Politics & Government
mobi |eng | 1997-05-07 | Author:Pettit, Philip [Pettit, Philip]

Personal independence The third of our five areas of policy-making bears, not on what should be done by way of providing the collective goods of defence and protection, but rather ...
( Category: Political Parties March 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2003-09-05 | Author:Moore, Barrington [Moore, Barrington]

As one looks back over the history of the Japanese village since the seventeenth century, the feature most likely to strike the historian is its continuity. The oligarchical structure, internal ...
( Category: Democracy March 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-20 | Author:Ali Ansari [Ansari, Ali]

Iran and Turan The 14th century North African scholar Ibn Khaldun, commenting on the intellectual life of the Muslim world, noted that: It is a remarkable fact that, with few ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Prasenjit Duara [Duara, Prasenjit]

Dialogical transcendence and popular religion Although the emperor claimed exclusive access to Heaven, the Chinese imperial model was not a theocracy. Local communities were permitted to worship a panoply of ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:John Ankerberg

6. He would be betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12-13; Matthew 27:7-10). 7. He would die a humiliating death (Psalm 22; Isaiah 53), including rejection ...
( Category: Bible Study March 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Steve Fraser

Fire in the Hole Corporations in trouble, no longer able or willing to finance themselves with retained earnings, needed to please Wall Street to keep afloat. And they did so ...
( Category: History & Theory March 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Schmitt, Carl

The complete inventory of this system of antitheses and their possible combinations is contained in the 1814 treatise by Benjamin Constant. He maintains that we are in an age which ...
( Category: History & Theory March 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]

It was not far from heaven to hell in Xinjiang. At the foot of the Tian Mountains was the Turpan Depression, the lowest and hottest place in China. In classical ...
( Category: Asian March 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Aaron David Miller

Nine Traces of Greatness? Of the twelve men who held the presidency after Franklin Roosevelt, none could make a claim to undeniable greatness. The alignment of crisis, character, and capacity ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 11,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Daron Acemoglu [Acemoglu, Daron]

All this warfare and conflict not only caused major loss of life and human suffering but also put in motion a particular path of institutional development in Africa. Before the ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 9,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Shirer,William L.

As darkness settled over Europe on the evening of August 31, 1939, and a million and a half German troops began moving forward to their final positions on the Polish ...
( Category: Holocaust March 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Jason L. Riley

If anything, minimum-wage policies have become less and less effective over time as an antipoverty tool, according to Cornell University economists Richard Burkhauser and Joseph Sabia. In 1939, the year ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Shelby Steele [Steele, Shelby]

8 No Past, No Future Later, back home in the States, I learned that the man we knew as DC had achieved a quick moment of fame before disappearing into ...
( Category: Social Policy March 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Yang Jisheng

THE HORROR OF CANNIBALISM Liang Zhiyuan recorded a large number of cases of cannibalism. He found, The extensiveness of the practice, the number of incidents, and the length of time ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Carver, Terrell, Ryan, Alan, Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry

1 The German Ideology (1845–6), Preface, CW 5: 24. 1 Marx to the editor of Otechestvennye zapisky, November 1877 (unsent), CW 24: 201. 2 The subtitle of The Holy Family ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 8,2015 )