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The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons engages with close to one thousand editorial cartoons to analyze the visual representations of President Donald Trump and his responses to six news events during his term in office. Natalia Mielczarek traces the...

How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these...

The book examines the dynamics driving the country's deeply troubled political culture and highlights reforms needed in the post-Trump era to strengthen US democracy. The author paints a clear and sobering portrait of a mercenary election industry and...

Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb...

In Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism, Wendy Sarvasy recovers the unacknowledged Progressive Era social democratic feminist refounders who used collective political agency to reshape the body politic. Through intersectional activism, or...

Resisting the Right is a handbook for surviving a far-right take-over of the United States. Today, that prospect is a frightening reality. It threatens the irreversible destruction of America's democratic system. In a powerful and necessary...

The frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account of a different, effective paradigm: unarmed civilian protection (UCP). The principles and methods of UCP...

Written in a provocative, jargon-free style ideal for stimulating classroom discussion, America's Failing Experiment directly challenges would-be reformers who believe the solution to our current political paralysis is more democracy. Kirby Goidel finds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824817213Author Suisheng ZhaoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams) 380g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938001918Author John D CorrellFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Fulfillment PressPublisher Fulfillment PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Republicans have a lot more in common with the ACLU than they think! For decades conservative Republicans have railed against the 'liberal' American Civil Liberties Union and its state affiliates for defending unpopular causes from the rights of...

Most issues in American political life are complex and multifaceted, subject to multiple interpretations and points of view. How issues are framed matters enormously for the way they are understood and debated. For example, is affirmative action a just...

In this examination of the functions of lordship in a medieval society, Benjamin Arnold seeks answers to some of the most fundamental questions for the period of political and institutional history: How did the lords maintain control over the people,...

Information is crucial for candidates in political campaigns. This book, written by someone who has polled for 23 years, first focuses on the process of acquiring information during a campaign through polling. The book describes how to write questions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815725961Author Darrell M. WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

The Politics of Values shows how Evangelical moral influence morphed into public policy and partisan political support for the Republican Party. It will show how the politics of values were used as a means to gain and hold political power, and articulate...

This pioneering study of the dynamics of city politics in one of Puerto Rico's largest townships examines the fascinating career to Benjamin Cole. A quasi-legendary figure in island politics, Cole served as mayor of Mayaguez from 1968 to 1992. His...

Since the mid-1960s it has been apparent that authoritarian regimes are not necessarily doomed to extinction as societies modernize and develop, but are potentially viable (if unpleasant) modes of organizing a society’s developmental efforts. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096411Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 732gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700604081Author Bryan D. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of KansasWeight(grams) 420g

Beginning in 2005 as a small electoral reform committee, the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections - or Bersih - soon became Malaysia's most prominent social movement, mobilising five mass demonstrations on the streets of Kuala Lumpur and other cities...

Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner's simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories...

The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. Foot takes readers from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757526336Author M Jeffrey ColbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

Cooperation over transboundary rivers, lakes and aquifers is critical to ensuring that water resources are managed in an equitable and sustainable manner, and the achievement of SDG6 (water). Transboundary waters also create social, economic,...

"Delpar provides a history of Colombia's liberal party covering a period in which it was first the dominant party (1863-1885) and then the party of opposition (1886-1899). Delpar's study is well written and firmly grounded in extensive research [and]...

This work provides a study of Chile from 1990 onwards. It explains how the Chilean military has maintained a high level of political influence in the tumultuous aftermath of dictatorial rule by Army General Augusto Pinochet, thus confounding a smooth...

Courthouse Confidential provides a groundbreaking approach to the study of management and leadership in a justice environment. Through a variety of case studies drawn from the author's professional experiences which he creatively blends with an extensive...

Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 editionSuperior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013 Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney...

Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office-the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces...

Nadir Shah took the throne of Iran after two centuries of Safavid control; but without ""political legitimacy."" Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the...

Imagining Politics critically examines two interpretations of government. The first comes from pop culture fictions about politics, the second from academic political science. Stephen Benedict Dyson argues that televised political fictions and political...

"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865439504Author John S SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 396g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022740Author Sadia HassanenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 344g

Recalling Tocqueville's exhortation for the French to ""look to America"" for a better understanding of their own government, this book reveals how much can be learned about American constitutionalism from a close study of French governance.Book...

Ethnic Diversity, Liberty and the State is an insightful study of highly centralized, unitary systems of government and the breakdown of civil society in sub-Saharan Africa. The author argues persuasively that institutional reform involving ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560727057Author Bryant WienekeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 740g

This updated volume with an additional chapter on migration and current urban agenda comprehensively analyses the extent and characteristics of urbanization in India. It assesses the nature of the policies and programmes required for urban governance and...

Through a comparison of economics and politics in two Populist states - Kansas and Nebraska - and one non-Populist state - Iowa - this work shows that economic conditions alone cannot explain why the People's Party flourished or floundered in the period...