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This volume examines Augustine's writings and shows their importance for framing questions of human and divine nature, as both shape our concept of and relationship to the environment. These essays will further any discussion on Christianity and the environment.

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This collection of essays focuses on Augustines relationship to Wittgenstein and critically examines the two in light of various philosophical connections between them. Its scope is intentionally broad in order to show that reading each of these philosophers through the lens of the other enhances our understanding of both.

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This collection of essays focuses on Augustines relationship to Wittgenstein and critically examines the two in light of various philosophical connections between them. Its scope is intentionally broad in order to show that reading each of these philosophers through the lens of the other enhances our understanding of both.

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Despite the critical importance of the Australian-US Alliance and the evolving nature of the regional and global strategic environment there have been few studies that attempt to provide an in-depth understanding of how the Alliance is developing. This volume provides a nuanced understanding of the Alliance and related choices for Australia.

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Australia's Spies and their Secrets tells the inside story of the rise and fall of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) - Australia's premier spy body. Based on thousands of documents never before revealed and interviews with former ASIO officers and many of those spied upon, this fascinating book exposes the secret elements of Australia's post-war politics and history.

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Mosler (American history, U. of Adelaide) takes a hard look at his adopted nation's essential core of identity: that of a recreational society dedicated to pleasure and hedonism and determined to maintain most of its population in a dependent, adolescent state. Its fun- loving nature, Mosler argues,

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Australia, confronted by the rise of Communist China, the pressures of United States policy, and articulate interest groups within its own boundaries is attempting to adjust to its role as a "Middle Power" among major powers. All these factors are considered in this significant study. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library use

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This title aims to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. It offers Australian viewpoints, from the famous to the obscure, the official to the flagrantly informal, the rhetorical to the ridiculous.

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The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of 'real socialism' in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.

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This edited collection explores how different dictators and authoritarian parties and factions have frequently succeeded in rising to power in modern Latin America, often retaining political and/or military control for long periods of time.

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Venezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Cor...

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One of the most dramatic and least studied policy changes of the past twenty years is the increased use of indexing - automatic adjustments for inflation - in federal programs. R. Kent Weaver examines the reasons for the growth of indexing in federal programs and its consequences for current policy. He focuses on indexing debates in six policy areas.

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France and Germany were among the major powers that abruptly lost that status as a consequence of World War II. Far from opening the door to a stronger world military role for Western Europe, the end of the Cold War is likely to serve merely to consolidate the existing situation.

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Includes an excerpt from The liberator by Alex Kershaw.

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Schrafstetter and Twigge examine five initiatives designed to prevent or restrain the nuclear arms race: the international option, the commercial option, the moral option, the multilateral option, and the legal option.

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As many as 30 states are still believed to have either a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons program. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who directed the Pakistani A-bomb program, has admitted selling nuclear weapons designs, and nuclear enrichment equipment to Libya, Iran, and North Korea.