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The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11 by Peter Hopkins Book News Annotation Focusing on post-devolution urban Scotland, Hopkins (social geography, Newcastle U. Britain) charts the life and times of a group whose voices are usually silenced or unheard, and frequently distorted. He uses qualitative data collected during focus... (read more) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover 
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Modern Tyrants : the Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age (96 Edition) by Daniel Chirot Publisher Comments Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience by Martin Shefter Publisher Comments This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice by Shannen Rossmiller Publisher Comments After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock, a mother of three in rural Montana was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate the central nervous system of global terror: online networks. Shannen... (read more) Available November 13, 2012 Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation by Desmond King Publisher Comments Spanning the entire twentieth century and encompassing immigration policies, the nationalistic fallout from both world wars, the civil rights movement, and nation-building efforts in the postcolonial era, The Liberty of Strangers advances a major new... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultural Diversity in the Armed Forces by L. Soeters Joseph Publisher Comments This volume explores ethnicity and gender developments in relation to the military. In some countries, the armed forces have a long history in responding to ethnic diversity, while elsewhere it has come up only recently as a policy issue. An even-handed... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? by Christopher Booker Publisher Comments This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement by Dingxin Zhao Publisher Comments In the spring of 1989 over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Constitutional Democracy by Dennis C. Mueller Publisher Comments Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $55.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fighting Terrorism and Drugs by Jörg Friedrichs Publisher Comments P EM Fighting Terrorism and Drugs /EM is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day. /P P... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.45 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Fate of a Nation by Adusca Odin Synopsis This is the inside story of corruption in Africa's most populous and richest nation. It excavates the full dimension of corruption in the system, beginning with the police; which operate like an organized crime syndicate as revealed through breath-taking... (read more) Your price: $17.50 New - Trade Paper
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Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy by Reimund Schwarze Publisher Comments The Kyoto Protocol is a landmark international agreement to tackle the problem of global climate change. Most operational details of the Protocol, however, were not decided in Kyoto but deferred to following conferences. This deferral of the details... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $76.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Electronic Government by W. L. Mang Publisher Comments This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2002, held in Aix-en-Provence, France, in September 2002. The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from... (read more) Your price: $126.25 New - Trade Paper
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Leading with Everything to Give: Lessons from the Success and Failure of Western Capitalism by Simon P. Walker Synopsis The personal character of the leader and the pragmatics of leadership lead us outwards towards the question we must now address: the politics of the leader. This is the focus of this last, and arguably most urgent, book in the Undefended Leader trilogy... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism (11 Edition) by Christopher Harmon Publisher Comments Toward A Grand Strategy Against Terrorism is a cohesive series of essays prepared by noted academics and counterterrorism practitioners within and associated with the counterterrorism program of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.... (read more) List Price $111.75 Your price: $74.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) by Clifford Bob Publisher Comments This book is an eye-opening account of transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservative activists. Mobilizing around diverse issues, these networks challenge progressive foes across borders and within institutions. In... (read more) Your price: $31.25 New - Trade Paper
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Responsibility to Protect by Rama Mani Publisher Comments This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks to... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Studies in Productivity and Efficiency #1: Efficiency in the Public Sector by Kevin J. Fox Publisher Comments Regardless of where we live, the management of the public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector. For a... (read more) Your price: $254.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America by Paul W Kahn Synopsis A brilliantly innovative and provocative work of pathfinding dimensions.-Robert M. Ireland, Journal of the Early RepublicNo scholar of the American constitution or American history can afford not to read this book-at least twice.-Herbert A. Johnson, Law... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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