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Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory.In this...

Ideas and discourse are essential to politics as well as to political analysis. In The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis, Vivien A. Schmidt provides a sweeping appraisal of the many ways in which scholars explain how ideas and discourse...

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern...

Taking Territory is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest remains a phenomenon today.The end of World War II seemingly brought about a decline of territorial conquest. Many have argued that a strong territorial integrity norm in the postwar...

Memoirs of Pham Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Pham Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance,...

Rightless Resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197835722Author Athanassios PlatiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836954798Author Lorenzo Cañás BottosFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new...

A rich history of the development of American minimum wage policy with lessons for today. Despite broad popular support for robust minimum wage policy, the federal minimum wage is now worth less-in real, inflation-adjusted terms-than at any time since...

Politically independent central banks such as America's Federal Reserve have enormous sway over the financial lives of citizens globally and often affect citizens differently according to their wealth. In Picking Winners, editors Lawrence R. Jacobs and...

Founded in 1919, the Federated Press (FP) collected, compiled, and distributed news to America's labor and radical newspapers. Victoria M. Grieve focuses on the lives and work of four correspondents and staffers – Jessie Lloyd, Julia Ruuttila, Virginia...

A powerful case for why majority rule-not representation-is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which...

An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace.With the post-Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, peace, and politics by returning to the thought of...

Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coauthor of Leviathan and the Air-Pump, a landmark text in...

A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that casts new light on the Young Hegelian movement and, possibly, Karl Marx.In early 1843, the Young Hegelian philosopher and activist Edgar...

Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.From the longing in which Schelling based human freedom to the "restlessness of the negative" that Jean-Luc Nancy famously traced through Hegel's corpus,...

This invaluable compilation on the 35th anniversary of the well-established journal International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, published as a special issue in November 2025, is a collection of 12 chapters written by renowned and leading researchers...

»First caller, good morning« – this is how a famous radio show in Benin begins. Callers can express their concerns on almost any topic of public life, if they do so precisely and politely. These programs are called grogne, and listeners can denounce...

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.In his last, profoundly innovative work, D. R. Nagaraj (1954-1998) engages with the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu,...

Examines the presidential elections from 1832 to 2020 and reveals that the unequal representation of popular vote among states and wasted votes received by popular vote winners are major causes of the split between the popular vote result and Electoral...

The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy.History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history...

Discloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.In Breaking Light D. M. Spitzer discloses the ways in which opacity and relation...

An on-the-ground study of junior police academies-contentious school-police partnerships that provide educational resources, career opportunities, and hope for social mobility. Some might see police officers as benevolent sources of protection, but in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262058872Author Giosue BaggioFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

The rapid growth of machine learning in recent years has made it a popular tool for data analysis, modeling, and predictions. As more data is generated from fluid flow simulations and experiments, the use of machine learning algorithms has become...

Forgiveness is necessary in the long fight for a just world-but it is only possible after the oppressed are victorious For too long, revolutionary social movements have reconciled to defeat. We must start winning again. Forgiveness is a crucial...

From the bestselling author of Brown Is the New White, an explosive new argument for draining the swamp of white male privilege"Steve Phillips situates our present crisis exactly where it belongs-within the long, unfinished struggle to make real the...

A comprehensive collection of best practices in public health education.In an era shaped by the seismic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and politically derived challenges, the second volume of Teaching Public Health offers a timely and essential...

How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality-and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226750064Author Emily DuftonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538758144Author Dr Rachel ZoffnessFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Since the 2003 UNESCO Convention, cultural heritage policies have promoted diversity and grassroots participation. Deborah Sielert explores how these global discourses do and do not unfold in three small towns in northern Germany, where Portuguese,...

A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that now pervades global politics – from the prize-winning author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race' GuardianThroughout the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668083154Author Jeanne CarstensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413333329Author Lisa FialcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint NOLOPublisher NOLOWeight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 211mm * 25mm

The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populismIn Insecurity Politics, Lorenza Antonucci examines the lived, everyday experiences that underpin political disaffection. Countering the reductive portrayals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683739005Author Mona DelahookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint PESI PublishingPublisher PESI PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and differenceHistorically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and...