Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist conc…
ooking back upon the operations of 1916, and in anticipation of the battles to come, the French prime minister, Aristide Briand, remarked that military offensives had become ‘really like a great industrial undertaking. There were so many miles of front, so many troops, and so many guns required; all had to be calculated to a nicety, and all kinds of preparations made’.1 In the…
Though the guitar as we know it is only about a century and a half old, its roots as a plucked stringed instrument go back deep into history. Many ancient folk instruments have followed the basic strings-stretched-overfretboard-and-played-with-fingers design for thousands of years, and the guitar is in some ways the culmination of that legacy. It seems humans have always had something like the …
Cara memperoleh dan mempertahankan kekuasaan Sang Pangeran, yang ditulis saat dia menjadi pengangguran dan terbuang di tanah pertanian keluarga sepuluh mil di luar Florentina, adalah buku yang membuat Niccolo Machiavelli tenar dan mengangkat reputasinya sebagai Bapak pemikir politik modern. Sang Pangeran seluruhnya berbicara mengenai hal-hal yang menyangkut cara memperoleh dan mempertahankan…