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This comprehensive analysis of functional theory and its applications in the analysis of states, governments, and institutions draws from an interdisciplinary orientation and creates a central premise of how systems seek the maintenance of stable states and how patterned orientations enable them to perform their functions

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Now in paperback, Bruce Cannon Gibney's "informative, provocative, and entertaining" (Booklist) indictment of the Baby Boomer generation.

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A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilization is a passionate polemic on the topic of western civilization and the threats it faces. It offers the reader an extensive guide on the nature of both Western Civilization and the Cultural Marxism that opposes all established Western Values.

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China has achieved near superpower status in both the economic and military realms. The United States has reacted with a strategy of rebalancing, pivoting, toward Asia, and China. How the United States should execute this strategy to reassure China and the rest of Asia so that cooperation, not confrontation, governs the relationship between Washington and Beijing is the focus of this book.

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How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt.

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The "riveting and endlessly fascinating story" (The Boston Globe) of the complex and often tormented relationship between the U.S. and China--a finalist for the Helen now in paperback

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

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This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. -- .

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Alexander examines the history of the labor movement in Brazil during its two key phases.

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Starting with the organization of tobacco workers and other groups in the last few years of Spanish colonial rule, this work traces the growth of the labour movement during the early decades of the republic, noting in particular the influence of anarchosyndicalists, Marxists and "independents".

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The first full-length English-language history of the French anarchist movement between the wars, this study analyzes the anarchists' responses to the Russian and Spanish revolutions and to the creation of an international communist movement.

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The passage of the twentieth century, and the formation of the Coalition Government in Britain in 2010, enables a reassessment of the Liberal Party's history and fortunes. The second edition of this established survey has been revised and updated throughout and now features a new chapter on the road back to government.

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This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. -- .

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This two-part book examines the roots of warfare and the development of the peace movement in America from the Colonial period through the Vietnam War.

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This straightforward text provides journalists, both professional and student, with an explanation of the realities of an increasingly important facet of today's precision journalism--public opinion polling.

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This straightforward text provides journalists, both professional and student, with an explanation of the realities of an increasingly important facet of today's precision journalism--public opinion polling.

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This book brings together in one place the liberal and conservative arguments that face the Republican and Democratic parties in the run-up to the 2008 election.

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Offering a comparative history of marketing and campaigning, this book generates a "jukebox model" of participation and shows that expressive choice has become a target for those eliciting mass participation and public support.

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Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of a single social issue, and certainly the boldest attempt to establish national health insurance in the United States.