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  • Judicialization of the Municipal Social Assistance Policy
    Leda Borges
    The judicialization of public policy is increasingly present in social science debates, especially with regard to guaranteeing individual and/or collective rights when the state is absent. Contrary to the view that emphasizes this phenomenon through the lens of the Judiciary, this paper explores judicialization based on the requests that the Public Prosecutor’s Office makes to ...
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    86,89 €

  • A Better Place
    Milan Albert
    With everything that is happening, this might be the most important book in the history of the United StatesImagine America refounded...Imagine the national debt paid in full...Imagine bean counters not allowed to control our lives...Imagine our government reduced to proper size with no career politicians and bureaucrats...Imagine no more regressive lunacy allowed...Imagine the...
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    13,21 €

  • Walter Rodney
    Rupert Lewis
    Walter Rodney was an exceptional scholar-activist who not only interpreted the consequences of centuries of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism but also engaged in the struggles to change their racial, social and economic legacies. As these legacies persist into the twenty-first century, his life and writings remain profoundly relevant.He contributed to a dist...
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    18,93 €

  • Political and Scientific Articles, Volume 1, Second Edition
    Gerald McIsaac
    As the name suggests, this is a book of Political and Scientific Articles. It is relevant, as it concerns the Revolutionary motion that is taking place in North America, as well as around the world. The capitalists have to be overthrown, the existing state apparatus, which has been set up by the capitalists, in order to crush the working class has to be smashed. After the Socia...
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    30,58 €

  • Political Scientific Articles Volume 2, Second edition
    Gerald McIsaac
    As the name suggests, this is a book of Political and Scientific Articles. It is relevant, as it concerns the Revolutionary motion that is taking place in North America, as well as around the world. The capitalists have to be overthrown, the existing state apparatus, which has been set up by the capitalists, in order to crush the working class has to be smashed. After the Socia...
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    26,15 €

  • My Own Story
    Emmeline Pankhurst
    My Own Story, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of t...
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    19,82 €

  • Reinventing Democracy
    David Kauders
     90% of electors want political reform. But how to escape the mess? Britain should adopt a federal structure with a written constitution and an elected apolitical People’s Council replacing autocratic and ineffective bodies.Growing concern about the relative economic deterioration of the United Kingdom led to realisation that the system of political governance is probably an un...
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    22,99 €

  • Democratic passions
    Matthew Roberts
    This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond. ...
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    36,89 €

  • Territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland
    Paul Anderson
    This book compares the developments of territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland since 2010, paying particular attention to the impact of independence referenda, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the experiences of state and substate elites in both cases and argues for further reform to create more accommodative territorial models. ...
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    145,27 €

  • Political ecologies of the far right
    This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. ...
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    44,19 €

  • Political ecologies of the far right
    This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. ...
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    169,54 €

  • Off white
    Off white centres the role of race and whiteness to rewrite the history of Central and Eastern Europe and illuminate the development, operation and enduring appeal of white nationalisms within racial capitalism. ...
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    181,38 €

  • The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah
    Kwame Nkrumah
    ’The African Hercules has his club poised ready to smite any new head which the colonialist hydra may care to put out.’The Revolutionary Thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah offers a vivid portrayal of Nkrumah’s visionary leadership in shaping the post-colonial trajectory of Ghana and the broader African continent. Nkrumah’s fervent dedication to Pan-Africanism and self-determination is i...
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    18,64 €

  • The Monologue of The Universe of Corruption
    S.T. Mclaughlin
    The monologue of the universe of corruption is a captivating story that immerses the reader in a world where corruption spreads like an omnipresent shadow. Through vivid and penetrating prose, the author weaves a narrative that unravels the intricacies of morality and power. From the highest levels of government to the darkest corners of society, each page is a dangerous dance ...
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    22,52 €

  • Geopolitics of AfCFTA
    Jean Djaha Narcisse
    AfCFTA is of crucial significance to the African Union Agenda 2063 and the African continent, and yet, it is being largely misunderstood. Indeed, the forces that surround international trade are the real political and economic powers in every nation across the globe. Trade and geopolitics are deeply linked. It is no surprise that the implementation of the African Continental Fr...
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    30,42 €

  • Congress’s Cryptographer
    Jean C. O’Connor
    Based on primary source research, including the records of Congress, letters, and documents, the historical fiction novel Congress’s Cryptographer: A Novel of James Lovell and the American Revolution, by Jean C. O’Connor, tells of James Lovell’s five years in Congress during the American Revolution. Lovell is our first Foreign Affairs Secretary, writing to Adams, Franklin, a...
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    15,17 €

  • Political Leaders and Elites in Transition Georgia
    Avtandil Tukvadze / Elene Gelashvili / Irakli Ubilava
    This study uses comparative analysis to examine the political activities of elites and personal qualities of Georgia’s transitional leaders - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Shevardnadze, Mikheil Saakashvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili - as well as the role and place of charismatic leaders in Georgian politics. Equally, elements of patriarchal, subservient culture in Georgian reality ar...
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    36,62 €

  • Mathias of Maryland
    Senator Charles 'Mac' Mathias was a lifelong Republican who won every election in a 26-year congressional career in heavily Democratic Maryland. A courageous risk-taker, Mathias led efforts to advance civil rights, voting rights, environmental initiatives to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and establish the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. On foreign policy, he was an early critic of...
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    42,94 €

  • IF CONFIRMED
    Arnold L Punaro
    Countless national security leaders agree: No one knows this process like Arnold Punaro.Drawing on nearly 50 years of experience with the Senate confirmation process, Punaro has written this one-of-a-kind book chronicling the Senate’s constitutional advice and consent role. This book serves as a reference guide for both military and civilian national security nominees who find ...
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    14,78 €

  • America, Why?
    Jill Shea
    Is justice a commodity? Why does effective gun control elude us? What influences people’s voting decisions? 'America, Why?' navigates the expansive political landscape of our nation, from Fox News orchestrating one of the greatest deceptions in American history to AR15s morphing into symbols of national identity. From the intentions of our Constitution to devastating Supreme Co...
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    24,87 €

  • CITIZEN DIPLOMACY AND NIGERIAN DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SOUTH AFRICA
    Solomon Ayegba Usman
    The book examines the use of citizen diplomacy in Nigeria’s foreign policy in engaging with South Africa during President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and, by extension, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Additionally, it explores the degree to which the Nigerian state safeguarded the well-being of Nigerians abroad, particularly those in South Africa, from incessant xenophobi...
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    128,19 €

  • Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts
    Eight teams share their research about live performing arts during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on digital innovations and analogue adaptations in dance and theatre, accessibility and community-building, and on how the pandemic impacted on artists and companies. ...
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    71,25 €

  • The Official Record
    The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states. ...
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    157,72 €

  • Towards sustainable political stability in Togo and Africa
    Kofi John Idao EGBETO
    In the book 'Towards sustainable political stability in Togo and Africa: Convergence of Togo’s ancestral practices and the Swiss model, reputed to be the world’s most stable, and its adaptation ' Dr. EGBETO explores fundamental principles of the Swiss political paradigm and pre-colonial ancestral practices in Togo. This analysis reveals a striking convergence of several key asp...
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    136,02 €

  • Poor No More
    James Conner
    Extreme poverty can be alleviated one village at a time.The current practices of global aid agencies, governments, and NGOs all focus on the same failed strategy: transfer payments. The problem is that moving money without growing local economic systems for sustainability does not work. People need jobs and businesses, not handouts. There is a better way.In this book you will d...
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    40,64 €

  • Lessons from Our Failure to Build a Constitutional Bridge in the 2023 Referendum
    Frank Brennan
    ’This book provides the practical pointers for hope if we are ever to achieve constitutional recognition of my people. It addresses the mistakes of the 2023 referendum so that we can all learn and regroup. It’s a 'must read'.’ - John Lochowiak, Chairperson of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic CouncilThe 2023 referendum was a disaster. After the 40:60 d...
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    24,67 €

  • Nowhere Land
    Ron Jacobs
    Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation, chronicles Ron Jacobs’ journeys from New England to Oregon, Texas to Minnesota and beyond, examining the US as it struggles to remember and redefine itself on its way toward an uncertain future. ...
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    20,36 €

  • López Obrador
    Juan Manuel Velázquez Ramírez
    López Obrador became president in 2018. More than seventy years of control by a hegemonic party ended on July 1st of that year. Thousands of people gathered in Mexico City’s Zócalo to celebrate this civic triumph. Faces of happiness and looks of hope could be recognized on the faces of young people, the elderly and women. For some it meant having the first leftist president in ...
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    119,35 €

  • From the Courtroom to the Boardroom
    Deena Varner
    The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of 'law and order,' referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains to be, there has been a shift in recent years shaped by neoliberalism--the political, economic, and socio...
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    38,08 €

  • Consumer Nationalism in China
    Maggie Ying Jiang
    This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment. ...
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    158,62 €


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