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Germ Gambits

The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond

by Amy Smithson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrophe. For decades the ability to ascertain whether states are hiding germ weapons programs has been nonexistent because the 1975 bioweapons ban has no inspection...
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Blinded by Sight

Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

by Osagie Obasogie
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race will lead to racial equality—it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if or how the blind "see" race....
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Workers and Thieves

Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

by Joel Beinin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012

While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of enduring security problems in the region—from China's...
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The Adversary First Amendment

Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy

by Martin H. Redish
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech. Most free speech scholars understand the First Amendment as a vehicle for or protection of democracy itself, relying upon cooperative or collectivist theories of democracy....
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Law in Crisis

The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster

by Ruth A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009

Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic...
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Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?

The Foundations of the Libertarian-Conservative Debate

by Nathan W. Schlueter, Nikolai G. Wenzel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

In Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?, Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel present a lively debate over the essential questions that divide two competing political philosophies. Wenzel—a libertarian who believes the state should be restricted to protecting life, liberty, and...
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Theorizing in Social Science

The Context of Discovery

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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction...
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The Max Weber Dictionary

Key Words and Central Concepts, Second Edition

by Richard Swedberg, Ola Agevall
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the most notoriously difficult to understand. This revised, updated, and expanded edition of The Max Weber Dictionary reflects up-to-the-moment threads of inquiry and introduces the most recent translations and...
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Evaluation Foundations Revisited

Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice

by Thomas Schwandt
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015

Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a "transdiscipline," as opposed...
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Incest Avoidance and the Incest Taboos

Two Aspects of Human Nature

by Arthur P. Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

Why do most people never have sex with close relatives? And why do they disapprove of other people doing so? Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos investigates our human inclination to avoid incest and the powerful taboo against incest found in all societies. Both subjects stir strong feelings and vigorous...
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Attacking Judges

How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

by Melinda Gann Hall
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no exception. Attacking Judges takes a close look at the effects of televised advertising, including harsh attacks, on...
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Dark Logic

Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security

by Robert Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010

Since the end of the Cold War, transnational non-state forces have been a major source of global instability, with many ominous and disruptive flows of people, goods, and services moving readily across international boundaries. And because these activities are so multifaceted and so intertwined within...
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by Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, Malcolm Dando
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in...
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