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
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
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
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
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 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
Public administration and the state	Michael W. Spicer	"American Public Administration and the character of the state is a topic that has received little critical examination, due in part to the general American wariness toward abstractions such as the i…	OL3504724W
Paths of individuation in literature and film	Phyllis B. Kenevan	x, 123 p. ; 24 cm	OL38263W
The sukranîti	Śukra.	ii, 270, xxiv p. ; 23 cm	OL388153W
Boundaries of dissent	Bruce D'Arcus	Boundaries of Dissent looks at the way that political protest, as it is shaped through the space-time collapsing power of media, questions national identity and state authority. Through this lens of …	OL5823109W
Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government…	OL653987W
Gosudarstvennost’ i anarkhiia	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Statism and Anarchy (Russian: Государственность и анархия, Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia, literally "Statehood and Anarchy") was the last work by the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. Writte…	OL8321818W