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A Liberal World Order in Crisis: Choosing between Imposition and Restraint

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 14:34:48
A Liberal World Order in Crisis: Choosing between Imposition and Restraint

A Liberal World Order in Crisis: Choosing between Imposition and Restraint by Georg Sørensen
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0801450225 | 232 Pages | EPUB | 373.2 KB

The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized.
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The Logic of Positive Engagement

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 14:04:50
The Logic of Positive Engagement

The Logic of Positive Engagement by Miroslav Nincic
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0801450063 | 224 Pages | EPUB | 429.6 KB

Recent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to alter the behavior of other states.
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Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 14:02:15
Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions

Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions by Elizabeth N. Saunders
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0801449227 | 312 Pages | EPUB | 599.0 KB

One of the most contentious issues in contemporary foreign policy―especially in the United States―is the use of military force to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states.
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Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:59:30
Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone

Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone by Chris Coulter
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0801447828 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 443.3 KB

During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels.
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Freedom in the Workplace?

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:56:40
Freedom in the Workplace?

Freedom in the Workplace? by Gertrude Ezorsky
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0801445795 | 104 Pages | PDF | 915.7 KB

Are workers in the United States free? Gertrude Ezorsky traces the severe limits placed on their freedom by illegal coercion against organizing unions and by low wage offers―barely enough to feed their families―that workers are pressured to accept. Older, sick workers are forced to stay in exhausting jobs to be eligible for pensions.
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Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:52:38
Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations by Alexander Cooley
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0801443865 | 208 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB

Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires.
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Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:48:05
Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England

Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England by Joseph H. Lynch
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0801435277 | 288 Pages | PDF | 25.9 MB

When Christianity spread from its Mediterranean base into the Germanic and Celtic north, it initiated profound changes, particularly in kinship relations and sexual mores.
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Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:44:59
Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 by Frances E. Dolan
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0801429013 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 5.2 MB

Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother.
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The Vulnerability of Empire

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:42:23
The Vulnerability of Empire

The Vulnerability of Empire by Charles A. Kupchan
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0801428858 | 528 Pages | PDF | 55.9 MB

America's quagmire in Vietnam, France's preoccupation with overseas empire, Japan's attack on the United States, Germany's aggression in Europe, Britain's appeasement of Hitler - what motivated these bouts of self-defeating behavior?
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Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:39:21
Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France

Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France by Megan McLaughlin
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0801426480 | 328 Pages | PDF | 12.8 MB

In this book, Megan McLaughlin explores the social and cultural significance of prayer for the dead in the West Frankish realm from the late eighth century through the end of the eleventh century.
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Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:33:49
Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848

Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 by Lloyd Kramer
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0801419395 | 314 Pages | PDF | 16.9 MB

Threshold of a New World examines two broad themes in modern European intellectual history.
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Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:27:41
Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria

Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria by William J. McGrath
English | 1986 | ISBN: 0801417708 | 336 Pages | PDF | 29.9 MB

Briefly recounts Freud's life, discusses his most important theories, and examines the influence of politics, science, religion, and philosophy on his intellectual development.
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Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays

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Date: 17 Nov 2024 13:22:00
Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays

Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays by Charles D. Parsons
English | 1984 | ISBN: 0801414717 | 368 Pages | PDF | 15.4 MB

This important book by a major American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
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Sheep in Wolves' Clothing (2nd Edition)

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Date: 10 Aug 2024 17:10:51
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing (2nd Edition)

Sheep in Wolves' Clothing (2nd Edition) by Valerie J McIntyre
English | 1999 | ISBN: 080105883X | 158 Pages | EPUB | 475.9 KB

A full look at the harmful effect of transference (the application of unresolved issues from one's past to someone in the present) on churches and lives.
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Why People Matter

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Date: 2 Jun 2024 14:12:23
Why People Matter

Why People Matter by Kilner
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0801049407 | 238 Pages | EPUB | 2.8 MB

Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say.
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