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Book SynopsisIt is common knowledge that Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in 1948 by a Hindu militant, shortly after India had both gained her independence andost nearly a quarter of her territory to the new state of Pakistan.esser known is assassin Nathuram Godse''s motive. Until now, no publication has dealt with this question, except for the naked text of Godse''s own defence speech during his trial. It didn''t save him from the hangman, but still contains substantive arguments against the facile glorification of the Mahatma. Dr Koenraad Elst compares Godse''s case against Gandhi with criticisms voiced in wider circles and with historical data known at the time or brought toight since. While the Mahatma was extolled by the Hindu masses, politicaleaders of divergent persuasions who had had dealings with him wereess enthusiastic. Their sobering views would have become the received wisdom about the Mahatma if he hadn''t been martyred. Yet, the author also presents some new considerations in Gandhi''s defence from unexpected quarters.

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Book SynopsisIn this, our 75th year of Independence we needed qualityiterature around our great tribal freedom fighters. This book is a truly commendable start in that direction. Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs Our first war of Independence was not in 1857. In fact, tribal mutinies against the British began ateast 75 years before the 1857 revolution. These battles were fought with traditional bows and arrows and spears, and predated the reported political movement that came to the fore in the latter part of the nineteenth century. As we complete 75 years of Independence, it is only fair to acknowledge that a parallel freedom movement had existed in our far-flung villages and jungles, away from the mainstream freedom movement acknowledged in the books of history. The Great Tribal Warriors of Bharat is a humble attempt to honour theseargely unsung heroes of an epochal movement, whose contribution remainsargely unacknowledged. The book begins with Tilka Manjhi, who unleashed guerilla warfare to combat the British, and includes Jaipal Singh Munda, one of the most nuanced speakers of our Constituent Assembly, tracking the trajectory of this movement. These brave warriors came from all parts of India, including the Northeast and the South, and from all tribes existing in the country. This book is a rare collection and a journey into self-discovery for our civilization turned nation.

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Book SynopsisThere has been a steady and incessant campaign by Pakistan against India with effective use of the media and diplomacy. This has corrupted the imagination of impressionable minds in J&K and raised an architecture of violence, which some call the terror industry.' The Two Kashmirs is an attempt to compare Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) with the rest of Kashmir in India. It discusses the hypothesis advanced by advocates of violence and resistance in J&K about the state being on the receiving end as far as Indian economic and developmental policies are concerned.

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Book SynopsisMost Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on law and order platforms and to propose three strikes--and even two strikes--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and tough anti-crime policies are politicians'' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.Trade Review...well-written, sharply focused....provides a useful perspective on an immensely consequential issue. * Choice *...Beckett does an excellent job deconstructing the politics of crime policy in this country. * The ICCA Review of Books *Beckett immerses herself in the political, social, historical, and discursive context of crime contol in America. The result is an excellent example of how interdisciplinary research can enhance our understanding of complex social phenomena. * Journal of Criminal Justice *Table of Contents1. Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics ; 2. Setting the Public Agenda ; 3. Creating the Crime Issue ; 4. From Crime to Drugs-and Back Again ; 5. Crime and Drugs in the News ; 6. Crime and Punishment in American Political Culture ; 7. Institutionalizing Law and Order ; 8. Reconceptualizing the Crime Problem

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Book SynopsisDismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine? In many countries, officials speak of proper health care as a luxury, and convincing politicians to ensure citizens have access to quality health services is a constant struggle. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, health care has long received a tiny share of public spending. Colonial and postcolonial governments alike have used political, rhetorical, and even martial campaigns to rebuff demands by patients and health professionals for improved medical provision, even when more funds were available. No More to Spend challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi. Using the stories of doctors, patients, and political leaders, Luke Messac demonstrates how both colonial and postcolonial administTrade ReviewThis text is important for anyone interested in how powerful groups legitimize social deprivation that results in poor health among the world's impoverished by implementing inane and unhelpful solutions. Messac's study will no doubt shame the former British colonial regime, but, more important, it should arm those currently in power to break the cycle of lame excuses and spur them to provide decent health services for the people of Malawi—and wherever European colonial regimes engaged unfairly with African peoples.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Messac's work is a brave and important book, one that asks, with cold clarity and detailed historiographic work, the 'politically uncomfortable questions of distribution' that many only touch on. Through painstaking detail, the book convincingly shows how the narrative of scarcity in African health care was produced and has become reified, and the challenge it sets us as to why we have come to (largely) accept this, cannot be ignored. * Thandeka Cochrane, Social History of Medicine *In global health, there are still too many excuses for inaction. Through fieldwork and archival research, Luke Messac's book exposes the origins of arguments - ones I have heard far too often - for why we must value some human lives more than others. To win the fight for global health equity, we must first understand the colonial-era roots of the denial of quality health care to the world's poor. * Agnes Binagwaho, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda *No More to Spend is a beautifully rendered social history, but it is also a superb and humane ethnography. Like a good historian, Messac advances while looking backwards. Like a good anthropologist and a superb doctor, he casts his eyes, and his thoughts, on people like Francis, trudging forwards against long odds not of his own making. * Paul Farmer, Harvard University and Partners In Health *No More to Spend is an important book on the political origins of scarcity in health care among the world's poor. Messac's original analysis explains how the people of Malawi came to be deprived of appropriate levels of spending and care over the past 100 years. This is a wonderfully thought-provoking book. * Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania *Based on an insightful and sensitive handling of a rich range of sources, No More to Spend represents a significant contribution to several fields, including the history of medicine and global health. This is an impressive analytical discussion of the wide ranging effects of the social construction of scarcity and the impact of new, effective medication in colonial and postcolonial Malawi (Nyasaland). * Markku Hokkanen, University of Oulu *In this masterful contribution to the emerging subdiscipline of global health history, Luke Messac examines the trajectory of health care in the former British colony of Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present. Fascinating and methodologically meticulous. * Ted Schrecker, Newcastle University *Messac has created an engaging and lively study of how powerful people make scarcity look inevitable. By carefully examining how international and national policy has affected health care spending in a single state, he's able to show both the human cost of longstanding patterns of underfunding and the means by which people have sometimes forced their leaders - colonial and postcolonial - to do better. * Claire Wendland, University of Wisconsin-Madison *This text is important for anyone interested in how powerful groups legitimize social deprivation that results in poor health among the world's impoverished by implementing inane and unhelpful solutions. Messac's study will no doubt shame the former British colonial regime, but, more important, it should arm those currently in power to break the cycle of lame excuses and spur them to provide decent health services for the people of Malawi—and wherever European colonial regimes engaged unfairly with African peoples.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Messac's work is a brave and important book, one that asks, with cold clarity and detailed historiographic work, the 'politically uncomfortable questions of distribution' that many only touch on. Through painstaking detail, the book convincingly shows how the narrative of scarcity in African health care was produced and has become reified, and the challenge it sets us as to why we have come to (largely) accept this, cannot be ignored. * Thandeka Cochrane, Social History of Medicine *In global health, there are still too many excuses for inaction. Through fieldwork and archival research, Luke Messac's book exposes the origins of arguments - ones I have heard far too often - for why we must value some human lives more than others. To win the fight for global health equity, we must first understand the colonial-era roots of the denial of quality health care to the world's poor. * Agnes Binagwaho, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda *No More to Spend is a beautifully rendered social history, but it is also a superb and humane ethnography. Like a good historian, Messac advances while looking backwards. Like a good anthropologist and a superb doctor, he casts his eyes, and his thoughts, on people like Francis, trudging forwards against long odds not of his own making. * Paul Farmer, Harvard University and Partners In Health *No More to Spend is an important book on the political origins of scarcity in health care among the world's poor. Messac's original analysis explains how the people of Malawi came to be deprived of appropriate levels of spending and care over the past 100 years. This is a wonderfully thought-provoking book. * Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania *Based on an insightful and sensitive handling of a rich range of sources, No More to Spend represents a significant contribution to several fields, including the history of medicine and global health. This is an impressive analytical discussion of the wide ranging effects of the social construction of scarcity and the impact of new, effective medication in colonial and postcolonial Malawi (Nyasaland). * Markku Hokkanen, University of Oulu *In this masterful contribution to the emerging subdiscipline of global health history, Luke Messac examines the trajectory of health care in the former British colony of Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present. Fascinating and methodologically meticulous. * Ted Schrecker, Newcastle University *Messac has created an engaging and lively study of how powerful people make scarcity look inevitable. By carefully examining how international and national policy has affected health care spending in a single state, he's able to show both the human cost of longstanding patterns of underfunding and the means by which people have sometimes forced their leaders - colonial and postcolonial - to do better. * Claire Wendland, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword Paul Farmer Introduction: The Construction of Scarcity Chapter 1: Drugs for the Tengatenga, 1861-1919 Chapter 2: "Territories of Vast Potentiality," 1919-30 Chapter 3: "We Have to Wait for Riots and Disturbances," 1931-41 Chapter 4: Health in Wartime Development and Postwar Visions, 1941-1952 Chapter 5: "The Partnership Between a Rider and His Horse," 1953-1963 Chapter 6: A Freedom to Die for, 1964-1982 Chapter 7: "Vaccines or Latrines?" 1983-2016 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a commentary on Aeschines' "Against Timarchos", the prosecution speech in the politically crucial trial of 346/5BC. It is a rhetorical masterpiece of misrepresentation, which persuaded the jury to convict Timarchos despite the fact that Aeschines had virtually no evidence of his misdeeds.Trade ReviewFisher provides an invaluable historical commentary and an extensive introduction, which summarizes much of the recent scholarship on Aeschines and Greek homosexuality ... I highly recommend Fisher's commentary for professional scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. * Classical World *

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Book SynopsisIn all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theorists have failed to provide a detailed analysis of the concept of domination in general. This study aims to redress this lacuna. It argues first, that domination should be understood as a condition experienced by persons or groups to the extent that they are dependent on a social relationship in which some other person or group wields arbitrary power over them; this is termed the ''arbitrary power conception'' of domination. It argues second, that we should regard it as wrong to perpetrate or permit unnecessary domination and, thus, that as a matter of justice the political and social institutions and practices of any society should be organized so as to minimize avoidable domination; this is termed ''justice as minimizing domination'Trade ReviewIt is surprising that a phenomenon of such obvious political and ethical significance as domination has largely escaped comprehensive analysis in the modern debate. As the title of Frank Lovett's book suggests, however, he aims to do something about this unfortunate fact. The result is a well researched and well argued book that deserves attentionLovett has thrown much needed light on a politically and morally consequential matter, and produced a work of impressive comprehensiveness in the process. Political philosophers and theorists will find much to engage with. * The Philosophical Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; PART ONE: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS ; 2. Social Relationships and Dependency ; 3. The Imbalance of Power Conception ; 4. Arbitrariness and Social Conventions ; PART TWO: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS ; 5. Domination and Human Flourishing ; 6. Domination and Justice ; 7. Applications of Minimizing Domination ; 8. Conclusion ; Appendix I: Historical Notes on 'Domination' ; Appendix II: Formal Models of Domination ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theorists have failed to provide a detailed analysis of the concept of domination in general. This study aims to redress this lacuna. It argues first, that domination should be understood as a condition experienced by persons or groups to the extent that they are dependent on a social relationship in which some other person or group wields arbitrary power over them; this is termed the ''arbitrary power conception'' of domination. It argues second, that we should regard it as wrong to perpetrate or permit unnecessary domination and, thus, that as a matter of justice the political and social institutions and practices of any society should be organized so as to minimize avoidable domination; this is termed ''justice as minimizing domination'Trade ReviewReview from previous edition It is surprising that a phenomenon of such obvious political and ethical significance as domination has largely escaped comprehensive analysis in the modern debate. As the title of Frank Lovett's book suggests, however, he aims to do something about this unfortunate fact. The result is a well researched and well argued book that deserves attention...Lovett has thrown much needed light on a politically and morally consequential matter, and produced a work of impressive comprehensiveness in the process. Political philosophers and theorists will find much to engage with. * The Philosophical Quarterly *Table of ContentsPART ONE: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; PART TWO: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS

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Book SynopsisAround the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing their political identities--including a transnational Muslim identity--online. In countries where political parties are illegal, the internet is the only infrastructure for democratic discourse. In others, digital technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have given key actors an information infrastructure that is independent of the state. And in countries with large Muslim communities, mobile phones and the internet are helping civil society build systems of political communication independent of the state and beyond easy manipulation by cultural or religious elites. This book looks at the role that communications technologies play in advancing democratic transitions iTrade ReviewA long-awaited inquiry into the politics of the Internet...Howard's book is an innovative contribution among the overwhelming amount of writings about the role of the Internet in the Middle East...Howard puts much effort in explaining the multifaceted results, adding tables to summarize important findings. This nuanced approach is a pleasant break from the often-found urge for absolute (utopian or dystopian) claims...The book is highly recommended as required reading for technology experts, graduate students, and longer serving academics alike. * Political Communication *At a time when everyone is asking whether new media affects politics in the Mid-East, Philip Howard has produced the definitive answer in his book. This is an impressive work of scholarship, both in its quantitative approach to international affairs and in its conclusions, which will be of interest to social scientists and policy makers alike. * Clay Shirky, New York University and author of Cognitive Surplus *This book presents a most challenging and original analysis of the cultural and political dynamics of the Muslim world through the lens of the interaction between communication technology and politics. It breaks new ground in our understanding of the implications of digital technology for socio-political change. It will become a reference in political communication for the years to come. * Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California-Los Angeles *For too long the literature on the politics of the new information technologies has been empirically thin and theoretically overheated. By substituting systematic empirical analysis for anecdote and nuanced interpretation for hyperbole, Howard has written an original and important book that scholars of comparative politics, democratization, contentious politics and the new information technologies will be obliged to read. As he provocatively reminds us (quoting Kranzberg), 'technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. * Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies, Stanford University *In contests between dictatorship and democracy, new media exert increasingly determinative influence. Philip Howard provides a detailed, thoughtful analysis of how the flow of information and tools of communication are reshaping global politics. * Philip Seib, Director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE: REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE DIGITIZED; INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM MEDIA SYSTEMS; CONCLUSION: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRATIC ISLAM; REFERENCES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisA vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics, tools for rival interests, and weapons of war. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Headrick illuminates the political aspects of information technology, showing how in both World Wars, the use of radio led to a shadowy war of disinformation, cryptography, and communications intelligence, with decisive consequences.Trade ReviewA mine of useful information for communication researchers....The data presented here represent a major contribution to the field and will be of immense value to scholars interested in the historical linkages between mass media and communication technology .A refreshing-and relativizing-historical perspective. * Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsContents ; 1 Telecommunications and International Relations ; Characteristics of Electrical Communications ; Telecommunications and World History ; International Telecommunications as a Field of Study ; 2 New Technology ; Origins of the Telegraph ; International Telegraphic Cooperation ; The First Submarine Telegraph Cables ; The Mediterranean Cables ; The First Atlantic Cables ; The Red Sea Cable ; Telegraphs to India ; Conclusion ; 3 The Expansion of the World Cable Network, 1866-1895 ; The Technology of Cables ; The Atlantic Cables ; The Cable Companies ; Cables to India and Australia ; Cable Rivalries in the West Indies and Latin America ; Across Russia to Japan ; Commercial Codes and the International Telegraph Union ; Conclusion ; 4 Telegraphy and Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century ; The Telegraph in India ; The Telegraph in Indochina ; Cables and News in the French West Indies ; The Telegraph in China ; The East African Cables ; The West African Cables ; Cables and Colonial Control ; Conclusion ; 5 Crisis at the Turn of the Century, 1895-1901 ; Telegraphy and Diplomacy ; British Cable Strategy to 1898 ; Telegraphic Delays and French Imperialism ; Germany and the Azores Affair ; The Spanish-American War ; The Fashoda Incident ; The British Strategic Cable Report of 1898 ; The Boer War ; 6 The Great Powers and the Cable Crisis, 1900-1913 ; The British Pacific Cable and the "All-Red" Routes ; British Cable Strategy, 1902-1914 ; The American Cables ; France and the Cable Crisis ; Germany and the Cable Crisis ; Conclusion ; 7 The Beginnings of Radio, 1895-1914 ; Marconi and the Birth of Wireless Telegraphy ; The Marconi Monopoly and the Reaction of the Powers ; Technological Change and Commercial Rivalries ; The U.S. Navy and Radio to 1908 ; The Continuous Ware, 1908-1914 ; French Colonial Wireless ; German Long-Distance and Colonial Radio ; The British Imperial Wireless Chain ; Conclusion ; 8 Cables and Radio in World War I ; The Jitters of July 1914 ; Allied Attacks on German Communications ; German Attacks on Allied Communications ; Allied Communications during the War ; Censorship ; Propaganda ; Conclusion ; 9 Communications Intelligence in World War I ; Government Cryptology before 1914 ; Communications Intelligence on Land ; British Naval Interception and Direction-Finding ; German Codes and British Cryptanalysis in 1914 ; British Naval Intelligence, 1915-1916 ; The U-Boat War, 1917-1918 ; German Communications Intelligence ; The Zimmerman Telegram ; 10 Conflicts and Settlements, 1919-1923 ; The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ; The Washington Conferences of 1920-1922 ; The Struggle over Cables to Latin America ; The Radio Corporation of America ; British Radio, 1919~1924 ; German and French Radio to 1924 ; Radio in Latin America and China ; Conclusion ; 11 Technological Upheavals and Commercial Rivalries, 1924-1939 ; The Distribution of Cables in the World in 1923 ; Cable Technology in the 1920s ; The New Cables, 1924-1929 ; ITT and the Telephones ; The British Reaction ; French Colonial Shortwave ; The International Impact of Shortwave ; The British Communications Merger ; Responses to the British Merger ; The British Dilemma: Profits versus Security ; Conclusion ; 12 Communications Intelligence in World War II ; British and German Communications Intelligence to 1936 ; Cipher Machines ; The Approach of War, 1936-1939 ; The Outbreak of War, 1939-1940 ; British Communications Intelligence in Wartime ; German Communications Intelligence in Wartime ; The Battles of Britain and North Africa ; German Spies and Allied Radio Deception ; Funkspiele, Resistance, and the Normandy Landing ; The Soviet Rings ; Conclusion ; 13 The War at Sea ; The Cable War ; Communications and Naval Warfare in the Atlantic ; The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1944 ; American Communications Intelligence before Pearl Harbor ; From Pearl Harbor to Midway ; After Midway ; 14 The Changing of the Guard ; The American Expansion ; Strategic Cables to North Africa and Europe ; The Retreat of Britain ; The Organization of Postwar Communications ; Conclusion ; 15 Telecommunications, Information, and Security ; Bibliography Essay ; Books on Submarine Telegraph Cables ; Books on Radio and Telecommunications ; Communications Intelligence ; Primary Sources ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph. —Foreign Affairs President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power, including our most sophisticated—and still unacknowledged—arsenal of cyberweapons, aimed at Iran's nuclear program.    Washington and the world were rocked by Confront and Conceal, which goes deep into the Situation Room as Obama questions whether this new weapon can slow Iran and avoid a war—or whether it will create blowback, as the Iranians and others retaliate with cyberattacks on the United States. It describes how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan, and how Obama's early idealism about fighting a war of

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Book SynopsisThis text presents a comparative, international study of commissions of inquiry that have been convened in response to extraordinary failures and scandals.In recent years, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.Table of Contents1 Toward the Comparative Study of National Security Commissions of Inquiry Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian 2 Influence without Power: Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community Andrew O'Neil 3 Public Inquiries in Canada: Making Espionage, Organizational Culture, Wrongdoing, and Mass Murder More Transparent Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker 4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain Mark Phythian 5 Inquiring into Dirty Wars: A "Huge Smokescreen of Humbug"? Peter Gill 6 The Role of Judges Ian Leigh 7 The Politics of U.S. National Security Commissions Kenneth Kitts 8 Investigative Oversight of the American Intelligence Community: Promise and Performance Glenn Hastedt 9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community Shlomo Shpiro 10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain Antonio M. Díaz Fernández 11 Cover Up or Dig Up? Inquiries into Security Services in Welfare States: The Cases of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Janne Flyghed 12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africa's Intelligence History 1960–2005 Kevin A. O'Brien 13 Commissions of Inquiry into National Security and Defense Affairs in the Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile José Manuel Ugarte 14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues Aidan Wills 15 The United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Inquiry Reid Morden 16 Inside a National Security Inquiry: The Aspin-Brown Commission at Work Loch K. Johnson Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisSafe, common-sense advice for dealing with every kind of crime—what to do, what to say, how to act, to keep a dangerous situation under controlDo you know• What to do if someone points a gun at you?• The best way to create a “safe harbor” in your home?• The safest way to escape a sidewalk attack?• How to deal with a surprise assault in your car?• The way to feel totally safe in a isolated laundry room?• And many other safe, common sense strategies for avoiding crime?After forty years of investigating over one thousand cases, Hugh C. McDonald knows what crime victims should have—and could have—done to avoid tragedy. His safe, common sense strategies for dealing with every kind of crime will help you learn in advance what to do if it happens to you.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the political influences of temples in pre-modern Japan. It uses a range of sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism and capital rather than its cause. The analysis brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas and politics.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompletely individual and very interesting.... Kushner's book is, I think, the first to treat propaganda as a profession in wartime Japan. He follows it through its various stages and is particularly interested in its popular acceptance - wartime comedy, variety shows, how entertainers sought to bolster their careers by adopting the prewar message, which then filtered down into society and took hold. Using almost entirely primary materials, which have not before been translated, Barak re-creates the wartime world in which propaganda was the truth. In so doing, he has given us an eminently readable account of an unknown aspect of the war and has defined our understanding of it." — Japan Times"[The Thought War] reveals a good deal more about Japan at war than has been available heretofore in Western languages.... This soundly researched book highlights the multiple, often ill-coordinated sources of Japan's wartime propaganda.... [It] should help considerably in advancing the urgent project of defining and assessing responsibility, not only for Japan but for all combatants, and not only for World War II but for all conflicts and modes of political violence." — Journal of Japanese Studies

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