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“This is hard to put down.” ~ Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewA top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of...
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Center Street
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2024-06-04
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This book addresses the phenomenon of rumors about the occult in contemporary Ghanaian politics. Drawing on data from fieldwork interviews and analysis of case studies, it examines: why political rumors in Ghana often focus on the occult; what political-occult...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-04
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Direct Democracy is inexpensive. The average cost per vote is about $ 10. So, maybe we should have more of them? Before you answer that question, you need to know the facts about this type of complementary democracy. Referendums Around the World, is a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-04
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-06-04
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?Dieses Buch ist der kompetente Wegbegleiter für alle mit der digitalen Daseinsvorsorge befassten Akteure. Das Buch eignet sich hervorragend im Kontext von Aus- und Weiterbildung und ebenso als praxisorientierte Grundlagenliteratur für Dozierende und...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-06-04
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"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a...
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Basic Books
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2024-06-04
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In this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on...
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Basic Books
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2024-06-04
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Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the world In 2018, a powerful app for secure...
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PublicAffairs
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2024-06-04
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The notes that Ludger Kühnhardt wrote in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-03
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This book addresses how sustainability discourse and advocacy can translate to impactful policies especially when bridging the divide between sustainability, climate change and gender. The book explores various areas, such as conservation, climate action, sustainable...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-03
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A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.
Thirty years ago, the idea...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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This interdisciplinary anthology offers both theoretical reflections and empirical data on past, present and possible future war and crisis situations. In addition, against the background of the authors' academic and practical experience in the field of international...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-06-01
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This open access book provides an accessible insight into how to tackle corruption in organisations and institutions. It explains how to recognise and analyse corruption issues, together with knowledge and advice on how they can be avoided, prevented, or minimised. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book assesses the quality of self-government in four northern European regions with strong autonomy rights. Examining the experiences of Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Åland Islands, it considers how these regions have developed their own political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Lebanese Forces als Miliz im libanesischen Bürgerkrieg (1975-1990) und ihre Transformation in eine politische Partei nach dem Ende des Krieges bis in die heutige Zeit. Als eine der wichtigsten Parteien...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-05-30
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This book is about the making of justice. Despite the growing scholarship on transitional and transformative justice, contested struggles for justice in times of political change fail to get the nuanced attention we think they deserve. It seeks to understand how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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This book analyzes the ‘Five Eyes’ nations’ concerns and policies relating to national security threats through an interdisciplinary theoretical engagement with the Political, Information, Security and Economic (PISE) Model. Through the analysis of secondary data...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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The Council of the EU is a powerful institution whose centrality has been challenged by the Treaty of Lisbon. More than ten years after this major institutional revision, this book examines its role within the EU political regime and its interactions with other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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The book is about the role of religious leadership in settling disputes of a legal nature within religious communities and the effects of this process on immigrant integration in Canada and the USA.The community-based practice of law in Jewish (Orthodox, Conservative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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This contributed volume presents an attempt to understand climatic variability and induced risk to livelihood of communities and to offer insights on how catastrophic conditions and crises can be mitigated through public policy interventions. The case studies herein...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-30
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