Security First - For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni
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Category: Social Science | Series: The\Future of American Democracy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Rarely have more profound changes in American foreign policy been called for than today," begins Amitai Etzioni in the preface to this book. Yet Etzioni's concern is not to lay blame for past mistakes but to address the future: What can now be done to improve U.S. relations with the rest of the world? ...Show more
Muslim Integration - Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia by Erich Kolig and Malcolm Voyce (editors)
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia, contributors from a range of backgrounds investigate the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand and Australia. The growing presence of a Muslim minority has invited these two Pacific settler states to closely conside ...Show more
Free World: Why a Crisis of the West reveals the Opportunity of our Time by Timothy Garton Ash
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Britain may not be divided physically, but it lives culturally, economically and socially in a constant tension between Europe and America. And it's divided politically between a Right which argues that our place is with America, not Europe, and a Left which claims the opposite. This is today's English ...Show more
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People - The Dynamics of Torture by John Conroy
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People is a riveting book that exposes the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably. John Conroy sits down with torturers from several nations and comes to understand their motivations. His compelling narrative has the tension of a novel. He takes us into a Chicago polic ...Show more
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century by Bejnamin A. Valent
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good
Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict by Bradley A. Thayer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science
Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory. Bradley A. Thayer provides a new method for investigating and explaining human and state behavior while generating insight ...Show more
Political Islam, World Politics and Europe: Democratic Peace and Euro-Islam Versus Global Jihad by Bassam Tibi
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Is political Islam compatible with democracy? The rise of political Islam, as a force in world politics, has prompted questions and theories concerning its nature and compatibility with democratic values. Not least have been discussions and conflicts within Islamic communities, particularly in Europe w ...Show more
The Beautiful Tree - A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves by James Tooley
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Tooley recounts his journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of China, and introduces the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.
Islam and the Moral Economy - The Challenge of Capitalism by Charles Tripp
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
How do modern Muslims adapt their traditions to engage with today's world? Charles Tripp's erudite and incisive book considers one of the most significant challenges faced by Muslims over the last sixty years: the challenge of capitalism. By reference to the works of noted Muslim scholars, the author sh ...Show more
Allah's Bomb - The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons by Al J. Venter
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Category: Social Science | Series: Lyons Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Allah's Bomb' examines the progress towards full nuclear capability of countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and various former Soviet Republics, and the repercussions the situation may have on global society.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
$8.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Nation Bks. | Reading Level: good
Essays question the consensus view of the causes behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, and examine the erosion of American civil liberties as a result of the war on terrorism.
Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam by Amina Wadud
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Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes on ...Show more