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Amoral Politics

The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

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Amoral Politics

The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

This is a study of how and why politics is amoral. It deals especially with what the author terms Machiavellism—the disregard of moral scruples for political ends that leads to the justification and use of deception and force in all aspects of political life. A comparative cultural study, it examines the theory and practice of politics in ancient China, ancient India, Renaissance Italy, and modern Europe, as well as tribal cultures, in order to test how widespread such political amorality has been throughout history. Scharfstein concludes that political or ethical theories that do not view Machiavellism as inseparable from political life are inadequate to human affairs and of doubtful relevance to politics. In reaching this conclusion, he explores such topics as why people readily accept political violations of truthfulness and fairness; whether decisive philosophical arguments have been advanced against Machiavellism; whether the use of deception in politics is in politicians' own best interests; and whether the prevalence of Machiavellism rules out the likelihood of a better political future.

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State University of New York Press

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1438418868

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Death Be Damned #3

By: Ben Acker,Ben Blacker,Andrew Miller

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Death Be Damned #3

By: Ben Acker,Ben Blacker,Andrew Miller

After surviving their latest dance with death, Joseph and Miranda begin to share the heartbreak that led them into this situation.

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Boom! Studios

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1613987757

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What It Takes

The Way to the White House

By: Richard Ben Cramer

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What It Takes

The Way to the White House

By: Richard Ben Cramer

Before Game Change there was What It Takes, a ride along the 1988 campaign trail and “possibly the best [book] ever written about an American election” (NPR). Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is “a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history” (Time). An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates—George H. W. “Poppy” Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart—this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart’s Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world? Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in “a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this “ultimate insider’s book on presidential politics” explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government—human beings, in all their flawed glory (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Open Road Media

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1453219641

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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work

By: Michael Bourdillon,Deborah Levison,William Myers,Ben White

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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work

By: Michael Bourdillon,Deborah Levison,William Myers,Ben White

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children's work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of their work. The authors question current child labor policies and interventions, which, even though pursued with the best intentions, too often fail to protect children against harm or promote their access to education and other opportunities for decent futures. They argue for the need to re-think the assumptions that underlie current policies on the basis of empirical evidence, and they recommend new approaches to advance working children's well-being and guarantee their human rights. Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work condemns the exploitation and abuse of child workers and supports the right of all children to the best quality, free education that society can afford. At the same time, the authors recognize the value, and sometimes the necessity, of work in growing up, and the reality that a "workless" childhood, without responsibilities, is not good preparation for adult life in any environment.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813550211

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9780813550213

From Anger to Action

Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet

By: Ben Jackson,Harriet Lamb

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From Anger to Action

Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet

By: Ben Jackson,Harriet Lamb

From Anger to Action tells the stories of the citizens' movements charting new paths to tackle the big global challenges that lie behind the political upheavals of our times. Drawing on candid insights from citizens, activists, and innovators, and their own experiences as leaders of internationally recognized advocacy organizations, the authors give an insider account of the battle for change and how it can be won – as well as trenchant criticism of where traditional civil society has lost its way and needs renewal. While unflinching on the dangers of the current political crises, the book offers hard-edged hope and a vision for citizen-led change to reshape our fractured politics. We meet communities in economically-battered towns welcoming refugees and Syrian peacebuilders reaching across impossible divides, go behind the scenes with Fairtrade banana farmers and hear of frenzied climate campaigners pushing divestment from oil companies and using social media to drive change. Lamb and Jackson explore how citizens’ movements are transforming our global politics, refashioning internationalism and fighting back against narrow nationalism. The book analyses why some movements secure lasting change – and others fail. And they show how these insights could shape a wider strategy for grassroots-up transformation. From Anger to Action will be of interest to social activists and anyone interested in social movements, global change, and civil society.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538141337

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The ABC of the OPT

A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory

By: Orna Ben-Naftali,Michael Sfard,Hedi Viterbo

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The ABC of the OPT

A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory

By: Orna Ben-Naftali,Michael Sfard,Hedi Viterbo

Israel's half-a-century long rule over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and some of its surrounding legal issues, have been the subject of extensive academic literature. Yet, to date, there has been no comprehensive, theoretically-informed, and empirically-based academic study of the role of various legal mechanisms, norms, and concepts in shaping, legitimizing, and responding to the Israeli control regime. This book seeks to fill this gap, while shedding new light on the subject. Through the format of an A-Z legal lexicon, it critically reflects on, challenges, and redefines the language, knowledge, and practices surrounding the Israeli control regime. Taken together, the entries illuminate the relation between global and local forces - legal, political, and cultural - in Israel and Palestine. The study of the terms involved provides insights that are relevant to other situations elsewhere in the world, particularly with regard to belligerent occupation, the law's role in relation to state violence, and justice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108578462

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Trounce's Clinical Pharmacology for Nurses

By: Ben Greenstein,Dinah Gould

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Trounce's Clinical Pharmacology for Nurses

By: Ben Greenstein,Dinah Gould

With the important part played by nurses in the administration of drugs and in recording their effects, an understanding of pharmacology and its application to patient care is an integral part of pre-registration nursing education. This popular textbook gives an up-to-date account of the action and use of drugs in the treatment and prevention of disease, as well as exploring the principles underlying drug usage. The eighteenth edition of this highly successful textbook builds on the foundation of its predecessors by bringing the text fully up to date with developments in the world of clinical pharmacology and current trends in clinical practice.Comprehensive coverage of all major drug classes giving a thorough grounding for clinical workHighly readable text facilitates understanding of a complex subjectLearning objectives and summaries in each chapter help students to learnCase studies help link theory to practiceNursing points and special points for patient education are highlighted throughout the text to link theory with practiceThe book also includes detailed information on alternative treatments such as homoeopathy, herbalism.An extensive glossary explains some of the very technical jargon in the fieldtext fully updated in line with developments in clinical pharmacology and current trends in clinical practice. now in 2-colourreferences to useful websites includednew and improved illustrations

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702039500

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9780702039508

Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds

By: Ben Almassi

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Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds

By: Ben Almassi

“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves. Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds discusses the possibilities and practices of reparative environmental justice. It builds on theories of justice in political philosophy, feminist ethics, indigenous studies, and criminal justice as extended to non-ideal environmental ethics. How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge? How can it promote just practices and policies while enabling effective opposition to business as usual? And how does reparative justice look different when we go beyond narrowly construed human conflicts to include relational repair with ecosystems, other animals, and future generations?

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498592074

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Youth and Violent Performativities

Re-Examining the Connection Between Young People and Violence

By: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer

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Youth and Violent Performativities

Re-Examining the Connection Between Young People and Violence

By: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group. Instead, the book critically examines how young people become violent as they enact and resist the available violent performativities in youth. It focuses on the experiences of 28 young people in Australia who are subjected to violence, who use violence and who resist violence. A critical analysis of these young people’s “messy” stories facilitates a reframing of the physical violence routinely attributed to young people as a product of violating systems and structures. The author constructs a converging theoretical landscape to re-examine youth, violence and resistance at the intersection of the sociology of violence and the sociology of youth. Drawing on interviews with young Australians, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary international scholarship on youth and violence, while also examining the potential for complicity to violence in youth research and practice. In doing so it offers youth scholars and practitioners a framework for reassessing their theoretical frameworks and methods for studying and working with young people in connection with violence.

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Springer Nature

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9811555427

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9789811555428

Comparative Political Economy

States, Markets and Global Capitalism

By: Ben Clift

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Comparative Political Economy

States, Markets and Global Capitalism

By: Ben Clift

This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips away social, historical, and political context from analysis of 'the economic', but the economy is far too important to leave exclusively to the economists. Comparative Political Economy (CPE) is a much broader, richer intellectual undertaking which 're-embeds' the analysis of the economic within the social and political realm. This is at the heart of how to think like a political economist. This text maps the terrain and evolution of CPE, providing the analytical tools to explore the many variants of capitalism, unearthing their roots in competing visions of the desirable distribution of the fruits of growth. Connecting CPE systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), the book explains how these visions generate ongoing political struggles over how to regulate and manage capitalism. This is the perfect introduction to the field for all students of CPE and IPE. New to this Edition: - Fully revised and updated throughout to take into account the latest empirical and theoretical developments in this fast-moving field - A brand New chapter on the political economy of inequality, populism, Trump & Brexit - New expanded 'how to use this book' aimed at student readers - More coverage of the types of economies covered, to move from an exclusively Western focus to cover developing and emerging global economies

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699

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350311774

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9781350311770

Case Critical

Social Services and Social Justice in Canada

By: Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell),Raven Sinclair,Ben Carniol,Donna Baines

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Social Services and Social Justice in Canada

By: Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell),Raven Sinclair,Ben Carniol,Donna Baines

This latest edition of Case Critical applies decolonized, critical analysis to highlight what is often hidden from view for most Canadians: the personal trauma and communal devastation inflicted on Indigenous people by past and present colonialism and the ways in which neoliberal tax cuts, austerity, and privatization create more inequality, homelessness, and despair among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Social service providers, the authors argue, should become social activists, working in solidarity with progressive grassroots social movements in order to de-legitimatize colonial and neoliberal policies. Looking for the PDF of Table 5.1: Social Work Skills in Social Services (2017)? Download it under “Extras”.

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Between the Lines

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1771133120

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9781771133128

Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers

By: Ben Rafoth

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Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers

By: Ben Rafoth

Multilingual writers—often graduate students with more content knowledge and broader cultural experience than a monolingual tutor—unbalance the typical tutor/client relationship and pose a unique challenge for the writing center. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers explores how directors and tutors can better prepare for the growing number of one-to-one conferences with these multilingual writers they will increasingly encounter in the future. This much-needed addition of second language acquisition (SLA) research and teaching to the literature of writing center pedagogy draws from SLA literature; a body of interviews Rafoth conducted with writing center directors, students, and tutors, and his own decades of experience. Well-grounded in daily writing center practice, the author addresses which concepts and practices directors can borrow from the field of SLA to help tutors respond to the needs of multilingual writers, what directors need to know about these concepts and practices, and how tutoring might change in response to changes in student populations. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers is a call to invigorate the preparation of tutors and directors for the negotiation of the complexities of multilingual and multicultural communication.

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University Press of Colorado

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145718866X

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9781457188664

AAA Yearbook on Arbitration and the Law - 26th Edition

By: Stephen K. Huber ,Ben H. Sheppard

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AAA Yearbook on Arbitration and the Law - 26th Edition

By: Stephen K. Huber ,Ben H. Sheppard

For decades, the AAA Yearbook on Arbitration & the Law has served as an outstanding source of guidance on legal developments in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. In light of that history, the subject matter covered by this 26th edition is remarkable in the extent that it reflects continued and significant breadth in terms of the ADR issues explored. The continued expansion in the use of ADR for increasingly diverse types of disputes has raised important legal and policy questions, the magnitude of which is perhaps most clearly illustrated by the number of arbitration-related cases the Supreme Court of the United States takes up for review. Those matters are considered here, as are other contemporary ADR-related developments such as class action arbitrations and the enforceability of class action waivers. At the same time, the AAA Yearbook details cases that address what are historically some of the most frequently litigated and recurring issues. For example, courts are commonly presented with arbitrability disputes, the related issue of the allocation of authority among arbitrators and the courts, and questions regarding preemption of the Federal Arbitration Act over a state’s arbitration law. Despite decades of court decisions addressing those matters, courts continue to address still-evolving theories and differing fact patterns that can provide further direction and evolution in the law. The thorough coverage in the AAA Yearbook of these matters, in addition to many others, will serve as a valuable source of information to practitioners, academics, arbitrators, and those with an interest in ADR.

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Juris Publishing, Inc.

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1937518477

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9781937518479

Ruben's Ruse

By: Ben Coady

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Ruben's Ruse

By: Ben Coady

Published ... by arrangement with Robert Hale Limited, London"--T.p. verso.

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Ulverscroft

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0708999174

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Fast Gun Range

By: Ben Coady

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Fast Gun Range

By: Ben Coady

When Dan Tallow, a drifter, wins the deeds to a farm in a card game he thinks his troubles are over. However, arriving in the Montana valley where his new home will be, he has to step in to a stop a lynching. His intervention makes an enemy of Mame Rockton, the valley's big rancher. She has Tallow framed for the murder of a US marshal who arrives to investigate the spate of Rockton crimes.

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Ulverscroft

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1846171288

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Tyrell's Guns

By: Ben Coady

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Tyrell's Guns

By: Ben Coady

When Sam Tyrell arrives in the valley with the intention of expanding the boundaries of Circle T ranch, he won't let anyone get in his way. If it comes down to using his gunfire to get his way, he won't hesitate - as everyone knows only too well. Then one man, Hank Carty, steps into the breach.

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0709091281

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9780709091288

Ruben's Ruse

By: Ben Coady

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Ruben's Ruse

By: Ben Coady

Published ... by arrangement with Robert Hale Limited, London"--T.p. verso.

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Ponderfoot's Dollars

By: Ben Coady

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Ponderfoot's Dollars

By: Ben Coady

Already in danger of losing his farm, and shunned by the town, Jack Barley is forced by the notorious Bannion brothers to rob the local bank in exchange for his wife's and son's safety.

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Linford

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1846176220

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9781846176227

Rope Justice

By: Ben Coady

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Rope Justice

By: Ben Coady

Dan Brady is resting at a creek when, hearing a commotion on the opposite side of the water, he discovers a lynching in progress. Brady's sense of justice spurs him to prevent the lynching. But he finds he's pitched himself into a bitter feud. Now he is faced with a powerful rancher as his enemy, a crooked marshal, a bevy of hard cases and a gunfighter. A veteran of many tight spots, Brady might be making his final stand.

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Ulverscroft

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1846174325

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Robb's Stand

By: Ben Coady

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Robb's Stand

By: Ben Coady

Robb inherits the Broken Arrow because of his act of kindness to a dying man, and plans to make a go of it. But a deluge of problems face him, competition for the affections of Amy, a refusal of his request for a bank loan and then he is cast as a suspect for the murder of the bank president. Can he clear his name?

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0709069677

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