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  • The Foundations of Modern Arms Control

    An International History, 1815-1968

    by Robert M. Blum ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.The narrative begins after the Napoleonic wars when newly arisen peace movements focused on arbitration as a path to “ending the war system.” It moves on to the international community’s embrace of “total and complete disarmament” ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Musings of an American Artist in Japan

    by Robert Frederick Blum ...
    Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903), American Lithographer and Watercolorist spent much of his time in Europe, but visited Japan in 1890 and spent three years there. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

    Evidence from Longitudinal Research

    by Shameem Oomur, Susan E Luczak, Aleksandra Szymczyk, Haridhan Goswami, Gary Pollock, Workneh Yadete, Maheen Sultan, Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Robert Blum, Leah Koenig, Laurence Steinberg, Emma Sorbring, Ann T. Skinner, Concetta Pastorelli, Patrick S Malone, Qin Liu, Sevtap Gurdal, Kenneth Dodge, Laura Di Giunta, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Marc Bornstein, Dario Bacchini, Suha M Al Hassan, Liane Peña Alampay, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Sombat Tapanya, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E Lansford, Sheri A Lippman, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Jennifer Ahern, Torsten B Neilands, Emily Agnew, Audrey Pettifor, Ilze Plavgo, Lilli Loveday ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to ... Read more

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  • Adolescent Health Care

    Clinical Issues

    Edited by Robert W. Blum ...
    Adolescent Health Care: Clinical Issues provides an understanding of the main health problems and concerns facing teenagers. This book discusses the major legal decisions and thinking on confidentiality, consent, minor's right to health services, and the limitations of parental and medical authority. Organized into seven parts encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the main ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Challenges to Democratic Participation

    Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism

    by Elena Alessiato, Walter Baber, Robert Bartlett, Christian Blum, Jonardon Ganeri, Volkan Gül, Vincent Jungkunz, Bruno Serra, Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte ...
    This book gathers a series of studies by scholars who have dedicated these last few years to research in the field of participatory democracy. Their purpose is precisely to engage in a theoretical discussion about the value of participatory democracy in the 21st century.Part I deals with the challenge of antipolitics. This is one of the greatest challenges faced by contemporary democratic theory: ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • The Marshall Plan

    Dawn of the Cold War

    by Benn Steil ...
    Winner of the New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon AwardShortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize in Literary NonfictionFrom the author of Battle of Bretton Woods comes a “brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan an... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Cold War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century - Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich

    by Glen Yeadon ...
    Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra in America reveals the dark secrets of the fascist influence in the USA. While Eisenhower's troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the very cadre of American plutocrats who built and paid for Hitler's war machine. At the center of this small confederacy two firms ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Freedom Betrayed

    Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

    by Herbert Hoover ...
    In Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, former president offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II, including his frank evaluation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policies before and during the war. He also examines the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire and the eruption of the Cold War. Herbert ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus