Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good versus evil and human agency versus determinism---are perennially relevant to International Relations, The Lord of the Rings is well suited for application to the study of politics in our own world. This innovative combination of social science and humanities approaches to...
Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction...
This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike acknowledge it as an ideal tool for understanding the close relationship between the two countries, their shared experiences, and their differing views on a range of issues.
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Canadian Studies in the New Millennium includes new chapters on Demography and Immigration Policy, the...
This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, t...
The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. U.S. policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and instead focused on security and sovereignty. Although security experts tend to view the developments that followed within a bilateral framework, Game Changer broadens the canvas by asking: How has America's desire to keep its two borders closed to threats but open to trade influenced Canada and Mexico? By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this authoritative volume...
The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. U.S. policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate the econom...
The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. U.S. policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and instead focused on security and sovereignty. Although security experts tend to view the developments that followed within a bilateral framework, Game Changer broadens the canvas by asking: How has America's desire to keep its two borders closed to threats but open to trade influenced Canada and Mexico? By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this authoritative volume...
The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. U.S. policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate the econom...
Muskoka in the middle of winter can be a remote and lonely place. Police officer Kris Speers is alone in the middle of nowhere when she spots a man trying to kill himself by jumping into the freezing waters of the Muskoka River in February. She saves the man, but he begs her to kill him before the next night comes and he turns into a werewolf because there will be a full moon.
Muskoka in the middle of winter can be a remote and lonely place. Police officer Kris Speers is alone in the middle of nowhere when she spots a man tr...
This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? And what are the dominant critiques of these understandings? It is the first publication to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism.
In its second part, the volume applies...
This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors...
A few months have passed since Cat Stafford was murdered inside The Doctor's Inn, a prestigious B&B in the beautiful town of Niagara On the Lake. Desperate for revenge, she wanders the hallways and outside of the building searching for that one person capable of seeing her ghost. One day, that person shows up. His name is Trevor Long, a man with mental health issues. Prone to hallucinations, he doesn't believe that Cat is really a ghost, but when she threatens to haunt him if he doesn't help her get revenge, he decides to investigate and soon finds himself in danger.
A few months have passed since Cat Stafford was murdered inside The Doctor's Inn, a prestigious B&B in the beautiful town of Niagara On the Lake. Desp...
Overwhelmed with guilt, a woman walks into a police station and says that she wants to confess to stalking and killing her husband. She tells the homicide detective that she broke up with her husband because she felt he had no future and she wanted to pursue other options. She says that her husband was left homeless, but not for long. A day after she throws him out, he buys a lottery ticket and wins millions of dollars. Now, he won't take her back, or share the money. Angered by his selfishness, she begins to stalk him and things (in her words) just get out of hand and her husband ends up...
Overwhelmed with guilt, a woman walks into a police station and says that she wants to confess to stalking and killing her husband. She tells the homi...
