Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. According to Hanson, westerners tend to envision time as both rational ...

This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies are typically necessary for the mobilization of enduring, independent national party organizations in uncertain democracies. By presenting an explicit and desirable picture of the political futu...

What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not th...

What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the fr...

Wenn Geschichte zur Warnung wirdEin hochaktuelles Buch, das die Lehren aus dem Scheitern der Weimarer Republik auf die Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart überträgt – fundiert, provokant und relevant für alle, die unsere Demokratie stärken wollen.Was wir aus Weimar lernen müssenWarum scheiterte die erste deutsche Demokratie so schnell – und was bedeutet das für uns heute? In "Wenn das Gestern anklopft" versammeln der Historiker

Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard Anderson, Steven Fish, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder not only apply theory to practi...

International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ever before.Responding to a timely global moment where education and internation...

Un Noël à Snowville pour réchauffer les cœurs…Découvrez 4 nouvelles romantiques et sexy sur le thème de Noël.Pour une nuit ou pour la vie« Une femme, passé trente ans, si elle est seule, c’est qu’elle a un problème ! » Pour éviter cette vieille rengaine qu’elle entend chaque année, Sophia a trouvé la solution parfaite : embaucher via un site les services d’un homme pour être son faux petit-ami pour Noël. Quelle est s...

Över en natt faller världens kvinnor i en märklig sömn. Pandemin sprider sig i takt med att tidszonerna släcks. Om de väcks blir kvinnorna livsfarliga. Och medan de sover befinner de sig på en helt annan plats.I en småstad i Appalacherna kämpar sheriff Lila Norcross för att hålla sig vaken medan männens ociviliserade sidor tar över allt mer. I jakten på botemedel utspelas en kamp på liv och död.

Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science. This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of Hanson's essays originally published in 1971, edited by Stephen Toulmin and Harry Woolf. The new volume features a comprehensive introduction by Matthew Lund (Rowan University) and two new essays. The first is "Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science", originally published as...

Exam board: ISEBLevel: 13+ CE and KS3Subject: MathsFirst exams: November 2022This comprehensive, ISEB-endorsed guide for Mathematics focuses on consolidating knowledge and covering all the skills needed to meet the requirements of the ISEB CE 13+ exam.· Extensive coverage of all Core and Additional topics: number, algebra, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics.· Additional chapters: b...

John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters. Mitchell, like so many, felt overwhelmed. He looked to the story of Voltaire's Candide, and settled on the famous aphorism f...