Through a series of thought-provoking book reviews and public policy essays, the author offers enduring insights concerning the nature of government and its relationship to the governed, particularly in America.
In einer Welt, die von Gewohnheiten und vorgefertigten Denkmustern geprägt ist, wagt ›Die Erfindung einer anderen Welt‹ einen mutigen Schritt hinaus in das Unbekannte.
An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context.
Los estudios sobre las élites han sido un fecundo campo de investigación en las ciencias sociales tal como en el caso de los países latinoamericanos lo demuestra la existencia del Observatorio de Élites Argentinas del Observatório de elites políticas e sociais do Brasil y del Observatorio de Élites Parlamentarias de América Latina.
The concept of a "e;megamachine"e; - a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity - has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.
The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the PoetBorn to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George has always been an ambitious storyteller.
In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.
Face aux incertitudes grandissantes, l’action publique, et particulièrement les politiques environnementales, reposent sur la mobilisation massive de scientifiques.
Das Buch gibt einen systematischen Überblick über die Verbreitung, die Ursachen und die Stabilität von links- und rechtsextremen Einstellungen in Deutschland zwischen 1994 und 2017.
This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire.
This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire.
This handbook gathers contributors from different disciplines of the social sciences, such as organization and management studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, to constructively discuss the kinds of transformations we need to see in coming years.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends-and with varying degrees of success.
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life.
