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Too Young to Run?: A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the history, theory, and politics behind the age qualifications for elected federal office in the United States Constitution. Argues that the right to run for office ought to be extended to all adult-age citizens who are otherwise office-eligible.
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Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power in Mexico (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the democratization and decentralization of governance in Mexico and finds that informal political networks continue to mediate... Læs mere
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Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Addresses the question of why institutions meant to attract citizen participation succeed in strengthening civil... Læs mere
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The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities.
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Aging Across the United States: Matching Needs to States’ Differing Opportunities and Services (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Compares services and opportunities for older Americans by region and state. Examines the criteria of... Læs mere
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Capabilities, Power, and Institutions: Toward a More Critical Development Ethics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays that extend, criticize, and reformulate the capability approach to human development, originally formulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, in order to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power.
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Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An analysis of social and economic policies in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s War on Poverty.
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Dapper Dan Flood: The Controversial Life of a Congressional Power Broker (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Daniel J Flood was among the last of the oldtime movers and shakers on Capitol Hill. Based on declassified FBI documents, court... Læs mere
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Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French... Læs mere
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The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Most Learned Woman in America masterfully narrates Fergusson’s efforts to live an appropriately genteel life, even as she... Læs mere
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The Temple of Ningirsu: The Culture of the Sacred in Mesopotamia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A comprehensive reexamination of the history of the temple site in the sacred Sumerian city of Girsu through modern excavations and the... Læs mere
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Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War: The Art of Fernand Leger (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates the artwork of Fernand Léger, one of machine modernism’s leading figures, as a case study of the aesthetic’s origins... Læs mere
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