Books in category of Politics

Many nonprofits are reluctant to develop a policies manual, believing that it takes far too much time, effort, and expertise. …

The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but …

Getting to Silent Spring. The making of a publishing bombshell -- Author, author. The post-war machine in the garden. Control …

This book deals with the difficulty democracies face in conducting asymmetric warfare in highly populated areas without violating international humanitarian …

In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would …

Written in an accessible, journalistic style, Jihad in Paradise focuses on Southeast Asia's struggle to deal with Islamic extremists and …

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in …

This book employs the figure of curation―the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things―to explore the cultures of …

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of …

In this substantially revised and expanded version of Nikki Keddie’s classic work Roots of Revolution, the author brings the story …

Drawn from outstanding articles published in the Journal of Democracy, The Global Divergence of Democracies follows the enthusiastically received earlier …

Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how …

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and …

Biology undergraduates, medical students and life-science graduate students often have limited mathematical skills. Similarly, physics, math and engineering students have …

This book illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the twentieth century, which had a …

Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to …

Graphical queries for the purpose of searching for pictorial information are of growing interest in areas where pictures provide valuable …

This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state’s monopoly on …

Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/.Since …

“No one knows this field better than McChesney, and with this book he has reached the pinnacle.” —Matthew Rothschild, senior …

Photonic Crystals: The Road from Theory to Practice explores the theoretical road leading to the practical application of photonic band …

Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to …

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a …

In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose …

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This book, first published in 1983, examines why people prefer to talk about immigrants or ethnic minorities when they are …

The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the ''third wave'' of democratization has seen more than 60 countries …

From Afghanistan and Iraq to Europe and the United States we are engaged in one of the most heated wars …

Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations …

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sixth Extinction tells you what you need to …

What ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship? Rivalry between the two states has persisted since the partition of the British Indian Empire …

This book seeks to debunk the popular myth of an all-powerful pro-Israel lobby. Here, Kiely demonstrates how discourses surrounding American …

Drawing on collective work in fourteen countries over four years, this book reviews the state of knowledge and critical research …

As a religious tradition of the “East,” Islam has often been portrayed as “other” to the Western Traditions of Judaism …