Politics and government Books
Luath Press Ltd Unfinished Business
Book SynopsisUnlock the potential of Scotland's future withUnfinished Businessby Henry McLeish and James Mitchell. This compelling read is essential for political enthusiasts, policymakers and anyone passionate about the evolution of Scottish governance. McLeish and Mitchell dissect the legacy of the 1998 Scottish Parliament legislation,revisiting the core principles that shaped its foundation.Reflecting on a quarter of a century of progress, the authors highlight past challenges and outline a vision for the next 25 years. Advocating for partnerships rooted in respect and accountability, they call for reforms that align with the original aspirations of the Scottish Parliament. This book not only scrutinises Scotland's current political status but also illuminates pathways for a more equitable and engaged democracy. Perfect for academics, students of political science and those interested in the future of Scotland,Unfinished Businessis a crucial addition to the conversation about Scotland's political landscape and future direction.
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Vintage Publishing Exam Nation
Book SynopsisSammy Wright is Head of School at a large secondary in Sunderland. He sat on the government's Social Mobility Commission from 2018 to 2021, becoming a key voice in the debates over exam grades during the pandemic. He has taught for twenty years at schools in Oxfordshire, London and the North East. His debut novel Fit won the Northern Book Prize.
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Wessex Astrologer Ltd The Book of World Horoscopes
Book SynopsisThis volume contains astrological and historical data relating to the formation of countries and governments.
£43.20
Unicorn Publishing Group The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume Three: Red,
Book SynopsisThe Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out of poverty. No fewer than three million cadres have been sent to the least developed areas of the country to educate, inspire and help the most impoverished people with financial support, jobs and business opportunities. The authors of this series of books visited some of the villages that were previously very poor, to document how developments in education, agriculture, health and tourism had created positive change. The authors wrote about what they saw, what they heard, how they felt in these areas and rendered them into touching and vivid stories. The south of Jiangxi Province is the well-known red revolutionary base area. Wang Song mainly describes the five most representative counties of poverty alleviation with characteristics and outstanding achievements -Yudu County, Shicheng County, Xingguo County, Quannan County and Longnan County in his reportage Red, Red Azalea. This reportage is structured with scatters stories in panorama view and renders the poverty alleviation vividly together with the revolution in the past, full of specific details of stories and characters, making it remarkable by its profound thoughts and political speculations, as well as historical depth and global vision.
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Foreign Languages Press Xi Jinping: The Governance of China I
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Foreign Languages Press Xi Jinping: The Governance of China IV
Book SynopsisThe Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council Information Office, with the support of the Research Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, and China International Publishing Group, have compiled a fourth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. This volume is designed to help officials and the public better understand and apply Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, to impress upon them the decisive nature of the Two Affirmations, to strengthen their commitment to the Four Consciousnesses, the Four-sphere Confidence, and the Two Upholds, and to guide them to forge ahead in unity and with greater resolve on a new journey in the new era. It is also intended that this volume will keep the international community abreast of the latest developments in President Xi's thoughts, give them a better understanding of how the Chinese people have succeeded under CPC leadership and how they will continue to succeed in the future, and explain the development path that China has chosen and its approach to and theory of governance. This volume contains a compilation of 109 of Xi Jinping's spoken and written works from February 3, 2020 to May 10, 2022, along with 45 photographs taken since January 2020. It is divided into 21 sections by topic, with the articles in each section arranged in chronological order. For ease of reading, notes are provided at the end of relevant articles.
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Cypress Book Co. UK Ltd Jinping Xi Jinping The Governance of China V
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Mimesis International Original Sins: Globalization, Populism, and the
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Defence Technology in Transition
Book SynopsisThis book draws on the ten nation CREDIT (Capacity for Research on European Defence and Industrial Technology) network which was set up to tackle issue concerning defence science, technology and industrial policy, including the implications of the Cold War and a growing pan-European emphasis.By providing a comparative study of policy and practice in the countries of western Europe, the book provides vital insights into how governments and firms can begin to search for European-wide solutions to the dilemmas that face them.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Belgium; 2: France; 3: Germany; 4: Greece; 5: Italy; 6: The Netherlands; 7: Spain; 8: Sweden; 9: United Kingdom
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Juggernaut Publication Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire
Book SynopsisIn this outstanding collection of his recent writing, Mishra centres on the end of liberalism â its history and the contradictions within it, which have led to its decline.Wide-ranging and full of ideas, the essays talk about,among other things, Salman Rushdie, the selfhelp guru Jordan Peterson, The Economist magazine and Brexit.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Is Reality Optional
Book SynopsisSowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC This is Only the Beginning
Book SynopsisMichael Chessum is a journalist and activist. He has written for the Guardian and Observer, the New Statesman, The Independent, Vice, Novara, The London Review of Books and many others. He co-founded the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, playing a prominent role in the student protests of 2010 and the anti-austerity movement that followed. In 2016-17, he was a member of Momentum's first Steering Committee, serving as its Treasurer, and worked as a press officer and speechwriter on Jeremy Corbyn's second leadership campaign. As National Organiser for the left wing anti-Brexit group Another Europe is Possible, he became a dissident within Corbynism and a prominent voice in the public debate on Brexit and migrants' rights.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist
Book SynopsisAs old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for advantage, and the world is full of conflicts, crises and wars. Things have to change. Activist and political scientist Kristina Lunz is on a mission to do just that. In her work from New York to Bogotá, from Germany to Myanmar, she became aware of a stubborn unwillingness to think past the status quo and to embrace new, innovative voices from marginalized groups. She also saw that the tradition of feminist activism combined brilliantly with diplomacy: both require grim tenacity, boundless creativity and a solutions-oriented approach. In her attempt to reconfigure the field of foreign policy, she aims to set in motion a paradigm shift, replacing grandiose displays of military might with feminism, solidarity and climate justice. A feminist foreign policy requires the promotion of equal rights in the handling of foreign affairs and security matters worldwide, with a particular focus on marginalized and politically underrepresented groups. Ultimately, this is nothing less than an inclusive, visionary policy for the twenty-first century, one where security and prosperity, health and climate justice are possible – in other words: where peace is possible for everyone, everywhere.Trade Review‘A bold vision for a sustainable future.’Margot Wallström, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden‘Kristina Lunz shows what a future foreign policy that focuses on human rights and human security could look like. A courageous vision that is well worth reading!’Düzen Tekkal, writer, filmmaker and human rights activist‘Kristina Lunz has produced a persuasive critique of the dominant paradigm of international relations. More importantly, she offers a compelling alternative vision “fit to purpose” for the twenty-first century, based on feminist principles and values, including respect for all life, justice, empathy and humility.’Stephen Heintz, President & CEO, Rockefeller Brothers Fund‘Kristina Lunz highlights the urgent need for feminist approaches in foreign policy to address the root causes of conflict and build sustainable peace.’Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian Human Rights Lawyer and Nobel Peace Laureate 2022‘After reading this book you will look at the world differently.’Maja Göpel, economist and co-founder of Scientists for FutureTable of ContentsPreface to the 2023 edition 1. Prologue: The personal is political My feminist awakening; …and where it led Margot Wallström: ‘Activism and diplomacy, that is, courage and patience, complement each other’ 2. Why foreign policy must become feminist The beginnings of feminist foreign policy; Feminism for everybody; Less patriarchy, more security; Feminist security beyond the nation state; Conclusion: Why (feminist) foreign policy concerns us all Toni Haastrup: ‘Home was never a place for me’ 3. Diplomacy: It’s a man’s world A rocky road; Female diplomacy in Germany; Making women visible; Oppression and violence – women’s lives past and present; Conclusion: diverse and efficient Valerie Hudson: ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been’ 4. Old white men in theory My personal sense of unease; The imperial brotherhood, or: Androcentrism is everywhere; Are humans essentially selfish?; International Relations: The revolution begins; Epistemicide – the destruction of knowledge; The postcolonial perspective; Conclusion: Old white men – a narrow outlook Nina Bernarding: ‘Gendering is a way of structuring power’ 5. The beginnings of feminist foreign policy 1915: It all began in The Hague; The women’s resolution; Delegations with a mission; 1919: A continent rearranged; Women and peace talks; From 1920: The re-emergence of hope; Feminist international law; Conclusion: The shoulders of giants Chandra Mohanty: ‘My loyalty was never to an institution’ 6. Feminist activism: UN Resolution 1325 In the UN Security Council; The idea of a feminist Security Council; United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; The example of Colombia; The example of NATO; The influence of feminist civil society on UN resolutions; Germany’s national action plan; Demanding the maximum and negotiating compromise; Conclusion: She who fights with monsters Sanam Naraghi Anderlini: ‘Who fights for human rights? Women do’ 7. The status quo of feminist foreign policy Sweden; Canada; France; Mexico; Spain; Germany; Other states with a feminist foreign policy agenda; Staying power: The Global Partners Network; Small steps; Conclusion: The will for transformation Cynthia Enloe: ‘Where are the women?’ 8. Attacks on women’s, LGBTQI* and human rights Networking; Power over Rights; The origins of anti-gender ideology; The old, the new and the allies; Defending the international patriarchal social order; The ‘Atlas of Civil Society’; The myth of gender ideology; Antifeminist strategies; What ‘protecting unborn life’ actually means; Conclusion: An unrelenting struggle Jennifer Cassidy: ‘Old white men were teaching solely about old white men, and that made me furious’ 9. Feminist global health policy Covid is a feminist issue; The human right to health; Health diplomacy; Colonial tendencies in questions of health; Global injustices: North versus South; Sexual and reproductive health and rights; Forgotten groups in health policy; Conclusion: For a feminist global health policy Beatrice Fihn: ‘It’s absurd that force and weapons are seen as guarantors of (inter)national security’ 10. No climate justice without feminism Led by women; Climate protection: An intensely feminist issue; The climate crisis doesn’t affect everyone equally; Climate justice = human justice; Control over nature and women; The man-made climate crisis; Climate and security; Objections and attacks; Conclusion: Climate justice and feminism – now! J. Ann Tickner: ‘It doesn’t matter what the boys are doing; we’re doing much more interesting things anyway’ 11. Making peace without weapons: Disarmament as a fundamental demand of feminism My personal security flaw; The arms race spiral; Weapons kill women; Core objective: Demilitarization; Disarmament as a core feminist concern in history; A ‘no’ to the arms trade; A ‘no’ to nuclear weapons; A ‘no’ to killer robots; Conclusion: No security in patriarchy Bonnie Jenkins: ‘It’s our job to question the status quo – again and again’ 12. The future of foreign policy is feminist Hopeless: Afghanistan 2021; The CFFP manifesto; Peace and security; Demilitarization, disarmament and arms (export) control; Human rights and the rule of law; Climate justice; Development cooperation; Migration; Global health; Decolonizing foreign policy; Fighting antifeminist attacks on the human rights system; Participation and leadership; Collaboration and feminist civil society; Conclusion: Change and growth Samantha Power: ‘I want to create diplomatic progress’ 13. Feminist foreign policy in times of war and conflict Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine; The feminist revolution in Iran; Conclusion: short-term feminist interventions and long-term feminist transformation 14. Epilogue My personal history: CFFP instead of the UN; The triple whammy; Conclusion: From angst to agency; P.S.: Only the strong stay soft! Madeleine Rees: ‘I took off my velvet gloves a long time ago’ Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes Index
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ERIS The 1854 Oration
Book SynopsisA vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America
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University of Minnesota Press A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Book SynopsisRewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review"A historically grounded and embodied understanding of geological transformation."—Antipode"A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None could be summed up as a new history of the relationship between geology and subjectivity. This is by no means a novel concern – pre-black conscious writers such as WEB du Bois, black conscious writers including Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko, and their contemporaries and successors, for example Sylvia Wynter, Achille Mbembe and Kathrine McKittrick, have all grappled with the complex human-citizenship-land question. What makes Kathryn Yusoff’s book different is that it addresses these questions via contemporary concerns about the Anthropocene, the name given to the new geological epoch. Unlike previous epochs, such as the Pleistocene, which was marked by climatological planetary impacts – in this case repeated glaciations, which is why it’s also called the Ice Age – the Anthropocene is marked by human interference."—New Frame"Black studies scholars and geographers interested in the environment and materiality alike are likely to find the text useful in asserting that a grammar of biopolitics cannot adequately account for the social history and present of Black people’s proximity to death, from the silver mines of sixteenth-century Potosí to the toxic environs of late-capitalist US urbanity."—ISLE"In steering away from specific dates, Yusoff engages with concepts of geologic time by connecting struggles for equity and justice with some of the foundational epistemologies that are normally used to connect historical and physical geology: uniformitarianism, the vastness of time, and the trade of time for location."—Nature Geoscience"Yusoff’s Billion Black Anthropocenes calls to mind this multitude of examples of colonialism and attendant resource exploitation, reminding us that the Anthropocene is simply the latest in a centuries-long string of world destructions enacted by western colonizers."—Inhabiting the Anthropocene "Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None charts and unearths the grammar of geology as one that is foundational to and enabling of the extractive economies and histories of colonialism and slavery."—Eye on Design
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Biteback Publishing Landslide
Book SynopsisIn this pacy and colourful new book, seasoned political journalists Tim Ross and Rachel Wearmouth use new interviews and candid private accounts from key players to take the reader behind the scenes of one of the strangest but most consequential elections in recent history.
£20.25
Faber & Faber Broken Vows Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power
Book SynopsisThe political thriller of the year - UPDATED WITH A DEVASTATING NEW CHAPTER ON THE CHILCOT INQUIRY''Excellent'' Sunday Times''Devastating'' Daily MailWhen Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was 93 per cent and he went on to become Labour''s longest-serving premier. So what went wrong? With unprecedented access to more than 180 Whitehall officials, military officers and politicians, Tom Bower has uncovered the full story of Blair''s decade in power. He has followed Blair''s trail from his resignation, since which he has built a remarkable empire advising tycoons and tyrants. The result is the political thriller of the year, illuminating the mystery of an extraordinary politician who continues to fascinate to this day.
£13.49
Columbia University Press Pure Excess
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Government and Politics of the European Union
Book SynopsisA systematically updated and revised new edition of the leading text on the European Union. Combining authoritative coverage with student-friendly design and features, the eighth edition is brought fully up to date with recent developments in the EU, including the ongoing fallout from the eurozone crisis.Trade ReviewNeill Nugent has once again supplied us with a definitive textbook on the institutions and politics of the European Union. However it is much more than this. It is an essential reference book for both the academic and practitioner ... [and] a masterful effort at explaining the inexplicable and at making the opaque transparent. * Political Studies *The book is well organized, well researched, and clearly written. It answers almost every factual question that the undergraduate is likely to ask about the existing organizational structure of the Community, and the judgements that the author offers from time to time are invariably sound and sensible. * Government and Opposition *Nugent manages throughout to convey the complexity of the EC system without confusing the reader. In short, it is an excellent book with which it is difficult to find fault. * West European Politics *Table of Contents1. Setting the Scene: The 'Crises', the Challenges and Their Implications for the Nature and Operation of the EU PART 1: THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION 2. The Post-War Transformation of Western Europe 3. The Creation of the European Community 4. The Deepening of the Integration Process 5. The Widening of the Integration Process PART 2: THE EVOLVING TREATY FRAMEWORK 6. From Rome to Nice 7. The Constitutional and Lisbon Treaties 8. Treaties and the Integration Process PART 3: THE INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTORS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 9. The Commission 10. The Council of the European Union 11. The European Council 12. The European Parliament 13. European Union Law and the EU's Courts 14. Other Institutions 15. Interests 16. The Member States PART 4: POLICIES AND POLICY PROCESSES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 17. Understanding EU Policies 18. Policy Processes 19. Making and Applying EU Legislation 20. Internal Policies 21. Agricultural Policy and Policy Processes 22. External Policies 23. The Budget PART 5: STEPPING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD 24. Conceptualising the European Union 25. Theorising European Integration and EU Politics 26. Conclusion: Present Realities and Future Prospects Chronology Guide to Further Reading Bibliography and References.
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Daraja Press White Saviorism In International Development:
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Permacrisis
Book Synopsis'Offers hope and good sense in equal measure' Ian Bremmer 'A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world' Sheryl Sandberg Problems are mounting. We face sputtering growth, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, poor policy responses, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. But a permacrisis need not be permanent. In this book, three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence, writing with Reid Lidow, explain where we’ve gone wrong and set out what could be done to bring about a brighter future for generations to come. They look beyond today’s headlines and political rhetoric to offer a bold, big-picture vision and nuanced, achievable solutions for fixing our broken approaches to growth, economic management, and
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HarperCollins Publishers The Lie of the Land
Book Synopsis*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS AND THE UNWIN AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE**A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024*''Both dynamite and medicine'' AMY-JANE BEER''Timely and rousing'' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain's landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation's wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.*Guy Shrubsole''s The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30*
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PublicAffairs,U.S. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot
Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality.Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable.A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul.
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Harper Collins Publ. USA Unti9780063438644
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Common Good Constitutionalism
Book SynopsisThe way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as “a reasoned ordering to the common good.” In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of “common good constitutionalism.” This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.Trade Review“Elegant, insightful, magisterial: Adrian Vermeule has written an instant classic of scholarship, exposing the poverty of today’s prevailing legal theories, left and right, and pointing us to a better alternative – one as vibrant and radical as the Western tradition.”Sohrab Ahmari, bestselling author of The Unbroken Thread and From Fire, by Water “This is the most important book of American constitutional theory in many decades. Common Good Constitutionalism is a bolt from the blue that challenges conservative and progressive constitutional law paradigms alike. It is destined to infuriate, and to reorient.”Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University “You are holding that rarest of books, one that will change minds, change the terms of debate, and change the future. Adrian Vermeule has written the most important and original book on constitutional theory for this generation. Future scholars, lawyers, and citizens will look back at this book for having sounded the death knell of the seemingly unassailable camps of conservative ‘originalism’ and progressive ‘living constitutionalism,’ revealing them to be exhausted sides of the same devalued liberal coin. More importantly, this book charts a new and better path – a common good constitutionalism grounded in the classical tradition but repurposed for the revitalization of a declining but redeemable republic.”Patrick J. Deneen, University of Notre Dame, author of Why Liberalism Failed “This bold and provocative book challenges the views on constitutional interpretation of both US conservatives and liberals, and reframes the debate by focusing on a substantive concept: the common good. With his characteristic originality and ability to weave the insights of different disciplines, Vermeule puts forward a thought-provoking account of the common good and its legal implications, one which will be of relevance well beyond American debates. Even those who disagree with it will have much to learn from this erudite engagement with one of the main concepts in political thought.”Francisco J. Urbina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile “ambitious”John Lloyd, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF THE CLASSICAL LEGAL TRADITION I. THE COMMON GOOD DEFINED II. THE CLASSICAL LEGAL TRADITION IN AMERICA III. ORIGINALISM AS ILLUSION IV. PROGRESSIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEVELOPING CONSTITUTIONALISM V. APPLICATIONS CONCLUSION
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John Blake Publishing Ltd The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold
Book Synopsis'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds completely new light on the most important intelligence alliance in the world' -- Tim Shipman, author of All Out War The Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is a riveting and exclusive narrative of the most powerful and least understood intelligence alliance, which has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956. Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual censorship channels to tell the definitive account of authoritative but unauthorised stories of the Western world's most powerful but least known intelligence alliance made up of the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. As Kerbaj shows, spy stories are never better than when they are true - and these span from 1930s Nazi spy rings to the most recent developments in Ukraine and China. Through personal interviews with world leaders - including British Prime Ministers Theresa May and David Cameron - and more than 100 intelligence officials, this book explores the complex personalities who helped shape the Five Eyes. They include a Scotland Yard detective who became a spymaster and inspired the first exchanges between MI5 and the FBI. An American home economics teacher who helped create one of the most effective programmes to counter Soviet espionage. The CIA's lone officer in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. GCHQ's chief during the Edward Snowden intelligence leak. And the Australian politician turned diplomat whose tip-off to the FBI instigated the inquiry into Russia's meddling in the US presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Richard Kerbaj is able to draw from deep inside the secret corridors of power and his unparalleled access spans all 5 countries. Some of the people he has interviewed include former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, CIA director General David Petraeus, MI5 director-general Eliza Manningham-Buller, NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, British National Security Advisor Kim Darroch, ASIO chief Mike Burgess, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's chief Richard Fadden, and Ciaran Martin, the official who oversaw Britain's assessments on whether the Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei, should have had a role in the creation of the UK's 5G network. This page-turning book will lift the lid on spy stories from across the English-speaking world, question the future of the alliance, and our place within it.Trade Review'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds completely new light on the most important intelligence alliance in the world' -- Tim Shipman, author of All Out War
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Ebury Publishing Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life
Book SynopsisIt is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.Life at the university is lonely and claustrophobic. Her letters are read by censors and she must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but also from her colleagues, evangelical Christian missionaries, whose faith she does not share.As the weeks pass she discovers how easily her students lie, and how total is their obedience to Kim Jong-il. She also, bravely, hints at the existence of a world beyond their own: the internet, free travel, democracy, and other ideas forbidden in a country where torture and execution are commonplace. Yet her pupils are also full of boyish enthusiasm, with flashes of curiosity not yet extinguished.Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life inside the world's most inscrutable country.Trade ReviewStrangely terrifying...A beautifully written book that greatly expands the limited bounds of what we know about North Korea's ruling class -- Barbara Demick, author of Nothing To EnvyThis superb work of investigative journalism is distinguished by its grave beauty and aching tenderness. -- Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of LossA rare and revealing insight into the world of this closed nation's "priviligentsia", a sector of society about which very little information is available. * The Times Online *(Suki Kim) lived under constant surveillance, fearful that she might slip up. * Daily Mail *A glimpse into the North Korean mind. * Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday *
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Penguin Books Ltd Zeitoun
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD AND THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD''Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported'' Guardian The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. But eventually he came to the attention of those ''guarding'' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun''s nightmare really begin.Zeitoun is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man''s courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.''Eggers uses Zeitoun''s eyes to report on America''s reasonless post-Katrina world, Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Márquez''s documentaries, this is a true story told with the skills of a master of fiction. Immensely readable'' Independent''The stuff of great narrative non-fiction. Fifty years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city, they will be talking about a family named Zeitoun'' The New York Times Book ReviewTrade ReviewEggers uses Zeitoun's eyes to report on America's reasonless post-Katrina world. Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's documentaries, this is a true story told with the skills of a master of fiction. Immensely readable * Independent *Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported * Guardian *The shocking tale of a true New Orleans hero. This is narrative non-fiction at its very, very best * Herald *Shocking * The Times *Extraordinary, gripping * Daily Telegraph *Terrifying * Observer *Riveting * Vanity Fair *
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Basic Books The Thomas Sowell Reader
Book SynopsisThese selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell''s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from late-talking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians. These topics are dealt with by sometimes drawing on history, sometimes drawing on economics, and sometimes drawing on a sense of humour.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC To Stop a Tyrant
Book SynopsisIra Chaleff, an expert in political followership, reveals how political followers can make or ""brake"" toxic leaders and what we can do-no matter our level of political influence or where we sit on the political spectrum-to support beneficial leaders and stop the rise of would-be tyrants.
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Biteback Publishing The Mind of the Minister
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with former government ministers and Permanent Secretaries - including Vince Cable, Caroline Flint, Rory Stewart, Philip Rutnam, Simon McDonald and Una O'Brien - The Mind of the Minister provides expert guidance and recommendations for how this vital relationship can improve.
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Guardian Faber Publishing Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White
Book Synopsis**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**#1 New York Times Bestseller'It's a superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country. Amazing research and brilliantly collated.' John Le Carré'Collusion is so essential and ... I wish everyone who is skeptical that Russia has leverage over Trump would read it ... Invaluable.' The New York TimesIn Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump's decades-long relationship with Russia and presents the gripping inside story of offshore money, sketchy real-estate deals, a Miss Universe Pageant, mobsters, money laundering, hacking and Kremlin espionage. This book gets to the heart of the biggest political scandal of the modern era, engulfing not just Trump's White House but threatening a global crisis not seen since the Cold War.
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Oneworld Publications Hidden Hand Exposing How the Chinese Communist
Book Synopsis‘Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.’ The Times ‘This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.’ Guardian The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, Hollywood, think tanks, universities and the Chinese diaspora are being manipulated with money, pressure and privilege. Hidden Hand reveals the myriad ways the CCP is fulfilling its dream of undermining liberal values and controlling the world.Trade Review‘A remarkable book with a chilling message… The book’s convincing message is plain… Everyone must stay on their guard.’ -- Will Hutton, Guardian‘Revelatory… A detailed and necessary examination.’ * Sunday Times *‘Hidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.’ * The Times *'Hidden Hand should be required reading for our diplomats, intelligence analysts, military officers and businesspeople.' * The Australian *'An in-depth explanation of how China conducts its operations to gain important knowledge – ranging from tech secrets to financial information.' * International Business Times *'It takes courage to prod somnolent liberal democracies out of their complacent and dangerous incomprehension of the CCP. We are in Hamilton’s and Ohlberg’s debt.' -- Journal of Democracy'[Hidden Hand] should be required reading for anyone working in government and policy, the private sector, or media — really, for anyone with a stake in resisting the shadowy machinations of a totalitarian regime that seeks to exert its will on free societies.' * National Review *
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Vintage Publishing The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Book Synopsis‘The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics’ The TimesRobert A. Caro’s legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. It charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and his attainment, nonetheless, at the age of thirty-one of the power for which he hungered.Trade ReviewThe greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics * The Times *A book of radiant excellence … at the summit of American historical writing … Proof that we live in a great age of biography * Washington Post *A superb and unique biography … Meticulous in research, grand in scale, this is a major work that will remain a tower of its kind -- Barbara TuchmanTruly sensational and enthralling … totally original * Financial Times *By every measure – depth of research, brilliance of conception, the seamless flow of the prose – The Path to Power is a masterpiece of biography * Newsday *Powerful and stirring. A monumental political saga … it is an overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power * New York Times *Not only a historical but a literary event. An epic biography … a sweeping, richly detailed portrait … an awesome achievement * Newsweek *
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
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Profile Books Ltd Seventeen Contradictions and the End of
Book SynopsisYou thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism-its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, it's imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction. These are the tensions which underpin the persistence of mass unemployment, the downward spirals of Europe and Japan, and the unstable lurches forward of China and India. Not that the contradictions of capital are all bad: they can lead to the innovations that make capitalism resilient and, it seems, permanent. Yet appearances can deceive: while many of capital's contradictions can be managed, others will be fatal to our society. This new book is both an incisive guide to the world around us and a manifesto for change.Trade ReviewPraise for The Enigma of Capital: 'A lucid and penetrating account of how the power of capital shapes our world -- Book of the Week * Independent *A dynamic re-working of Marx...full of key insights and outside-the-box analysis * Socialist Worker *A well-timed call for the overthrow of capitalism ... elegant ... entertainingly swashbuckling * Financial Times *
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Gemini Books Group Ltd How America Works ... and Why It Doesnt
Book SynopsisAn accessible guide to the US political system which provides a rational and compelling explanation of the ongoing threat to American democracy.
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Microcosm Publishing The FBI War On Tupac Shakur: State Repression of
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Cornerstone The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One
Book SynopsisAs Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their victory at the polls in 1997.Volume 1 details the extraordinary tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they resolved the question as to which one should stand to become Labour leader. It shows that right from the start, relations at the top were prone to enormous strain, suspicions and accusations of betrayal. Yet it also shows the political and personal bonds that tied them together, and which made them one of the most feared and respected electoral machines anywhere in the world. A story of politics in the raw, Prelude to Power is above all an intimate, detailed portrait of the people who have done so much to shape modern history.Trade ReviewCampbell is a compelling diarist ... The Campbell Diaries provide the fullest insider account so far of new Labour's ascent to power * The Times *Hugely gripping . . . all of human life is here. It makes The Thick of It look tame. And sane * Sunday Times *Campbell's world is the brutal, angry, hard-driven, jokey, football-crazed and intensely male world of tabloid journalism. He is a fluent and industrious reporter, with amazing stamina * The Telegraph *There are plenty of nuggets here that are fascinating, some passages that make you wince and others that are gripping. It has historical value * Observer *Campbell is a fluent and industrious reporter, with amazing stamina * Daily Telegraph *
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Vintage Publishing Midnight in Sicily
Book SynopsisPeter Robb''s journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy''s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for alleged Mafia involvement as its starting point, Midnight in Sicily combines a searching investigation with an exuberant, sensual appreciation of this beautiful and bewildering island.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest charms of Robb's book is his evident delight in southern Italy, particularly its food, which is recorded with such intensity of memory that one can almost taste it... As an introduction to post-war Italy, to the country as well as its politics, it can have few equals -- Caroline Moorehead * Times Literary Supplement *Robb writes brilliantly about the cycle of violence in southern Italy. This unclassifiable book melds politics, the mafia, travel, autobiography and serious cooking -- Andrew Taylor * Independent *I love this book. It left me in a sweet and sour mood of exultation, grief, despair and hope which lasted for many days -- Peter Goldsworthy * Australian Review of Books *One of the finest books on the Italian south. [Peter Robb's] analysis is as riveting in its commentary on modern Sicilian life as The Leopard was to an earlier generation * The Economist *Peter Robb manages to celebrate the literature, art, manners and food of an entire region. His book is a masterpiece of elegant, sceptical enquiry and a pleasure to read -- Ian Thomson * Evening Standard *
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Penguin Books Ltd Stupid White Men
Book SynopsisNow with more than three million copies sold, Oscar-winning filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore''s bestseller Stupid White Men tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how ''President'' Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin and dad''s cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Whether he''s calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites-only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Michael Moore''s Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to know what the con is and how ''they'' get away with it, Stu
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Penguin Books Ltd The Last Man in Russia
Book SynopsisOliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. He is now the Caucasus Editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting. His first book, Let Our Fame Be Great, Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, received the Cornelius Ryan award in the United States and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in Britain. Oliver Bullough received the Oxfam Emerging Writer award in 2011.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and wide-ranging journey into the heart of a great, sad country ... He has a talent for sketching the people he meets, often administering a welcome dose of humour, and he appreciates the absurd, in the best Russian tradition -- Arthur House * Sunday Telegraph *Vivid ... very engaging * Times Literary Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Establishment
Book SynopsisTHE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER''Fantastic, timely, eye-opening'' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year''Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening'' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged.''A book of revelations ... The Establishment have stitched it up - stitched you up - and they know it'' Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education Supplement''A dissection of the profoundly and sickeningly corrupt state that is present-day Britain. He is a fine writer, and this is a truly necessary book'' Philip Pullman''Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times'' David Kynaston, The Times Literary Supplement ''You will be enlightened and angry'' Irvine WelshTrade ReviewAn eye-opening state-of-the-nation book. -- Armando Iannucci * New Statesman Books of the Year *I'll never look at UK class politics in the same way after Owen Jones's bracing and principled The Establishment -- Naomi Klein * Guardian Books of the Year *I am delighted to see social class storm its way back into our contemporary history: Owen Jones's The Establishment offers a well-documented as well as searing critique of the groupthink that binds together our rulers -- David Kynaston * Guardian Books of the Year *This is the most important book on the real politics of the UK in my lifetime, and the only one you will ever need to read. You will be enlightened and angry -- Irvine WelshOwen Jones displays a powerful combination of cool analysis and fiery anger in this dissection of the profoundly and sickeningly corrupt state that is present-day Britain. He is a fine writer, and this is a truly necessary book -- Philip PullmanThorough and admirably vivid ... he is excellent on how the state has become a creature of capital, controlled by the corporate sector. As Jones shows, British capitalism is highly dependent on state largesse and rich corporations are the biggest scroungers of all * New Statesman *Powerful . . . The book's great strength lies in the simple power of accumulation. Again and again, Jones connects the dots in parallel lines, so that the single examples that might in themselves be dismissed as circumstantial or overblown become more or less unanswerable . . . He is a writer of real rhetorical force * Independent *A passionate account of political and economic injustice * Observer *A book of revelations... The last time the British Establishment was so intertwined, so arrogant and so powerful was a century ago, and the last democratic revolution that redistributed wealth took a lifetime to play out -- Danny Dorling * Times Higher Education *An important book ... a systematic critique of the various political, corporate and economic institutions that seek to consolidate the interests of the few at the expense of the many ... Jones has the establishment clutching at their little golden straws ... It is not an easy road, Jones argues, but if we show strength and solidarity - perhaps adding a little common sense - we can reinstate true democracy and thus prioritize the needs of the many * Huffington Post *The breadth of Jones' research is impressive ... the chapter on the recent history of ideas is fascinating ... the sections on corporate tax-avoidance, the lobbying industry and the sell-off of the NHS ought to have genuine British taxpayers spitting with rage. Jones ultimately sees his Establishment not as the guardians of British values but as a threat to them -- Richard Godwin * Evening Standard *In many respects, Owen Jones is the best thing to happen to the non-compromised, non-New Labour left in the mainstream media in decades ... On the post-1979 'establishment' Jones is very strong indeed -- Owen Hatherley * London Review of Books *Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times ... He asks some familiar questions, but with a compelling urgency ... he is systematically interested in the underlying mentality, and not just the behaviour, of his subjects, giving his study a refreshing and crucial extra dimension * Times Literary Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Party
Book SynopsisRichard McGregor''s The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, and here is it is newly updated to include material on the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012.Newly updated version including analysis of the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012China''s Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and businesses, even its religious organizations. How has the Party merged Marx, Mao and the market to create a global superpower? And what does this mean for the world?''Extraordinary'', Sunday Times''Masterful ... entertaining and insTrade ReviewExtraordinary * Sunday Times *Masterful ... entertaining and insightful * Economist *Superb ... an essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works -- Jonathan FenbyIf you read only one book about China this year, it should be this one. And if you do not read this book, you probably do not understand China today -- Arthur Kroeber * China Economic Quarterly *A compelling exploration of the world's largest and most successful political machine * New Statesman *A book that is as informative as it is entertaining ... China has been transformed. The system that takes the credit is brilliantly described by McGregor -- Chris Patten * Financial Times *McGregor is one of the best foreign journalists who have reported from China. The Party draws on two decades of superb reporting ... A fine contribution for those who want to know about the rising power they will face in the decades ahead -- Ezra Vogel, Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFew outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor's illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China's political machinery ... invaluable for anyone trying to make sense of China's future plans and choices -- James Fallows, National Correspondent for The AtlanticFascinating and ambitious ... Richard McGregor lays bare the secretive machinery of the party -- Gady Epstein * Forbes *McGregor has done the world a service with his fascinating new book -- Peter Hartcher * Sydney Morning Herald *A fascinating read ... in an age when Chinese economic influence is reaching new levels, it is an invaluable exercise in understanding the operation of the most powerful political party in the world -- Ian Kehoe * Sunday Business Post *A vivid narrative, sprinkled with humour and insight ... amazing characters ... an engrossing read * South China Morning Post *Gripping ... McGregor brings to life the characters behind the icons of Chinese power and wealth, the figures that built the Shanghai skyline and rebuilt Beijing for the Olympics. More importantly, he gives us a feel for the dynamics behind China's rise * Irish Times *A lively and penetrating account of a party that ... has clung to secrecy as an inviolable principle -- Andrew Higgins * Washington Post *Eminently readable ... McGregor has done a great service to those who would hope to better understand where China's power lies * China Economic Review *An illuminating glimpse behind the red curtain ... McGregor's lucid dissection shows how top-ranked party members - indeed the party itself - sit outside the law * Metro *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Case for Gay Reparations
Book SynopsisThis book makes the case for why the United States should embrace "gay reparations," or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatization, and violence against the LGBT community. It contends that gay reparations are a moral imperative for bringing dignity to those whose human rights have been violated because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, for closing painful histories of state-sponsored victimization of LGBTpeople, and for reminding future generations of past struggles for LGBT equality. To make its case, the book examines how other Western democracies notorious for their oppression of homosexuals have implemented gay reparationsspecifically Spain, Britain, and Germany. Their collective experience showsthat although there is no universal approach to gay reparations, it is never too late for countries to seek to right past wrongs.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Stonewall Apology Chapter 2: Debating Gay Reparation Chapter 3: America's "Dark" LGBT History Chapter 4: Rehabilitation and Redemption in Spain Chapter 5: Atonement and Contrition in Great Britain Chapter 6: Compensation and Remembrance in Germany Chapter 7: The Politics of Gay Reparation
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Oxford University Press Global Politics Myths and Mysteries
Book SynopsisGlobal Politics: Myths and Mysteries is an innovative introduction to key concepts in international relations, exposing the myths of the discipline, and making critical thinking engaging and relatable for students.Trade ReviewA genuinely innovative approach to the subject matter and a welcome additional to teaching options. * Dr Adam Bower, Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews *This book raises the bar for introductory textbooks in Global Politics and IR. It is an innovative, erudite but student-centred introduction to the field, which covers an impressive range of material, including concepts of power, violence, state, empire, law, money and capitalism. The authors contributions are accessible and, along with a range of reflective exercises and further resources, enable students think critically about their own views and the myths that they are taught. It will be a hugely important resource for teachers as well as for students. * Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of Politics and IR, Queen Mary University London, UK *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Myth Making 2: Politics 3: Power 4: Ethics 5: Violence 6: Law 7: Money 8: Empire 9: Capitalism 10: States 11: Conclusion: Making Change
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Oxford University Press Essential Public Affairs for Journalists
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The University of Chicago Press Picturing Political Power Images in the Womens
Book SynopsisLange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history.Trade Review"...a digital collection of historical portraits and artifacts that tells a more inclusive story of the women's suffrage movement with a spotlight on the less familiar stories of Black women's activism throughout this period."-- "Forbes" "Lange offers an overdue and compelling account of the visual campaigns disseminated by national suffragists."-- "The Annals of Iowa" "An in-depth look at how American suffragists fought to control their own image in the long battle for the vote and political representation. Long before the pantsuit, American women were fighting to tell their story, their way. Lange's book is a story of historical courage whose ramifications still echo today."--Former US senator Barbara Mikulski, longest-serving woman in congressional history "By considering visual images of women from the 18th to the 20th century, this engaging book is more than just a study of women's suffrage, offering a breadth of coverage with wonderful classroom value. Lange instructs on how to read the visual images that most people barely notice. The book is likely to inspire much classroom discussion and further research."--C. E. Neumann "Choice" "In this richly researched and lavishly illustrated book, Lange argues that the American suffragists were successful in their battle for the vote in part because they used images to transform the public's notion of political womanhood. She takes special care to address how women of color developed activist visual campaigns. Linking power with visibility and weaving history with visual culture, Lange narrates a fascinating take on the history of the Nineteenth Amendment."--Kate Clarke LeMay, National Portrait Gallery "Picturing Political Power cogently delineates the intrinsic role of visual media in the struggle for women's rights. Lange shows how we cannot truly grasp the causes of and conflicts over women's suffrage without addressing its visual record. Sensitive to gender, class, and race, this groundbreaking book demonstrates the importance of rigorous engagement with visual evidence to uncover new insights about the past."--Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Setting the Standards Chapter 2. Dominant Images of Gender and Power in Antebellum America Chapter 3. Portraits as Politics Chapter 4. A “Fine Looking Body of Women”: Female Political Leaders on the Rise Chapter 5. Competing Visual Campaigns Chapter 6. White Public Mothers and Militant Suffragists Win the Vote Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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