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  • The people we could be

    Or how to be £500 better off, build a fairer society and a better planet

    by Alexander Bell ...
    Series Book 17 - Viewpoints
    We live in a time of crises in a state with no moral purpose. This generation could become great by tackling Scotland's domestic problems, and the wider issues facing the world. That is only possible if we take charge, set the goal of equality and give ourselves twenty years to transform our society. We can lead ourselves to a better world. ALEX BELL Former Head of Policy to First Minister Alex ... Read more

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  • The Dictator's Handbook

    Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    The PrinceHere is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president.When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Everything You Need to Know About The Fountainhead

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes summary and analysis of The Fountainhead's plot, characters, and main themes.Includes a short introduction about the life and political philosophy of Ayn RandIncludes a Table of Contents."The book is the story of Howard Roark's triumph. It has to show what the man is, what he wants and how he gets it. It has to be a triumphant epic of man's spirit, a hymn glorifying a man's 'I.' It has to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Viva la Revolution!

    The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions

    by Derry Nairn ...
    An insightful exploration of history's 30 most influential popular revolutions and a celebration of people power—from Boudicca's uprising in AD 60 to the Arab Spring of 2011Popular revolution has forged global superpowers, shaken empires, brought a halt to oppression, upended social and political divisions, established the first independent black nation, and given birth to legacies, ideologies, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism

    Edited by John Breuilly ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay which, by a combination of thematic focus, comparison, and regional perspective, enables the reader to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Reproductive States

    Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy

    Edited by Rickie Solinger, Mie Nakachi ...
    When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights. China's infamous "one child" policy is a well-known example of reproductive politics, but history is filled with other examples of governmental population control to advance its interests. Reproductive States is the first ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • An American History Lesson and a Wake up Call for America

    by Jack B. Walters ...
    These articles and book reports have been written in the hope that readers could believe as I do that the world, including our country, is in great danger for multiple of reasons:The spread of adherents to Islam threaten to engulf all persons of different faiths. They are winning through violence but also just by having more babies than every other culture. The leaders of Europe and America refuse ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

    by Elizabeth Weill-greenberg ...
    So you're walking out of school and parked at the gate is a new, bright red Ford Mustang with a hulk of a man in the front seat. He's sporting a razor cut and wraparound shades. Before you can pass he's out of the car and blocking your path. "Mind if I take a minute"—he has you by the arm now—"to tell you about the great life in today's Army and why you should seriously think about signing up?"The ... Read more

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  • The Guanxi of Relational International Theory

    by Emilian Kavalski ...
    This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points:it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation;it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Ideology and the Future of Progressive Social Movements

    by Rafal Soborski ...
    The last decades have witnessed a steady increase in popular discontent with prevailing neoliberal approaches to economy, policy and society. And yet neoliberalism remains dominant, even in the context of the ongoing financial crisis. The anti-neoliberal movement seems disorientated.Typical explanations of this current contradicatory situation highlight that anti-neoliberal movements are unwilling ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Italian Critics of Capitalism

    by Norberto Bobbio, Luigi Einaudi, Amintore Fanfani, Franco Ferrarotti, Guglielmo Ferrero, Antonio Gramsci, Carlo Mongadini, Adriano Olivetti, Vilfredo Pareto, Luciano Pellicani, Bruno Rizzi, Carlo Rosselli, Ernesto Rossi ...
    Over the last hundred years the history of capitalism hardly supports the idea of a dynamic equilibrium between democracy and capitalism. The unprecedented triumph of global capitalism and its stronger power of transformation are changing the nature of political community and its institutions, transforming the conditions of democratic politics and governance. The writings collected in this volume ... Read more

    $47.79 USD