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“david j nordlander”

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  • In Stalin's Shadow

    Career of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

    by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, David J. Nordlander, Donald J. Raleigh ...
    In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he took his own life or, like Kirov, was murdered, the case of Ordzhonikidze intersects several long-debated problems in Soviet political history. What role did Politburo members play in decision making ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    by Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Python Data Analytics

    Data Analysis and Science using pandas, matplotlib and the Python Programming Language

    by Fabio Nelli ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Python Data Analytics will help you tackle the world of data acquisition and analysis using the power of the Python language. At the heart of this book lies the coverage of pandas, an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.Author Fabio Nelli expertly shows the strength of the Python ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Capitalist Imperialism in Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

    New Theories

    by Filip Ilkowski ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

    An introduction to China's cadre management

    by Julia Marinaccio ...
    The ebook is an introduction into China's cadre management focusing on the institutional mechanisms and organizational processes that allow the CCP to exert control and power over its state apparatus. By means of selection and appointment, the Party continues to influence career mobility of its agents. Mobility patterns reflect first and foremost the political priorities of the party-state, but ... Read more

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  • Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century

    Implications for Security

    by Stanislaw Sulowski, Anna Sroka, Fanny Castro-Rial Garrone, Rubén Darío Torres Kumbrián ...
    Series Book 9 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and social aspects of radicalism and terrorism. A portion of the contributions are of a theoretical ... Read more

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  • The Olympic Games: English Grammar and Vocabulary Book: Key to Future Tenses

    by Karina Bagration ...
    "The Olympic Games" is innovative in its twofold approach: while helping to boost English language skills, it also instills in the student the peaceful values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement. Designed for pre-intermediate and intermediate language students, it can be used within the regular classroom setting or as an additional Grammar reference book. Each lesson gradually takes the learner ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power of Imagination

    Education, Innovations and Democracy

    by Agnieszka Rothert ...
    Series Book 5 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education. It is a dizzying, transdisciplinary and morphing romp through fields as disparate as complexity ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs

    Finding Common Cause

    Edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal, Mariano E. Bertucci ...
    How to strengthen both academic research and international policies by improving the connections between scholars and policymakers.Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs shows how to build mutually beneficial connections between the worlds of ideas and action, analysis and policy. Drawing on contributions from top international scholars with policy experience in the United States, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Moral Heart of Public Service

    by William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall, Vernon White, Rowan Williams, Andrew Tremlett, Peter Hennessy, Stephen Lamport ...
    Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and lectures by herself and others, exploring the meaning of 'moral code' in today's public service, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The al-Qaeda Franchise

    The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences

    by Barak Mendelsohn ...
    The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. After all, transnational terrorist organizations can expand through other organizational strategies. Forming franchises was not an inevitable outgrowth of al-Qaeda's ideology or its U.S.-focused strategy. The efforts to create local franchises ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD