Sciences Sociales / Politique / Histoire & Théorie

Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream

de Melvyn L. Fein

Liberalism is dying—despite its superficial appearance of vigor. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein, who...

Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology

de Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Do human beings become creatures of the technology they create? Is gender an artifact of the work performed by such manufactured things? Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, including...

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

de Ben Anderson & Paul Harrison

Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work...

Overcoming Fragmentation in Southeast Europe: Spatial Development Trends and Integration Potential

de Panayiotis Getimis & Grigoris Kafkalas

With the need to handle persisting problems and conflicts from the past while coping with new economic and political structures, Southeast Europe proves to be a challenging yet fruitful testing ground for establishing...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy

de Emilian Kavalski

This Companion draws a vivid picture of the full spectrum of topics, issues, and relationships that define China's international interactions. The collection therefore provides a relevant point of departure...

Teaching Politics Beyond the Book: Film, Texts, and New Media in the Classroom

de Robert W. Glover & Daniel Tagliarina

To teach political issues such as political struggle, justice, interstate conflict, etc. educators rely mostly on textbooks and lectures. However, many other forms of narrative exist that can elevate our understanding...

Democracy Gone: A Chronicle of the Last Chapters of the Great American Democratic Experiment

de Robert P. Abele

This book argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely evaporated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles....

They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons

de Jacob Heilbrunn

From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in...

Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant

de Humberto Fontova

"Cuba’s own Elvis"—that’s what Dan Rather calls him. Funny name for a man who has threatened the United States with nuclear war, who has made common cause with Islamic terrorists against the United States,...

The Divorce of Henry VIII

de Catherine Fletcher

In 1533 the English monarch Henry VIII decided to divorce his wife of twenty years Catherine of Aragon in pursuit of a male heir to ensure the Tudor line. He was also head over heels in love with his wife’s...

No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

de Linda K. Kerber

This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's...

Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

de Ira Katznelson

During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort...

Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past

de Kimberly Zisk Marten

Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping -- with devastating results locally and around the globe....

Defeating Dictators

de George B.N. Ayittey

Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist. As a result, millions have died,...

The Origins of Political Order

de Francis Fukuyama

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title  Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over...

Wrong on Race

de Bruce Bartlett

In Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett sets the record straight on a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies...

The New Cold War

de Edward Lucas

The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC,...

America's Addiction to Entitlements : Not What the Governed Meant

de DNP, Eddie R. Dunlap CRNA

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America is being consumed by entitlement spending. This important issue is surveyed in America's Addiction to Entitlements: Not What the Governed Meant.

Seventeeth- and eighteenth-century philosophers...

Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy

de Mark Chou

This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now.

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How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?

de Amitai Etzioni

In this short book, Etzioni, the well-known and respected public intellectual and communitarian thinker, charts a middle course, or third way 'between those who are committed to shore up our liberties but blind...