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Negotiating Statehood
Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa.
Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in...
by Cally Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Ten years ago the Lysistrata Project asked people to take part in a worldwide act of theatrical dissent (dramatic huh?) In Dumfries and Galloway a bunch of writers responded by writing their own sketches and monologues and performing them live.
Ten years on we are revisiting...
GARDEN LIGHTING
Enlighten your knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
LIGHT IS A FASCINATING SUBJECT AND ITS USE OR MISUSE CAN CHANGE HOW THINGS APPEAR. THIS PRACTICAL GUIDE FOCUSES ON GARDEN LIGHTING AND REVEALS MANY SOLUTIONS TO GIVE YOUR GARDEN A NEW LEASE OF LIFE AFTER THE SUNSET. YOU WILL SOON SEE YOUR GARDEN UNDER A NEW LIGHT: YOU WILL REALIZE THAT YOUR GARDEN'S...
by Ian Wishart
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The battle for control of your life: the rise of democratic totalitarianism.
For the first time in history, governments are on the brink of being able to totally control your life. This is where The Truman Show meets The Omen.
Be very afraid.
The story of human history has...
Rosicrucian Centennial Celebration
AMORC in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest celebrates the 2015 Centennial Celebration of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in America.
Je suis PEGIDA „Rettet die abendländische Kultur“
„Deutschland erwacht, wir werden jeden Tag mehr!...“
Language: German
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Je suis PEGIDA „Rettet die abendländische Kultur“ „Deutschland erwacht, wir werden jeden Tag mehr!...“
Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes und der „Mainstreampresse“. „Merkel muss weg“ „Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität“...
WORK HARD FOR THE KIMS!
An introduction to North Korean history, ideology, and culture through the country's propaganda posters
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The goal of this brief book is to use North Korea’s unique, occasionally beautiful, often threatening propaganda posters to introduce and highlight the country’s history, ideology, and culture. This is not an art critique or an examination of color and painting - the goal is to provoke thought...
Failed States
Realities, Risks, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The issue of state failure is both overly sensationalized and under-appreciated in popular discourse. In the West, failed states are too readily associated with terrorist activities. Likewise, publications such as the Failed States Index greatly exaggerate the number of countries with extreme political...
The Undeserving Poor
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all...
by Michael Leifer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Problems of internal and external security in South-East Asia have persisted as one set of competing global alignments has been succeeded by another, with major impact on regional relationships. This book, first published in 1989, examines how the states of The Association of South-East Asian Nations...
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe
Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Since its inception, one of the distinguishing features of the project of European integration has been the overcoming of internal borders. This aim has had one of the most remarkable outcomes in the history of cross-border cooperation, resulting in the creation of territorial structures known as...
Why Are You Here?
A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Why Are You Here?: A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function,...
Overcome prejudice
Overcome
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Prejudice damages many things. Let's deal with this in this book.
The State of State Theory
State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs....