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The Revolution Betrayed

by , Leon Trotsky

This early work by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains his analysis of Socialism, the Soviet State and Economics of Russia during the early...


Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World (New in Paperback)

by Bruce K. Rutherford

Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Egypt...


Reinhold Niebuhr's Paradox: Paralysis, Violence, and Pragmatism

by Daniel Malotky

We are caught between tendencies toward moral paralysis and postures of violence, with their intellectual birthing grounds reflected even among those who consciously seek to avoid them. Reinhold Niebuhr’s...


Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories

by Ted Widmer & Caroline Kennedy

In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording...


On the Land: Confronting the Challenges to Aboriginal Self-Determination

by Bruce W. Hodgins & Kerry A. Cannon

Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec or of Canada or to secede on their own.


Left Wing Democracy In The English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley

by , David Petegorsky

Originally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in...


American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence

by Justin B. Dyer & David L. Boren

American Soul brings together a variety of primary source documents related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various speeches and writings assembled together demonstrate...


Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power

by Jesse Ferris

Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in...


That Broader Definition of Liberty: The Theory and Practice of the New Deal

by Brian Stipelman

Stipelman offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them. It draws upon a mixture of history, American political development,...


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich

by William H.F. Altman

By subjecting Nietzsche to a Platonic critique, Altman punctures his “pose of untimeliness” while making use of Nietzsche’s own aphoristic style of presentation. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for...


The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs

by Peter Hitchens

Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the...


Crisis of Global Sustainability

by Tapio Kanninen

This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development, proposing...


Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One's Own

by Jean-Pierre Cabestan & Aleksandar Pavkovi?

The boundaries between secessionism and separatism are often blurred, and in many cases study of secessionism encompasses that of separatism and vice versa. Recognising this inherent relationship, this book...


The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration

by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Ninna Nyberg Sorensen

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments...


The Charismatic Principle in Social Life

by Luigino Bruni & Barbara Sena

Max Weber laid the foundations for the meaning of 'charisma' in modern secular usage. This new volume argues for the importance of the 'charismatic principle' in history, economics and society.

This volume brings...


Law and the Politics of Reconciliation

by Veitch

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic...


Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the Poor

by David Hulme

Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this...


`How Best Do We Survive?': A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims

by Kenneth McPherson

This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of...


Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political

by James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen

Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed...


Zizek's Politics

by Jodi Dean

A critical introduction to the political thought of one of the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today. Zizek's Politics provides an original interpretation and defence of the Slovenian...