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  • Tax Reform in Rural China

    Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule

    de Hiroki Takeuchi ...
    How does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms? This book analyzes this puzzle by offering a systematic analysis of the central-local governmental relationship in rural China, focusing on rural taxation and political participation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese local officials and villagers, and combining them with game-theoretic ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • Age of Anger

    A History of the Present

    de Pankaj Mishra ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeOne of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

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  • Blood and Belief

    The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence

    de Aliza Marcus ...
    This in-depth study of the Kurdistan Workers' Party combines reportage and scholarship for "a scholarly, gripping account" ( The Economist).The Kurds, who number some twenty-eight million people in the Middle East, have no country to call their own. Yet today, they are highly visible actors on the world's political stage. To understand modern-day Kurds—and their continuing demands for an ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    de Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Salafism in Jordan

    Political Islam in a Quietist Community

    de Joas Wagemakers ...
    Since the events of 9/11, Salafism in the Middle East has often been perceived as fixed, rigid and even violent, but this assumption overlooks the quietist ideology that characterises many Salafi movements. Through an exploration of Salafism in Jordan, Joas Wagemakers presents the diversity among quietist Salafis on a range of ideological and political issues, particularly their relationship with ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Scouring of the White Horse

    de Thomas Hughes ...
    The great success of the festival (or “pastime,” as it is called in the neighbourhood) which was held on White Horse Hill on the 17th and 18th of September, 1857, to celebrate the “Scouring of the Horse,” according to immemorial custom, led the Committee of Management to think that our fellow-county-men at least, if not our countrymen generally, would be glad to have some little printed memorial, ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Democracy Deepens

    Political Information and Decentralization in India

    de Anoop Sadanandan ...
    'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected - was marked by social hierarchies and economic vulnerabilities. Decades of socio-economic changes since ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • Occupying Syria under the French Mandate

    Insurgency, Space and State Formation

    de Daniel Neep ...
    Series Libro 38 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent and consolidates the dominance of the occupying power. However, as this discerning and theoretically rigorous study suggests, violence can have much more ambiguous consequences. Set in Syria during the French Mandate from 1920 to 1946, the book ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Between State and Synagogue

    The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

    de Guy Ben-Porat ...
    Series Libro 42 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • The Olympic Games: English Grammar and Vocabulary Book: Key to Future Tenses

    de Karina Bagration ...
    "The Olympic Games" is innovative in its twofold approach: while helping to boost English language skills, it also instills in the student the peaceful values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement. Designed for pre-intermediate and intermediate language students, it can be used within the regular classroom setting or as an additional Grammar reference book. Each lesson gradually takes the learner ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Most Masculine State

    Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia

    de Madawi Al-Rasheed ...
    Series Libro 43 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the historical, political and religious forces that have, across the years, delayed and thwarted their emancipation. The book demonstrates how, under the ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Reproductive States

    Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy

    Edición de Rickie Solinger, Mie Nakachi ...
    When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights. China's infamous "one child" policy is a well-known example of reproductive politics, but history is filled with other examples of governmental population control to advance its interests. Reproductive States is the first ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD