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Profiles of 50 individuals put a human face on the debate over gun control.

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Aims to show the different arguments surrounding issues of censorship and freedom of speech through the eyes of those who are involved. It introduces many kinds of people, from feminists arguing different points concerning pornography to those who feel censorship is justified religion.

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In one of the best social and economic histories to date of the post-1960 upheavals, Ruchwarger emphasizes that these [mass-based] groups played a long, crucial and independent role in shaping the revolution that destroyed Somoza. . . .

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In one of the best social and economic histories to date of the post-1960 upheavals, Ruchwarger emphasizes that these [mass-based] groups played a long, crucial and independent role in shaping the revolution that destroyed Somoza. . . .

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Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. Or is humanity facing a fate worse than environmental apocalypse

Brilliant, heretical and accessible to all, Fred Pearce takes on the matter that is fundamental to who we are and how we live, confronting our demographic demons.

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The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have begun an unprecedented process of rapid change in their political, economic, and social characters.

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This book provides a brief intellectual and constitutional history of the Article V amending process from the Imperial Crisis until the present and shows Article V to be a vital part of the Constitutional architecture.

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In case studies and comparative analysis of Canada, the United States, France, Switzerland, and Belgium, a distinguished international group of scholars looks at how and why provinces, states, cantons, and large municipalities increasingly seek access to foreign sources of wealth and technological information.

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Examines social practice manifestations of performance activism among contemporary Islamic movements in the MENA and beyond.

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.Coming at a time when scarce attention is being paid to new sources for a political impulse in the West, Performance as Political Act seeks to re-embody the political subject, arguing that when the mind has been dominated by mass communications as in Western capitalism, the body emerges as a site of opposition.

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Why was Egypt's Spring revolution so compelling and so effective This brilliant essay uncovers the narrative of the revolution - as a theatrical performance enacted on Tahrir Square, with a moral purpose but also a communicative logic in demonstrating what a civil, egalitarian society might look like.

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The volatile Middle East is a site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. This book brings an understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States.

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Presents an analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration. This book discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a leader.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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The main point of this book is that biased perceptions of international relations are anchored in a nation's collectively held patriotic self-image, and that these biased international perceptions serve to bolster and perpetuate the patriotic beliefs upon which they are based.

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Unlike many of her female contemporaries during the 1930s and 1940s, Frieda B. Hennock pursued her own political goals. This work highlights key events in Hennock's career, including her dissenting position in the "colour TV hearings" and her blindness to the deficiencies of the UHF system.

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Despite heightened partisanship in the US Congress and constituencies split along ideological lines, congressional representatives buck their parties and seldom do precisely what voters ask. This book challenges standard explanations of legislative preferences to emphasize the role that personal influences play in representatives' voting behavior.

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This psychological study dissects the characteristics of 20 world leaders-both men and women-profiling the factors that formed their personalities and revealing how certain traits have shaped their political decisions.

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Its editors conceived this book only a few hours after the World Trade Towers had collapsed.

In an age where nothing is definitive this book frames 9/11 in terms of fresh insights and new interpretations that should last beyond its immediate timeframe.