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Hardpress Publishing Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization in the Original Documents
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Hardpress Publishing Defence of Massachusetts 1
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Hardpress Publishing Speech of Mr Holmes of Maine in the Senate of the United States on His Resolutions Calling Upon the President of the United States for the Reasons Thus Created in the Recess of the Senate 1
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Hardpress Publishing A Discourse Delivered at Plymouth December 22 1820 in Commemoration of the First Settlement of NewEngland 1
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Hardpress Publishing History of the Middle and Working Classes With a Popular Exposition of the Economical and Political Principles Which Have Influenced the Past and Rates of Wages Population PoorRa 1
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Hardpress Publishing Speech of Mr Hardin of Kentucky on Mr Adams Resolutions Concerning the Loss of the Fortification Bill of the Last Session Delivered in the House of Representatives January 28 1836 1
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Hardpress Publishing Inchiquin the Jesuits Letters During a Late Residence in the United States of America Being a Fragment of a Private Correspondence Accidentally Literature and State of Society of the U 1
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Hardpress Publishing Breve Resea Histrica De Los Acontecimientos Mas Notables De La Nacion Mexicana Desde El Ao De 1821 Hasta Nuestros Dias 1
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Hardpress Publishing Proceedings of the General AntiSlavery Convention... Held in London ...1843
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Forgotten Books Freedom Through Disobedience Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books 1870 les Causes Politiques du Dsastre Classic Reprint
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chomsky Language Mind and Politics
Book Synopsisaeo A clear and comprehensive introduction to Chomskya s work, dealing with his contributions to linguistics, philosophy, social and political thought. aeo Describes Chomskya s rationalist view of mind and human nature in a more systematic way than Chomsky himself has and investigates why this view is the most plausible one.Trade Review'This is the best all around introduction to Chomsky's work that I know of. However, it is far more than an introduction. It is an ambitious synthesis of all parts of Chomsky's views written in a manner accessible to a beginner yet thought provoking for those deeply immersed in Chomskyana. It considers Chomsky's work in the wider context of cultural and classical philosophical views on human nature, knowledge and mind. In addition, McGilvray shuns no part of Chomsky's vast work. He provides accessible and illuminating discussions of both his theoretical work in grammar, his philosophical views on the structure of mind and his political views. I recommend McGilvray's work both to neophytes interested in an introduction to Chomsky's thought and to experts interested in an illuminating discussion of "how it all hangs together".' Professor Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland 'This well written and insightful book explains accurately Chomsky's ideas about mind, language, and social ideas. Its presentation of key concepts is accessible to laypersons and is informative to the experts as well. Chomsky's key contributions to philosophy and the social sciences are well articulated. The book should be read by the general public, and all philosophers and social scientists.' Professor Julius Moravcsik, Department of Philosophy, University of StanfordTable of ContentsAbbreviations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Common Sense and Science. 2. Mapping the Mind. 3. Poverty, Creativity, and Making the World. 4. Languages and the Science of Language. 5. How to Make an Expression. 6. Meanings and Their Use. 7. Anarchosyndicalism and the Responsible Intellectual. 8. Human Nature and Ideal Social Organization. Notes. References. Index.
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MB - Cornell University Press StateBuilding Governance and World Order in the
Book SynopsisFrancis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.Trade ReviewFukuyama asserts that the lack of 'organizational tradition' in 'failed or weak' nations such as Afghanistan and Haiti represents the greatest threat to an orderly world. He argues that the United States, and the West in general, after rightly intervening in such states either militarily or economically (most often through the IMF or World Bank), have failed to transfer institutional and public- and private-sector know-how to needy countries.... Since he sees the 'international community' represented by the United Nations as a myth because it lacks a military, the mantle of leadership must be worn by the U.S., at great risk to itself.... Fukuyama's ideas will no doubt be much discussed. * Publishers Weekly *Fukuyama is a wonderful synthesizer of grand subjects, an adventurer who doesn't mind summing up the history of development theory in one chapter and the history of organizational theory in the next. He pulls this off with minimal resort to jargon, and he pulls the reader along with him. * Washington Post Book World *Fukuyama persuasively argues that the great problems of our day—'from poverty to AIDS to drugs to terrorism'—result not from excesses of the state but from its persistent weakness or utter failure in many countries....' State collapse or weakness had already created major humanitarian and human rights disasters during the 1990s in Somalia, Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor.' Americans once could believe that such disasters would affect us only to the degree that we chose to help out by sending cash or peacekeepers. But 9/11, of course, showed that even a rich and powerful country remains vulnerable to catastrophes brewed in distant, troubled lands. * Baltimore Sun *This is a very useful, intelligent, and short book by Francis Fukuyama, a leading political thinker. It examines a central issue in the age of terrorism: the perils (and sometimes necessities) of 'state-building' in weakened failed states. One hopes it will become a must-read for State Department policymakers. * National Review *Table of Contents1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness The Contested Role of the State Scope versus Strength Scope, Strength, and Economic Development The New Conventional Wisdom The Supply of Institutions The Demand for Institutions Making Things Worse2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations The Ambiguity of Goals Principals, Agents, and Incentives Decentralization and Discretion Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications3. Weak States and International Legitimacy The New Empire The Erosion of Sovereignty Nation-Building Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level Beyond the Nation-State4. Smaller but StrongerBibliography Index
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Wildside Press The Prince
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Bookvault Publishing Bear Necessities of Politics and Power
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Anagrama Ensayos Sobre las Discordias
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Democracia monitorizada en la era de la nueva
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thomas Paine Social and Political Thought
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OUP Oxford Devolution in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisThe issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis. This book places recent developments in the United Kingdom in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone''s espousal of Home Rule in 1886 right up to the 1998 legislation governing the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. As well as considering what devolution will mean for Scotland and Wales, and how it will work in practice, Vernon Bogdanor discusses parallels with earlier devolution debates, giving special attention to the issue of Irish Home Rule which dominated British politics from 1886 to 1914. He also examines the experience of devolution in Northern Ireland and analyses the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, as well as considering the impact and implications of the new arrangements for the government of London under the Mayoral system implemented in May 2000. Devolution in the United Kingdom cuts across the boundaries of diTrade Reviewlucid, informed, thorough and intellectually provocative. Rodney Barker, History of Parliament, 2000.Bogdanor ... sets out with meticulous clarity the difficulties and complexities of constructing constitutional responses to political demands for a match between politics and powers. Rodney Barker, History of Parliament, 2000.Review from previous edition '...But despite the chaotic birthing of the new arrangements, there is a rational and even conservative case for them, one which Bogdanor puts better than I have seen it done elsewhere...' * TLS *Table of Contents1. The Making of the United Kingdom ; 2. Irish Home Rule ; 3. Northern Ireland ; 4. Scotland ; 5. Wales ; 6. London (chapter tbc) ; 7. Devolution: Challenge, Defeat, and Renewal ; 8. Legislating for Devolution: The Constitutional problems ; The Basic Structure ; Government Formation and dissolution ; The Electoral System ; The West Lothian Question ; Financing Devolution ; The Welsh Model ; The English Dimension ; The European Dimension ; 8. Conclusion: Federal Devolution ; Notes ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Index
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Oxford University Press North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order
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OUP USA Equality and Partiality
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays, based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual. Nagel attempts to clarify the nature of the conflict - one of the most fundamental problems in moral and political theory - and concludes that its reconciliation is the essential task of any legitimate political system.Trade ReviewThomas Nagel is just about the most interesting philosopher of our day ... [his] deftness of touch and delicacy of intellectual imagination are exactly what the subject demands. * Alan Ryan, Times Literary Supplement *
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Oxford University Press Inc At War with Ourselves
Book SynopsisAs correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America''s role in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the future. Using colorful vignettes and up-close reporting from his coverage of the first two post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Hirsh argues that America has a new role never before played by any nation: it is the world''s Uberpower, overseeing the global system from the air, land, sea and, increasingly, from space as well. And that means America has a unique opportunity do what no great power in history has ever done - to perpetuate indefinitely the global system it has built, to create an international community with American power at its centre that is so secure it may never be challenged. Yet Americans are squandering this chance by failing to realize what is at stake. At the same time that America aTrade Review"Balanced, judicious, thoughtful and engagingly written."--Washington Post Book World"An ideal primer for general readers trying to fathom the promise and peril of global politics."--Booklist"Hirsh's judgement is sound. His book is well-informed, historically literate, nonidelogical common sense. That may sound like faint praise, but in an America that sometimes seems poised between reckless adventure and helpless inertia, centrist common sense is something to be treasured.... Hirsh outlines a sensible basis for detente between the warring hegemonists and internationalists, an America that leads without bullying. That is an accomplishment to be congratulated."--Bill Keller, The New York Times Book Review"He puts forward a strong argument in favor of the notion that Americans, with little help from their friends, have already gone a long way towards creating that integrated international society whose existence the arch-realist Hans Morgenthau denied."--The Economist"A coherent and humane approach to this confusing, war-torn world in which the most dangerous war, the one in Hirsh's title, is the philosophical battle over America's role, holding us back from working for a safer planet."--Boston Globe"Hirsh not only incorporates historical sources and the work of academics into his narrative, but he also grounds his argument in real-world observations and interviews, drawing on his past experiences as foreign editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek.... His analysis of the past decade or so of American policy makes At War With Ourselves a worthy read...a concise and coherent synthesis of the past decade's headlines into a narrative that illuminates our present situation."--Denver Rocky Mountain News"In this intelligent, sensible, and passionate book, Michael Hirsh blazes a middle path for American foreign policy between the extremes of unilateral bullying and naive meekness. With no trace of mawkishness or squishiness, he is on the side of the angels--and shows how Washington can be too."--Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs"A vivid account of today's American foreign policy debate and a powerful vision of what American foreign policy should be."--Michael Lind, author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics"Drawing on personal experience, anecdote and scholarly authority, Mr. Hirsh fashions a persuasive, plausible argument for an American policy of involvement and extensive commitment."--New York Law Journal"This is the best account of the tensions within American foreign policy today. Hirsh accurately describes America's varying attitudes towards the world and sets forth his own, intelligent ideas on what we should do. He moves easily from the telling detail to the big picture--and does it all in refreshingly lucid prose."--Fareed Zakaria, author of The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home and Abroad"A masterful account of American foreign policy in the Clinton and George W. Bush years. With compelling narratives of the personalities and policy choices that shaped the country's global relations over the last decade, Michael Hirsh brings into focus the ideas, turning points, and lost opportunities in America's confrontation with the post-Cold War era. Hirsh's book is essential reading for everyone interested in American foreign policy today." --G. John Ikenberry, author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major War"A pointed examination, both timely and lively, of the risks and responsibilities attendant in being the world's sole superpower. Since the day of Woodrow Wilson, when America's global power first became apparent, politicians have expressed discomfort at the notion that the US is anything other than a world apart. Yet, as Newsweek writer Hirsh persuasively argues, this kind of isolationist thinking is both deluded and dangerous, for 'today we simply cannot live in the world safely without setting it in order'--without, that is, removing tyrants and terrorists from the scene, but also, and more vexing, improving the lot of the rest of the planet's inhabitants.... 'Washington must get past its now-settled bias that the UN and its sister agencies are hopeless, effete institutions,' he writes, 'recognize where they have value, focus on improving their performance in those areas, and fund them accordingly.'"--Kirkus Reviews"America's profound ambivalence toward stewardship of the international system will be the 'permanent quagmire' of the 21st century, argues Hirsh in his timely contribution to recent literature on the U.S. role in the post-Cold War world.... Having been a foreign correspondent from Kosovo to Afghanistan, Hirsh reports on the discordant policies of Clinton and Bush, while providing the lay reader with an overview of the conflicts and personalities that have shaped a lackluster U.S.-foreign policy over the past decade."--Publishers Weekly
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