Catálogo de libros: Ciencias políticas y teoría

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  • Religion and politics in Elizabethan England
    Neil Younger
    This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious politics of Elizabeth’s reign. ...
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    157,38 €

  • The Political Regulation Wave
    Shiran Victoria Shen
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    37,47 €

  • Inconclusive Election as an Emerging Theme in Nigeria’s Electoral Proc
    Akintola John Oluwasegun / Danjuma Gwatana Shigaba / Oyero Anthony Oyewole
    Usually, when elections are conducted, the announcement of the result should be made after all the voting processes have been concluded, and the winner declared. However, in recent years, starting from the November 21st, 2015 governorship election in Kogi State, anew theme came to the fore in Nigeria’s electoral process -that of an inconclusive election. That is to say when the...
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    57,71 €

  • The Worldwide System
    Michael Anthony Pinder
    Featured in THE SUNDAY TIMES series: New Ideas for the 21st CenturyThe Worldwide SystemThe Worldwide Web can help to spread new ideas in an instant but old dogmas are holding-up the progress of Our Human Race. We need to start again at square zero with a clean sheet of paper and then to update all of Our hardware and software systems.There are currently some forty different age...
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    25,10 €

  • Can It Happen Here?
    Cass R Sunstein / Cass R. Sunstein
    'What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party - and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates 'Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that 'it' already has.' - New York Time...
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    14,61 €

  • The politics of hunger
    Carl J. Griffin
    Systematically explores what it is conceived as ’hunger politics’: the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. ...
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    44,17 €

  • Research Papers on Defence and Strategic Studies Vol. 2
    Anirudh Phadke
    Research Papers on Defence and Strategic Studies Volume 1 & 2 is the finest collection of research papers, Op-Eds, critical analysis report, and other essay formats written and compiled by the author.This volume engage the readers in current geopolitical trends and author’s analysis/research on terrorism, intelligence and cyber warfare.Read the book to know about inside the min...
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    20,39 €

  • POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE ARAB GREAT MAGHREB TODAY & YESTERDAY Vol. II
    Abder-Rahmane Derradji
    In this Volume II, the book researches into the case of Libya. It diagnoses the Libyan ’revolution’ since its first outbreak in 2011 to the last phase. It describes the old and new opposition groups to Qaddafi before his demise and their role in the Libyan revolution which had toppled him. Then goes into details searching all the fought battles between the armed groups and the ...
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    164,10 €

  • Understanding Urban Warfare
    Collins / John Prof. Spencer / John Spencer / Liam Dr. Collins
    No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In an increasingly urban world, the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urban. This book se...
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    71,77 €

  • Understanding Urban Warfare
    John Prof. Spencer / John Spencer / Liam Collins / Liam Dr. Collins
    No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In an increasingly urban world, the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urban. This book se...
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    32,71 €

  • Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary
    Christopher Holman
    A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes’s political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life. ...
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    121,48 €

  • Mythologies
    Joel Wendland-Lui
    Four myths dominated U.S. ideology in the 19th century. Myths of white victimization, capitalist progress, the frontier, and the ″self-made man″ shaped how many Americans thought about themselves. These ideas lay at the heart of ruling class justification for settler colonialism, the expansion of racial slavery, and the development of the capitalist market system. They became t...
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    27,94 €

  • British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830-1960
    T. G. Otte
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    35,37 €

  • Proving Substantial Non-Compliance Under the Nigerian Electoral Act
    Uchechukwu Onyekachi
    Election petitions in Nigeria fail more than they succeed. While it has become almost impossible to prove the grounds of substantial non-compliance in an election petition, there is some ease and successes in proving other grounds and other claims in civil and criminal jurisdictions. The problem why this is different with election petitions and particularly the ground of substa...
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    101,29 €

  • Cold War Berlin
    A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life. They explore not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin’s unique status. An essential con...
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    51,05 €

  • Friendly Sovereignty
    Ted H. Miller
    Explores the diverse views of Jules Michelet, Thomas Hobbes, and Seneca on the extralegal aspects of sovereign prerogative power, often associated with grace, favor, leniency, and pardons. ...
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    172,82 €

  • Fractured
    Alex Charnley / Michael Richmond
    Identity politics has smeared political discourse for over a decade. The right uses it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan that it will be the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has armed the march of the transphobes. In Fractur...
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    126,93 €

  • Why Ukraine Matters
    Fazle Chowdhury
    The 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is part of a long Russian siege and occupation that began since the 2004 November Orange Revolution. These essays are based on Fazle Chowdhury’s analysis reflecting his chilling observances.The threat of war had been looming since March 2021 as Russia began deploying troops along the Ukrainian border, including in Belarus, in the...
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    33,77 €

  • Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics
    Amy Allen
    A collection of essays introducing and assessing the work of political theorist Wendy Brown. Includes an original essay by Brown and a reply to her critics. ...
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    42,94 €

  • Notes on Democracy
    H. L. Mencken
    2022 Reprint of the 1926 First Edition.   Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Notes on Democracy is a harsh critique of democracy. The book places political leaders into two categories: the demagogue, who 'preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots' and the pandering politician, 'who listens to...
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    18,69 €

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights
    This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity. ...
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    48,90 €

  • Essays on Culture, Religion and Rights
    Peter Jones
    Culture and religion are overlapping phenomena: cultures are normally understood to subsume religions, and religions are very often central to cultures. The two are particularly closely associated when we focus on the kinds of difference that generate issues for public policy. The world has always been culturally and religiously diverse, but recent movements of population have ...
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    65,26 €

  • Anarchist Prophets
    James R. Martel
    In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism-a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions-dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperit...
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    134,11 €

  • Anarchist Prophets
    James R. Martel
    In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism-a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions-dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperit...
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    36,17 €

  • Shoot to Kill
    Christopher McMichael
    Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa is a vivid and ambitious survey of the complex politics of security, crime and social control in South Africa.Nearly three decades after the formal end of apartheid, policing in South Africa continues to be defined by brutality, incompetence and corruption.Rather than protecting communities and ensuring justice for victims, the st...
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    18,76 €

  • The Revival of Political Imagination
    Teppo Eskelinen
    The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diver...
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    51,39 €

  • Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals
    András Bozóki
    Utilizing a new and original framework for examining the role of intellectuals in countries transitioning to democracy, Bozóki analyses the rise and fall of dissident intellectuals in Hungary in the late 20th century. He shows how that framework is applicable to other countries too as he forensically examines their activities. Bozóki argues that the Hungarian intellectuals did ...
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    146,02 €

  • Empire Eternal
    Sinclair Jenkins
    'The men who founded these great civilizations are long gone, but their blood still lives within us. We are called to conquer. Our age, like every other age, is a war of all against all for the domination of space.' Throughout the 19th and through the early 20th centuries, the European Great Powers established direct control over the majority of the planet, and suzerainty over ...
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    29,26 €

  • Everything for Everyone
    Eman Abdelhadi / M. E. O’Brien
    Joining a long line of speculative writing that helps us to understand worlds not yet existing An Oral History of the New York Commune will appeal to readers of Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ian M. Banks, Samuel Delaney, and China Mieville among others. ...
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    14,23 €

  • Liberating Revolution
    Nathan Eckstrand
    Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory. ...
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    41,94 €


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