Political Science

The Age of Foolishness: A Doubter’s Guide to Constitutionalism in a Modern Democracy

Author: 

Allan, James

Credentials: 

James Allan is the Garrick Professor in Law at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has published in leading constitutional and legal philosophy law journals and writes for The Spectator, Australia, The Australian, Quadrant, Law & Liberty, The National Post, among others.

The Age of Foolishness is a doubter’s guide to current lawyerly thinking about all things related to constitutionalism in a democracy. This book offers a thorough-going skeptical critique of the views that dominate our legal caste, including in law schools and among judges, and place too much weight on judges to resolve important social policy disputes and too little on democratic politics. The author argues that politics matters in a way that our legal orthodoxy often downplays.

Market: 
Law, Political Science, Justice, Legal Theory, Constitutional Theory, Democracy
Release Date: 
February 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680537871
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Women and Art: A Post-Feminist View

Author: 

Adams, Alexander

Credentials: 

Alexander Adams is a British artist and writer. He studied fine art and art history at Goldsmiths College, London. His art has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), National Museum Cardiff, Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), and other museums. His art criticism has been published in The Burlington Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Sculpture Journal, The Jackdaw, The British Art Journal, Apollo, Printmaking Today, Print Quarterly, and other outlets. His poetry has been published in anthologies, broadsides, and single-author volumes. He has been artist-in-residence at the Albers Foundation and is the recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, in Monaco. Adams is the author of Culture War, Iconoclasm: Identity Politics and the Erasure of History, Degas, Magritte, and Artivism.

Women & Art surveys the history of women in art and addresses the effects of feminist art history and art production. This book is among the first to offer a critical assessment of the role of feminism in art history and how it has presented and misrepresented women’s roles in art. Seeking to counterbalance overwhelmingly pro-feminist narratives, it relies on evidence from artists, statisticians, and historians to support individual women artists while remaining critical of feminism.

Market: 
Art, Political Science, Women’s Studies, Art History, Gender Studies, Critical Studies, Identity Politics
Release Date: 
July 14, 2022
ISBN: 
978-1680537734
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
272
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Research Methodology for Social and Legal Studies

Author: 

Umukoro, Nathaniel; Florence Masajuwa

Credentials: 

Dr. Nathaniel Umukoro teaches in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Edo State University, in Uzairue, Nigeria.
Dr. Florence Masajuwa is Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Edo State University. She holds academic degrees in sociology, anthropology, public administration, law, and journalism.

Research Methods for Social and Legal Studies that seeks to harness insights from both social and legal methods to promote interdisciplinary research. This is important because of the increasingly close relationship between social and legal issues in contemporary times.

Market: 
Political Science, Law, Social Science, Public Administration, Research Methods, Interdisciplinary Studies
Release Date: 
September 1, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680532692 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Confronting Islamist Terrorism in Africa: The Cases of Nigeria and Kenya

Author: 

Isumonah, V. Adefemi; Nathaniel Umukoro

Credentials: 

V. Adefemi Isumonah, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
Nathaniel Umukoro, Department of Political Science, Edo University (Nigeria)

In the post-Cold War era, religion and religious extremism has been the cause of most violent conflicts, thereby posing one of the major security challenges confronting the world and, in recent years, the stability and security of the African continent. Unfortunately, some states targeted by terrorist insurgencies, including Nigeria and Kenya, have been reactive, adopting coercive responses rather than proactive long-term measures to address the factors and drivers of religious extremism in a comprehensive and sustained manner.

Market: 
Political Science, International Relations, Terrorism, Africa, African Studies, Islam, Islamism, Islamic Studies, Christianity, Christian Studies, Religion, Nigeria, Kenya
Release Date: 
December 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531534 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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A Survey of Catholic History in Modern Japan

Author: 

Uno, Kei

Credentials: 

Author of Newman and Modern Japan and Japanese Catholic Intellectuals and Newman Studies

A Survey of Catholic History in Modern Japan discusses Japanese Catholic history from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present. The aim of this highly original book is to consider the relevance of Japanese Catholics to political and cultural circumstances in modern and contemporary Japan.

Market: 
Religion, History, Political Science, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Catholic Studies, Religious History, Christianity in Asia, Christianity in Japan, Modernism, Modernization Theory, Modern Japan
Release Date: 
October 15, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680537390 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack Obama

Author: 

Rozenman, Eric

Credentials: 

Eric Rozenman recently retired as communications consultant for the Washington, DC-based Jewish Policy Center and previously served as Washington director of CAMERA, the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. Earlier, Rozenman edited B’nai B’rith’s International Jewish Monthly magazine and the Washington Jewish Week. His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Washington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and such periodicals as the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism and Journal of International Security Affairs. Rozenman has taught history at Northern Virginia Community College and is the author of Jews Make the Best Demons: “Palestine” and the Jewish Question.

From “I Like Ike” to razor-wire and National Guard troops ringing the U.S. Capitol, from Carl Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes” to Brotha Lynch Hung’s “Meat Cleaver,” the United States has changed. Seven decades of material abundance and unprecedented technological advances have entwined with pronounced social and cultural fragmentation. What — and who — can explain this peculiar transformation of the land of the free and home of the brave?

Market: 
History, Political Science, American Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural History
Release Date: 
October 15, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680537369 Hardcover
Price: 
$39.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
198
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Decolonization and White Africans: The “Winds of Change,” Resistance, and Beyond

Author: 

Louw, P. Eric

Credentials: 

P. Eric Louw’s career has spanned universities in both South Africa and Australia. He has published extensively in the fields of political communication and South African politics. His books include The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid; Roots of the Pax Americana; and The Media and Political Process.

Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries – Algeria, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Angola, Mozambique, South West Africa (Namibia), and South Africa – and discusses their varied responses to decolonization, including resistance, acquiescence, negotiations, and migration.

Market: 
Africa, History, Political Science, Colonialism, African Studies, Decolonization, Identity Politics, Algeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa
Release Date: 
February 22, 2022
ISBN: 
978-1680532883 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
270
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Battle of Biafra: British Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War

Author: 

Ignatus, Onianwa Oluchukwu, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus is a Nigerian historian. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan and is the author of Britain’s Injurious Peace Games in the Nigerian Civil War; Once Upon a Time in Biafra: Memories, Foreign Visitations, and Life Experiences in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970, and other books.

In this intriguing new book, Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus examines the role of British intelligence in the Nigerian Civil War. British intelligence operations were highly successful due to a decentralized approach. Britain maintained regular supplies of arms to Nigeria despite considerable opposition at home. Thus, up-to-date information was necessary to determine the military behavior of both sides and the practicalities of arms supply for Nigeria.

Market: 
History, Political Science, War Studies, Africa, African Studies, African History, International History, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, British Studies, British History, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Civil Conflict, Intelligence
Release Date: 
November 1, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680532616 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
100
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Cuba: The Doctrine of the Lie

Author: 

Gutiérrez-Boronat, Orlando

Credentials: 

Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1965. He holds a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of International Studies from the University of Miami and graduate and undergraduate degrees from Florida International University. He has been an invited lecturer on political theory at Georgetown University’s Global Leadership Program, and has been a professor of history and political science at institutions of higher learning for the past 20 years. He has published five books, and his articles have appeared in prominent publications in the United States and abroad. As co-founder and spokesman of the Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio), one of the most prestigious organizations in the struggle for democracy in Cuba, Dr. Gutiérrez-Boronat has spoken around the world on Cuba’s struggle for human rights and democracy. He is coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, a unifying coalition of pro-democracy organizations inside and outside Cuba. Dr. Gutiérrez-Boronat has a strong media presence and is frequently interviewed by various media venues on Cuba, Latin America, and the struggle for freedom and human rights around the world.

Cuba: The Doctrine of the Lie is a thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for countering this deadly ontological virus.

Market: 
History, Political Science, Latin America, Cuba, Communism, Totalitarianism, Ideology, Political Theory, Freedom Activism
Release Date: 
October 15, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680537413 Hardcover
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Cancel Culture: Tales from the Front Lines

Author: 

du Quenoy, Paul, PhD

Credentials: 

Paul du Quenoy is a historian and critic. He has taught at multiple universities in the United States and abroad and is the author of four books. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University

What is “cancel culture.” A new phrase in popular circulation for less than two years, it has provoked passionate denunciations from observers concerned with civil liberties, especially rights of free speech and expression, and apologetic defenses from opponents who advocate equity and accountability in light of new mores. Still others deny that “cancel culture” exists at all, while many claim never to have heard of it.

Market: 
Current Affairs, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Cancel Culture
Release Date: 
October 15, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680537529 Hardcover
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
196
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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