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W. W. Norton & Company Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy
Book Synopsis“[Kennan] comes to us…as ambassador of a generation nearly gone and a conservatism so responsible, dutiful and so long extinct it may look revolutionary….As ever, Kennan in the present book has fulfilled his responsibility admirably.” —Chicago Tribune
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WW Norton & Co The Conscience of a Liberal
Book Synopsis"The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia
Book SynopsisPolitical Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.Indonesia is a country long known for its diversity and tolerant brand of Islam. However, since the fall of Suharto, a more intolerant form of Islam has been growing, one whose adherents have carried out terrorist attacks, waged sectarian war, and voiced strident anti-Western rhetoric. Zachary Abuza's unique analysis of radical Islam draws upon primary documents such as Jemaah Islamiyah's operations manual, interviews, and recorded testimonies of politicians, religious figures, and known militants, as well as personal interviews with numerous security and intelligence experts in Indonesia and elsewhere, to paint a picture at once guardedly optimistic about the future of Indonesian democracy and concerned about the increasing role of conservative and radical Islam in Indonesian society.This book will be of Trade Review'Abuza has attempted to address the full spectrum of Islamist activism from democratization, through party-political Islamism to vigilante mujahidin activism and jihadi terrorism. No other writer has tackled so broad a sweep of movements and issues in a single volume and for this reason alone Abuza's book deserves a place on the shelf of anyone with an interest in modern Indonesia or Islam in Asia.' - Greg Barton, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Volume 29 Number 2, 2007Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Democratization and the Rise of Political Islam 3. Jemaah Islamiyah and Islamist Terrorism 4. Radical Muslim Groups and Islamist Militias 5. Common Motives, Divergent Methods: The Future of Islamism in Indonesia 6. Conclusion: Policy Implications
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Springer Study of Politics
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Penguin Publishing Group Threshold The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink
Book SynopsisFrom America's #1 progressive radio host, the idealogical heir to his influential The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight More than three million listeners tune in every weekday to hear what Thom Hartmann has to say about the state of our world. Now, as the first decade of the twenty-first century closes amid economic collapse and the seeming ruin of the American Dream, America's #1 rated progressive radio host sounds an urgent call to arms for building a better, more sustainable world-while there's still time. Offering not just an indictment of the failures that have courted economic, demographic, and environmental ruin, Hartmann also outlines five critical personal and policy solutions to bring us back from the brink. Threshold-like Jared Diamond's Collapse-is radical but rooted in common sense, illuminating the necessary next steps in the evolution of mainstream thinking.
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Basic Books How Politics Died A Culture
Book SynopsisWe are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia. Political contestation is premised on people''s capacity for offering competing visions of the future, but in a world that has run out of political ideas and no longer harbors any utopian visions, real political opposition is no longer possible. In particular, Jacoby traces the demise of liberal and leftist politics. Leftist intellectuals and critics no longer envision a different society, only a modified one. The left once dismissed the market as exploitative, but now honors it as rational and humane. The left used to disdain mass culture, but now celebrates it as rebellious. The left once rejected pluralism as superficial, but now resurrects pluralist ideas in the guise of multiculturalism.Ranging across a wide terrain of cultural and political phenomena,the end of the Cold War, the rise of multiculturalism, the acceptance of mass culture, the eclipse of independent intellectuals,Jacoby docume
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Basic Books Political Animals
Book SynopsisCan a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals , our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and history, Shenkman explores the hidden forces behind our often illogical choices. Political Animals challenges us to go beyond the headlines, which often focus on what politicians do (or say they''ll do), and to concentrate instead on what''s really important: what shapes our response. Shenkman argues that, contrary to what we tell ourselves, it''s our instincts rather than arguments appealing to reason that usually prevail. Pop culture tells us we can trust our instincts, but science is proving that when it comes to politics our Stone Age brain often malfunctions, misfires, and leads us astray.Fortunately, we can learn to make our instincts work in our favour. Shenkman takes readers on a whirlTrade ReviewAvi Tuschman, author of Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us "Political Animals takes readers on an insightful tour of political irrationality over the course of American history, bringing embarrassing political misjudgments into the light of fascinating findings from behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and the life sciences. In doing so, Shenkman shows us how we can sharpen our political perceptions and improve, each in our own small way, the future of our democracy." George E. Marcus, Professor of Political Science, Williams College "A fascinating, well-told account of how our nature both prepares and ill-prepares us for politics in the modern age." Leonard Steinhorn, Professor of Communication and Affiliate Professor of History, American University "Politics in America has this Alice in Wonderland quality: what makes sense often doesn't happen, and what happens often doesn't make sense. Drawing on science, history, psychology, mounds of evidence and political insight, Rick Shenkman's masterful book shows us why. What Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point does for society, Political Animals does for politics." Murray Polner, author of No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran and co-author of Disarmed and Dangerous, a biography of Daniel & Philip Berrigan "Rick Shenkman's Political Animals is an engrossing and unique book aimed at understanding our complex and bewildering political world and our inherited myths, lies, and quick-fix solutions that more than often than not end up disastrously in appalling conflicts at home and abroad. Relying upon innovative studies in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology as well as history, and backed by fascinating studies of presidents, people and events, Shenkman offers serious suggestions for overcoming our delusions, historical ignorance, and groupthink." Walter G. Moss, Professor Emeritus of History, Eastern Michigan University and author of An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces "In Political Animals, historian Rick Shenkman makes excellent use of the latest research in behavioral sciences to indicate why we Americans so often fail politically. And in highly readable prose he also provides wise advice on how we can do better." Bookforum "Timed almost perfectly, Rick Shenkman's Political Animals seeks to explain our erratic political behavior using a different lens, one that focuses on the role evolution plays in how we choose our leaders... [Shenkman's] conclusions are far from flattering to our intellectual vanity, but he draws on a wealth of evidence, demonstrating just how abject our dependence on our Stone Age brain can be... Telling self-proclaimed rational voters they unknowingly punished a politician for an act of God or an NFL franchise's post-season collapse seems ludicrous and insulting, but Shenkman's case is compelling." Washington Post "Shenkman mixes history with evolutionary psychology to illuminate why American voters so often misread their leaders, resist politicians who offer hard truths and succumb to facile arguments." Kirkus "Readers will appreciate [Shenkman's] personable, chatty tone and will delight in the broad allusions and the wide variety of historical incidents he cites to help make his point... he makes a convincing case about our hard-wired infirmities and how they work to undermine our democracy. An amiable tour of the socioscientific evidence that accounts for our political miscalculations." Scientific American "A timely look into psychological patterns that drive political behavior." BillMoyers.com "As another presidential campaign unfolds like a runaway circus parade, Political Animals couldn't be more timely." CapX "In this engaging, illuminating and often humourous portrait of our political culture, Shenkman probes the depths of the human mind to reveal what we must do to fix our floundering democracy, and to become more political, less animal." Christopher Parker, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington "Rick Shenkman does it again! In Political Animals, his latest--and best--book, Shenkman proffers to explain why voters so often veer away from what seems politically rational. He does so by synthesizing political science, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and history to great effect. This book is essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in grasping the roots of the political circus in which the current GOP stars."Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Mismatch: Why We Can't Trust Our Instincts PART I: Curiosity 1. The Michael Jordan Lesson: Why people who don't vote and don't follow the news don't think they need to 2. We're Political Animals: So why aren't we better at politics? 3. Your 150 Closest Friends: How many people do you know? PART II: Reading People 4. Why We Are Surprised When Our Leaders Disappoint Us: The mistake even smart voters make 5. 167 Milliseconds: The amazing speed at which we draw conclusions about people PART III: Truth 6. Lying to Ourselves: The high cost of self-deception and why we can't stop ourselves 7. Do We Really Want the Truth?: Why we often seem less interested in the truth than we profess 8. Everything Happens for a Reason: It's not just kids we prefer fairy tales 9. It's Like It Was Still 1974: Why people make arguments so transparently feeble they leave others dumbstruck PART IV: Empathy 10. When It Happens to You: The limits to empathy 11. The Accountant's Error: The danger of relying on our gut Conclusion: A Way Forward: Solutions are at our fingertips if only we grasp them Coda: The Widow's Advantage: And What We Can Learn From Her
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Basic Books Rampage
Book Synopsis"In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to b"Trade Review"School administrators, teachers, school boards, parents and others would be well advised to place Rampage high on their summer reading lists." Boston Globe"
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Political Machines Governing a Technological
Book SynopsisThis text aims to interrogate the politics of the technological society. Critical of the form and intensity of the contemporary preoccupation with new technology, it examines the relation between technical innovation and political inventiveness.Trade Review"Political Machines presents a remarkable tour of the imbroglios of science, technology and politics in contemporary Europe. Locating Europe's political soul in Europe's technology, Political Machines at last gives substance, method and political relevance to the vague and ubiquitous notion of 'technical culture'." Bruno Latour; "This book argues for a radical rethinking of the relationship between politics and technology. Andrew Barry demonstrates the way in which technology is increasingly written into the conduct of politics, providing new assumptions about how the world is and can be governed. He poses a new and exciting set of questions about the nature of politics and the political of a kind that presage the beginning of a new subdiscipline: the book is that significant." Nigel Thrift"Table of Contents1. Technical Political / Part One: Technological Zones / 2. Technological Zones / 3. Harmonised States / 4. On the Network / 5. Intellectual Properties / Part Two: Technology, Government & Politics / 6. On Interactivity / 7. Political Chemistry / 8. Demonstrations: Sites & Sights / 9. Political Intervention / Notes / Bibliography / Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Whistleblowing at Work
Book SynopsisWhen is whistleblowing appropriate? How is it best carried out? And how should managers and employers handle the issue? This book looks at whistleblowing at work, taking a key group of occupations and different points of view, including those of the employer, the trade unions and the employed.Table of ContentsThe law relating to whistleblowing; whistleblowing and business ethics; whistleblowing in accountancy; whistleblowing and human resource management; whistleblowing in the Health Service; whistleblowing in local government; whistleblowing in education; a trade union perspective on whistleblowing; a whistleblower's perspective; providing advice on whistleblowing by public concern at work.
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Random House USA Inc Dear Ijeawele or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year
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Random House USA Inc The Back Channel
Book Synopsis“A masterful diplomatic memoir” (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leaders—an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world. Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time—from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post–Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post–9/11 tumult in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran.In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career. Drawing on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos, he gives readers a rare
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iUniverse Egalitarian Envy The Political Foundations of Social Justice
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iUniverse Common Sense Revisited A Commentary on our Government A Commentary on Our American Government
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iUniverse Speeches of Deception Selected Speeches of Saddam Hussein A Story of Propaganda which began in Kuwait 10 Years ago today is not over
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