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In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range...

This book is a comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context. The updated edition of this bestseller also explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump...

The first book to unearth the Christchurch massacre's fascist roots and examine what it represents and threatens. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not random. They...

Condemnations of "victim politics" are a familiar feature of American public life. Politicians and journalists across the ideological spectrum eagerly denounce "victimism." Accusations of "playing the victim" have become a convenient way to ridicule or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434432Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad EditionsDimensions(mm) 228mm * 160mm * 20mm

The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489898Author Thomas SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to 'make America great again', Xi Jinping calls for a 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese people', and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. But it is Brexit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957576821Author Paul CudenecFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Paul CudenecPublisher Paul CudenecWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809287Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

In Workers ' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina 's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers ' occupy movement that surged at the...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.Although illiberalism is most often discussed in political and...

Taking seriously the "W Stands for Women" rhetoric of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how "W" stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist...

This study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas; that she intended her work to liberate and empower and to restore our capacity for concerted political action whilst at the same time developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, all...

In this highly topical introduction, Professor Raymond Wacks explains and evaluates the leading theories of justice that have shaped our societies and their legislative and judicial systems, and explores the extent to which fundamental notions like...

This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm, the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism and the ways in which our everyday lives in the Global North reproduce and facilitate this...

The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with leaders, rank-and-file members and dissidents, as well as a wide range of original written sources, the...

Presents a comparative and textual exploration of Gramsci's interpretation of Machiavelli's political analyses. This valuable contribution to our understanding of Gramsci includes a comparison of the major Machiavellian ideas such as the nature of...

One of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices," making it impossible for politicians to solve...

The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate a slaveholding culture as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals in his new book, this was not...

In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political, and cultural life, using his study of the social sciences to inform his political thought. In the mid-twentieth...

The military victories of ISIS have overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused on ISIS' savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters. However, in order to explain its success, a...

Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authormmerman /f Joseph /i F.Book InformationISBN 9780275921323Author Joseph F. ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique...

Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labelled 'moderates' for fear of losing elections. Why Not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390961153Author Gautam R. DesirajuFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdDimensions(mm)...

Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really entail, and how new is it? While much has been written about our high-speed society in the popular media,...

Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies-for example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism,...

This book provides both an introduction to utopianism and a general perspective on radical political thought. Vigorously disputing the widespread conviction that utopianism is a fantasy with no relevance to modern political life and thought, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999949273Format PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bowden & BrazilPublisher Bowden & BrazilWeight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 9mm

Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this important work will make a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory. It will be of great interest to...

Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. Paul Robinson's comprehensive survey covers...

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374610197Author David GraeberFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But...

'No true Christian could vote for Donald Trump.' 'Real Christians are pro-life.' 'You can't be a Christian and support gay marriage.' Assertive statements like these not only reflect growing religious polarization but also express the anxiety over...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of the Dutch Parliament and the author of the international bestseller "Infidel", was raised as a Muslim fundamentalist in Kenya. A feminist, political analyst, writer, and fierce critic of her former...

Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious-even Christian-origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half...