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Through eye-opening analysis of the role of debt in American history, a renowned finance expert and three-term Democratic mayor of Houston illuminates how debt now threatens our future, and suggests sensible bipartisan approaches to resolving the crisis.

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A powerful look at the real America, dominated by America's "forgotten majority" - white working-class men and women who make up 55 percent of the voting population.

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Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples This work offers a methodological response to this important question. It bridges the gap between the game-theoretic and empirically driven approaches in political economy.

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A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations. -- .

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A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations. -- .

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How can political theory help us understand and solve the political questions of our time This introduction to political theory illuminates its relevance and applicability and clarifies what is at stake in a range of contemporary debates. The new edition has been revised throughout and has a new chapter on civil disobedience and whistle-blowing.

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Argues that Hannah Arendt" 's reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action has been covered over and domesticated by admirers. This book explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics.

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With 18 million members and with power and influence that penetrate industry, the financial centers, community life, and even foreign trade, trade unionism in America has come of age. Gone is much of the old militancy and aggressiveness that so characterized unions before World War II. In this short book a wise and experienced observer attempts to

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This study provides an analytic framework---a theory of knowledge than identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing human action and the criteria for evaluating them.

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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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American politicians have long been troubled by the question of whether or not to deploy a national missile defense system. Politics, not technological proficiency, drives policy decisions.

In effect, the debate has been a dialogue of the deaf and blind wherein each perceives only that which fits their predetermined views.

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Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. This title demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics.

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Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.

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Argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. This work explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, which describes our administrative government, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity.

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"Ms. Grieder's is the rare book that takes stock of the Texas model without ridiculing many of its traditions and politicians...This is a good book, and Ms. Grieder's clear, vivid writing makes it downable in a single afternoon... a promising debut from a promising young author." -The New York Times

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Develops critical perspectives on a variety of body technologies and implicates biotechnology and plastic surgery in the subversion and reconstruction of late 20th-century discourses of the body and the body politic.

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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .

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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .