Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2010

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• Adversarial Case-Making

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  • Author: T. Scheffer
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  • This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.

• Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-Conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy?

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  • Author: I. Hussain
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  • A comparative study is made of how conflict-terminating negotiations led to maiden democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, pointing various thresholds out through specific chapters, invoking negotiations theories/stages to deepen interpretations, and prospecting the Bush Doctrine's future mileage in democratizing the Middle East.

• Africa Yearbook Volume 6

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Andreas Mehler; Henning Melber; Klaas Walraven
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  • The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states – all related to developments in one calendar year. The print version of the Africa Yearbook now gives access to the Africa Yearbook online, with all material since 2004. Every copy of the print has a personal code for free access to Africa Yearbook online.

• American Israelis

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  • Authors: Uzi Rebhun; Lilach Lev Ari
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  • This is a thorough investigation of Israelis who live in the United States tracing their social and economic mobility, their integration into the local Jewish community, as well as their attachment to their home country.

• The Apprentice’s Sorcerer

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  • Author: I. Landa
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  • This book contends incisively that fascism, far from being the antithesis of liberalism, ought to be seen centrally as an effort to unknot the longue durée tangle of the liberal order, as it finally collided, head on, with mass democracy.

• Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?

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  • Author: R. Rein
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  • This volume is devoted to Jewish Argentines in the twentieth century, and deliberately avoids restrictive or prescriptive definitions of Jews and Judaism. Instead, it focuses on people whose identities include a Jewish component, irrespective of social class and gender, and regardless of whether they are religious or secular, Ashkenazi or Sephardic, or affiliated with the organized Jewish community.

• Being and Becoming Hausa

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  • Editors Anne Haour; Benedetta Rossi
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  • Drawing on anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology, this book offers a compelling portrait of the emergence and evolution of Hausa identity in West Africa.

• Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building

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  • Author: I. Brinkman
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  • The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now.

• Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology

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  • Editors Graham Cassano; Richard Dello Buono
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  • Bringing together critical scholars, this volume seeks to understand the roots of our current social and economic crisis on a number of themes including the legacy of critical sociology, the significance of the new Obama administration, and the relationship of social theory to social practice.

• Cultural Tourism and Identity

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  • Editor Keyan Tomaselli
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  • Studies of cultural tourism and indigenous identity are fraught with questions concerning exploitation, entitlement, ownership and authenticity. Unease with the idea of leveraging a group identity for commercial gain is ever-present. This anthology articulates some of these debates from a multitude of standpoints. It assimilates the perspectives of members of indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, tourism practitioners and academic researchers who participated in an action research project that aims to link research to development outcomes.

• Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

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  • Author: E. Kreike
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  • North-central Namibia’s history demonstrates how global models of environmental change give rise to contradictory interpretations that are not simply misreadings of the same process. The area experienced both dramatic deforestation and reforestation, suggesting the need for new and pluralistic approaches.

• Democratic Elitism

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  • Editors Heinrich Best; John Higley; Jens Borchert; Andras Korosenyi; Fredrik Engelstad; John Higley; Heinrich Best; Trygve Gulbrandsen; Michael Edinger; Gyorgy Lengyel; Gabrielle Ilonszki; Jacek Wasilewski; Anton Steen; Mindaugas Kuklys; John Higley; Heinrich Best; John Higley
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  • This book reconsiders Joseph Schumpeter's democratic elitism in light of the directions that recent theories of democracy have taken, and it analyzes democratic elitism's workings in western and eastern European states early in the 21st century.

• Democratic Transgressions of Law

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  • Editors Alfons Bora; Heiko Hausendorf; Patrick O'Mahony; Giuseppe Pellegrini; Les Levidow; Peter Münte; Matthias Baier; Henrik Rahm; Elena Collavin; Zsuzsanna Ivanyi; Andras Kertesz; Kornelia Marinecs; Gabriele Abels; Alfons Bora; Heiko Hausendorf; Alfons Bora; Heiko Hausendorf
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  • Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary research in the regulation of science and technology, this book offers a critical examination of participatory governance in legal procedure and an inquiry in the institutional and procedural possibilities of democratic participation in law.

• Disputed Desert

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  • Author: B. Lecocq
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  • In presenting a history of the Tuareg rebellions against the Malian state in the late 20th century, this book discusses the historical legacies of slavery, racialisation, colonial rule, decolonisation, nationalism and the postcolonial state in the contemporary Sahel.

• Disputing the Floodplains

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  • Editor Tobias Haller
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  • African Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods but are under pressure and contested. Case studies from Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana present the change in the management of common pool resources in these wetlands and provide a comparative new-institutionalist analysis.

• European Bloc Imperialism

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  • Author: D. Canterbury
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  • The US forced the EU to liberalize the Lomé Conventions, but the EU fired back with the EPAs, characterized by supposedly free market policies but which in reality yokes the ACP countries trade to the EU and excludes the US.

• The Globalization of Energy

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  • Editors Mehdi Amineh; Guang YANG
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  • Energy security challenges are topping the policy agenda of the European Union and China. Consequently, policy makers of both energy import-dependent polities continue to look for new responses. But will these new policies put EU-China relations in a cooperative or competitive setting?

• Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle

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  • Editors Henry Veltmeyer; Ronald H. Chilcote; Tom Brass; Ashok Kumbamu; Berch Berberoglu; Raúl Delgado Wise; John Bellamy Foster; Hannah Holleman; Michel Chossudovsky; Morris Morley; Michael Parenti; Stephen Lendman; Henry Veltmeyer
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  • This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class struggle. These issues allow the authors to identify both the ‘the enduring verities and contemporary face of capitalism’ and Petras’ contributions.

• In the Shadow of Good Governance

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  • Author: G. Anders
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  • This book traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from World Bank policy documents to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform. It presents a fine-grained ethnographic account of what African civil servants actually do, both at home and the office.

• An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

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  • Author: A. Blunden
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  • A critical review of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the psychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing its roots in Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author builds a concept of activity transcending the division between individual and social domains in human sciences.