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  • Democracy in Eastern Asia

    Issues, Problems and Challenges in a Region of Diversity

    Edited by Edmund S. K. Fung, Steven Drakeley ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    With the ‘Asian Century’ now upon us, bringing with it many profound economic and political changes to the world order, it is very timely to assess the state of democracy in the Asian region. Focusing on Eastern Asia, this book provides such a review, highlighting lines of connections between the states and peoples of this complex and dynamic region.Featuring chapters on China, Japan, Taiwan, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    The bestselling personal, hopeful manifesto for British politics from ITV's political editor Robert Peston

    by Robert Peston ...
    **The acclaimed account of post-Brexit British politics: a must-read for understanding how we've got to where we are today.'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' - FINANCIAL TIMES**In WTF? Robert Peston draws on his years of experience as a political, economics and business ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Urban Nation

    Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong

    by Alan Broadbent ...
    Canada’s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government—or any government, for that matter—to act on the issues that influence their constituents’ lives. Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chronicles of a Liquid Society

    by Umberto Eco ...
    The acclaimed author examines our contemporary world—from technology to politics and pop culture—in this collection of essays written for L'Espresso.Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and philosophical insight. He illuminates the contemporary ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twilight's Last Gleaming

    How America's Last Days Can Be Your Best Days

    by Dr. Robert Jeffress ...
    Never in recent history have Christians been more discouraged and fearful about our countty's future. Economic chaos, immorality, terrorism and global turmoil have convinced many that we are living in the twilight days of America. Dr. Robert Jeffress agrees. But it is not the end of the story, he writes in Twilight's Last Gleaming. Although we cannot prevent America's eventual demise, we can delay ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fundamentalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Malise Ruthven ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon - one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11 2001. But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term 'fundamentalist' has expanded to include a diverse range of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Stand for Something

    The Battle for America's Soul

    by John Kasich ...
    Former longtime U.S. congressman, respected author, and popular television host, John Kasich tackles head-on the erosion of long-standing, hard-earned values upon which our nation is built."Honesty, integrity, personal responsibility, faith, humility, accountability, compassion, forgiveness...These are our American values, our common denominators..." Drawing on his childhood growing up in blue ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Slingshot to the Juggernaut

    Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of the Truth

    by Sander Hicks ...
    In the ten years since 9/11, a grassroots truth movement has sprung up that unites the best elements of the right and left. The call to resist the secrecy, imperialism, and the manipulation of the elite has been heard by a wide spectrum of people, across religious and political lines. This is a revolutionary moment that has lacked a clarifying manifesto.Until now.Pulling from his personal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum

    An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.The ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Political Thought in Canada

    An Intellectual History

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this ... Read more

    $29.69 USD