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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The romance of the state and the fate of dissent in the tropics	Ashis Nandy	On the political culture of India during last three decades.	OL1044079W
Domestic programs of the American presidents	Richard B. Faber	"From George Washington to George W. Bush, this volume takes an in-depth look at the domestic programs of America's 43 presidents. Written from a non-partisan viewpoint, each chapter focuses on a sin…	OL11810310W
The Republican treason	Joseph Burrell	"This book is a polemic directed against the Republican Party and the conservative movement, drawing largely on their own published statements. Alleging that the Republican Party is fascist and treas…	OL11970364W
C.H.P.'nin ülküsü	Mustafa Oral	Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi; Ülkü; community center and periodical; Turkey; history.	OL12036225W
The politics of deceit	Smith, Glenn, W.	A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis of American politics today, a former Democratic campaign advisor …	OL12352913W
Pennsylvania Avenue	John Harwood,Gerald F. Seib,John Harwood	Prizewinning journalists John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib show how today's Washington power game really works, through stories of people who are making a difference on Pennsylvania Avenue, America's p…	OL12459064W
Politics and popular opinion in East Germany 1945-68	Mark Allinson	xi, 178 p. : 24 cm	OL12534208W
Die Ambivalenz der Moderne im Nationalsozialismus	Riccardo Bavaj	Die Frage nach Modernisierungstendenzen des Nationalsozialismus beschäftigt Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft gleichermaßen. Geleitet von der Einsicht in die Ambivalenz der Moderne, gibt Riccardo Bavaj…	OL12759625W
Why liberals and conservatives clash	Bruce E. Fleming	Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests th…	OL12800155W
Contesting patriotism	Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney	During war, space for debate shrinks. Narrow and uncritical ideas of patriotism and national interest marginalize and silence opposition to militarism abroad and repression at home. Although powerful…	OL13757186W
Goddess of the market	Jennifer Burns	Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets s…	OL13771777W
The big sort	Bill Bishop	America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can…	OL13850935W
Rebirth of a Nation	Jackson Lears	In the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, widespread yearning for a new beginning permeated American public life. Dreams of spiritual, moral, and physical rebirth formed the foundati…	OL14935869W
The Soul of Latin America	Howard J. Wiarda	xii, 417 p. ; 24 cm	OL15074375W
The Post-American Presidency	Robert Bruce Spencer,Pamela A. Geller	EDITORIAL REVIEW: Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limitin…	OL15093213W
Makings of the Sea	John Baldacchino	In Thodor Angelopoulos’s Ulysses’s Gaze it is poetically claimed that God’s first creation was the journey after which came doubt and nostalgia. Anyone who knows the Mediterranean will recognise th…	OL15193444W
Symbols and legitimacy in Soviet politics	Graeme J. Gill	"Symbols and legitimacy in Soviet politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in p…	OL15414277W
Right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany	Gerard Braunthal	"This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a tim…	OL15441207W
The Ayatollahs' Democracy	Hooman Majd	A New York Times best-selling author offers a personal, candid tour of the political and social landscape in Iran. Hooman Majd offers a dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, a…	OL15449803W
Political culture in Panama?	Orlando J. Pérez	"Twenty years have passed since the 1989 U.S. invasion that toppled Panama's military regime and initiated a period of democratization. This book represents the most comprehensive and empirically gro…	OL15488542W