Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security State (James Erica Caple)(Paperback)

Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security State (James Erica Caple)(Paperback)

Investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. They seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized - at times on behalf of the state - to govern

Pandemics, Pills, and Politics: Governing Global Health Security (Elbe Stefan)(Paperback)

A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases, governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development,

Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640 (Wood Andy)(Paperback)

Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium (Rappert Brian)(Pevná vazba)

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation

Faith, Hope and Charity - The Defence of Malta (Spooner Tony)(Paperback)

Act of Faith (James Erica)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling, emotional roller-coaster of a novel about love and forgiveness. It's almost Christmas. But for Ali, the season of good cheer is the anniversary of her baby's death. As she stands at her son's grave, she is poignantly aware of how dramatically her life has changed. Determined to stand

Song of the Skylark (James Erica)(Paperback / softback)

From Erica James, author of SUMMER AT THE LAKE and THE DANDELION YEARS, comes an enchanting tale of life, loss and

St. Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity (St Augustine)(Paperback)

2017 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Augustine recounts that he '...wrote a book on Faith, Hope, and Charity, at the request of the person to whom I addressed it, that he might have a work of mine which should never

Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink (Greenberg Karen J.)(Paperback)

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this

On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity (Bowman Daniel Jr.)(Paperback)

Nearly everyone knows someone on the autism spectrum, whether it's a niece or nephew, a student in their classroom, a coworker, or a sibling, spouse, or child. One in 54 children has autism, according to the CDC, and autism is reported across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Yet most of

Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy Against Separatists (Butt Ahsan I.)(Paperback)

In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to

The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms (Hoffer Eric)(Paperback)

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Passionate State of Mind is a

Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Lynch Gordon)(Paperback)

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and

Originalism as Faith (Segall Eric J.)(Paperback)

Originalism as Faith presents a comprehensive history of the originalism debates. It shows how the doctrine is rarely used by the Supreme Court, but is employed by academics, pundits and judges to maintain the mistaken faith that the Court decides cases under the law instead of the Justices'

Arab Water Security (Amery Hussein a.)(Paperback)

Exploring the national security implications of the Gulf states' reliance on desalination plants, this book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of current and future threats to the supply of freshwater, effects of a potential disruption, and possible measures to increase

Letters From the Past - The bestselling family drama of secrets and second chances (James Erica)(Paperback / softback)

The compelling new novel from bestselling author Erica

Securing the State (Omand David)(Paperback / softback)

Sir David Omand served as Intelligence and Security Coordinator in the Cabinet Office from 2002-2005, coordinating counterterrorism strategy. He draws on historical examples to argue for a new outlook on the relationship between security and intelligence--one that respects human rights and avoids

Hegel: Faith and Knowledge (Hegel G. W. F.)(Paperback)

As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and

Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State (Daz-Barriga Miguel)(Paperback)

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel D az-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence (Johnson Loch K.)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of

Hidden Cottage (James Erica)(Paperback / softback)

Sunday Times bestseller Erica James shows her faultless blend of humour and emotion in this moving tale of family love and

Gifts and Commodities (Gregory C. a.)(Paperback)

Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and Commodities is, at once,

Tarnished City (James Vic)(Paperback / softback)

The second title in the gripping Dark Gifts Trilogy by Vic

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times (Brock Deborah)(Pevná vazba)

Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, this volume's contributors reveal how