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Highs and Lows of European Integration: Sixty Years After the Treaty of Rome

Springer, 2018

In light of Europe’s prolonged state of crisis, this book reassesses the challenges and prospects of the European integration process. Scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on various types of integration by analyzing political, economic and sociological variables, while also taking legal...

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

Penguin Press, 2019

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.

Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago...

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable? (The Political Economy of the Middle East)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future.

Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration...

Challenging Problems in Geometry

Dover Publications, 1996

Stimulating collection of unusual problems dealing with congruence and parallelism, the Pythagorean theorem, circles, area relationships, Ptolemy and the cyclic quadrilateral, collinearity and concurrency and many other topics. Arranged in order of difficulty. Detailed solutions.

The challenge of well-posed problems transcends national...

Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties under the Law (America's Freedoms)

ABC Clio, 2003

An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech. The First Amendment's declaration that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the Freedom of Speech" is the keystone of our democracy. However, the meaning of this freedom...

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its...

History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (Volume 1)

Dover Publications, 2011

The first of these two volumes might be entitled the "German Conquest of Western Europe," and the second the "Age of Justinian." The first covers more than one hundred and twenty years, the second somewhat less than fifty. This disparity is a striking illustration of the fact that...

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers

W W Norton, 2019

The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured?and influenced?a critical moment in American history.

Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin...

Political Theology: A Critical Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state.

In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose...

Socialism?The Tragedy of an Idea: Possible? Inevitable? Desirable?

Springer, 2020

This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable. Socialism as an economic and societal system was possible based on the two most important pillars of Marxian political economy: State ownership in the means of production and mandatory central planning...

Intelligent Energy Management Technologies: ICAEM 2019 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)

Springer, 2020

This book is a collection of best selected high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Energy Management (ICAEM 2019) organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jodhpur Institute of Engineering & Technology (JIET), Jodhpur, India, during 20–21 December 2019. The book...

The New Communications Technologies, Fifth Edition: Applications, Policy, and Impact

Focal Press, 2004

"Although the book is directed toward technology courses...it makes for interesting, thought-provoking reading." - Monitoring Times

As new communications applications are developed and brought to market, it is vital for communications professionals to keep abreast of these issues. Since the...

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