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Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Av Riley Quinn
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of …
Analysis of Robert A. Dahl's Democracy and its Critics
Av Riley Quinn, Elizabeth Morrow m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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There are few better examples of analysis – the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built – than Robert Dahl’s Democracy and its Critics . In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political system and then evaluates whether the arguments …
Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
E-bok, 2017
122 kr
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How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the ‘deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. …
Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel
The Fate of Human Societies
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel , Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results offer new explanations for why the …
Analysis of John A. Hobson's Imperialism
A Study
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E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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English economist John Hobson’s 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal, Hobson was deeply sceptical about the aims and claims of imperialistic thought at a time when Britain’s …
Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Edward Said’s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is characterized by close attention to the meanings of terms, by clarifying, questioning definitions, and positing clear definitions. Combined with one of the main sub-skills of …
Analysis of Aristotle's Politics
Av Riley Quinn, Katherine Berrisford
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation …
Analysis of Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
136 kr
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What is the ultimate goal of any human society? There have been many answers to this question. But by producing a series of notably well-structured arguments, economist Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development persuaded readers that the goal should be defined quite simply as the requirement …
Analysis of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Edmund Burke’s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as the foundational work of modern conservative political thought, Burke’s Reflections is a sustained …
Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions
A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Many people want to understand what revolutions are and – especially – how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol who has done most to create a viable model of …
Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world''s governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of …
Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues and find new meaning within them. Many of …
Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
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Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain’s Philip II. This tailpiece indulged in what was, for an historian, a most unusual activity: it looked …
Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
136 kr
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Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world. Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another …
Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics
E-bok, 2017
137 kr
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Kenneth Waltz’s 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a “scientific revolution” in the study of international relations – bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning carefully and critically. Good reasoning is …
Analysis of Robert A. Dahl's Democracy and its Critics
Av Riley Quinn, Elizabeth Morrow m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There are few better examples of analysis – the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built – than Robert Dahl’s Democracy and its Critics . In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political system and then evaluates whether the arguments …
Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
E-bok, 2017
118 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the ‘deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. …
Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel
The Fate of Human Societies
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel , Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results offer new explanations for why the …
Analysis of John A. Hobson's Imperialism
A Study
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
135 kr
Lägg i varukorg
English economist John Hobson’s 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal, Hobson was deeply sceptical about the aims and claims of imperialistic thought at a time when Britain’s …
Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Edward Said’s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is characterized by close attention to the meanings of terms, by clarifying, questioning definitions, and positing clear definitions. Combined with one of the main sub-skills of …
Analysis of Aristotle's Politics
Av Riley Quinn, Katherine Berrisford
E-bok, 2017
137 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation …
Analysis of Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What is the ultimate goal of any human society? There have been many answers to this question. But by producing a series of notably well-structured arguments, economist Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development persuaded readers that the goal should be defined quite simply as the requirement …
Analysis of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Edmund Burke’s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as the foundational work of modern conservative political thought, Burke’s Reflections is a sustained …
Analysis of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions
A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Many people want to understand what revolutions are and – especially – how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol who has done most to create a viable model of …
Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world''s governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of …
Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues and find new meaning within them. Many of …
Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain’s Philip II. This tailpiece indulged in what was, for an historian, a most unusual activity: it looked …
Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
Av Riley Quinn
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world. Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another …
Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics
E-bok, 2017
140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kenneth Waltz’s 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a “scientific revolution” in the study of international relations – bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning carefully and critically. Good reasoning is …
