Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877-1920
By: Stephen Skowronek
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This book is about governmental change in America. It examines the reconstruction of institutional …
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. Power: A Radical View
By: Steven Lukes
4.40
Format: 82 pages,
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3. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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4. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Format: 300 pages,
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-prov… read more
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5. The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
By: Theodore J. Lowi
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The main argument which Lowi develops through this book is that the liberal state grew to its immen… read more
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6. The End of History and the Last Man
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Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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7. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
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4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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8. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
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3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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9. Why Parties?: A Second Look (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
By: John H. Aldrich
3.68
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone … read more
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10. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America
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11. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877-1920
By: Stephen Skowronek
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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12. Machiavellian Democracy
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4.21
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13. When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency
By: Bernardo Zacka
4.00
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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