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Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Author: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9781847089342
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Security and Peace: The Imperatives for National Development in Nigeria

Security and Peace: The Imperatives for National Development...

Author: Isawa J Elaigwu
ISBN: 9781909112285
Format: Hardback
$62.10

This book deals with challenges of security in Nigeria, including the relationship between security and peace as...  Read More >>

The Year I Lost My Breasts...and Got Some New Ones: A Breast Cancer Blog

The Year I Lost My Breasts...and Got Some New Ones:...

Author: Paula Kaplan-Reiss
ISBN: 9781493163304
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century

Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First...

Author: Caroline Holmqvist
ISBN: 9781137323606
Format: Hardback
$177.95

Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century....  Read More >>

Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the...

Author: Colin A. Palmer
ISBN: 9781469611693
Format: Paperback
$125.40

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Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement

Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London...

Author: John Tully
ISBN: 9781907103995
Format: Hardback
$46.58

Historian and novelist John Tully tells the story of the previously relatively unknown Silvertown strike, arguing...  Read More >>

The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin´s Russia I: Back to Our Future! History, Modernity, and Patriotism according to Nashi, 2005-2013

The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin´s Russia I: Back...

Author: Ivo Mijnssen ,  Jeronim Perovic
ISBN: 9783838203683
Format: Paperback
$77.37

This important book analyzes the dubious role of the so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement `Nashi´ in...  Read More >>

The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin's Rule

The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations...

Author: Andreas Umland ,  Amy Knight
ISBN: 9783838203881
Format: Paperback
$77.37

The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during...  Read More >>

Media and Revolt: Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present

Media and Revolt: Strategies and Performances from the...

Author: Kathrin Fahlenbrach ,  Erling Sivertsen
ISBN: 9780857459985
Format: Hardback
$150.00

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists...  Read More >>

Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan

Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination...

Author: Heraldo Muñoz
ISBN: 9780393062915
Format: Hardback
$44.95

By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.  Read More >>

The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type

The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political...

Author: Bruce Mazlish
ISBN: 9781412852982
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that, beginning in the nineteenth century, the needs of modernizing...  Read More >>

NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere

NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere

Author: Sabine Lang (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781107417557
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives...  Read More >>

Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror

Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on...

Author: Bonnie Mann (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9780199981656
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Through examining practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first person accounts of soldiers on the...  Read More >>

Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs

Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality,...

Author: Acar Kutay (University of Bergen, Norway)
ISBN: 9780415707374
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union’s approach to ‘governance’, focusing on the way in...  Read More >>

Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala

Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices...

Author: Silvia Posocco
ISBN: 9780817313593
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel...  Read More >>

Queer Necropolitics

Queer Necropolitics

Author: Jin Haritaworn (York University, Canada) ,  Adi Kuntsman (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415644761
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Queer Necropolitics addresses the changing parameters of sexual justice that accompany the contemporary regimes...  Read More >>

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter Settlement

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics of Squatter...

Author: Charles J. Fortin
ISBN: 9781845196264
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Control and use of public lands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition...  Read More >>

Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy

Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy

Author: Cynthia Lum ,  Leslie W. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781493901111
Format: Paperback
$290.37

As Lum and Kennedy discovered in an evaluation research on counterterrorism interventions, only a minuscule number...  Read More >>

The Demilitarization of American Diplomacy: Two Cheers for Striped Pants

The Demilitarization of American Diplomacy: Two Cheers...

Author: L. Pope
ISBN: 9781137298546
Format: Hardback
$88.95

"Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends...  Read More >>

States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror

States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty and...

Author: Alex Houen (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9780415663151
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state...  Read More >>

Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding: A comparative study

Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding: A comparative...

Author: Tracey Holland (Vassar College, NY, USA) ,  J. Paul Martin (Barnard College, NY, USA)
ISBN: 9780415825795
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book seeks to assess the role of human rights education (HRE) both for policy-makers and practitioners in the...  Read More >>

Unconventional Warfare in South Asia: Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency

Unconventional Warfare in South Asia: Shadow Warriors...

Author: Scott Gates ,  Kaushik Roy
ISBN: 9781409437062
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Y: The Sources of Islamic Revolutionary Conduct

Y: The Sources of Islamic Revolutionary Conduct

Author: U S Air Force Major Stephen P Lambert ,  U S Air Force Major Stephen P Lambert
ISBN: 9781496068491
Format: Paperback
$35.61

"Why? This is the key question that has so far gone unanswered in the current struggle, the United States' so-called...  Read More >>

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