Catálogo de libros: Ciencias políticas y teoría

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  • CSOs, Parties, Government and Democracy Building in the DRC
    Hubert Tshiswaka Masoka
    In view of the double globalisation, geographical and thematic, as well as the consequent global stakes, the book analyses raises the question of how national CSOs can make themselves heard in the field of internal politics in their countries. More specifically, in relation to building democracy and the rule of law in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), how can national CSO...
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    34,01 €

  • The Dynamic Social Contract
    Andre Smith
    This book continues an exploration begun by Charles Mills and Carole Pateman with their examinations of the nuisances of the Western social contract. The work examines the social contract within the variable of space or proximity and incorporates concepts first proposed by Benedict Anderson, that of concepts of shared communal belonging or imagined. The social contract is explo...
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    41,13 €

  • Africa’s place in the UN system
    Fiston Karhagala Mushi
    The UN’s setbacks in Yugoslavia and Somalia have shown that the organisation is ill-suited to intervene in wars, which are essentially difficult in Rwanda, illustrating the organisation’s inability to prevent a real genocide. For this reason, some have suggested that the UN Charter should be amended to introduce a kind of humanitarian right of interference. Thus, a situation of...
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    122,36 €

  • Punjab - From the Perspective of a Punjabi Hindu
    Vinayak Dutt
    It is of utmost importance for a Punjabi Hindu to preserve his own identity and culture that closely connects with Sikhs and even Punjabi Muslims rather than Hindus in Trans Yamuna plains. In an era of strong nation-states, the distinct identity of a Punjabi Hindu is fast decaying.This book is an attempt to re-establish that identity.The problem with Punjabi Hindu has been that...
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    24,43 €

  • The Man who Killed Apartheid
    Harris Dousemetzis
    On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas fatally stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-called 'architect of apartheid.' Tsafendas was immediately arrested, and before the authorities had even questioned him, they declared him a madman without any political motive for the killing. In the Cape Supreme Court, Tsafen...
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    65,20 €

  • The Man who Killed Apartheid
    Harris Dousemetzis
    On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas fatally stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-called 'architect of apartheid.' Tsafendas was immediately arrested, and before the authorities had even questioned him, they declared him a madman without any political motive for the killing. In the Cape Supreme Court, Tsafen...
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    96,61 €

  • Eco-Emancipation
    Sharon R. Krause
    The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploitedHuman domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us. Because human beings are a part of nature, the human domination of nature circles back to confine and exploit peopl...
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    43,83 €

  • Higher Education for All
    Andrew Stone Higgins
    The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation’s larges...
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    126,83 €

  • Higher Education for All
    Andrew Stone Higgins
    The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation’s larges...
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    41,90 €

  • Whispers from the Arrow of Time
    Wayne Michael Hall
    This anthology of essays written by author retired US Army Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall involves critical thinking and planning in the new age-the Information Age-in relation to the Arrow of Time as it moves from past to present to future. The new age, the 21stcentury, proves to be quite different from the past. Change and turbulence prove intimidating and challenging i...
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    40,36 €

  • Whispers from the Arrow of Time
    Wayne Michael Hall
    This anthology of essays written by author retired US Army Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall involves critical thinking and planning in the new age-the Information Age-in relation to the Arrow of Time as it moves from past to present to future. The new age, the 21stcentury, proves to be quite different from the past. Change and turbulence prove intimidating and challenging i...
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    31,35 €

  • Parisian standing night
    Alice Mazé
    Through this survey, we have led to a small answer to our question, which seems at first descriptive, to know who the actors of Nuit debout are. The aim of this thesis was to understand what type of person was involved in Nuit debout and how they became involved. The first thing to note is that for the majority of the individuals interviewed the commitment to Nuit debout was sh...
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    49,68 €

  • The Preacher, the Resistance fighter and the political prisoner
    Abdesselam El Ouazzani
    Modernity has driven morality out of the literary field. It is an obvious fact. To do so, the critics had to choose the literary texts which brought the demonstration of the validity of their hypothesis. But the logic of the confirmation is not that of the refutation. So we should not be surprised to see that this exclusion has become ineffective over time. One wanted to chase ...
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    49,19 €

  • DR Congo
    Baron Bakajika
    All development is based on thought. For fifty years, the Congolese civil society as well as the political class, as a whole, have not galvanized intellectual energies in order to create, through a fertile culture, a school of Congolese thought.At the economic level, the intellectual elite has not produced and disclosed to date the Congolese economic model that would obtain the...
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    61,44 €

  • The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    PAUL LAFARGUE / Ulrich Baer
    This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes 'The Woman Question,' 'The Bankruptcy of Capitalism,' 'Some Simple Socialist Truths,' and his 'Personal Recollections of Karl Marx,' along with detailed notes and a biographical timeline by translator Ulrich Baer. Work gives meaning to your life, makes you a valuable member of socie...
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    8,31 €

  • How to Run a Successful Election Campaign
    Anemuyem Akpan
    The mastery of the strategies needed to secure electoral victory continues to elude many candidates. This book shades a brilliant light on the world of a political campaign. The book provides insight into tactics and strategies that continue to shape the fate of political actors during elections. It is written having in mind the needs of candidates, political parties, campaign ...
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    92,32 €

  • Morocco’s reintegration into the African Union
    Ouma Ali Ousseini
    As a student in Morocco, I wanted to honour this country that welcomed me and helped me to pursue my higher education. This study, about Morocco, has for theme the reintegration of Morocco in the African Union, being of very recent topicality was the subject of my thesis. It deals with the geographical situation of Morocco, its assets and the causes of its exit from the Organis...
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    36,99 €

  • Brutal Campaign
    Robert L. Fleegler
    At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of 'one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember.' It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term, forever overshadowed in histo...
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    126,59 €

  • Brutal Campaign
    Robert L. Fleegler
    At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of 'one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember.' It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term, forever overshadowed in histo...
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    44,26 €

  • The Oqual Cycle
    Amjad Farooq
    Today, almost every nation-on-earth is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime. Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmoil across the globe is also periodic due to what I have dubbed the 'oqua...
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    32,52 €

  • What is Fascism
    Giovanni Gentile / Richard Robinson
    What is Fascism is a collection of essays, newspaper articles and interviews, discourses and polemics on the subject of fascism by Giovanni Gentile (AD 1875-1944), the 'philosopher of Fascism.' The collection was written (or spoken and later transcribed) over the course of several years prior to its publication in book format, in 1925, under the Italian title of Che cosa è il f...
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    32,64 €

  • The Kingdom of Darkness
    Dmitri Levitin
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    116,99 €

  • BEYOND THE RHETORIC
    William Gairdner
    William Gairdner, PhD, is a former Olympic athlete, businessman, and author living near Toronto. He began publishing serious essays and books on political and moral philosophy in mid-life, and among his many bestsellers -- books that have profoundly enriched national dialogue and discussion -- are The Trouble With Canada, The War Against the Family, Canada’s Founding Debates, T...
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    14,12 €

  • Language as a way to co-responsibility
    Mbaga Kasereka Muhungamuvi
    The ethics of discussion is part of the context in which human societies in the first half of the 20th century experienced a number of crises of several kinds. Each of the dimensions of human existence has been degraded and at the risk of the values of co-responsible humanity. An unforgettable disturbance marked the context where scientism was in full swing, Nazism was the emin...
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    61,57 €

  • 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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    40,47 €

  • Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
    Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution. ...
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    121,74 €

  • A Historical Memoir of Liberia
    Leeway Karngbeae
    The work summarizes my paternal and maternal origins and delves into my childhood experiences. It also features my basic and higher education sojourns, depicting my student leadership roles and their consequences. At the national level, my involvement with democratic revolutionary movements and activities in Liberia dating from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s are captured. Th...
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    63,19 €

  • Rome’s native hero
    Stelio Cro
    In this work, the author claims that Publius Cornelius Scipio, the future Africanus, was a victim of the Roman Senate, presided by the famous Fabius Cunctator, who opposed Scipio and his plan to take his army to North Africa. Scipio claimed that the only way to defeat Hannibal was to invade North Africa and threat Carthage to the point that this North African power would recall...
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    80,07 €

  • High Bridge
    Michael Miller
    Upstate New York in the mid-19th century is a cauldron bubbling with the lure of fast fortunes, religious zealotry, and battles for civil liberties. This fervor centers on the Erie Canal, which successfully supports scores of villages brimming with opportunity. One such village, Fayetteville, shapes the lives of two future American leaders.High Bridge tells the stories of a you...
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    19,66 €

  • High Bridge
    Michael Miller
    Upstate New York in the mid-19th century is a cauldron bubbling with the lure of fast fortunes, religious zealotry, and battles for civil liberties. This fervor centers on the Erie Canal, which successfully supports scores of villages brimming with opportunity. One such village, Fayetteville, shapes the lives of two future American leaders.High Bridge tells the stories of a you...
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    24,22 €


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