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Book SynopsisThis book examines the shape, sources and dangers of information warfare (IW) as it pertains to military, diplomatic and civilian stakeholders.Cyber warfare and information warfare are different beasts. Both concern information, but where the former does so exclusively in its digitized and operationalized form, the latter does so in a much broader sense: with IW, information itself is the weapon. The present work aims to help scholars, analysts and policymakers understand IW within the context of cyber conflict. Specifically, the chapters in the volume address the shape of influence campaigns waged across digital infrastructure and in the psychology of democratic populations in recent years by belligerent state actors, from the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran. In marshalling evidence on the shape and evolution of IW as a broad-scoped phenomenon aimed at societies writ large, the authors in this book present timely empirical investigations into theTable of Contents1. Introduction Christopher Whyte, Trevor Thrall and Brian Mazanec Part I: The nature, history and correlates of information warfare in the age of cyber conflict 2. The convergence of information warfare Martin C. Libicki 3. A brief history of fake: Surveying Russian disinformation from the Russian empire through the cold war to the present Aaron F. Brantly 4. The Ideological battlefield: China’s approach to political warfare and propaganda in an age of cyber conflict Elsa B. Kania 5. Cyber Conflict at the intersection of information operations: Cyber-enabled information operations 2000-2016 Colin Foote, Ryan C. Maness, Benjamin Jensen and Brandon Valeriano Part II: (Cyber-enabled) Information at war 6. Bear market? Grizzly steppe and the American marketplace of ideas A. Trevor Thrall and Andrew Armstrong 7. Commanding the trend: Social media as information warfare Lt Col Jarred Prier 8. Cyber by a different logic: Using an information warfare kill chain to understand cyber-enabled influence operations Christopher Whyte and Ugochukwu Etudo 9. Cyber-enabled information warfare and influence operations: A revolution in technique? Miguel Alberto Gomez Part III: Building resilience: Questions of legality, diplomacy and society 10. Might or Byte(s): On the safeguarding of democracy in the digital age Christopher Colligan 11. On the organization of the U.S. Government for responding to adversarial information warfare and influence operations Herbert Lin 12. Virtual disenfranchisement: Cyber election meddling in the grey zones of international law Michael Schmitt 13. Stigmatizing cyber and information warfare: Mission impossible? Brian Mazanec and Patricia Shamai Part IV: The fluid shape of modern information warfare 14. How deep the rabbit hole goes: Escalation, deterrence and the ‘deeper’ challenges of information warfare in the age of the internet Christopher Whyte

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Book SynopsisTrade impacts on the lives of all global citizens, influencing the range of commodities available for consumption and where those commodities are produced. Driven increasingly by market exchange, trade shapes the nature of work and how the costs and benefits of that work are distributed around the world. Economic growth and development are closely associated with the flows of goods and services between countries. International Trade: The Basics offers an accessible and engaging introduction to contemporary debates on international trade, inviting readers to explore the connections between national political economies within a globally integrated world. Topics covered include: Why nations trade Globalization and transnational production networks Transnational governance The emergence of Asia as a major trade region Ethical trade and environmental sustainability Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables List of boxes 1 Introduction The growth of trade History of trade Globalization and contemporary trade patterns Objective of the book Outline of the book 2 Trade theory Comparative advantage The Heckscher–Ohlin model The Stolper–Samuelson theorem Leontieff’s Paradox Terms of trade New trade theory: economies of scale and imperfect competition in trade models New, new trade theory: global outsourcing 3 Transnational corporations, trade and the global economy Origins of TNCs and why firms internationalize The growth of transnational corporations Global production networks and commodity value chains Capturing value in global production networks TNCs and trade 4 Trade governance Institutional theories GATT and WTO Geography of trade: integration and regional trade agreements Is geography destiny? Regionalism and regional economic integration 5 Trade and development Dynamic comparative advantage Unequal exchange Import-substitution and export promotion Asian flying geese 6 Impact of trade Special economic zones Impact on labor Trade and labor standards Trade, jobs and wages Ethical trade Environment and sustainability Environmental policy and trade agreements 7 Conclusion Trends and directions Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most enduring sources of conflict among Muslims is the question of power and authority after the Prophet Muhammad. This anthology of classical Arabic texts, presented in a new English translation, succinctly presents competing views on the prerequisites of legitimate leadership and authority in the Islamic tradition.Table of ContentsA Note on the Translation; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glossary of Key Terms; 1. A Précis of the Doctrines of Abū 'l-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī Ibn Fūrak; 2. The Succour of Nations Amidst the Confusion of Darkness al-Juwaynī; 3. The Theoretical Underpinning of the Imamate Abū Ṭālib al-Hārūnī; 4. The Curative Book on the Imamate: A Paraphrastic Rendering al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī; 5. The Book of Excellence on the Fundamental Principles of Religion Ibn al-Malāḥimī; 6. The concise ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Warjalānī; 7. The Crown of Doctrines and the Mine of Instructive Points al-Dāʿī Ibn al-Walīd; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA provocative and urgent analysis of the USChina rivalryTrade Review"Brilliant and engagingly written, this warning by two outstanding scholars is especially timely in light of recent events. Are Americans ready for what may be coming? They will be better prepared if they read this book." -- Robert Kagan, author of The Ghost at the Feats: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941"Russian aggression notwithstanding, China constitutes the most daunting challenge to U.S. national security and the liberal international order. In this brilliant and urgently important book, Hal Brands and Michael Beckley explain why the threat of war with China will likely peak in this decade—when China's global power and ambition for primacy are swelling just as it faces severe demographic, economic, and political strains on the horizon. Every U.S. foreign policy maker and thinker should read this book and heed their call to rapidly mobilize strategy, strength, and alliances to navigate through this danger zone." -- Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University"There is bipartisan consensus in Washington that China is the most important long-term strategic challenge for the U.S. Hal Brands and Michael Beckley powerfully argue that an enormously ambitious China is peaking now and confrontation is coming sooner than we think. This well-written, must-read book will add a sense of urgency to the national debate about strategic competition." -- Ambassador (ret.) Eric S. Edelman, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2005–2009)

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Book SynopsisA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the livingTrade Review"People Love Dead Jews reminds us that Jewishness is not a museum, a graveyard, or a heritage site but a lively ongoing conversation at a long table that stretches before and behind us." -- David Mikics - The Tablet"A fascinating read..." -- Keren David - The Jewish Chronicle"Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews [is] an essential sequel to David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count" -- Simon Schama, via Twitter"So necessary and so disquieting… People Love Dead Jews is an outstanding book with a bold mission. It criticizes people, artworks, and public institutions that few others dare to challenge." -- Yaniv Iczkovits - The New York Times Book Review"Extremely engaging... Horn will make you think." -- Jeffrey Salkin - Washington Post"Dara Horn has an uncommon mastery of the literary essay, and she applies it here with a relentless, even furious purpose. Horn makes well-worn debates—on Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, for instance—newly provocative and urgent. Her best essays are by turns tragic and comic, and her magnificent mini biography of Varian Fry alone justifies paying the full hardcover price." -- Tom Reiss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"This is a beautiful book, and in its particular genre—nonfiction meditations on the murder of Jews, particularly in the Holocaust, and the place of the dead in the American imagination—it can have few rivals. In fact, I can’t think of any." -- Martin Peretz - Wall Street Journal"[Horn] wants a more direct reckoning with Jew hatred and its consequences." -- 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times

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Book SynopsisAn insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defence of its crucial role in a modern democracyTrade Review"This book reads like a suspenseful whodunnit, tragedy, and love story for data. Packed with surprising history, fresh insights, and wise reforms, this is a landmark work that everyone who cares about society and politics must read." -- Kenneth Cukier, coauthor of Big Data"Many Americans may be ready to give up on polls, but through this engaging history of public-opinion research, Elliott Morris makes the case that they make our politics better, not worse. And he’s brimming with urgent ideas for how all of us—citizens, journalists, pollsters, and politicians—can make better use of a tool essential to a healthy democracy." -- Sasha Issenberg, author of The Engagement"In this lively story of the struggles and successes of polling from Gallup to the present day, Morris makes a convincing case that the measurement of public opinion is a key component of modern democracy." -- Andrew Gelman, Higgins Professor of Statistics, Columbia University"In this short, valuable guide, G Elliott Morris gives us a brief history of how polls came to play such an important role in politics, and how they work." -- Sam Freedman - The Guardian"A lively new book... Polling is flawed, and some of those flaws seem unfixable. But Mr Morris’s repeated refrain is that the critics of opinion surveys overstate their case. If you think polls can mislead, just try understanding the electorate without the" -- Tim Harford - The Economist

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Book SynopsisAn essential primer for the thoughtful citizen

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Book SynopsisA leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump's admiration for Vladimir Putin and Ron DeSantis's veneration of Victor Orban

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Book SynopsisIt is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary topics, such as violence, social movements, equality, identity and democracy. Foregrounding the imagination of possibilities (utopia), the mapping of the present (theory), and the transformation of the world-system (historical and global questions), the book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemproary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction On Sociology Traditions and Concepts Transformations Ideologies and Utopias Masses Identities Movements Violence Globalization Equality Concluding Reflections Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. It covers a wide spectrum of manifestations and expressionsfrom the plays of Caryl Churchill, Anne Washburn, and David Henry Hwang, to the inherent theatricality of press conferences, FBI interviews and protests that embrace the confusion created by post-truth rhetoric to muddy issues and deflect blame, to theatrical performance, where the nature of truth is challenged through staged visuals which run counter to what the audience hears, provoking a debate about where the truth actually lies. With contributions by scholars from around the world, Theater in a Post-Truth World considers a wide array of examples from American and British drama and politics, Australian theater, and the work of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Together these provide a glimpse into how the theater in its many forms provides a venue to raise awareness andTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Post-Truth: A Brief Introduction, William C. Boles (Rollins College, USA) Part 1: Text 1. Post-Truth but not Post-Race: The Repeating Realities of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Heidi Bollinger, Hostos Community College, CUNY, USA) 2. Knowing Not What It “Seems”: Re-viewing Caryl Churchill’s Post-Truth World in Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, and Imp, Mamata Sengupta (Islampur College, India) Part 2: Politics 3. The Alternative Realities of David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power and Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck, William C. Boles (Rollins College, USA) 4. Negotiating the Fifth Wall, Lynn Doboeck (University of Utah, USA) 5. When the Play is Not the Thing: The Mueller Report and the Limits of Documentary Drama, Victoria Scrimer (University of Maryland, USA) Part 3: Performance 6. Australian Biographical Theater on the Post-Truth Stage, Chris Hay and Stephen Carleton (University of Queensland, Australia) 7. Performing Reality: Tina Satter’s Verbatim Staging of an FBI Transcript in Is This A Room, Helen Georgas (Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA) 8. Seductive Frames: Digital Aesthetics in Kip Williams' Staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2018), Susanne Thurow (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9. Satanic Panic: Performance in the New Culture War, Lewis Church (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU itself. Taking a structural rather than event-based approach, this text unpacks all aspects of the EU in crisis and analyses the implications of these crises for the EU and its member states. This edition argues that crises and challenges are no longer unique and discreet events facing the EU, but rather, they are better understood as sustained conditions that have changed the relationships between member states, the functioning of institutions, the nature of public engagement and the prospects for integration. Chapters broach institutional issues as well as specific policy challenges, covering questions of legitimacy and leadership and offering a full chapter on democracy and Euroscepticism. Working within both historical and theoretical frameworks, this is the perfect companion for those studying and researching contemporary challenges facTable of Contents1. Introduction: moving crises to the centre of the agenda, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; William E. Paterson, Birmingham University, UK; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden PART I: Theorising and Conceptualising Crises and Challenges in the EU 2. Crisification and the Future of the European Union Polity, Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden 3. European Integration Theory and Crises, Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 4. A Crisis Management Perspective on the European Union, Eva-Karin Gardell, Swedish Defense University, Sweden; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden PART II: Crises in the EU 5. A History of Crises in the EU, Jeffrey, J. Anderson, Georgetown University, USA 6. The Eurozone Crisis: from crisis to resilience? Joachim Schild, Trier University, Germany 7. The Brexit Crisis: a crisis for whom?, Lee McGowan and David Phinnemore, Queen's University Belfast, UK 8. The Migration Crisis: the EU’s evolving approach to border management, Laurie Buonanno, State University of New York, USA 9. The Covid-19 Crisis: a case of Franco-German-led crisis management, Douglas Webber, INSEAD, France 10. The Climate Crisis: a creeping catastrophe for the EU, Jeremy F. G. Moulton, University of York, UK; Charlotte Burns, University of Sheffield, UK 11. The Ukraine Crisis: Russia, the European Union, and the Unstable East, Wolfgang Seibel, University of Konstanz, Germany PART III: Challenges for the EU 12. The Democracy Challenge in Central Europe: backsliding or repoliticisation? Jakub Eberle, Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic; Daniel Šitera, Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic 13. The Legitimacy Challenge: Euroscepticism as an embedded element of the EU, Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey, UK 14. The Leadership Challenge: problems and prospects of Franco-German leadership, Simon J. Bulmer, University of Sheffield, UK; William E. Paterson, University of Birmingham, UK 15. The Institutional Challenge: crises and the EU’s institutions, political actors, and processes, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 16. The External Challenge: crises and the EU’s quest for strategic autonomy, Michael Smith, University of Warwick, UK 17. The Health Policy Challenge: from crisis to union, Eleanor Brooks, University of Edinburgh, UK; Anniek de Ruijter, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan, USA; Sarah Rozenblum, University of Michigan, USA PART IV: Future Prospects 18. The Survival of the European Union: the other faces of European disintegration, Hans Vollaard, Utrecht University, Netherlands 19. Conclusion: the future of the EU in a world of crises, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; William E. Paterson, University of Birmingham, UK; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Book SynopsisThe crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU itself. Taking a structural rather than event-based approach, this text unpacks all aspects of the EU in crisis and analyses the implications of these crises for the EU and its member states. This edition argues that crises and challenges are no longer unique and discreet events facing the EU, but rather, they are better understood as sustained conditions that have changed the relationships between member states, the functioning of institutions, the nature of public engagement and the prospects for integration. Chapters broach institutional issues as well as specific policy challenges, covering questions of legitimacy and leadership and offering a full chapter on democracy and Euroscepticism. Working within both historical and theoretical frameworks, this is the perfect companion for those studying and researching contemporary challenges facTable of Contents1. Introduction: moving crises to the centre of the agenda, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; William E. Paterson, Birmingham University, UK; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden PART I: Theorising and Conceptualising Crises and Challenges in the EU 2. Crisification and the Future of the European Union Polity, Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden 3. European Integration Theory and Crises, Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 4. A Crisis Management Perspective on the European Union, Eva-Karin Gardell, Swedish Defense University, Sweden; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden PART II: Crises in the EU 5. A History of Crises in the EU, Jeffrey, J. Anderson, Georgetown University, USA 6. The Eurozone Crisis: from crisis to resilience? Joachim Schild, Trier University, Germany 7. The Brexit Crisis: a crisis for whom?, Lee McGowan and David Phinnemore, Queen's University Belfast, UK 8. The Migration Crisis: the EU’s evolving approach to border management, Laurie Buonanno, State University of New York, USA 9. The Covid-19 Crisis: a case of Franco-German-led crisis management, Douglas Webber, INSEAD, France 10. The Climate Crisis: a creeping catastrophe for the EU, Jeremy F. G. Moulton, University of York, UK; Charlotte Burns, University of Sheffield, UK 11. The Ukraine Crisis: Russia, the European Union, and the Unstable East, Wolfgang Seibel, University of Konstanz, Germany PART III: Challenges for the EU 12. The Democracy Challenge in Central Europe: backsliding or repoliticisation? Jakub Eberle, Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic; Daniel Šitera, Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic 13. The Legitimacy Challenge: Euroscepticism as an embedded element of the EU, Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey, UK 14. The Leadership Challenge: problems and prospects of Franco-German leadership, Simon J. Bulmer, University of Sheffield, UK; William E. Paterson, University of Birmingham, UK 15. The Institutional Challenge: crises and the EU’s institutions, political actors, and processes, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 16. The External Challenge: crises and the EU’s quest for strategic autonomy, Michael Smith, University of Warwick, UK 17. The Health Policy Challenge: from crisis to union, Eleanor Brooks, University of Edinburgh, UK; Anniek de Ruijter, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan, USA; Sarah Rozenblum, University of Michigan, USA PART IV: Future Prospects 18. The Survival of the European Union: the other faces of European disintegration, Hans Vollaard, Utrecht University, Netherlands 19. Conclusion: the future of the EU in a world of crises, Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; William E. Paterson, University of Birmingham, UK; Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Book SynopsisDescribed by a former senior Intelligence official as a long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establishment', Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall.Early in his career, Norton-Taylor successfully campaigned against official secrecy, gaining a reputation inside the Whitehall establishment and the outside world alike for his relentless determination to expose wrongdoing and incompetence. His special targets have always been the security and intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Defence, institutions that often hide behind the cloak of national security to protect themselves from embarrassment and accountability. Encouraged by his trusted contacts in intelligence agencies and Whitehall departments, Norton-Taylor was among the first of the few journalists to consistently attack the planned invasion of Iraq in 2003, and subsequently covered the devastating evidencTrade ReviewAn entertaining and timely book, written by a fine reporter who has made a habit of speaking unwelcome truth to power. * The Observer *Fans of Norton-Taylor’s reporting will enjoy The State of Secrecy, which reprises and updates his admirably determined efforts on these and other topics. Vivid vignettes depict the blunders and quirks of the secret world. He excoriates attempts to suborn friendly journalists with thrills and scoops, and to smear or bully those who write “unhelpful” articles. * Financial Times *A lifetime of experience in why, when and how officials prevaricate or lie has trained [Norton-Taylor] to make proper use of an investigative journalist’s best source: the leak. * London Review of Books *When it comes to matters of defence and security Norton-Taylor is probably Britain’s most perceptive, persistent and best informed commentator … He has succeeded (in exposing the mindset which encourages the fetishisation of official secrecy) brilliantly. * The Irish Times *Readable, well-structured ... [A] well-timed book. * Standpoint Magazine *Lively and revealing. * CHOICE *A hugely welcome contribution from Richard Norton-Taylor … providing a richly informed discussion of the relationship between the British security system and the press. * openDemocracy *In a finely written memoir that every student and observer of British politics and journalism must read, Norton-Taylor rightly identifies secrecy as the British disease which stifles and undermines democracy in this country. It's a classic of telling truth to power from a formidable journalist of real integrity. Uniquely, among British journalists, Norton-Taylor had access to sources at the highest levels of the civil service and the intelligence services but didn't fall for their blandishments and lies. Often faced with deliberate official obstruction and, sometimes, employer indifference, he doggedly pursued stories when the media circus had moved on. In forensic detail and with controlled anger Norton-Taylor revisits the stories, scandals and events which have now drifted back into history but which illustrate the enduring power of secrecy to deny citizens access to truth. * Dr Stephen Dorril, author of MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Heroes and Hacks 2. Poachers and Gamekeepers 3. City of Myths and Contradictions 4. Culture and Language of Secrecy 5. Secrecy Obsessed 6. History is an Official Secret 7. Spies - 1 8. Spies - 2 9. Provoking Terror 10. Chilcot Redux 11. Defending the Past 12. Defending the Future

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Book SynopsisTony Roberts is a Digital Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. His research focuses on digital rights, digital inequalities and participatory methodologies. He has worked at the intersection of digital technologies, development and social justice since 1988. Dr. Roberts is the principal investigator of the GCRF African Digital Rights Network and editor of the collected edition Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries.Admire Mare is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was previously Deputy Head of the Communications department at the Namibian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on participatory journalism, social media misinformation, and digital surveillance.

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Book SynopsisA short and pithy book weaving together the debates and evidence surrounding voting age to present a compelling case in favour of lowering the voting age in Britain to 16. By setting out the key reasons why the voting age should be reduced for all elections, this book powerfully refutes the arguments advanced by opponents of reform to the electoral franchise. Situating votes at 16 in its historical context in Britain, this book offers an overview of voting age reform over time, and examines the rise of this issue over the last 20 years. From evidence on the introduction of votes at 16 in six countries, it argues that this demonstrates 16- and 17-year-olds possess the knowledge and skills to vote. It also sets out how critical citizenship education can be enhanced to support the introduction of votes at 16 in Britain.

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Book Synopsis2024 marks the 250th anniversary of John Wilkes becoming Lord Mayor of London. A man simultaneously full of contradiction and principles, Wilkes was a giant of eighteenth-century England and helped shape modern Britain.

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Book Synopsis* Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions targeting each Assessment Objective* Build key skills with worked examples* Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions* Study independently with answers available online

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Book Synopsis* Develop and consolidate understanding using practice questions targeting each Assessment Objective* Build key skills with worked examples* Prepare for assessment using exam-style questions* Study independently with answers available online

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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Honest, funny and very revealing. Her conclusion in particular, “Why we need politics” is essential' -  Adam Kay'Funny and really readable' - Jeremy Vine (BBC Radio Two) ‘This book is here to take you inside the daily realities of Westminster. I don’t mean that it’s going to bore you to death with a blow by blow account of what it’s like to sit on the Statutory Instrument Debate on Naval regulations 1968-2020 – but to demystify the places and practice of politics.’ From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in on history-making moments at the UN to eating McCain potato smiles at a black-tie banquet in China, the life of a politician is never dull. And it’s also never been more important. But politics is far bigger than Westminster, and in this book J

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Book SynopsisA GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR''Insightful and revealing: a brilliant exploration of how ideas currently on the edge of politics could move into the mainstream'' Danny Dorling, author of SLOWDOWNAn ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how we can get thereCan we reverse the mental health crisis by getting rid of Mondays?Is it time to stop poor people being poor by... giving them money?Can we quell the fires of populism by giving young people a say in the future?As the shockwaves of Covid 19 continue to spread, and as the smoke clears from a year of anger and unrest, many people feel forlorn about the future.In End State, James Plunkett argues that this can be a moment not of despair, but of historic opportunity - a chance to rethink, renew, and reform some of the most fundamental ways we organise society. In much the same way as

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Book SynopsisThe author investigates Chamberlain's policy of appeasement in the years prior to the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisThe first ever English language biography of Erich Honecker, covering his entire life and career. Never before published details of Honecker's first marriage, his exotic private life and fractious relationship with Walter Ulbricht.

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Book SynopsisCharities and Politics in Bashar al-Asad?s Syria analyses the renewal and revival of the role of Syrian charities during Bashar al-Asad?s first ten years in power (2000-2010) in order to understand the political engineering deployed by the Syrian regime in the decade prior to the uprising. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2007 and 2010, as well as on more than fifty interviews and other secondary sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the country?s poorly known sector of associations and charitable organisations at the beginning of the 21st century. It provides first-hand accounts of crucial issues that did not receive scholarly attention before the uprising ? such as the shift in state?society relations, the opening of the civic arena, the partial outsourcing of welfare provision and social responsibilities and, eventually, the unravelling of the old social contract, which the protest movement dramatically brought to the forefront in 2011. By carrying out a unique analysis of the management of civil society by state institutions and the First Lady?s government-operated NGOs, it also provides keys to understanding both the resilience of Bashar al-Asad?s authoritarian regime in the 2000s and the simultaneous weakening of its credibility amongst the population.

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Book Synopsis'Thoughtful, very readable ... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' - The Times'Pithy and amusing' - Sunday Times David Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years, and anchored the BBC's live coverage of historic national and world events. KEEP TALKING is David's wry look at his own extraordinary career, and the people, events and controversies he has encountered along the way. As a broadcaster for the BBC, David had an obligation to appear a neutral observer. Now finally 'off the leash' he writes without inhibition but with his characteristic wit, clarity and insight, about monarchy, politics, and the state of Britain. His book is enlivened with honest accounts of broadcasting from the inside - from commentating on Diana's funeral to anchoring te

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Book SynopsisA provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.

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Book SynopsisListen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here.Trade Review“Most notably the book is ambivalent about much of the promises claimed by the advocates of music’s transformative potential, but is never bleak, retaining a refreshing realism about the capacity of music to matter to people, publics and nations across the world.” (New Books In Critical Theory, 19 June 2014)Table of Contents1 Music as Intimate and Social, Private and Public 1 2 Feeling and Flourishing 11 2.1 Music, Affect, Emotion 11 2.2 Emotions, Narrative Play, and Music 14 2.3 Human Flourishing, Aesthetic Experience, and Music 17 2.4 Musical Flourishing Beyond Contemplative Cultivation 20 2.5 Musical Aesthetics and Bodily Experience: Dancing 30 2.6 Approaches to Music and Emotion in Everyday Life: Contributions and Limitations 35 2.7 Problems of Self-realization in Modern Life and Their Relation to Music 42 2.8 Competitive Individualism and Status Competition Through Music 48 2.9 Review: Music’s Constrained Enrichment of Lives 53 3 Love and Sex 57 3.1 Sex and Love and Rock and Roll 57 3.2 Two Approaches to Music, Sex, and Sexuality 58 3.3 The Pop-Rock Divide and Rock’s Sexual Politics 61 3.4 Post-War Pop’s Emotional Resources 65 3.5 Sex and Love on the Dance Floor 68 3.6 Critiques of Countercultural Sexual Freedom 71 3.7 Sex and Love in Punk, Alternative Rock, and Metal 74 3.8 Sexuality in Twenty-First-Century Pop 77 3.9 Black Music and Racialized Sexuality 81 4 Sociability and Place 84 4.1 Ways of Being Together: Forms of Publicness 84 4.2 Celebrations of Musical Participation and Their Limitations 87 4.3 That Syncing Feeling 97 4.4 Ordinary Sociability I: Singing Together 102 4.5 Ordinary Sociability II: Dancing Together 109 4.6 Playing Together: Amateur Musicians 112 4.7 Theorizing Positive Musical Sociality 115 4.8 Spectres of Capitalist Modernity Revisited: Class and Inequality 120 4.9 Uneven Musical Development 123 4.10 Elements of Thriving Musical Places 125 4.11 Quality of Working Life of Professional Musicians 127 5 Commonality and Cosmopolitanism 130 5.1 Mediated Commonality in Modern Societies 130 5.2 Aesthetic Experience and Aspirations to Commonality 131 5.3 Redeeming Aesthetic Experience? 133 5.4 Talk About Music, What It Tells Us, and What It Doesn’t 136 5.5 Music, Politics, and Publicness 142 5.6 Communities of Shared Taste? Subcultures, Scenes, and Fans 147 5.7 Nations, Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism 151 5.8 Rock as Cosmopolitanism? 152 5.9 Complexities of Music and Nation 155 5.10 Strange Journeys: Working-Class and Ethnic Musics Become National Musics 157 5.11 Sentimental Citizenship 162 5.12 Music, the Nation, and the Popular 164 5.13 Music of the African Diaspora: Life-Affirming Collectivity in Decline? 165 5.14 A Critical Defense of Music 170 Acknowledgments 172 References 174 Index 187

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Book Synopsis_________________A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction'' - ObserverKolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us'' - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.The most frightening book I''ve read this century'' - Times Literary Supplement_________________Elizabeth Kolbert''s environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. In the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding of it grows. Now Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career, with new chapters on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town thatTrade Review‘Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us' * Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. *‘The most frightening book I've read this century ... Field Notes from a Catastrophe holds a powerful message for us all and we would do well to heed it' * Times Literary Supplement *‘A detailed and very readable account of the problems many communities are faced with as the puddles form in the Arctic ... and how we continue to cover our eyes to the visible changes happening around us' * Ecologist *‘A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' * Observer *

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Book SynopsisHe analyzes the geopolitical causes of conflict and prospects for resolution, assesses implications of the impasse over economic zones in the eastern Mediterranean where Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Turkey all have claims, and reflects on the meaning of borders and frontiers today.Trade ReviewMore scholars will probably re-examine the dramatic vicissitudes that have transpired in the tri-border region in the near future. Kaufman's exhaustive research will serve as an important resource for all of them. -- Mori Ram Antipode The main contribution of this work is its rich empirical quality. To shed light on the struggle over borders, the author has consulted American, British, French, Israeli, and United Nations (UN) documents, along with some Arabic material. The book is theoretically informed, drawing on the academic literature of subjects such as border conflicts, sovereignty, borderlands, and state formation without necessarily seeking to contribute substantially to the development of theories... The work's painstaking attention to detail makes it extraordinarily valuable for scholars of Israel-Lebanese-Syrian relations and essential for those interested in border disputes between these countries. -- James R Stocker H-Diplo A meticulously detailed, carefully written account of the geopolitics of a very small but highly contested area... The construction of the book unfolds like an elegant mathematical proof, in which the reader is shown how a led to b and then to c, and how a sequence of various elements, piled on top of one another in chronological succession, have led to this apparently insignificant area becoming a major point of contestation in the Arab-Israeli conflict. -- Peter Sluglett American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Mapping the Tri-Border Region1. Colonial Mapping2. Mapping the Mandates3. After Independence4. The United Nations: Mapping, Mediating, and Peacekeeping, 1949–20005. Cartographic Wars: The Israeli Withdrawal from South Lebanon and BeyondPart II: Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers, 1924-19826. The Making of the Tri-Border Region, 1924–19497. During and Between Wars: 1949–19738. Fatahland: How Lebanon Became a Frontline State9. Whose Water Is This? Boundaries and Hydropolitics10. Crossing Boundaries: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab-Israeli ConflictPart III: The Shebaa Farms Dispute and Beyond11. A Fabricated Border Quandary?12. The Shebaa Farms, Hizbullah, and Lebanese Sovereignty13. Joha's Nail? Israel and the Shebaa Farms14. Resolving the Dispute? The United Nations in the Tri-Border Region, 2000–2010Conclusion: On Cartography, Sovereignty, and ConflictNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNo little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. It's been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool. It includes many simple tools readers can use to improve feedback in their work unit. The book suggests that feedback works best when the giver and receiver realize that they are in a dance together.Trade ReviewPraise for the Bestselling First Edition:… a well-organized guide for creating open and honest communication in the workplace. This clearly written book is like having your own personal coach assisting you with techniques that foster productive interactions.—Nedra Weinstein, Principal, Arden Consulting Table of ContentsUsing the Toolkit. About Feedback. When Feedback Works. What Gets in the Way. General Guidelines. Applying the Guidelines. The Importance of Dialogue. Tools for Giving Feedback. Learning from Mistakes. A "What Are We Doing" Meeting. Expectations for Exchange. Project Debriefing. How’s Our Team Doing? Management by Wandering Around. Positive Feedback for Teams. Conducting a Performance Review. Acid Bath Feedback. Providing Feedback as a Mentor. Open-Book Management. Tools for Receiving Feedback. Preparing to Receive Feedback. Guidelines for Receiving Feedback. Don’t Forget SARA (Surprise, Anger, Rationalization, Acceptance).Feedback from Staff. Feedback from Your Boss. Feedback from Peers. Feedback from a Coach. Feedback from Questionnaires.

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Book SynopsisIn Designing a Polity, James W. Ceaser, one of our leading scholars of American political development, argues for the continuing central role of the Founding within the study of American government. Drawing on essays published over the past 10 years, extensively updated and revised to reflect current politics, Ceaser engages the Founding Fathers, particularly James Madison, emphasizes Alexis de Tocqueville as a model of political inquiry, critiques current and recent theorists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida, and explores the varieties of contemporary conservative thought. Designing a Polity offers a rich exploration of the core values of political sciences that will be of special interest to scholars and students of American political development, Constitutional thought, and contemporary political thought.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011! This book was a pleasure to read. The title implies a treatise on constitutional design; the work really comprises nine well-crafted essays by one of the premier scholars of American political thought. Each essay is a stand-alone gem--Ceaser is well-known for his elegant, dignified style and gentle humor--but they also constitute a compelling story, and are nicely grouped into different sections. The first section contemplates political foundations, and includes an excellent general theoretical treatment of foundationalism and nonfoundationalism, followed by a beautiful and original analysis of Tocqueville, and a piece on Leo Strauss that is worth the entire book price. Ceaser (Univ. of Virginia) then presents three tight essays on applying a science of politics to the questions of fame, statesmanship, and presidential-congressional relations. The third section includes three essays on modern conservatives and the construction of the Reagan legacy. The book concludes with "The Theoretical Origins of Anti-Americanism," which Ceaser writes "is arguably the only ideology of our day that has a worldwide reach." Every serious student of contemporary and historical American politics, or of American political thought, should keep this book handy. Essential. All readership levels. * CHOICE *American exceptionalism’ has found one of its best explainers in James W. Ceaser. His Designing a Polity: America’s Constitution in Theory and Practice is written with verve, erudition and a wide-ranging eye on the political world. Anyone who reads it will no longer feel amazement or surprise that the health care overhaul, the conduct of the Iraq War or many other hot-button issues are argued about in terms of its compatibility or incompatibility with a document that went into effect in 1789. * The Washington Times *For those who have already benefited from reading Ceaser, Designing a Polity: America's Constitution in Theory and Practice is an important complement to his previous writings. For those who haven't yet had the pleasure, his new book is a particularly good point of entry to his thought. Designing a Polity brings together nine superb essays, revised to take account of developments subsequent to their original publication....[Ceaser's] work deserves our careful attention. If we want to investigate the American polity in all its complexity...then we must hail, but above all read, our Ceaser. * Claremont Review of Books *Throughout is long and prolific career, James Ceaser has brought a ready wit and literary grace to political science, a discipline seldom oversupplied with either. Designing a Polity asks political scientists to think along with the American founders—to think about politics politically instead of reducing it to the play of subspolitical forces. He shows how thinking about politics changes for the better if the thinker does not make reductionist or deconstructionist assumptions. That's why the founders could design the polity they left for posterity, and that's how the understand, continue, and at times reform their work. * Society *Designing a Polity is not an easy book to review. The scope of the essays and Ceaser’s erudition and penetrating insights cannot be described in any meaningful way in a few summative sentences. That having been said, this reviewer hopes, at least, to have conveyed the breadth of the author’s thinking, his passion for his subject, and to have produced a desire to read more James W. Ceaser. * What Would the Founders Think? *James Ceaser is our country's leading scholar in American politics. These venturesome essays display his originality, his inventive formulations, and his theoretical insight. -- Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Hoover InstitutionJames Ceaser, a prominent student of American political thought, never fails to instruct and provoke. The essays included in Designing a Polity are no exception. The eye-opening chapter on Tocqueville should spark a reconsideration of the foundations of American democracy and of the distinctive features of Tocqueville's account. -- William A. GalstonCeaser has a sophisticated understanding of theoretical issues and writes with philosophical insight, but in a manner that brings philosophy down to earth. ...He brings his historical and philosophical knowledge to bear on American polity in a way that does credit to political science. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Section I: Political Foundations Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Doctrine of Political Nonfoundationalism Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Two-Founding Thesis: Political Foundations in Tocqueville's Democracy in America Chapter 4 Chapter 3: American Political Foundations in the Thought of Leo Strauss Chapter 5 Section II: The Founders, Constitutional Design, and the Role of Political Science Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Fame and The Federalist: The American Founders and the Recovery of Political Science Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Demagoguery, Statesmanship, and Presidential Politics Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Doctrines of Presidential-Congressional Relations Chapter 9 Section III. Modern Conservatism Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Four Heads and One Heart: The Modern Conservative Movement Chapter 11 Chapter 8: The Social Construction of the Reagan Legacy Chapter 12 Section IV. The American Way of Life Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Theoretical Origins of Anti-Americanism

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Book SynopsisThis important book asks where should power and governance lie in our democracy? Simon Parker, a leading expert on public services and government, claims the answer is to give power away. He offers policy recommendations and practical ideas for creating a new kind of politics focused on unleashing society's creative potential.Trade Review“Simon Parker offers substantive examples from the UK and elsewhere about how to achieve a lasting shift of power to cities, towns and local neighbourhoods. It is an ambitious but persuasive programme.” Peter Riddell, Director of the Institute for Government“Thought provoking insights of what needs to change within our political and public services architecture, useful and challenging ideas about how we do that and the likely consequences if we don’t." Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK"Taking Power Back makes a convincing case of how we can, and why we must, empower communities and together build a well-functioning, stronger, more caring society." Progress Online"A timely challenge to the belief that a central state has all the answers and just needs to be more efficient...Well worth the read!" Lord Michael Bichard, chair of the National Audit Office"A guidebook for those who want to understand the next generation of British government." Phillip Blond, Director ResPublica and author of Red Tory"The key is not to draw more lines between 'them and 'us', but to radically expand what 'us' means, and then to rediscover what we can achieve together." Infinite Futures"Instead of a society and politics based on a 'them and us', this book is about how we can get a bigger us." New Start Magazine"A strikingly convincing account of how to unleash a wave of civic energy across the UK." RSA“A timely and comprehensive case for devolution, helping to put the case for change in a way that is meaningful to people's daily lives. All in government - central and local - should read this book and act on it.” Sir Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham City Council"Presents an array of innovative and inspiring examples from across the UK and beyond that encapsulate the spirit of commonism." 3am Magazine"Should give heart to those who support a less centralised country, but also provide a challenge to the politically powerful at all levels." LSE Review of Books"With Taking Power Back, the experiences and the opportunities presented by the devolution zeitgeist are distilled into a prospectus for a radical shift in how and why government exists and what might replace it." The London Economic.“A compelling case that the British experiment with centralism has failed. Using examples from across the globe, this provocative book shows how a happier, healthier and more equal society can be built from the bottom up.” Graham Allen, MP"A demolition of the silos where power has been long been hoarded in Britain and a compelling case for a different way of governing." Rafael Behr, political columnist, The GuardianTable of ContentsThe revolution will not be centralised: why politics needs to change; Learning to love the postcode lottery: why hoarding power usually fails; Giving up is hard to do: why it’s hard to share power; The localist renaissance: how England’s cities fought back; From consumers to creators: reinventing citizenship; The colonisation of Britain: how the empire came home; Giving up is hard to do: why politicians struggle to share power; Hack the state: how we can take power back.

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Book SynopsisThe 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that continue to reveal how social structure and roles produce extensive human suffering and differential impacts on individuals and communities. These events bring social vulnerability to the forefront in considering how disasters unfold, clearly revealing that disasters are not created from the physical event alone. Equally important, peopleeven those considered vulnerablerespond in innovative and resilient ways that unveil the strength of human ingenuity and spirit. It is not a foregone conclusion that a hazard event, even a large one, will result in catastrophic loss. This updated second edition of Social Vulnerability to Disasters focuses on the social construction of disasters, demonstrating how the characteristics of an event are not the only reason that tragedies unfTable of ContentsFraming Social Vulnerability. Understanding Social Vulnerability. Theoretical Framing of Worldviews, Values, and Structural Dimensions of Disasters. The Intrinsic Link of Vulnerability to Sustainable Development. Socially Vulnerable Groups & Building Capacity. Class. Race and Ethnicity. Gender. Age. Disability. Health. Language and Literacy. Households and Families. Violence. Religion, Faith, and Faith-Based Organizations. Animals. Community Resilience. The Nature of Human Communities. Measuring and Conveying Social Vulnerability. Social Change and Empowerment. New Ideas for Practitioners.

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: PoliticsFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summers 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic specific workbooks.Our Student Workbooks build students understanding, developing the confidence and exam skills they need, whilst providing ready prepared lesson solutions. - Supplements key resources such as textbooks to adapt easily to existing schemes of work- Offers time-saving and economical lesson solutions for both specialist and non-specialist teachers- Provides flexible resource material to reinforce and apply topic understanding throughout the course, as classwork or extension tasks, or with revision- Creates opportunities for self-directed learning and assessment with answers to tasks and activities supplied online- Prepares students to meet the demands of the specifica

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: PoliticsFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)Written by experienced teachers Nick Gallop and Paul Fairclough, this Student Guide for Politics:-Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the AS/A-level specifications-Enables you to measure your understanding with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers at the end of the guide-Helps you to improve your exam technique with sample answers to exam-style questions-Develops your independent learning skills with content you can use for further study and research

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Book Synopsis''An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut'' Damien LewisPlayboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief.Traitors.John Amery is a drunk and a fanatic, an exiled playboy whose frail body is riven by contradictions. Harold Cole is a cynical, murderous conman who desperately wants to be seen as an officer and a gentleman. Eric Pleasants is an iron-willed former wrestler; he is also a pacifist, and will not be forced into fighting other men''s battles. William Joyce can weave spells when he talks, but his true gifts are for rage and hate. By the end of the Second World War, they will all have betrayed their country. The Traitors is the story of how they came to do so. Drawing on declassified MI5 files, it is a book about chaotic lives in turbulent times; idealism twisted out of shape; of torn consciences and abandoned loyalties; and the tragic consequences that treachery Trade ReviewIn this clever, racy book [Josh Ireland] tells the stories of four British citizens who served Nazi Germany . . . full of energy and stylish phrase-making * The Times *An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut * Damien Lewis *A terrific read that is lucid, insightful and beautifully written. Josh Ireland's masterful prose breathes life into these complex, deceitful, yet profoundly fascinating traitors. Set against a backdrop of violent extremism and political failure, The Traitors rings a loud warning bell from history * Giles Milton *Josh Ireland's achievement is to tell the story of some of Britain's most inglorious, notorious and vainglorous characters in the most glorious and elegant way. He provides a warning for our times from this true story, painting the most vivid of pictures with the sharpest of novelist's pens * John Bew *Ireland gives a vivid account of this repellent, but fascinating, quartet * Daily Mail *[Ireland] comments intelligently on their motives and describes enough of their worlds and views to give us essential context * The Spectator *Ireland's book gives a good flavour of the personality defects that caused men to betray their country . . . Ireland tells their stories entertainingly, and examines their motives without prejudice * Daily Telegraph *Startlingly vivid . . . unmistakably a book of our times * Prospect Magazine *Absorbing . . . Josh Ireland organises this testament of treachery with vim and purpose . . . he skewers his subjects with a piercing revulsion * Mail on Sunday *A well-written and very readable account of these four unappealing characters . . . this is a tough subject to get to grips with. Ireland's book is a very worthy effort * Literary Review *His book is timely, certainly, in raising questions about patriotic loyalty . . . Josh Ireland writes with friendly immediacy. He is a suave raconteur who gets the pace of his stories right * TLS *Ireland tells his four characters' stories with immense skill, to reveal their motives and lead them to inevitable ruin. In the process, he raises a question of great importance now: what is patriotism, and why should we care? * Observer, Books of the Year *

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Book SynopsisMillions of people around the world are forced to work without pay and under threat of violence. These individuals can be found working in brothels, factories, mines, farm fields, restaurants, construction sites and private homes: many have been tricked by human traffickers and lured by false promises of good jobs or education, some are forced to work at gunpoint, while others are trapped by phony debts from unscrupulous moneylenders. The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slaveryprovides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and global look at the diverse issues surrounding human trafficking and slavery in the post-1945 environment. Covering everything from history, literature and politics to economics, international law and geography, this Handbook is essential reading for academics and researchers, as well as for policy-makers and non-governmental organisations Trade ReviewThe SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery is a crucial contribution to the field and will prove an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and activists. It is the best book in the marketplace for anyone who wants a thorough grounding on the issues. -- Siddharth KaraTable of ContentsIntroduction - Jennifer B. Clark & Steve J. Shone PART 1: Defining Contemporary Slavery Chapter 1: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Trafficking - Jean Allain Chapter 2: International Legal Framework on Human Trafficking: Contemporary understandings and continuing confusions - Marika McAdam Chapter 3: Assessing the Global Slavery Index - Monti Datta, Olivia Gustafson, Chloe Lubin-Kirchner, Gioia Kelleher & Rebecca Berg Chapter 4: Empirical Research on Sex Work and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia and a Critique of Methodologies for Obtaining Estimates of Human Trafficking Numbers - Thomas Steinfatt PART 2: Forms of Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery Chapter 5: Labour trafficking - Aidan McQuade Chapter 6: Practices of Bonded Labour in India: Forms of Exploitation and Human Rights Violations - Arun Kumar Acharya & Diego López Naranjo Chapter 7: The Evolving Concept of Worst Forms of Child Labor - Holly Cullen Chapter 8: Organ Trafficking: Transplant Tourism and Trafficking in Persons for the Removal of Organs - Sean Columb PART 3: The Context of Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery Chapter 9: The business of human trafficking and modern slavery - Kam Phung & Andrew Crane Chapter 10: Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, and Extremism - Gus Martin Chapter 11: Human trafficking, modern day slavery and organized crime - James Finckenauer Chapter 12: Migration and Trafficking: The Unintended Consequences of Security and Enforcement Frameworks and the Revictimization of Vulnerable Groups - Jennifer B. Clark & Steve J. Shone PART 4: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery Chapter 13: A Survivor Centric Approach: The Importance of Contemporary Slave Narratives to the Anti-Slavery Agenda - Andrea Nicholson Chapter 14: Trafficking in Human Beings: The Convergence of Criminal Law and Human Rights - Roza Pati Chapter 15: Pretty Vacant: Stolen Girls/Girlhoods in Anti-Trafficking Discourses - Treena Orchard Chapter 16: Indigenous women in trafficking: links between race, ethnicity and class - Natividad Gutierrez Chong PART 5: Case Studies Chapter 17: The identification of trafficking victims in Europe and the former Soviet Union - Rebbeca Surtees & Anette Brunovskis Chapter 18: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Children in the West African Region - Charles Hounmenou Chapter 19: Identifying Human Trafficking Victims Under the Sharia Law in Iran - Roksana Alavi Chapter 20: Impacts of Cultural Practices and Anti Trafficking Policies in South East Asia - Diego López Naranjo & Arun Kumar Acharya Chapter 21: Human Trafficking in North America - Amy Farrell and Rebecca Pfeffer Chapter 22: Legal Yet Enslaved: The Case of Migrant Farm Workers in the United States - Maria Elena Sandovici Chapter 23: Australia’s response to human trafficking nationally and regionally: the question of impact - Heather Moore, Marie Segrave, Bodean Hedwards & Sanja Milivojevic Chapter 24: Child Workers: An Ugly Face in the Labour Industry - Rashmi Pramanik PART 6: Ending Contemporary Slavery Chapter 25: The International Law Enforcement Community: Cooperative Efforts in Combating Human Trafficking - Rosalva Resendiz & Lucas E. Espinoza Chapter 26: Identification, rescue and social intervention with the victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in Spain - Carmen Meneses-Falcón and Jorge Uroz-Olivares Chapter 27: Organizational Configurations in Providing Social Services and Advocacy to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking - Chie Noyori Corbett, Jessica Hernandez & David Moxley Chapter 28: Contemporary social movements to end slavery – NGOs and beyond - Joanna Ewart-James & Matthew Fischer-Daly

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Book SynopsisOmar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores why anti-militarists resist, considers the politics of different tactics and examines the tensions and debates within the movement. It argues that anti-militarists can help us understand militarism in new and useful ways, and that that the methods of anti-militarists can be a potent force for radical political change.

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Book Synopsis From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on principles of liberty, independence and freedom, slavery advocates and sympathizers positioned themselves in every aspect of American influence. Over the centuries, the characterization of early American figures, legislation and party platforms has been debated. The author seeks to clarify often unanswered--or ignored--questions about notable figures, sociopolitical movements and their positions on slavery. From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, this book explores some of America''s most controversial moments. Spanning the first American century, it offers a detailed chronology of slavery and racism in early U.S. politics and society.

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Book Synopsis The American Republic''s founders debated whether to have a government based on direct democracy (in which the general population decided public policy questions, as in a New England town meeting) or representative democracy (in which those decisions were made by senators and congressmen on behalf of the general population). A related issue was whether the general population should have the right of instruction which gave citizens authority to expel from office government officials who disobeyed the desires of the population. The right of instruction is now largely forgotten but in former times was considered so important that it was routinely included in state constitutions. This book examines the competition between direct democracy and representative democracy in the United States, focusing particularly on the doctrine of instruction, through the lens of the pre-presidential career of Abraham Lincoln.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface Part 1. Instruction Part 2. Election of Senators by State Legislatures Part 3. Lincoln's Experiences with U.S. Senate Campaigns Epilogue: A Modest Proposal Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (195874). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González's triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.Trade Review“Ana María Reyes tackles an important but understudied subject that is absolutely essential to understanding contemporary Colombian politics, culture, and society: the relationship between aesthetics and the Cold War in Colombia. Her analysis of Beatriz González's artistic practices, Marta Traba's art criticism, the institutions where they worked and exhibited, and Colombia's cultural politics and Cold War policies during the National Front period is brilliant and compelling.” -- Mary Roldán, author of * Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953 *“In this exciting and enlightening book, Ana María Reyes provides an entirely new perspective on the art of Beatriz González, on Latin American engagements with pop, and on Marta Traba's assessment of González's work. By offering a clear sense of the cultural dynamics of the Cold War in Colombia and class politics within Bogota during this period, Reyes allows readers to better appreciate González's subject matter, style, color sensibility, and use of appropriation.” -- Mary Coffey, author of * Orozco’s American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race *“Rich, multivalent context as means to weighing Colombian Beatriz González’s early artistic production (1964–70) is exactly what this assistant professor of Latin American art at Boston University offers readers with her monograph The Politics of Taste. The author’s analysis is buttressed by field research including access to the artist’s personal archive, twelve hours of personal interviews with her, and archival work in Medellín, Colombia…. Reyes’s skillfully crafted text is the first single-author monograph on the artist in English.” -- Teresa Eckmann * Art Journal *"Reyes’s study is rich in information, illustrations, and ideas. . . . This book is authoritative, rigorous, and consistently insightful." -- Luis Rebaza-Soraluz * E.I.A.L. *

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