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Making the Tunisian Resurgence
Making the Tunisian Resurgence
This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia’s "revolution for dignity” and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution. The author begins by analyzing the roots of the revolution and the post-revolution situation from a...
Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace
Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace
A frontline account of the social media battles raging between red and blue Americans – and how to find moral clarity in the chaos of digital civil war. 

Are rural white Christians the real Americans? Should teachers be armed or should the Second Amendment be repealed? Is abortion murder or
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, The Atlantic 

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on
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The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments...

Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms, and Property Rights
Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms, and Property Rights

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land...

How We Cooperate: A Theory of Kantian Optimization
How We Cooperate: A Theory of Kantian Optimization
A new theory of how and why we cooperate, drawing from economics, political theory, and philosophy to challenge the conventional wisdom of game theory

Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don’t just compete, however; they also
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A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...
Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality: The Top 20%
Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality: The Top 20%

Mihályi and Szelényi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order to preserve the meritocratic nature of liberal...

Economy and Society: A New Translation
Economy and Society: A New Translation

The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory?arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.

Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,...

Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU: Legal, Functional and Psychosocial Responses (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)
Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU: Legal, Functional and Psychosocial Responses (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)

Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU addresses the organizational and strategic changes in terrorism in Europe as a result of urban jihadism and the influx of foreign fighters of European nationality or residence.

Examining the different types of responses to the treatment of radicalization...

The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few
The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few
Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.

We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive
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Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law
Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law
The book examines how the interests of the member states, which provide the primary driving force for developments in European integration, are internalised and addressed by the law of the European Union. In this context, member state interests are taken to mean the policy considerations, economic calculations, local socio-cultural factors, and...
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