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Gay Cuban Nation
Par Emilio Bejel. 2001
With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the…
social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed popularity, Gay Cuban Nation shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.The Best of Times
Par Haynes Johnson. 2001
On Democracy
Par Robert A. Dahl. 1998
In this accessible and authoritative book, an eminent political theorist provides a primer on democracy that clarifies what it is,…
why it is valuable, how it works, and what challenges it confronts in the future.Out Of The Closet Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Our Gay/Lesbian Family Members
Par Laura Siegel, Nancy Lamkin Olson. 2001
The Fifteen Biggest Lies In Politics
Par Major Garrett, Timothy J. Penny. 1998
In the world of politics, it's hard to separate the truth from the lies. In this strongly argued but nonpartisan…
book, Major Garrett and Timothy J. Penny draw on their combined decades of experience watching government work to illuminate the deceptions and delusions to which we as citizens are subjected every election season. Here are some of the lies: Tax Cuts Are Good Social Security Is a Sacred Government Trust Medicare Works Money Buys Elections Republicans Believe in Smaller Government Democrats Are CompassionateLongitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
Par Thomas L. Friedman. 2002
Germany's Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
Par Kristin Kopp. 2012
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive,…
undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.Journalism for Social Change in Asia: Reporting Human Rights (Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change)
Par Scott Downman, Kasun Ubayasiri. 2017
This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and…
its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context. This is not just a book for journalists, or journalism academics, but a book for activists, human rights advocates or anyone who believes in the power of journalism to change the world.Economics as Applied Ethics
Par Wilfred Beckerman. 2011
The focus of this textbook is on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis. Basic philosophical concepts are systematically described, followed…
by conventional welfare economic theory and policy, and applications to some topical economic problems such as income distribution and sustainable development.The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter
Par Robert S Erikson, Christopher Wlezien. 2012
With the 2012 presidential election upon us, will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best…
match their own? Or will the race for the next president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It's a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the course of an election year. Polls from the beginning of the year, they show, have virtually no predictive power. By mid-April, when the candidates have been identified and matched in pollsters' trial heats, preferences have come into focus-and predicted the winner in eleven of the fifteen elections. But a similar process of forming favorites takes place in the last six months, during which voters' intentions change only gradually, with particular events-including presidential debates-rarely resulting in dramatic change. Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien show that it is through campaigns that voters are made aware of-or not made aware of-fundamental factors like candidates' policy positions that determine which ticket will get their votes. In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.In nearly every industrialized country, large aging populations and increased life expectancy have placed enormous pressure on social security programsOCoand,…
until recently, the pressure has been compounded by a trend toward retirement at an earlier age. With a larger fraction of the population receiving benefits, in coming decades social security in many countries may have to be reformed in order to remain financially viable. This volume offers a cross-country analysis of the effects of disability insurance programs on labor force participation by older workers. Drawing on measures of health that are comparable across countries, the authors explore the extent to which differences in the labor force are determined by disability insurance programs and to what extent disability insurance reforms are prompted by the circumstances of a countryOCOs elderly population.Let Freedom Ring
Par Sean Hannity. 2002
Now, in Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity offers a survey of the world-political, social, and cultural-as he sees it. Devoting…
special attention to 9/11, the war on terror, and the continuing threat we face at home and abroad, he makes clear that the greatest challenge we have to overcome may not be an attack from overseas, but the slow compromising of our national character. And he asks why, particularly in this time of war, should we entrust our future to the voices of the Left-the very people who have spent decades ravaging so many of our core values and traditions? Our nation, as Hannity reminds us, was founded on the idea of order to protect our freedoms, he argues we must standvigilant against liberal attempts to compromise our strength sFrom our military and intelligence forces, to our borders and airports, to our unified commitment to root out terrorists at home and abroad, he reveals how our strongest lines of defense have come under attack-by left-wing voices within our government, media, schools, and elsewhere. And he shows how even domestic issues like taxation, education, patriotism, and the family have been exploited by liberals with their own agendas-with potentially disastrous results. Filled with the commonsense commentary and passionate argument that have made Sean Hannity the most compelling conservative voice since Rush Limbaugh, Let Freedom Ring is an urgent call to arms. For, as Hannity warns, We are engaged in a war of ideas. And civilization is at stake.The Essential Lippmann
Par James Lare, Clinton Rossiter, Walter Lippmann. 1963
The L Word: An Unapologetic, Thoroughly Biased, Long-Overdue Explication and Celebration of Liberalism
Par David P. Barash. 1992
Science and Geopolitics of The White World
Par Rasik Ravindra, Prem Shankar Goel, Sulagna Chattopadhyay. 2018
This book brings together thirteen selected papers presented in the Third International Seminar on Science and Geopolitics of Arctic-Antarctic-Himalaya, held…
in India in September 2015. The papers and have been grouped according to the Seminar's three main themes: a) Geopolitics of the Polar Regions, b) Global Climate Change and Polar Regions, and c) Climate Change and Himalayan Region.Framing the EU Global Strategy
Par Nathalie Tocci. 2017
This book tells the story of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS). By reflecting back on the 2003 European Security Strategy,…
this book uncovers the background, the process, the content and the follow-up of the EUGS thirteen years later. By framing the EUGS in this broader context, this book is essential for anyone wishing to understand European foreign policy. The author, who drafted the EUGS on behalf of High Representative and Vice President of the Commission (HRVP) Federica Mogherini, uses the lens of the EUGS to provide a broader narrative of the EU and its functioning. Tocci's hybrid role as a scholar and adviser has given her unique access to and knowledge of a wide range of complex structures and actors, all the while remaining sufficiently detached from official processes to retain an observer's eye. This book reflects this hybrid nature: while written by and for scholars, it is not a classic scholarly work, but will appeal to anyone wishing to learn more about the EUGS and European foreign policy more broadly.Essentials of WTO Law
Par Peter, Denise Prévost, Van Den Bossche, Prévost, Denise. 2016
At a time when developments in WTO law have made this field increasingly complex, this concise and non-technical introduction provides…
a timely and carefully considered overview of the substantive rules and institutional arrangements of the WTO. A variety of text features enables a rich understanding of the law: illustrative examples clarify important issues of the law and demonstrate the law's practical application; boxed summaries of key rulings in WTO case law highlight the interpretation of the relevant provisions and lead readers to a deep understanding of the meaning and application of legal rules; and recommendations for further reading allow readers to engage with current debates. Online resources include links to useful sources of information for work and research within the field. Co-written by a leading authority in the field, this is essential reading for anyone who wants to get to grips with this fascinating yet challenging field of law.Loyalties: A Son's Memoir
Par Carl Bernstein. 1989
The Fifty Year Wound
Par Derek Leebeart. 2002
The Girl
Par Meridel Le Sueur. 1990
First written in 1930s and subsequently revised, this novel tell a story of an anonymous girl, providing a glimpse into…
the socioeconomic conditions of women and the Marxist movement in the U.S.