Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Change the World Without Taking Power	John Holloway	Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today is a book by John Holloway that looks at the understanding of power as the central focal point of how to effect meaningful chang…	OL1395035W
Communication and the evolution of society	Jürgen Habermas	Five essays provide an overview of the emerging research program for analyzing contemporary society from a historical and pragmatic standpoint within the rules of empirical science.	OL1414373W
Der Staat	Franz Oppenheimer	The State (German: Der Staat) is a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer first published in Germany in 1908. Oppenheimer wrote the book in Frankfurt am Main during 1907, as a fragment …	OL1434094W
State building in Putin's Russia	Brian D. Taylor	"Building a strong Russian state was the central goal of Vladimir Putin's presidency. This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates tha…	OL15538554W
Russia as a network state	Vadim Kononenko	"Discusses the ambiguous nature of the state in Russia, focusing on elite networks and their role in policy processes. This book examines the paradoxical dualism of state institutions and ruling netw…	OL16125927W
Foundations of modernity	Isa Blumı	"Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations o…	OL16173894W
The public and its problems	John Dewey	"An annotated edition of John Dewey's work of democratic theory, first published in 1927. Includes a substantive introduction and bibliographical essay"--Provided by publisher.	OL16618294W
On the people's terms	Philip Pettit	"According to republican political theory, choosing freely requires being able to make the choice without subjection to another and freedom as a person requires being publicly protected against subje…	OL16688341W
European warfare, 1350-1750	D. J. B. Trim,Frank Tallett	"The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state develo…	OL16924193W
Das Recht als Hort der Anarchie	Hermann Amborn	Dass sich gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben auch anders als in Form hierarchisch aufgebauter Staaten organisieren ließe, ist für viele Mitglieder westlicher Gesellschaften kaum vorstellbar. Doch auch …	OL17789327W
Street protests and fantasy parks	Janice Gross Stein,David R. Cameron	"Street Protests and Fantasy Parks focuses on the cultural and social realities of globalization and the uneasily shifting role of the state. While global processes are fusing societies and economies…	OL17806977W
The open society in theory and practice	Dante L. Germino,Klaus von Beyme	"From June 28 until July 4, 1972, a group of scholars ... met at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, to present papers on, and discuss the subject of, 'The open society.…	OL17977873W
Experiencing the state	Lloyd I. Rudolph,John Kurt Jacobsen	Contributed research papers.	OL18377272W
In Defense of Anarchism	Robert Paul Wolff	In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends philosophical anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutual…	OL1866784W
Against the grain	Eric Martin,James C. Scott	An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering f…	OL19721496W
The reason of state	Botero, Giovanni	Niccolò Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and ex…	OL19734742W
Black code	Ronald Deibert	"Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are …	OL19967115W
The state	Bob Jessop	"Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different…	OL19986187W
Political order and political decay	Francis Fukuyama	"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisteria…	OL19986556W
The inspection house	Emily Horne	"Someone you can't see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be…	OL19989849W