suffered as a result of the Nazi...

First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great...

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of luck egalitarianism - one of the most prominent views in contemporary political philosophy - through an exploration of the theory of one of its leading proponents, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.When (if ever) can inequalities in how well peoples'...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today's writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated (geographically,...

The book challenges white and Western feminist approaches to embodied politics, or the use of the body in everyday enactments of resistance, while mapping transgressive performances of femininities by the funkeiras, marginalized women and transfeminine people of color artists in Brazilian favela funk.Author: Thomas...

The geopolitical history of the Middle East in antiquity is principally the story of the continuing struggle for domination of the trade routes of the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea, some of the most valued of which passed through the relatively narrow strip...

Something strange is happening. COVID-19 is spreading even where compliance with public health measures are high. Many people know this from personal experience. Friends, family, and possibly they themselves are getting ill, despite religiously wearing masks. How can this be? And yet ... it...

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 -1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said...

This book provides a history of the ethnic persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and their disputed ethnic and national identity. It focuses on how the crisis has morphed into a geopolitical encounter among Bangladesh, China, India, and Myanmar. It further explores the moral,...

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-instant-kill beams like lasers. President Reagan has offered a vision of new inventions that could stop nuclear missile attacks. But...

This path-breaking addition to the Comparative Politics of Education series studies the influence of public opinion on the contemporary politics of education reform in Western Europe. The authors analyze new data from a survey of public opinion on education policy across eight countries, and...

"The current population youth bulge in Africa highly commends the timeliness of this insightful publication, focusing on the life stories of young people who have persevered to surmont interminable difficulties in order to make something of their future. The powerful messages conveyed in the...

This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple scales, and in relation to several different arenas of policy and practice. The contributors address shortcomings in the mainstream literature on governance within the discipline...

The great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, in his classic On War, introduced the idea of friction in war. Friction was one of the most important ideas that Clausewitz put forward. His application of the term is generally taken to be limited to...

A review of the previous edition: For those who teach, do research, or work in the criminal justice system, [this] book can help to increase critical thinking by uncovering some of the hidden systematic problems....A good supplemental text for any of the following courses:...

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: A, Birkbeck, University of London, language: English, abstract: This study seeks to address the issue of climate change through a human rights lens by focusing...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: Development Politics, Mohammed V University at Agdal (Institut des Etudes Africaines (IEA) - Rabat), course: Governance & Development, language: English, abstract: In the wake of its emergence unto the international scene,...

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: sehr gut, language: English, abstract: The aim of this master thesis is to explain Germany's decision to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022 and move from fossil fuels to...

A question that 21st century politicians and policy makers must answer is whether the diversity of species that existed before mankind will be preserved or succumb to the self-interests and power of policymakers. Is there global ecological apathy or can we transcend national political...

The most important contribution of this book is perhaps in the light it sheds on the institutional roots of organizations that sanction the use of indiscriminate violence to advance political objectives.Author: Omar ImadyISBN-10: 1933455039ISBN-13: 9781933455037Publisher: Msi PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2005Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Graphis Protest PosterThis book presents powerful social and political statements from international award-winning designers Takashi Akiyama (JP), Andrea Castelletti (IT), Pascal Colrat (FR), Paul Garbett (AU), Milton Glaser (US), Mark Gowing (AU), Götz Gramlich (DE), Toshiaki & Hisa Ide (US), Scott Laserow (US), Boris...

John Stuart Mill's classic has at its heart a brave (some might say Quixotic) attempt to define both the constraints on individual freedom, and the degree of coercion governments may legitimately use to limit that freedom. His solution is a "very simple principle" -...

Many people today are entranced by the idea of speaking with the dead or else immersing themselves in vampire tales and wonder. What most people don't realize is how old and revered these stories really are. Within this work Calmet attempts to show where...

We live at the doorstep of a major political reversal in the United States, and indeed around the planet. Voters today, an "anti-establishment" insurgency rattling internal politics everywhere, are waiting for the first opportunity to "jump" traditional politicians, and very happy to elect people...

In Nausea, the 1938 novel that made Sartre famous, the protagonist is a historian who abandons the biography he is writing because he comes to believe that all histories are fictional, escapist, and useless. He sought the one and only truth of history; a...

Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its...

This legislative history of the federal income tax laws from 1861 to 1938 will be useful to those arguing or ruling on tax cases. Arranged act by act in inverse chronology, it contains the texts of the committee reports and discussions of all provisions...

For almost three years, as Moscow Correspondent for CBS News, Richard Threlkeld was a close observer of the scene inside Russia and many of its old Soviet allies. This broad canvas of a book is his engaging memoir of life in the remains of...

The rise of Populist leaders offering simplistic 'solutions' to the problems of modern societies is unprecedented. Voters are increasingly rejecting the tired programs of mainstream parties that are incapable of addressing the actions that are required if western liberal-democracy is to survive and thrive....

No Tapes = No Justice Judge Brian Barnett Duff, Seventh Circuit Federal District Court; Duff talking about the audiotapes; "If you could get them, then everybody in the world could get them, and we would be playing them every night on Channel 7, Channel...

The NPS Natural Resource Challenge-an action plan to advance the management and protection of park resources-has focused efforts to inventory the natural resources of parks. A geologic inventory was administered by the Geologic Resources Division through the Geologic Resource Evaluation (GRE) Program. The goal...

This document focuses on the operational and strategic maneuver aspects of air warfare in theater and global operations. This document does not specifically address military operations other than war (MOOTW), but the doctrinal guidance in this document can be applied to MOOTW where appropriate....

A fact finding account of the devastating consequences of our failed drug war. Miller shows how drug cartels, in response to more stringent interdiction efforts, have evolved into transnational crime empires we are powerless to stop and that are destabilizing nations around the globe...

Way station to space is a history of the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, one of NASA's 10 Field Center which was built in the enormously exciting days of the Apollo program for a specific purpose-to static fire and certify the huge Saturn...

Kalakuta Diaries is a personal Narrative of events and characters that propelled and defined an African Social-political setting in the heart of Lagos Nigeria. Kalakuta was a creation of an Iconic rare-breed par excellence, whose enduring legacies has left an indelible Footprint in the...

THE NEW CONSTITUTION MOVEMENT sets out boldly to fill the void that was left after the disbanding of the Constitutional Review Commission and its Report, which became yet another casualty of the myopic self-interest of our postcolonial two-party dictatorship political system in St. Lucia...

Systems Prospects is a record of the papers presented at the first con- ference organised by the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS), held at Thwaite Hall, Hull University (UK), on the dates 12th-15th July, 1988. The UKSS originally came together in 1978 as the...

Are you tired of the way our government is doing today? This book shows you the reader what you can do about the insanity going on in Washington today. It shows what the legitimate powers of the Federal government are and its bounds it...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Wilhelm WundtISBN-10: 1443720917ISBN-13: 9781443720915Publisher:...

John Dewey was a 20th century philosopher, psychologist and education reformer. Dewey was one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. He is also one of the founders of functional psychology and was a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S....