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    Seeing the Mountain

    How Zen Made Me a Better Catholic

    Narrated by Thomas C. Daniels ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    Seeing the Mountain is a contemplative work exploring how the disciplined clarity of Zen practice can illuminate and deepen a committed Catholic life. Rather than treating Zen and Catholicism as competing worldviews, it shows how attentiveness, interior stillness, and direct experiential insight can strengthen one’s capacity to live the Christian faith with sincerity and presence.At the center is ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Limits of Europe

    Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration

    Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around the EU. As this book demonstrates, the limits of Europe are determined by the values shared at ... Read more

    $90.89 USD

  • Making EU Foreign Policy

    National Preferences, European Norms and Common Policies

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

    A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

    Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why -- beyond the idle curiosity -- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is ... Read more

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  • Is the EU Doomed?

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Series series Global Futures
    The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future.In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU will only survive in modest form - deprived of many real powers - Europe as an integrated entity will grow stronger. Integration, he ... Read more

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  • Governance and Politics of the Netherlands

    Series series Comparative Government and Politics
    The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the Netherlands. The book has been revised throughout to provide full coverage of recent developments and events, including the latest proposals for constitutional reform.The Netherlands has often been characterized as a place of political calm, with a culture of cooperation and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Europe's Crises

    Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee crisis, Brexit, etc. – that overlap and reinforce one another, creating a cumulative array of challenges that threatens the very ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

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  • From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda

    This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from the colonial period to the genocide, schooling was a key instrument of the state in contributing to the construction, awareness, collectivization and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Becoming Europe

    Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future

    by Samuel Gregg ...
    We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility has drifted in a distinctly European” direction.Americans see, across the Atlantic, European ... Read more

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  • Political Corruption

    Concepts and Contexts

    Edited by Michael Johnston ...
    Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives. But the concept itself has been a focus for social scientists for many years, and new findings and data take on richer meanings when viewed in the context of long-term developments and enduring conceptual debates. This compendium, a much ... Read more

    $84.99 USD