1,088円 In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prizeーwinning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed ...

777円 That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel e...

5,173円 Based on years of in-depth field research, this book unravels the complexities of the Yemeni state and its domestic politics with a particular focus on the post-1990 years. The central thesis is that Yemen continues to suffer from regional fragmentation which has endured for centuries. En route t...

13,664円 Offering insights and analysis on Chinas approach to America and its relationship with the American government, this insightful book reveals Chinas current thinking and strategies towards China-US relations and trade policies. It also provides comprehensive analyses into the competitive strengths...

299円 6 works of Lysander Spooner American individualist anarchist (1808-1887) This ebook presents a collection of 6 works of Lysander Spooner. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Letter to Grover Cleveland - A Letter to Thomas F. Ba...

1,847円 Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and ga...

1,243円 The popular primer to Latino life and culture. Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, in...

1,399円 In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker...

5,305円 Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a "warm" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for "true" peace, as the Israelis would describe it, were high. This book explores the Jordanian-Israeli rela...

500円 Technology and the Internet are changing democracy. TechPresident is one hub for the conversation already underway between political practitioners and technologists - we provide a daily pulse of reporting and updates on all the news that we think is important to our community of hacks and hackers...

4,770円 Democratization scholars believe that the next regional wave of transitions to democracy may unfold in East and Southeast Asia. In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of politi...

1,600円 World leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. "Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept" is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries - from twenty contributing authors on six ...