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Book SynopsisRelativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way the world is that is independent of human opinion; and that we are capable of arriving at beliefs about how it is that are objectively reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against tTrade Reviewanyone interested in a careful assessment for the considerations for and against social constructivism would do well to begin with Boghossian's book. * Mark McEvoy, Metaphilosophy *Fear of Knowledge is a clear and compelling work. * Travis Dumsday, Science Et Esprit *This is a great book for a seminar or discussion group. And its about time that someone wrote it. Happily, it was someone with Boghossians clarity, verve, and panache. * Graham Priest, Review of Metaphysics 25/07/07 *...the book does a fine job of assessing in brief compass the sort of relativism/constructivism advocated by Rorty and his fellow travelers, and Boghossian's sophisticated and careful arguments against that Rortian view are often ingenious and invariably telling. Aimed at non-specialists, Fear of Knowledge may well suceed in distancing those who are enamored of "postmodern relativism"...from their postmodern enthusiasms. * Harvey Siegel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *If only Boghossian's eminently reasonable book were required reading for every freshman considering entrance into the humanities... * Ars Disputandi *In both subject matter and execution, this book promises to become a small classic of philosophical analysis. * Choice *For all its sophistication and erudition, the writing is remarkably clear, free of specialized jargon, and accessible to nonspecialist readers. * Choice *...lucid and effective ... * Times Literary Supplement *This is a book that can be read in an afternoon and thought about for a lifetime. * Wall Street Journal *...a tour de force: subtle and originalbut accessible enough to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. * Wall Street Journal *...this is an important book that should be widely read. * Philosophers' Magazine *Boghossian has written an excellent book ... it contains relentless exposures of confusion, falsehood, and incoherence. * John R. Searle, New York Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Social Construction of Knowledge ; 3. Constructing the Facts ; 4. Relativizing the Facts ; 5. Epistemic Relativism Defended ; 6. Epistemic Relativism Rejected ; 7. The Paradox Resolved ; 8. Epistemic Reasons and the Explanation of Belief ; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Fourth Edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy applies its innovative policy model to the latest developments in social welfare including the policies of President Obama. It offers real insight into what drives social policy and social change in the past as well as in the beginnings of a new political era.

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Book SynopsisAn impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain from 1970 to the end of Mrs Thatcher's term as prime minister in 1990, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures.Trade Reviewthere is a hugely impressive breadth of reference and eye for detail on display here. * Lawrence Black, Journal of Modern History, on Seeking a Role and Finding a Role? *No historian is better equipped to tackle a study of modern Britain in its wondrous complexity than Harrison... Finding a role?... is a major achievement * Frank Prochaska, Times Literary Supplement *A brilliant work of modern history... [with] a range and depth, which should ensure that it... is regarded as a classic for years to come * Richard Weight, History Today *Harrison's narrative is rich in both the range of the subjects he discusses and the detail in which they are analysed * John Callaghan, British Scholar *These two magisterial volumes [Seeking a Role and Finding a Role?] ... offer a consistently stimulating and formidably well-informed analysis of then condition of England since 1950, as it was shaped both by the wider world and its own internal development. * Richard Whiting, History *This is a great and virtuosic work, an essential book that enriches our understanding and never fails to reward its reader time and time again * Sean Moran, History, Reviews of New Books *A sweeping assessment of British history... Comprehensive and thorough...the definitive starting point for any student or academic wishing to engage with this complex and fascinating period. * LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, on Seeking a Role and Finding a Role? *Lucidly written, meticulously researched, and comprehensive in scope, the book stands out as a work of rare depth and sophistication. It is a landmark attempt to come to terms with Britain's contemporary history... Harrison has written a formidable book, replete with significance and interest. Scholars and students of modern Britain will be returning to it again and again in the years to come, both as an unrivalled source of information and as an eloquent contribution to a historiographical debate that will run and run * Ben Jackson, English Historical Review *a major achievement of modern historical analysis * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD ; 2. THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY ; 3. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE ; 4. FAMILY AND WELFARE ; 5. INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ; 6. INTELLECT AND CULTURE ; 7. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT ; 8. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT ; CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book will appeal to anyone interested in environmental politics, environmental movements, and justice theory. The basic task of this book is to explore what, exactly, is meant by ''justice'' in definitions of environmental and ecological justice. It examines how the term is used in both self-described environmental justice movements and in theories of environmental and ecological justice. The central argument is that a theory and practice of environmental justice necessarily includes distributive conceptions of justice, but must also embrace notions of justice based in recognition, capabilities, and participation. Throughout, the goal is the development of a broad, multi-faceted, yet integrated notion of justice that can be applied to both relations regarding environmental risks in human populations and relations between human communities and non-human nature.Trade ReviewSchlosberg's definition of environmental justice is theoretically grounded and empirically informed, resulting in a thorough and nuanced account... [T]he book is essential reading for researchers and students working on environmental justice, and will be of interest to justice theorists more generally... Schlosberg's account of environmental justice...is definitive. * Perspectives on Politics *David Schlosberg's Defining Environmental Justice is political theory at its best, providing an invaluable review of the contemporary literature, subverting traditional political categories and distinctions, and suggesting new directions for politics and policy.... Defining Environmental Justice breaks important ground not only in advancing political theory's engagement with nature but in crafting a theoretical and political framework that draws together moral consideration for nonhuman nature with environmental justice concerns... [Schlosberg] offers a powerful critique of liberal theories of justice and their often singular focus on distribution, offering a more inclusive notion of justice that embraces recognition, capabilities, and participatory democracy. * Ethics and International Affairs *Defining Environmental Justice should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the environmental justice movement. David Schlosberg's careful, thoughtful study makes sense of the often perplexing notion of justice at the heart of the movement. Drawing on and extending recent innovations in justice theory, he argues that the "justice" of environmental justice is best understood not as a unitary concept but as a set of multi-layered, interconnected discourses encompassing distributive issues, recognition, participation and community functioning. He further makes the provocative claim that this expansive, plural discourse of justice can usefully be applied to humans' relationship with nature itself. The result is a richly nuanced and insightful contribution to the literature on social movements, justice theory and contemporary environmentalism. * Kim Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton College *Table of ContentsPART ONE: JUSTICE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE ; 1. Defining Environmental Justice ; 2. Distribution and Beyond: Conceptions Of Justice In Contemporary Theory And Practice ; PART TWO: MOVEMENT DEFINITIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ; 3. Defining Environmental Justice in the United States ; 4. Environmental Justice and Global Movements ; PART THREE: DOING JUSTICE TO NATURE ; 5. Justice to Nature 1: Distributive Approaches ; 6. Justice to Nature 2: Incorporating Recognition, Capabilities, and Participation ; PART FOUR: PLURALITY, REFLEXIVITY, AND ENGAGEMENT ; 7. Justice and Plurality ; 8. Ecological Reflexivity, Engagement, and Institutions: Implementing Environmental and Ecological Justice

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Book SynopsisHow presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public.Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores the government''s selling activities from all angles. He looks at the halting and sometimes chaotic efforts of Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. He examines the relationships that they and their subordinates developed with a host of other institutions, from Congress and the press to Hollywood and labor. And he assesses the complex and fraught interactions between the military and war correspondents in the battlefield theater itself.From high politics to bitter media spats, Casey guides the reader through the domesTrade ReviewSteven Casey has drawn a masterly analysis of what is certain to become the standard work on its subject.... The whole study is, moreover, conveyed with real verve and at a cracking pace.... An exceptionally good book which does full justice to the complexity of the comestic politics of the Korean War and the rold of the media, official institutions, and politicians in shaping public opinion. * Matthew Jones, Journal of American Studies *Casey provides the best account to date of the relationship between domestic politics and the war in Korea.... His book is a significant contribution to the literature on the Korean conflict and the relationship between politics and diplomacy during the early years of the Cold War. Most impressive is the author's ability to place the war in a broader context. * Thomas W. Devine, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *As a study on the complex relationship among the executive branch, congress, the media, and the public within a constitutional democracy, Dr. Casey's Selling the Korean War is unparalleled in both detail and insight. It is a major addition to the literature--in any language--on the Korean War, and merits a careful read by all who share an interest in the subject. * Sung-Yoon Lee, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *This careful study not only fills a notable gap in the literature on the Korean War, it also makes a valuable addition to the short list of books dealing with the conflict's impact on domestic affairs inside the United States. Although Casey's main purpose is to explain ' the government's efforts to sell the war at home,' he achieves much more in persuasively challenging the conventional wisdom about well-known key events and advancing perceptive new interpretations of old issues. * James I. Matray, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *This well-written and thoughtfully argued study...warrants reading not only by specialists on the Korean War but also by those interested in the crucial foreign policy debates which occurred during the final third of Truman's presidency. * Wilson D. Miscamble, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; PART ONE: THE WAR AGAINST NORTH KOREA, JUNE-NOVEMBER 1950; PART TWO: THE WAR AGAINST CHINA, NOVEMBER 1950-JULY 1951; PART THREE: THE STALEMATE WAR, JULY 1951-JULY 1953; CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. The updated edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new preface, an updated analysis of the last Bush administration, as well as a new final chapter on the Jeremiah Wright controversy, the candidacies of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama''s victory.Trade ReviewThe God Strategy is a sobering look at just how deeply imbedded religion has become in the contemporary American political psyche. Both the person of faith and the non-believer should fear what is revealed in this carefully crafted review of modern campaign strategies to 'get the God vote'. Domke and Coe demonstrate, with stunningly clear examples, just how the union of government and religion tends to degrade the integrity of both. * Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State *Religion has become central to American politics. The God Strategy is a superb overview of what happened and how it has impacted our democracy. David Domke and Kevin Coe have done the nation a service. * George Lakoff, author of Don't Think of an Elephant! *Domke and Coe have done a masterful job of giving us insight into the mix of religion and politics. The God Strategy taught me much about a field I thought I knew. Anyone who wants to understand how the deeply religious character of America could be used to effect coming elections needs to read this book. * Joel Hunter, Pastor and Member, Board of Directors of the National Association of Evangelicals *The God Strategy offers an intriguing look at what has become one of the most powerful shaping forces in American political life. Like it or not, religion has for years been establishing the parameters of public debate. As Domke and Coe make clear, this is unlikely to change anytime soon. * Ron Reagan *Table of ContentsIntroduction A New Religious Politics ; Chapter One One Nation Under God, Divisible ; Chapter Two Political Priests ; Chapter Three God and Country ; Chapter Four Acts of Communion ; Chapter Five Morality Politics ; Chapter Six Religious Politics and Democratic Vitality ; Chapter Seven Act II ; Appendixes A to E

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Book SynopsisIn recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of ''''religion'''' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior. In his last book, The Ideology of Religious Studies (OUP 2000), Timothy Fitzgerald argued that ''''religion'''' was not a private area of human existence that could be separated from the public realm and that the study of religion as such was thus impossibility. In this new book he examines a wide range of English-language texts to show how religion became transformed from a very specific category indigenous to Christian culture into a universalist claim about human nature and society. These claims, he shows, are implied by and frequently explicit in theories and methods of comparative religion. But they are also tacitly reproduced throughout the humanities in the relatively indiscriminate use of ''''religion'''' as an a priori valid cross-cultural analytical concept, for example in historiography, sociology, and social anthTrade ReviewTimothy Fitzgerald is one of the most important scholars raising questions about the category of religion today, and in this essay he makes significant new contributions. He broadens the range of the discussion to include important but neglected categories that arose along with the category of religion, most notably the secular and the political, and he traces the emergence of this discourse in English-language texts dealing with travel and governance, showing that they emerge much later than is widely assumed. Anyone seriously interested in religion simply must take seriously Fitzgerald's central claim: it is wrong to think of religion as something that exists in and of itself, as an observable, objective domain essentially distinct from other domains such as politics and economics. * Gregory Alles, Professor of Religious Studies, McDaniel College and author of Religious Studies: A Global View *This important book continues Fitzgerald's investigations into the rhetorical uses and abuses of religion" and related terms. Here Fitzgerald leads us into close readings of primary texts from the early modern era, and shows that "religion" and "politics" and "economics" are not value-neutral descriptive categories, but modern inventions that serve the interests of a new kind of state and a new kind of market. With relentless logic, Fitzgerald cuts through the confusions, anachronisms, and nonsense that surround the modern use of these terms. In so doing, he helps us see that the way that Western social sciences have constructed the world is not inevitable, and that we need not see non-Western others through only one lens. This book will be of tremendous benefit not only to those in religious studies, but to political scientists, sociologists, and historians as well. * William T. Cavanaugh, Associate Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas *In this perceptive study, Fitzgerald shows us just how the assumption that religion is essentially about personal belief becomes a crucial step in the construction of 'religion' as the name of a universal human experience. His emphasis is on changing configurations rather than binaries, which leads him to argue that in taking 'the religious' as the binary opposite of 'the secular' one is subscribing to an ideological enterprise. Discourse on Civility and Barbarity is an important contribution to the growing critical literature on the idea of Religion as an essentialized category. * Talal Asad, Author of Formations of the Secular *Table of ContentsNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisHere is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the Founding Fathers--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic philosopher-kings as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the AtlantiTrade ReviewRead Bernstein's book if you can. It's both a reminder of how fallible the Founding Fathers were--and yet how good they still look to us nearly a quarter of a millennium later. * Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. The History that Made the Founding Fathers ; The State of the Union ; Free-Born English Subjects ; The Intellectual World ; II. The History that the Founding Fathers Made ; Independence ; Constitution-Making ; Federalism ; Politics ; Church and State ; Equality, Inequality, and Slavery ; America in the World ; Part III. What History Made of the Founding Fathers ; Ancestor Worship? ; "Which Founding Father Are You?" ; The Dead Hand of the Past: Original Intent ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chronology ; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisIn Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J. Cohen offers an authoritative and empirically powerful analysis of the state of black youth in America today. Utilizing the results from the Black Youth Project, a groundbreaking nationwide survey, Cohen focuses on what young Black Americans actually experience and think--and underscores the political repercussions. Featuring stories from cities across the country, she reveals that black youth want, in large part, what most Americans want--a good job, a fulfilling life, safety, respect, and equality. But while this generation has much in common with the rest of America, they also believe that equality does not yet exist, at least not in their lives. Many believe that they are treated as second-class citizens. Moreover, for many the future seems bleak when they look at their neighborhoods, their schools, and even their own lives and choices. Through their words, these young people provide a complex and balanced picture of the intersecTrade ReviewClear, hones, and insightful, Cohen authors an incredibly important and well-researched book that provides and analysis of the state of black youth in the US today. The real contribution of this book is Cohen's success at connecting politics and culture to demonstrate that black youth continue to be promised equality, but the structures in place limit that possibility...Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of Contents1. "My Petition": Black Youth and the Promise of Democratic Citizenship ; 2. "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It": Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and Black Moral Panics ; 3. "Baby Mama": Black Love, Black Deviance, and the Sexual Politics of Morality ; 4. "Minoritiy Report": Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Political Alienation (with Jamila Celestine-Michener) ; 5. "Fight the Power": From Jena to the White House ; 6. "My President Is Black": Barack Obama and the Postracial Illusion ; Epilogue Policy and Politics ; Appendix A

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Book SynopsisThis book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.Trade Review"For those interested in how citizenship and national belonging are being reimagined under neoliberal globalization, Kanishka Chowdhury provides an enormously detailed account of the emerging Indian dispensation. This is an insightful study from a meticulous reader of the cultural landscape." - Arvind Rajagopal, Professor of Media Studies, New York University and author of Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India "The New India deals with a timely subject - the emergence of new forms of subjectivity and citizenship in the context of India's economic policy of liberalization. The book is impressive in the wide ranging issues and questions Chowdhury links and analyzes. The author makes an important contribution to the scholarship on postcolonial studies and contemporary cultural politics in India." - Leela Fernandes, Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan and author of India s New Middle Class "This is a timely and engaging study which provides an historicized account of the relationship between economic 'globalization', attempts to reimagine a New Indian subject and narratives of change, both literary and social. Chowdhury offers a thoughtful contribution to studies of the colonial and postcolonial present which must necessarily now involve questions of global capitalism and its modes of dispossession and disenfranchisement." - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and Related Literatures at Cambridge University and author of The Indian Novel in English: Nation, History and NarrationTable of ContentsGoing Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen The Prompter's Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land and A Hungry Tide Transnational Transgressions: Reading the New Indian Woman in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra , Deepa Mehta's Fire , and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham 'Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?' Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject

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Book SynopsisPreface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences PART I: SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD ORDER US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism PART III: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL AGENCY Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism The Post-modern Prince Alternatives, Real and ImaginedTrade ReviewEndorsements for the previous edition: 'This impressive volume is a three-part critical analysis of the interactive dynamics involved in the 'new world order' characterized by conditions of intensified globalization. Using a critical historical materialist (Gramscian, and neo-Marxist) framework, Gill combines bottom-up and top-down approaches to understanding political economy while underscoring the ethical issues involved in the social relations that make up the new world order. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences PART I: SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD ORDER US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism PART III: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL AGENCY Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism The Post-modern Prince Alternatives, Real and Imagined

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Book SynopsisNews media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it''s often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be viewed as disinterested reporters of truth?Lively and highly readable, this book explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Susan L. Carruthers provides a compelling analysis of the forces that shape the production of news and images of war from state censorship to more subtle forms of military manipulation and popular pressure. This fully revised second edition has been updated to cover modern-day conflict in the post 9/11 epoch, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Rich in historical detail, The Media at War also provides sharp insights into contemporary experience, prompting critical reflectioTrade Review'With a fine appreciation of the breadth of her subject, Susan Carruthers has delivered a valuable assessment of the complex synergy between media and conflict. Well written and thoughtful, The Media at War is an essential contribution to the literature of this important field.' - Philip Seib, University of Southern California, USA 'Displaying an outstanding command of the area, Susan L. Carruthers provides a well-written and cogently-argued introduction to the terrain between media, popular imagination and war.' - Steven Livingston, George Washington University, USA 'Studded with brilliant insight, Susan Carruthers draws on a wide range of disciplines to produce a carefully crafted analysis of the relationship between media and war. The result is a true tour de force that is guaranteed to inspire the reader.' - David Welch, University of Kent, UK Reviews of the first edition: 'Carruthers has produced an ambitious and accomplished study that will be of obvious interest across a range of academic disciplines but a particularly welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject of war and the media.' - Greg McLaughlin, Ethnicity and Cultural Politics 'an excellent introduction to the study of the media and war. The circular format the author adopts makes the book intriguingly readable. The text is well documented and balanced in its presentation of existing scholarship in this field.' - Elizabeth Stanley-Mitchell, Millennium '...an interesting and pleasant lecture for those interested in how mass media affects and models inter-ethnic relations in welfare times, while constructing powerful stereotypical images based on ethnic, cultural or religious differences.' - Despina Dumitrica, The Ethnic Conflict 'Susan Carruthers...has done an excellent job of analysing journalistic and entertainment media as integral elements of the war system...Citing an array of primarily UK and US sources...the author provides both historical context and a realistic projection of what lies ahead.' - Philip Seib, News and MythTable of ContentsIntroduction Mobilization: The Media Before War Total War Television Wars: Vietnam and After Other People's Wars: Interventions in Real-Time Wars on Terror Warin the Digital Age: Afghanistan and Iraq Conclusion: After War, More War.

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Book SynopsisESTHER VERSLUIS is Assistant Professor in European Studies at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.MENDELTJE VAN KEULEN is a Parliamentary EU Advisor at the Netherlands House of Representatives, The Netherlands.PAUL STEPHENSON is Assistant Professor in European Studies at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

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Book SynopsisExamines the debates and developments about House of Lords reform since 1911, and notes that disagreements have occurred within, as well as between, the main political parties and governments throughout this time. It draws attention to how various proposals for reform have raised a wider range constitutional and political problems.Table of ContentsIntroduction Firing the First Shots: The 1911 Parliament Act and Inter-War Initiatives Labour Learns the Complexities of Lords Reform: The 1949 Parliament Act Pouring New Wine into the Old Bottle: The 1958 Life Peerages Act A Right of Renunciation: The 1963 Peerage Act Crossman Can't Convince his Colleagues: The 1969 Parliament (No.2) Bill 202 Out With the Hereditary Peers – or most of them: The 1999 House of Lords Act and Beyond Conclusion: A Constant Constitutional Conundrum

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Book SynopsisJolyon Howorth is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University, USA, and Emeritus Professor of European Politics at Bath University, UK. He is the co-editor of Defending Europe: The EU, NATO, and the Quest for European Autonomy, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition: "[A] significant and valuable contribution...well organized and accessible...[Howorth] provides a clear, detailed and comprehensive analysis of one of the most important policy developments in the history of the EU." - Alistair J. K. Shepherd, Journal of Common Market Studies "...the most comprehensive study of the topic to appear in English to date..." - Toby Vogel, European Voice "[E]mpirically rich, skilfully researched...illuminating and rewarding...[Howorth] should be commended...for accessible writing on complex issues." - Johan Eliasson, EUSA Review "...a book that is both rich in technical and historical details and engages lightly in theoretical debate...a pleasure to read." - Sonia Lucarelli, The International SpectatorTable of Contents1. Introduction: CSDP A Work in Progress 2. Decision-Making: The Political and Institutional Framework 3. The Instruments of Intervention: Generating Military and Civilian Capacity 4. Selling it to Uncle Sam: CSDP and Transatlantic Relations 5. The EU as an Overseas Crisis Management Actor 6. Empirical Reality and Academic Theory 7. Conclusion: The Major Challenges Ahead.

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Book SynopsisPaul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Stirling. His publications on Scottish politics have included work on the Scottish Parliament, intergovernmental relations and the social background of elites.Neil McGarvey is Lecturer in Politics, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, UK. He has published widely in the field of Scottish politics, local government and public administration.Trade Review'A very impressive text. It is highly readable, answers important questions, and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Scottish politics at this critical moment in Scotland's history.' - Thomas Lundberg, University of Glasgow, UK 'This is now the leading textbook on Scottish politics. It not only exhaustively explores Scotland's changing political landscape and major political developments, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, places them in a wider comparative context. Genuinely essential reading.' - Lynn Bennie, University of Aberdeen, UK 'Cairney and McGarvey have produced an excellent and up-to-date resource for anyone teaching or studying Scottish politics in the devolution era. As an introductory textbook, it is packed with useful empirical material and links Scottish political development to core concepts and processes in political science.' - Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of Contents1. What is Scottish Politics? 2. Devolution: Historical, Social and Economic Context 3. Scotland's Political Parties 4. Scottish Elections and Voting Behaviour 5. The Scottish Parliament and 'New Politics' 6. The Scottish Government 7. Governance Beyond the Scottish Government 8. Pressure Politics and the 'Scottish Policy Style' 9. Public Policy in Scotland Since Devolution 10. Inter-Governmental Relations and Multi-Level Governance 11. Money and Power: Public Expenditure in Scotland Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni PART I: RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES 1. The Political Role of Civil Society in the Policy Field of Youth Unemployment and Precarious Working Conditions; Simone Baglioni, Jasmine Lorenzini, and Lorenzo Mosca 2. Addressing Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes: Civil Society Organizations and Their Strategies; Jennifer Hobbins, Birgitta Erkisson, and Ewa Bacia 3. Between Passion and Money: Human and Financial Resources and Patterns of Professionalization of Civil Society Organisations; Luis Mota and Vitória Mourão 4. The Impact of Political Opportunity Structures on the Politicization of Civil Society Organizations in the Field of Unemployment and Precarity; Manlio Cinalli and Marco Giugni PART II: NETWORKS 5. Networks within the Multi-Organizational Field of Unemployment: A Tale of Seven Cities in Europe; Matteo Bassoli and Manlio Cinalli 6. Local Civil Societies in the Field of Labor Market Issues: Cliques, Cleavages, and Conflicts in the Organizational Networks of Cologne and Turin; Christian Lahusen and Bettina Grimmer 7. Who Are the Powerful Actors? An Analysis of Brokerage in the Networks of Organizations Dealing with Unemployment and Precarity; Matteo Bassoli, Manlio Cinalli, and Marco Giugni 8. Inheriting Divisions? The Role of Catholic and Leftist Affiliation in Local Cooperation Network: The Case of Italy and Poland; Matteo Bassoli and Maria Theiss 9. Mind the Gap: Local Civil Society Organizations and the European Union; Christian Lahusen Conclusion; Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni

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Book SynopsisThis book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention.Table of ContentsWerengeka's Anxiety Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa The Juridical Foundation of Government Forced Labor 'Making the Lazy Nigger Work:' European Settlers, the State and Forced Labor, 1895-1919 The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1919-1921 Interlude: Forced Labor Bounded, 1921-1925 Normalizing Force: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Labor, 1920-1930

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Book SynopsisCHRISTOPHER HAM is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was Director of the Strategy Unit in the Department of Health between 2000 and 2004 and was awarded a CBE in 2004.

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Book SynopsisThe hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.”Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous “yellow cake from Niger,” Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something—a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear—a state that she calls “nuclearity”—lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between “developing n

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Book SynopsisThe nine essays in this collection represent the first book-length treatment of one of the major changes that have shaped Latin America since independence: decentralization of the state. Contributors argue that though the assignment of political, fiscal, and administrative duties to subnational governments has been one of the most important political developments in Latin America, it is also one of the most overlooked. This volume is divided into three sections. Part one presents an overview of the topic by the editors; part two considers the political origins of decentralization; and part three examines decentralization and economic reforms.Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America explores the causes of decentralization in six significant case studies: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. Shorter analyses of Uruguay and Peru are also included. The essays in this volume find substantial common ground across regime types, historical periodsTrade Review"The book... adopts a predominantly political focus in its analysis of decentralization. The concentration is on process rather than outcome—and what outcomes are discussed are those at the level of intergovernmental relations, rather than the results on the ground. This approach has the virtue of concentrating the analytical focus, and the editors have done a splendid job in ensuring that the various contributors not only focus on the same issues and adopt broadly but not entirely the same approach, but even engage in a certain level of interchange—occasionally a mild disagreement—between the chapters. The book also has a strong sense of history—something often lacking among the more committed advocates of decentralization." —Perspectives on Politics“The authors of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America are primarily concerned with understanding the dynamics of state reform and decentralization in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela." —Latin American Research Review"Montero, Samuels, and the contributors are to be congratulated for producing a volume that is coherent, integrated, and timely. Graduate students and professionals will not only find it useful empirically and analytically but also will consider it a mine for endless propositions and hypotheses for testing and investigating. Overall, Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America is a valuable and solid volume." —Perspectives on Political Science"This edited volume brings together some of the finest works on decentralization in Latin America produced in the U.S. in recent years. The book is sound, both theoretically and empirically, and the different chapters nicely complement each other. ...this book is likely to become part of the reading lists of Latin American politics seminars." —The Americas"This book deals with an interesting topic, but at the same time offers the reader an excellent starting point for understanding the phenomenon in its contextual and comparative dimension without losing the particular development of each individual country. It is without doubt a well-written book." —Political Studies Review

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Book SynopsisIn the turbulent years before World War II, U.S. strategic planners struggled with the question of Canadian security. Franklin Roosevelt took a unique interest in America's northern neighbor and persistently encouraged Canada to do more to ensure its own defense especially through alliance with the U.S. This aspect of foreign policy resulted in a delicate balancing act between U.S. officials who sought to downplay the strategic importance of Canada and Canadian leaders who saw American overtures as a threat to Canadian sovereignty.The first chapter discusses Roosevelt's early efforts between 1933 and 1937 to increase Canadian interest in North American defense. The second follows events up to the outbreak of war. Although Canada had been seen as part of the rival British Empire, Canada now became a natural ally in hemispheric security efforts. Roosevelt's dealings with Canadian Prime Minister W.L.M. King, who would be branded a puppet for these interactions, and tTrade ReviewThis volume, which includes an astounding bibliography and fine index . . . is particularly appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. A fine work. * International Relations *This is the first book to focus on FDR and the Canada-US defence relationship. That is quite striking, for no other aspect of the history of Canada-US relations in the twentieth century may be more fascinating and at the same time seems more familiar than the tales of FDR and Mackenzie King in the few years before and during the Second World War. . . . [I]t nicely plugs a gap in the lterature of Canadian-US relations, FDR, and the Second World War. * Canadian Military History *Table of ContentsIntroduction A Perfectly Logical and Sensible Thing: Canadian-American Security Relations Prior to 1937 The United States Will Not Stand Idly By: Defending Canada, 1937-1939 Far Better to Trust in the Honor of the United States: Canada-United States Relations, 1939-1941 Not a Particularly Heroic Role: Canada Confronts the United States, 1941-1942 Terribly Serious About the Wrong Things: Roosevelt and Declining American Interest in Canada, 1942-1945 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEven twins are unique. Most people idealize twins, fantasizing a close, loving relationship. Yet Klein, herself an identical twin, demonstrates that twins have complicated and intense relationships that range from over-identification or excessive closeness to profound estrangement and conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction Separation: A Crucial Formative Experience The Identity Dilemma Too Close for Comfort? Issues of Adult Twins The Twinning Bond Twins and Psychotherapy Genetic Endowment and the Environment The Legacy of Twinship Parenting Twins Bibliography Appendix I: Demographic Breakdown Appendix II: Pairs of Twins Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) coordinated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.Trade ReviewTreating the sea mine and the land mine as siblings, Youngblood tells the history of mine warfare from the origins of the mine through the development of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the signing of the 1997 Ottawa Convention limiting the manufacture and use of antipersonnel mines. He discusses technical, tactical, and strategic developments in mine warfare along with the experiences of those who developed mines and those who had to deal with them on the battlefield. * SciTech Book News *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Mine Warfare 2. The Age of Invention: From America to Russia 3. The American Civil War 4. The Sea Mine Comes of Age 5. The Great War 6. World War II 7. Mine Warfare Since 1945 Appendix A: Hague Convention 1907 Appendix B: Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement.Trade ReviewMore avant-garde than representative of the Black Arts Movement, Giovanni's militant and impassioned cry for change began her lifelong campaign for civil justice. Her support and willingness to share her life and work with Fowler make this literary biography an excellent resource for even casual readers who are interested in American, black, and feminist studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Joanne M. Braxton Acknowledgments One To "Be Warm All the Time": The Importance of Grandmothers Two Can Women Be Revolutionaries? Gender Issues in the Black Arts Movement Three Running the Kitchen, Standing the Heat Four Accomplishment and Responsibility Five In, But Not of, the Academy Six Life Changes Seven The Poet, the Person, the Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe author proposes a new kind of democracy for the modern era, one which gives citizens more power and more opportunities to exercise this power thoughtfully. He suggests a solution to the problem of inadequate deliberation, in particular within the American presidential nomination system.

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Book SynopsisChallenges the common assumption that policy analysts engage in a purely objective technical assessment of policy alternatives. This book argues that what analysts really do is produce policy arguments that are based on value judgements and are used by policymakers in the course of public debate.

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Book SynopsisEvaluating modern democratic practices, this text explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past. It views changing concepts and practices of democracy, with examples that range from ancient Sparta to America's founders to the first Gallup polls.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: "magic town"; who speaks for me?; out of the cave? Part 2 Who speaks for the people?: new beginnings; a voice from Rhode Island; what should representatives do?; "the most natural and simple idea"; counting people equally ; deliberation - thinking through the issues together; participation; avoiding tyranny - the energy that reforges democracy; small scale democracy; the Founders' vision; the anti-Federalist dissent. Part 3 How "public opinion" became the voice of the people: "like a burglar" - informal processes of reform; Bryce's prophecy - government by public opinion; Gallup's answer; opinions and pseudo-opinions in the echo chamber; a rational public?; a machine that transforms itself. Part 4 Who are the people?: whose declaration of independence?; all men?; from Douglass to Lincoln versus Douglas; from paper rights to voting rights; the quest for voting equality; the declaration of sentiments; whose America?; how do we come to support it? Part 5 Giving the people voice?: the "town" meeting of the air"; towards civic engagement; airing the people's agenda; bringing deliberation to democracy. Appendix: the first deliberative poll - some summary results.

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Book SynopsisA collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In 35 thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes a challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements.

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Book SynopsisIn 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to Paris, where he spent the next five years as minister for the new United States of America. This book recreates the atmosphere and personalities of pre-revolutionary Paris, and reveals the impact they had on one of America's first transatlantic citizens.Trade Review"Adams has presented a superbly colourful portrait." Raymond Seitz, The London Times "Elegantly sythesises the historical wisdom on Jefferson's tenure in Paris...Adams deftly illustrates both the scope and importance of the Parisian context in all its splendour." Linzy Brekke, Chicago Tribune "In this wonderfully engaging book, Adams provides historians with a new and better context in which to reexamine Jefferson's role as a political partisan and ideological propagandist during the 1790s." C. Bradley Thompson, Journal of American History "The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson intelligently explores the critical formative experience of that thought-filled, mild-mannered Virginian in the tumult of Paris society from 1784 to 1789. It takes the reader on an authoritative journey through the streets of the city and among the provocative characters in whose company the American diplomat thrived." Andrew Burstein, Virginia Quartely Review Auth biog: William Howard Adams is a fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies. A historian, writer, lecturer, and filmmaker, he was the curator of the National Gallery's exhibition The Eye of Thomas Jefferson and the editor of the catalogue of the same name.

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Book SynopsisThe Soviet Union, an atheist state, endowed itself with the attributes of God. This text shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and its tragic human cost.Trade Review“I had almost given up hope that any American could depict the true face of Russia and Soviet rule. In David Satter’s Age of Delirium, the world has received a chronicle of the calvary of the Russian people under communism that will last for generations.”—Vladimir Voinovich, author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

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Trade Review“In this welcome updating of his agenda-setting classic, David Mayhew cogently defends his original methodology and finds that divided government remains no less productive of important legislation than unified government. Written with Mayhew’s usual clarity and grace, this is a book to be enjoyed by beginning and veteran students of Congress alike.”—Gary Jacobson, professor of political science, University of California, San DiegoFirst edition: “First-rate. . . . Mayhew’s tabulations and analysis are, quite simply, unimpeachable.”—Morris Fiorina, Washington Monthly“Will stand for years as a classic.”—L. Sandy Maisel, Political Science Quarterly

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