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Public opinion pools have become staples of contemporary political reporting, and most national news organizations have sophisticated in-house polling operations.

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A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars. -- .

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Madame de la Tour du Pin was born Henrietta-Lucy Dillon in Paris in 1770. An aristocrat, she spent her youth surrounded by wealth and luxury. This work presents a record of her life that recounts the terrible fate that awaited all those who attended the Court of Louis XVI during the years of the French Revolution.

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Examines the function of social memories as powerful platforms that structure the experience of activists in convulsive times in Bolivia such as the Gas War in 2003, the War of the Pacific, and the civic strike in Potos in 2010 in relation to the memory of the rise and fall of the Imperial City of Potos.

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In this book, Alaolmolki, an expert on the transnational politics of Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, provides a global view of militant Islamist ideologies, activities, and connections.

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Money in Politics explores the political fundraising of the 2020 presidential election from the primaries through the General Election, illustrating the importance of campaign fundraising and examining how campaign contributions are now a political topic in the 2020s.

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Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of wome

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Americans have a love-hate relationship with negative campaigning, claiming to despise it and ranting about how it turns off the electorate, while at the same time paying an increasing amount of attention to negative ads and tactics during ever-lengthening campaign seasons.

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Explores how musicking, politics, resistance, and activism are being restructured and reimagined in the postcolonial era in Africa

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What kind of people are suicide bombers How do they justify their actions In this book, the author argues that popular views of these young men and women - as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons - fall short of the mark. He tells a story of the modern globalization of suicide bombing.

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While there are many trained crisis negotiators, almost none of them has ever had contact with a terrorist hostage-taking incident. This work presents a reconstruction and analysis of the two most high-profile cases, the Moscow theater and the Beslan school hostage crises, with the purpose of drawing lessons for hostage negotiation strategies.

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A comprehensive overview of NGOs in India. It focuses on NGOs that work in the areas of rural development, women and children, and seeks to shed light on the contributions of the sector in the spheres of social welfare, empowerment, service, and rural development.

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Yossi Alpher explains how Israel entered its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict before suggesting ways to moderate and soften the worst aspects of the situation.

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First, what constitutes terrorism What is new about the 'new' terrorism Why is the Muslim world the most potent breeding ground of this new terrorism To what extent is religion itself a factor Is there a clash of civilizations between the Muslim world and the largely Christian or post-Christian West Is America at fault.

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This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions. -- .

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This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions. -- .

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In today's information age, the coexistence of nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons and information-based concepts of warfare is a military contradiction. This is a study of how the information age in modern warfare coexists with the persistent appeal of nuclear weapons and its impact on crisis management.

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A study of how the information age in modern warfare coexists with the persistent appeal of nuclear weapons and its impact on crisis management. It focuses on this unplanned coexistence of two distinct arts of war, including the possibility that states like the US may be held hostage to nuclear blackmail by "outlier" regimes or terrorists.

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This pioneering examination of the nuclear threat, written for both the interested general reader and the student of war and peace issues, blends broad philosophical/theoretical themes and themes in the peace and conflict literature with the results of the authors' extensive survey research in the United States and Europe.

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An offbeat, irreverent look at the 2004 presidential race, in its not-ready-for-prime-time preliminaries