Analyzes the ideological significance of sports, examines specific political interpretations of sports, and develops a modern theory of sports

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Product Description: This book provides important insights into the authoritarian personality, revealing why right-wing authoritarian tAndencies develop in some individuals and not in others. It also shows how a person's predisposition toward right-wing authoritariansim can be measured, and more. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A composition rhetoric with a strong process orientation. Flower's familiar cognitive approach is complemented in this edition by the new attention to the social factors that influence writers.

Designed for the two-semester general chemistry course, the sixth edition of Chemistry provides a firm foundation in chemical concepts and principles while presenting a broad range of topics in a clear and concise manner. Taking a classical approach, this text balances theory and application and places a strong emphasis on problem solving.

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Why do Liberalism and Socalism share a common origin? Most books published today in philosophy are amenable only to the specialist, written as they are in forbidding jargon. Here at last is a book aimed at the general reader, couched in a prose refereshingly free of technical terms and convoluted formulations in which the author introduces his new political ideas and terminology.

Product Description: Brazil was an early case of a “conservative transition” from authoritarian rule, wherein civilian elites associated with the outgoing military regime assumed a commanding role in the early years of democracy. When this phenomenon was first theorized in the mid-1980s, there were few other comparable cases, with Turkey and South Korea perhaps the best known...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In Grammar Form and Function, high-interest photos provide a visual context within the grammar charts for learning and retaining new vocabulary and grammar. FEATURES: Flexible approach to grammar instruction integrates study of new structures (form) with information on how to use them and what they mean (function).High-interest photos contextualize new grammar and vocabulary and reinforce student recall.Comprehensive grammar coverage ensures thorough and effective presentation of all basic structures.Extensive practice guides students to accurate production and fluent use of new grammar.Your Turn Activities encourage students to draw from personal experiences and practice grammar in natural conversations.Writing Assignments incorporate grammar into step-by-step tasks for a variety of writing purposes, such as narrating and describing.Self-Tests and Unit Quizzes offer multiple assessment tools in both print and Web formats.Companion Website activities develop real-world listening skills.

Presents a survey of the state of the contemporary extreme right in the United States. This book explores the panoply of extremist groups from the remnants of the Ku Klux Klan to skinhead groups and from the militia groups to anti-abortion extremists. It is for students and scholars of American politics, conservatism, and political philosophy.

Product Description: Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values...read more

United in Hate analyzes the Left's contemporary romance with militant Islam as a continuation of the Left's love affair with communist totalitarianism in the twentieth century. Just as the Left was drawn to the communist killing machines of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Castro, so too it is now attracted to radical Islam. Both the radical Left and radical Islam possess a profound hatred for Western culture, for a capitalist economic structure that recognizes individual achievement and for the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. Both seek to establish a new world order: leftists in the form of a classless communist society and Islamists in the form of a caliphate ruled by Sharia law. To achieve these goals, both are willing to wipe the slate clean by means of limitless carnage, with the ultimate goal of erecting their utopia upon the ruins of the system they have destroyed.

Product Description: The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade and the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The 'progressive' BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party...read more

As well as introducing the 'mainstream' ideologies of Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism, this text also examines challenges from nationalists, feminists and Green thinkers, and the ideological controversy surrounding multiculturalism. It concludes by reviewing the prospects for ideology in an increasingly depoliticised Britain.

Product Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Beck's ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life’s most important arguments.FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless! It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when some idiot* informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes...read more

A composition rhetoric with a strong process orientation. Flower's familiar cognitive approach is complemented in this edition by the new attention to the social factors that influence writers.