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Free Download The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities: Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda By Ferenc Gyuris
2013 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 3319015079 | PDF | 5 MB
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. It also reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. The book explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.

Free Download Howard Williams, "The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory: Volume II"
English | ISBN: 3031522427 | 2024 | 482 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of International Political Theory, which in its broadest terms examines the ways in which ideas about justice, sovereignty, and legitimacy shape international politics. The two volumes of the handbook cover topics ranging from the foundations of international political thought to the latest debates in the field.

Free Download Mark A. Abramson, "Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience"
English | ISBN: 1442269294 | 2016 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1138 KB
Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations. This book is aimed at those interested in the transition of power to the next presidential administration starting in 2017.

Free Download Ananya Vajpeyi, "Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India"
English | 2012 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0674048954, 0674417321 | PDF | 2,0 mb
What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.

Free Download Virgil Henry Storr, "Revisiting Hayek’s Political Economy "
English | ISBN: 1785609882 | 2016 | 208 pages | EPUB | 687 KB
Advances in Austrian Economics is a research annual whose editorial policy is to publish original research articles on Austrian economics. Each volume attempts to apply the insights of Austrian economics and related approaches to topics that are of current interest in economics and cognate disciplines. Volume 21 exemplifies this focus by highlighting key research from the Austrian tradition of economics with other research traditions in economics and related areas.

Free Download Cary J. Nederman, "Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought "
English | ISBN: 1800373791 | 2024 | 500 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.

Free Download Private Desires, Political Action: An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice By Michael Laver
1997 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0761951148 | PDF | 5 MB
Private Desires, Political Action is an accessible overview of one of the most important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world – rational choice theory. Michael Laver does not set out to review this entire field, but rather to discuss how we might use rational choice theory to analyze the political competition that affects almost every aspect of our lives. The broad-ranging scope of the book introduces the theory at many levels of analysis, including: the private desires of individuals; the social context of how people fulfil their desires; and the problems of collective action. The discussion of these problems extends into the arena of politics, where the activities of `political entrepreneurs’ or

Free Download Amy Chua, "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations"
English | ISBN: 0399562877 | 2019 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home

Free Download James W. Perkinson, "Political Spirituality in the Face of Climate Collapse: Of Monsters, Megaliths, Mules, and Muck"
English | ISBN: 3031594703 | 2024 | 333 pages | EPUB, PDF | 942 KB + 5 MB
This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis. It seeks to reorient human (and especially Christian) understanding, towards a more ecologically-focused, indigenously-informed way-of-living. James W. Perkinson argues that our current eco-climatic and socio-political emergency is the culmination of a 5,000-year history of supremacist "settlement," in which city-states first emergent in Mesopotamia and Egypt not only begin coercively organizing labor into surplus production and ecosystems into inordinate and destructive yields of "goods," but in the process, also simultaneously "deform" the Spirit-World "haloing" of natural phenomenon into outsized service of imperial reach. Perkinson recognizes globalized humanity as an emerging monstrosity destroying both human culture and the world. How we re-envision and revalue, at our critical juncture, our inescapable interdependence with the more-than-human world as peer and teacher and even "elder," is the central theme that throbs below the surface of the very disparate topics commanding attention in each chapter.

Free Download Samuel Willard Crompton, "Political Revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries"
English | 2005 | pages: 539 | ISBN: 0791081516 | PDF | 6,1 mb
Political Revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries identifies the causes of revolution and evaluates the effects of major political revolutions of the 18th century. Sidebar biographies highlight the roles played by selected individuals during these revolutions. Other sidebars feature topics of related interest. Documents that are important in understanding the revolutions are referred to in the text and included in appendixes at the back of the book.