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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
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Robert D Putnam
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment ...
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Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?
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Frederick Jackson Turner, Richard White, Glenda Riley
At the Chicago Exhibition in 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner set forth his thesis that the frontier, an ever changing boundary that defines civilization containing the "Wild West", made America unique. The Turner thesis has been contested throughout much of the 20th century, and, most recently, New Western historians have claimed that the concept ...
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Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
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John C Hudson
A comprehensive regional geography of the North American continent. Clearly organized, the book divides the entire United States and Canada into six major regions, then further subdivides them into twelve smaller areas. Hudson emphasizes each region or area's distinguishing place-specific attributes, including - to a larger degree than previous ...
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Architecture and Design Library: French Country
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Lisa Skolnik, Barbara Ballinger Buchholz
French country style is at once rustic and elegant. Discover this distinctive style through beautiful photographs and workable suggestions.
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The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future
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Juan Enriquez
Through a compelling synthesis of factoids illustrated with mind-bending stories, ideas, photographs, and maps, the author conducts a provocative conversation about the future shape of America.
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International Organizations: Principles and Issues
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A LeRoy Bennett
For upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses dealing with International Organizations, the United Nations, and the UN System. This comprehensive, historical, institutional, and functional/programmatic analysis of the development of contemporary international organizations in all forms, examines the activities of salient regional ...
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International Organizations: Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century
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Kelly-Kate S Pease
For courses in International Organizations. International Organizations: Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century integrates international organizations with international relations theory by showing how international organizations matter in the worlds of the realist, the Marxist, and the feminist, as well as the liberal. Kelly-Kate ...
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For Space
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Professor Doreen B Massey
'The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: i.e. the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever ...
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Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente
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Elizabeth Jean McMillan, David Gebhard (Foreword by), Melba Levick (Photographer)
The Spanish-style architecture of Southern California's seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows is central to its romantic image, one that has traditionally evoked a Mediterranean paradise. The details of this inexhaustively rich style-- ornate wrought iron and wood balconies, colorful tiles, graceful arches, and palm-dotted ...
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Harwell Hamilton Harris
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Lisa Germany, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by), Bruno Zevi (Introduction by)
This biography details the work of architect Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. It traces the development of his life and career, assessing his place in American modernism.
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Regionalization in a Globalizing World: A Comparative Perspective on Forms, Actors and Processes
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Michael Schulz (Editor), Joakim Ojendal (Editor), Fredrik Soderbaum (Editor)
The emerging role of regional systems of relations is an important feature of the new global politics. While the European Union is the most advanced case, most other parts of the world display at least the beginnings of regional systems. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors examine these processes from a comparative perspective, ...
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The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
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William E Leuchtenburg
Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging ...
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John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West
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Patricia Junker
John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West is the first comprehensive study in more than fifty years of this member of the great triumvirate of American Regionalists: Thomas Hart Benton, Curry, and Grant Wood. It revives the reputation of one of the most important and controversial artists of the first half of the twentieth century, whose ...
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Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security
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Professor Barry Buzan, Ole Waever
This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, ...
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Apec and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism
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Professor John Ravenhill (Editor), James Cotton (Editor), Donald Denoon (Editor)
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping is the first comprehensive economic arrangement to link countries from around the Pacific Rim. Since its establishment in 1989, APEC has graduated from a ministerial-level gathering of nine countries to an institution that stages annual summits, has a permanent secretariat, and whose twenty one ...
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Canada: A Nation of Regions
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Brett McGillivray
This is a core text in Canadian geography. The approach is based on the core-periphery model, but no assumptions about advance geographical knowledge are made. Offering thematic as well as historical material, the book includes coverage of such topics as natural hazards and the role of Canada in the world economy. Extensive art--photographs, ...
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Regions of War and Peace
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Douglas Lemke
In this contribution to the literature on the causes of war, Douglas Lemke asks whether the same factors affect minor powers as affect major ones. He investigates whether power parity and dissatisfaction with the status quo have an impact within Africa, the Far East, the Middle East and South America. Lemke argues that there are similarities ...
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Grant Wood, the Regionalist Vision
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Wanda Corn
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Security: A New Framework for Analysis
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Ole Waever, Barry Buzan, Ole Woever
Two schools of thought now exist in security studies: traditionalists want to restrict the subject to politico-military issues; while wideners want to extend it to the economic, societal and environmental sectors. This book sets out a comprehensive statement of the new security studies, establishing the case for the broader agenda. The authors ...
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At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America
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Mr. Peter C Mancall, Professor Eric Hinderaker
During the course of the 17th century, Europeans and Native Americans came together on the western edge of England's North American empire for a variety of purposes, from trading goods and information to making alliances and war. This blurred and constantly shifting frontier region, known as the backcountry, existed just beyond Britain's imperial ...
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Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy
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Professor Peter Trubowitz
The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. This study asks why the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest. Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. ...
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English Regional Chair
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Bernard D Cotton
A study of the English regional chair. This text provides an account of the development of many chairs from all over England and the lives of the craftsman who produced them.
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Casa Florida: Spanish-Style Houses from Winter Park to Coral Gables
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Susan Sully, Steven Brooke (Photographer)
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International Organisation in World Politics: 3rd Edition
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David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd, John Redmond
Building on the success of the previous edition ("Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century"), this book is a valuable introduction to the complex history of modern international organization. While particular attention is paid to the League of Nations, the United Nations and the European Union, there are also ...
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Regional Landscapes of the Us and Canada
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Stephen S Birdsall, Eugene Joseph Palka, Jon Malinowski, PH.D.
This bestselling book has been praised for providing general readers with an excellent introduction to major geographic concepts and fundamental themes. The new seventh edition builds on this success, presenting updated and revised material. It includes information from the 2002 agricultural census and the 2005 mid-point US population census. ...
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