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The Politics of Immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A Comparative Study (Perspectives in Comparative Politics)
by Martin Schain Publisher Comments This book argues that although labor market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process: the politics of immigration. It is this process that drives immigration policy...
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The Nazi Hydra in America: Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich
by Glen Yeadon Synopsis Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra In America presents an overview of the fascist influence in America. While Eisenhower's troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front,...
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Annual Editions: State and Local Government, 14/E (Annual Editions)
by Bruce Stinebrickner Publisher Comments This Fourteenth Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide...
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Peace and Conflict in Africa
by David J. Francis Publisher Comments Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of conflict and peace across the continent. Bringing together a range of leading academics from Africa and...
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Public Administration in America
by Michael E. Milakovich Publisher Comments Do you think you could run the government? Find out how it is really done with the PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICA. This all-new tenth edition shows you the ins and outs of day-to-day operations while asking tough questions about ethics and power. You...
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Violence Today: Actually Existing Barbarism?
by Leo Panitch Publisher Comments Amidst the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg posed a stark choice for humanity: socialism or barbarism. Violence Today asks if current patterns mark a decent into the barbarism that Luxemburg feared and if a just society, one capable of...
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Jobs with Equality
by Lane Kenworthy Publisher Comments Economic and social shifts have led to rising income inequality in the world's affluent countries. This is worrisome for reasons of fairness and because inequality has adverse effects on other socioeconomic goods. Redistribution can help, but government...
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America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
by Zbigniew Brzezinski Publisher Comments The status of the United States as a world power, and the nature of power itself, are at a historic turning point. It is essential that we understand and adapt to the new security environment in which we find ourselves. Two of the most respected figures...
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Aid to Africa: Getting It Right
by Jonathan Glennie Publisher Comments In this book, Jonathan Glennie argues that government aid to Africa actually has many very harmful effects. He claims that aid has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services for poor people and damage to already precarious...
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The Politics of Switzerland: Continuity and Change in a Consensus Democracy. by Hanspeter Kriesi, Alexandre H. Trechsel
by Hanspeter Kriesi Publisher Comments Despite Switzerland's small size, its political system is one of the most complex and fascinating among contemporary democracies. The rich, complex mixture of centuries-old institutions and the refined political arrangements that exist today constitute a...
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Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
by Kenneth Minogue Publisher Comments The term “ideology” can cover almost any set of ideas, but its power to bewitch political activists results from its strange logic. It is part philosophy, part science, and part spiritual revelation, all tied together in leading to a...
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Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future
by John J. Diiulio Jr Publisher Comments Do you know if you are going to heaven? Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives--the faith czar--John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer Publisher Comments The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London...
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The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret Nsa from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
by James Bamford Publisher Comments James Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in the bestselling The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up bestseller, Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking...
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Bob Schieffer's America
by Bob Schieffer Publisher Comments Wise, rueful, candid, graceful commentaries from one of journalismas most stylish and respected writers. With his critically acclaimed bestselling memoir, This Just In, Bob Schieffer proved a natural storyteller, a gifted writer able to capture current...
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Ideas in Context #94: Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom
by James Tully Publisher Comments These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship...
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Great Britain and the Creation of Yugoslavia: Negotiating Balkan Nationality and Identity (International Library of Twentieth Centruy History)
by James Evans Publisher Comments The final weeks of World War I saw a revolutionary upheaval in Europe, as old empires collapsed and new, self-proclaimed ‘nation-states’ emerged in their place. For its advocates, the Yugoslav state created in 1918 represented a largely...
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Obama's Challenge: Americaas Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency
by Robert Kuttner Publisher Comments Barack Obama approaches the Presidency at a critical moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, health care, but most especially in the economy. If he is able to rise to the moment, he could join the ranks of a small...
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China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach
by Richard D. Fisher Publisher Comments China's rise to global economic and strategic eminence, with the potential for achieving pre-eminence in the greater-Asian region, is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War period. For students contemplating a broad range of business...
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The Australian Policy Handbook
by Catherine Althaus Publisher Comments The theory and practice of policy-making in Australia are addressed in this fully revised text. The authors draw on their depth of practical experience to outline the processes used in making public policy while systematically explaining the...
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