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by Alexander Baturo
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014

A national constitution or other statute typically specifies restrictions on executive power, often including a limit to the number of terms the chief executive may hold office. In recent decades, however, some presidents of newly established democracies have extended their tenure by various semilegal...
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Economics as a Social Science

An Approach to Nonautistic Theory

by Andrew M. Kamarck
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

Economics as a Social Science is a highly readable critique of economic theory, based on a wide range of research, that endeavors to restore economics to its proper role as a social science. Contrary to conventional economic theory, which assumes that people have no free will, this book instead bases...
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Mirage

Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

by Cynthia Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009

"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book." —St. Petersburg Times “Never before has the...
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Reluctant Partners

A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000

by Andrew Gardner Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009

With globalization drawing countries closer together, greater international cooperation is essential for peace and stability. The collective arrangement made by governments to manage their trade relations is one of the few successes of globalization. This book assesses the progress of multilateral...
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Decentralization and Popular Democracy

Governance from Below in Bolivia

by Jean Paul Faguet
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012

Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable,...
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Mountains Without Handrails

Reflections on the National Parks

by Joseph L. Sax
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018

Beloved by academic and general readers alike, Mountains Without Handrails, Joseph L. Sax’s thought-provoking treatise on America’s national parks, remains as relevant today as when first published in 1980. Focusing on the long-standing and bitter battles over recreational use of our parklands,...
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Discipline and Desire

Surveillance Technologies in Performance

by Elise Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

*Discipline and Desire *examines how surveillance technologies, when placed within the frames of theater and performance, can be used to critique and reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. The book explores how rapidly proliferating surveillance technologies, including drones, CCTV...
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The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture

Late Antique Responses and Practices

by Lea Stirling, Troels M Kristensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic...
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Smartland Korea

Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society

by Dal Yong Jin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017

The dramatic advancement of cellphone technology has fundamentally changed our daily lives. Smartphones and their applications have created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. Because of an interesting awareness of the significance...
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Simming

Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

by Scott Magelssen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

At an ecopark in Mexico, tourists pretend to be illegal migrants, braving inhospitable terrain and the U.S. Border Patrol as they attempt to cross the border. At a living history museum in Indiana, daytime visitors return after dark to play fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. In the Mojave...
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by Bryan Shelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011

Pointing to the disparities between wealthy and impoverished school districts in areas where revenue depends primarily upon local taxes, reformers repeatedly call for the centralization of school funding. Their proposals meet resistance from citizens, elected officials, and school administrators who...
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The Prism of Race

The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil

by David Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018

Brazil has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country’s race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people’s racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black,...
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Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry

From Flagship Enterprises to Subsidiaries

by Aleksandra Sznajder Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

Focusing on the steel industry during the post-communist transition from 1989 through 2009, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee traces the transformation of flagship state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia into the subsidiaries of large, international corporations. By analyzing...
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In the Red

The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries

by Zsófia Barta
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Why do rich countries flirt with fiscal disaster? Between the 1970s and the 2000s, during times of peace and prosperity, affluent countries—like Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Japan—accumulated so much debt that they became vulnerable and exposed themselves to the risk of default. In the past three...
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