Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

Edited and compiled by Peter Bollen, "Frank Talk" is an informal collection of quotations...

After divorces, drugs, and prison, she finds herself reaping what she sows in a cruel dark world of betrayal, lies, and abuse, until she finally meets the love of her life, who helps her through the pain and agony she must face.

After divorces, drugs, and prison, she finds herself reaping what she sows in a cruel dark world of betrayal, lies, and abuse, until she finally meets the love of her life, who helps her through the pain and agony she must face.

• The second edition has sold in excess of 5,500 copies
• Thoroughly revised and updated, also two completely new chapters on global politics
• Clearly structured for course use, each chapter length to suit a week's reading
• Clearly written and accessible, very lucid introduction to political concepts

• Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.


• Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
  
• Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.

• Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe
  
• Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved - administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious...

• Presents accessible, cutting edge research on the respective roles of derivation and representation in syntactic inquiry.
• Discusses a wide range of phenomena and also includes alternative, representational perspectives.
• Features papers by M. Brody, C. Collins, S. Epstein, J. Frampton, S. Gutmann, N. Hornstein, R. Kayne, H....

• Presents accessible, cutting edge research on the respective roles of derivation and representation in syntactic inquiry.
• Discusses a wide range of phenomena and also includes alternative, representational perspectives.
• Features papers by M. Brody, C. Collins, S. Epstein, J. Frampton, S. Gutmann, N. Hornstein, R. Kayne, H....

Reconstructing the dramatic struggle surrounding the building of the New Tokyo (Narita) International Airport near Sanrizuka, this scrutiny of modern protest politics dispels the myth of corporate Japan's unassailable success. While sensitive to the specific events they describe, the authors provide analyses of broader contemporary issues-the sources of violence in an orderly society and the problems of democratic theory in an institutional setting.

Narita Airport, the largest single government project in Japan, has been the scene of intense conflict over what might be called the...

What should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is it more important to foster shared political values and civic virtues?

Stephen Macedo believes that diversity should usually, but not always, be highly valued. We must remember, he insists, that many forms of social and religious diversity are at odds with basic commitments to liberty, equality, and civic flourishing. Liberalism has an important but neglected civic dimension, he argues,...