Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat.
Vishwadarshan is an insight into the workings of life and the universe, its inception, creation, and cessation, received as a revelation by Mahatma Thapaliyal as a consequence of his seventeen-year-long penance in the Himalayas.
This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms.
This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive-legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood.
This book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is a seminal work that explores the principles of communism and critiques capitalist society.
En medio de la compleja tensión entre filosofía europea y filosofíalatinoamericana, José Pablo Concha Lagos examina la vigencia delhumanismo a partir de la configuración conceptual del pensamientoregional que da cuenta de la especificidad de les sujetes latinoamericanesatravesades no solo por la historia de subyugación de Occidente, sinotambién por luchas reivindicatorias.
This book outlines the history of same-sex marriage, explaining how politics and religion have intersected to decide and control who can legally marry.
Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.
Esta obra colectiva explora las ideas políticas y valores que inspiran las decisiones de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos o, en otras palabras, los presupuestos de justicia (con minúscula) que subyacen en el ejercicio de su rol como institución encargada de administrar Justicia (con mayúscula).
Este libro se basa y se inspira en la visión epistemológica de la obra del antropólogo Gregory Bateson titulada Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1976) y en la obra de James Lovelock GAIA: Una nueva visión de la vida sobre la Tierra (1983) que por primera vez presenta a la Tierra como un ser vivo.
This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.
This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.
Britain s best philosopher he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world.
Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities.
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.
Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities.
For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.
Using political discourse analysis, this book examines the extent to which the salient approaches of previous leadership generations have translated into present day policies shepherded in by Xi Jinping.
Using political discourse analysis, this book examines the extent to which the salient approaches of previous leadership generations have translated into present day policies shepherded in by Xi Jinping.
The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page'Lifescapes is the universe in miniature'DAILY TELEGRAPHIt is soul that I go looking for.
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information.
The Allied Bombing of Central Italy examines the results of the Second World War Allied bombing campaign on Palestrina and Rome, Italy, and the long-term impact of the war on the mountainside town and on the Barberini family's art collection including the Nile Mosaic.
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information.
La idea central de este libro es reestudiar el mito del paraíso y la caída de la humanidad que se narra en los primeros capítulos de la Biblia, e investigar hasta qué punto lo dicho en el lenguaje propio de los mitos coincide con lo que enseña la antropología moderna sobre el Homo sapiens paleolítico y la posterior revolución agraria de la que emergió el fenómeno social de la civilización.
