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This remarkable book examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian...

Product Description In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "end welfare as we know it" by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped...

Traces the history of the struggle to decipher the Mayan language, describing the conflicting approaches and explaining what Mayan inscriptions reveal about their culture

"Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and...

Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues...

Anderson, Professor Robert

Collected here are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Bryan Palmer's interests as a radical historian. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E...

Book by Ensor, James

This history of the development of Greek prose, based on the author's Oxford lectures, was designed for use by university students and professors.

Analyzes the approach of Croce, a modern Italian literary critic, assesses his theory of historicism, and examines its cultural uses

A study of the effectiveness of summitry as a means of diplomacy. Using the example of the 1945 Yalta conference between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, the author argues that heads of state make...

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Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically...

A discussion of white racial attitudes from the time immediately preceding the arrival of the first Africans in America to the present