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The Politics Book
From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas
Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon
Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today — Mao Zedong,
Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more — The Politics Book clearly and simply
explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political
thought.
With easy-to-follow graphics, succinct quotations, and accessible
text, The Politics Book is an essential reference for students and anyone wondering
how politics works
Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Council
on Foreign Relations Books)
Who Stole the American Dream? Who Stole the American Dream?
Popular Theatre in Political Culture: Britain and Canada in focus
(Intellect Books - Play Text)
The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass
media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This
study traces the development of various types of community theatre in Britain
and Canada, from the '70s to the present day. Attention is drawn to several key
issues including: distinctions between popular and mainstream theatre; the
Theatre in Education movement; influence of Theatre for Development from Africa
and Asia; popular theatre as an art form, a process of self-empowerment and an
instrument of cultural intervention. The book follows an innovative structure,
integrating a comparative history of popular theatre with the contributions of
current, active popular theatre makers. The co-authors, one British, one
Canadian, shape their discourses around these contributions so that the
authentic voices are neither mediated nor distorted. The book is thus designed
to appeal both to the theatrical practitioner and to the academic.
The New Science of Politics
Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan
How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the
problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural
categories (race, class, and ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences
in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial
asymmetries of age, sex, and former caste.
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social
Life (Stanford Law Books)
Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with
information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people
really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated
is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this
is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of
information. Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to
concern about control over personal information, she warns that basic
distinctions between public and private, informing many current privacy
policies, in fact obscure more than they clarify. In truth, contemporary
information systems should alarm us only when they function without regard for
social norms and values.
Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges
(East Gate Books)
Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing
World (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
The Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications
to Social Philosophy (Books I-II)
A comprehensive treatment of economic thought, this book touches on
the range of micro- and macroeconomic topics, including taxation, national
debt, and theories of money, production, and prices.
The Politics of Peace: Ephesians, Dio Chrysostom, and the Confucian
Four Books
Although scholarship has noted the thematic importance of peace in
Ephesians, few have examined its political character in a sustained manner
throughout the entire letter. This book addresses this lacuna, comparing
Ephesians with Colossians, Greek political texts, Dio Chrysostom's Orations,
and the Confucian Four Books in order to ascertain the rhetorical and political
nature of its topos of peace. Through comparison with analogous documents both
within and without its cultural milieu, this study shows that Ephesians can be
read as a politico-religious letter 'concerning peace' within the church. Its
vision of peace contains common political elements (such as moral education,
household management, communal stability, a universal humanity, and war) that
are subsumed under the controlling rubric of the unity and cosmic summing up of
all things in Christ.
Psychic politics: an aspect psychology book
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy (Philip E.
Lilienthal Books)
Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and
what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a
"barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a
long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays
Gries explores the roles of perception and sentiment in the growth of popular
nationalism in China. At a time when the direction of China's foreign and
domestic policies have profound ramifications worldwide, Gries offers a rare,
in-depth look at the nature of China's new nationalism, particularly as it
involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations--two bilateral relations
that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the
twenty-first century. Through recent Chinese books and magazines, movies,
television shows, posters, and cartoons, Gries traces the emergence of this new
nationalism. Anti-Western sentiment once created and encouraged by China's
ruling PRC has been taken up independently by a new generation of Chinese.
Deeply rooted in narratives about past "humiliations" at the hands of
the West and impassioned notions of Chinese identity, popular nationalism is
now undermining the Communist Party's monopoly on political discourse,
threatening the regime's stability. As readable as it is closely researched and
reasoned, this timely book analyzes the impact that popular nationalism will
have on twenty-first century China and the world.
Introduction to political concepts
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Modern Political Biography
Provides over 2500 biographies and 70 feature biographies of the
world's major players in 20th-century politics
This reference work includes
leading politicians, prominent trade unionists, heads of state and government,
state governess, influential public servants, campaigners and political spies.
The Politics of National Security: Congress and U.S. Defence Policy
(Twentieth Century Fund Book)
Over the past twenty years, a revolution has occurred in relations
between the American executive and legislative branches. Once a passive
observer of the President's decisions on defense policy, the Congress has
assumed a more aggressive role in decisions on the defense budget, arms control,
war powers, sales of weapons abroad, and covert operations Based on interviews
with members of Congress and their staffs, The Politics of National Security
describes and analyzes this fundamental change in the United States political
system, concentrating on the political factors behind the Congress' greater
assertiveness.
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith