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Frommer's Washington, DC Free and Dirt Cheap (Frommer's Free & Dirt Cheap)
Frommer's Washington, DC Free and Dirt Cheap (Frommer's Free & Dirt Cheap)
Washington, DC deserves to be called the Capital of the Free World for at least two reasons: It’s the capital city of the most powerful democracy on earth. And in no other place in the world will you find more terrific things to see and do for free.

Visit the great museums and historical buildings of many
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Destroying the Village
Destroying the Village

Up until the mid-1950s President Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that waging all-out war against an enemy threatening to end your national existence was right, natural, and necessary. In the wake of World War Two this was hardly a controversial position, as memories of Munich, Pearl Harbor, and Adolf Hitler had made the notion of just...

The Archaeology of Athens
The Archaeology of Athens
The city of Athens has played a leading role in the development of European civilization. When we look back through time to the origins of so many of the institutions and activities which thrive or are valued today, we are led to ancient Greece and, most often, to Athens in the Classical period (480–323 B.C.). Time and again...
Digital Privacy: PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe
Digital Privacy: PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe
Information technologies are becoming pervasive and powerful to the point that the privacy of citizens is now at risk. Indeed, more and more of our daily transactions are conducted electronically and require us to transmit personal information. Examples include using an electronic identity card to prove one’s age in a...
Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration (European Studies 20)
Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration (European Studies 20)

The accelerated pace of European integration since the early 1990s has been accompanied by the emergence of increasingly prominent and multiform oppositions to the process. The term Euroscepticism has appeared with growing frequency in a range of political, media, and academic discourses. Yet, the label is applied to a wide range of...

A History of Thailand
A History of Thailand
This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades. Drawing on new Thai-language research, it ranges widely over political, economic, social, and cultural themes. Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of...
Encyclopedia of India (4 Volume Set)
Encyclopedia of India (4 Volume Set)

Home to a fifth of the world's population and the largest democracy in the world, India holds a prominent place in current events yet remains misunderstood in many ways by students, professionals and others who seek a single, authoritative source for information on this important region. The Encyclopedia of India meets this need,...

Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political...

God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)
God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)

When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United...

Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice: European Perspectives
Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice: European Perspectives

The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy, and the ways in which perceptions of police legitimacy relate to...

Auditing Social Media: A Governance and Risk Guide
Auditing Social Media: A Governance and Risk Guide

As I look back on my career at Microsoft, I feel fortunate to have had a front-row seat to witness an incredible shift in how people and organizations communicate and interact. I started at Microsoft in October 1994—about a year after America Online released AOL 1.0 for Windows. As early adopters of social media,...

Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future
Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future

Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on...

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