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Public Sector Reformation
Values-driven Solutions to Fiscal Constraint

Palgrave Macmillan
An examination into the issues associated with the need for fundamental value shifts in public sector organizations if they are to sustain an adequate level of...
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Losing an Empire and Finding a Role
Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1964-70
Nuclear Weapons and International Security since 1945

Palgrave Macmillan
This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold...
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Leila Khaled
Fighting for Palestine
Revolutionary Lives

Pluto Press
Dubbed "the poster girl of Palestinian militancy," Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a...
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Expelled
A Journalist's Descent into the Russian Mafia State

Palgrave Macmillan
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from...
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Perceptions of Islam in Europe
Culture, Identity and the Muslim 'Other'
Library of Modern Religion

Tauris Academic Studies
For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the ‘other’ within European identity constructions -- an ‘other’ perceived to be increasingly at odds...
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Global Civil Society 2012
Ten Years of Critical Reflection
Global Civil Society Yearbook

Palgrave Macmillan
Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed –...
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Reconciling Enemy States in Europe and Asia
International Relations and Development Series

Palgrave Macmillan
Heo conceptualizes reconciliation in International Relations theory and fills a gap by building a theoretical framework for interstate reconciliation....
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The Gulf States
A Modern History

I.B. Tauris
The geopolitical importance of the Gulf region is a source both of great interest and great tension. David Commins here provides an in-depth narrative of the...
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Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety
An Essay in Religion and Political Liberalism

Palgrave Macmillan
The relationship between religion and liberal-democratic society has emerged as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. Drawing together...
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Obama and the Middle East
The End of America's Moment?

Palgrave Macmillan
A hard-hitting assessment of Obama's current foreign policy and a sweeping look at the future of the Middle East   The 2011 Arab Spring upended the status...

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Permanent Emergency
Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security

Palgrave Macmillan
Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around...
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The Third Industrial Revolution
How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Palgrave Macmillan
The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment...
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Haiti
The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation

Palgrave Macmillan
Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard...
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The Lost Majority
Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs - and Who Will Take It

Palgrave Macmillan
In today’s fraught political climate, one thing is indisputable: the dream of the emerging Democratic majority is dead. How did the Democrats, who seemed...
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Why We Hate the Oil Companies
Straight Talk from an Energy Insider

Palgrave Macmillan
As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he’s a man on a...
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Cartel
The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

Palgrave Macmillan
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous...
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The Government of Self and Others
Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983

Picador
This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient...
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The Southern Tiger
Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future

Palgrave Macmillan
Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground...
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The Mind of the Terrorist
The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda

Palgrave Macmillan
A psychiatrist examines why terrorists decide to attack
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Understanding the European Union
A Concise Introduction

Palgrave Macmillan
This best-selling textbook provides a broad-ranging but concise introduction to the EU, covering all major aspects of European integration. The revised and...
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Treasure Islands
Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

Palgrave Macmillan
A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate masterminds While the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European...
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The New American Economy
The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward

Palgrave Macmillan
As a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bartlett was one of the originators of Reaganomics, the supply-side economic theory that conservatives...
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Borderless Economics
Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism

Palgrave Macmillan
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and...
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Samuel Adams
Father of the American Revolution

Palgrave Macmillan
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award! Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him...