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When are legislators inclined to cast votes in cooperation with
their parties, and when do they go their own way? When and why do
nations contend with each other, and when are they more likely to
cooperate? Thematically arranged around the interplay of contention
and cooperation, A Comparative Introduction to Political Science
encourages students to explore causal factors and consequences
related to political phenomena to become knowledgeable and
resourceful citizens of their nations and the world. Alan Smith
covers how patterns of contention and cooperation-and the resulting
government policies-may be affected by such factors as the
surrounding political framework, the distribution of influence, and
political motivation, including values as well as material
interests. To expose students to the politics of specific nations,
each chapter concludes with two country case studies that
illuminate the theme of the chapter. Students emerge with a sense
of what is going on in the world today. Pedagogically, the book
employs careful sequencing of topics and concepts for clarity and
to introduce politics in a natural, logical, synchronized way. At
times Smith goes beyond sharp, night-and-day terminological
distinctions to add accessible, ordinary language-based terminology
that better captures the real-world spectrum between the extremes.
A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and
Cooperation provides a comprehensive teaching and learning package
including these ancillaries: *Test Bank. Available for adopters to
download, the Test Bank provides multiple-choice, true/false, and
essay questions for each chapter. *Testing Software. This
customizable test bank is available as a Word file or in Respondus
4.0-a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be
printed out or published directly to the most popular learning
management systems. Exams can be created offline or moved from one
LMS to another. Respondus LE is available for free and can be used
to automate the process of creating printed tests. Respondus 3.5,
available for purchase or via a school site license, prepares tests
to be uploaded to an LMS. Click here:
http://www.respondus.com/products/testbank/search.php to submit
your request. *Companion Website. The open-access Companion Website
is designed to engage students with the material and reinforce what
they've learned in the classroom. For each chapter, flash cards and
self-quizzes help students master the content and apply that
knowledge to real-life situations. Students can access the
Companion Website from their computers, tablets, or mobile devices.
*eBook. The full-color eBook allows students to access this
textbook anytime, anywhere. The eBook includes the entire print
edition rendered in vibrant color and features direct links to the
Companion Website. *PowerPoint Slides. For every chapter, art
slides of all figures and tables are available for adopters to
download.
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and
unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the
lineage of ‘Hardyan Folk Horror’. Hardy’s novels and his
short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was,
for Hardy the recent past. Hardy’s Wessex plays out tensions
between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian,
the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in
Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the
themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and
again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This
study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis
of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film
market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and
the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and their
function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of
England’s rural past. However, there are some lesser-known
adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of
folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales.
From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that
characterize Hardy’s world, the book draws parallels between then
and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders.
Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror
Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture,
when tradition sits as a seductive threat.
When are legislators inclined to cast votes in cooperation with
their parties, and when do they go their own way? When and why do
nations contend with each other, and when are they more likely to
cooperate? Thematically arranged around the interplay of contention
and cooperation, A Comparative Introduction to Political Science
encourages students to explore causal factors and consequences
related to political phenomena to become knowledgeable and
resourceful citizens of their nations and the world. Alan Smith
covers how patterns of contention and cooperation-and the resulting
government policies-may be affected by such factors as the
surrounding political framework, the distribution of influence, and
political motivation, including values as well as material
interests. To expose students to the politics of specific nations,
each chapter concludes with two country case studies that
illuminate the theme of the chapter. Students emerge with a sense
of what is going on in the world today. Pedagogically, the book
employs careful sequencing of topics and concepts for clarity and
to introduce politics in a natural, logical, synchronized way. At
times Smith goes beyond sharp, night-and-day terminological
distinctions to add accessible, ordinary language-based terminology
that better captures the real-world spectrum between the extremes.
A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and
Cooperation provides a comprehensive teaching and learning package
including these ancillaries: *Test Bank. Available for adopters to
download, the Test Bank provides multiple-choice, true/false, and
essay questions for each chapter. *Testing Software. This
customizable test bank is available as a Word file or in Respondus
4.0-a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be
printed out or published directly to the most popular learning
management systems. Exams can be created offline or moved from one
LMS to another. Respondus LE is available for free and can be used
to automate the process of creating printed tests. Respondus 3.5,
available for purchase or via a school site license, prepares tests
to be uploaded to an LMS. Click here:
http://www.respondus.com/products/testbank/search.php to submit
your request. *Companion Website. The open-access Companion Website
is designed to engage students with the material and reinforce what
they've learned in the classroom. For each chapter, flash cards and
self-quizzes help students master the content and apply that
knowledge to real-life situations. Students can access the
Companion Website from their computers, tablets, or mobile devices.
*eBook. The full-color eBook allows students to access this
textbook anytime, anywhere. The eBook includes the entire print
edition rendered in vibrant color and features direct links to the
Companion Website. *PowerPoint Slides. For every chapter, art
slides of all figures and tables are available for adopters to
download.
This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the
problems of rural poverty in the Third World. Considering the
interdependence of minimal food and health security with minimal
assurance of basic freedoms, political scientist Alan G. Smith
traces the linkage to the need of the food-insecure to seek
"clientelistic dependencies" on better-off neighbors--relationships
that often operate to restrict freedom of choice. In contrast to
conventional rural development aid, which can introduce new client
dependency if pursued alone, Smith stresses the need to find other
forms of aid that would provide the option of assured minimal
survival while avoiding the constraints imposed by dependency.
Arguing for bolstering bottom-up human rights momentum, he suggests
the transfer of appropriate tools into the hands of the target
group. Recipients would make use of them to enhance autonomous
food-crop production, thereby making client dependency a matter of
choice rather than necessity. Smith illustrates the Third World
predicament of food insecurity leading to infringement of rights by
drawing together empirical evidence from Bangladesh, Botswana, and
Tanzania. He further argues that respect for human rights involves
a duty on the part of advantaged nations to address the Third World
predicament with practical measures fully consistent with human
rights, and for each of these three country cases, Smith recommends
direct locally specific minimalist aid. His model, its practical
illustration, and recommendations should be valuable to academics
and students in the fields of rural sociology, anthropology, and
political science--especially those focusing on human rights,
poverty, and Third Worlddevelopment--as well as bureaucrats and
consultants in the development aid field.
An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts have
helped to build the most up-to-date international stratigraphic
framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic. This successor to A
Geologic Time Scale 1989 by W. Brian Harland et al. (CUP 0521
387655) begins with an introduction to the theory and methodology
behind the construction of the new time scale. The main part of the
book is devoted to the scale itself, systematically presenting the
standard subdivisions at all levels using a variety of correlation
markers. Extensive use is made of isotope geochronology,
geomathematics and orbital tuning to produce a standard geologic
scale of unprecedented detail and accuracy with a full error
analysis. A wallchart summarising the whole time scale, with
paleogeographic reconstructions throughout the Phanerozoic, is
included in the back of the book. The time scale will be an
invaluable reference source for academic and professional
researchers and students.
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