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Philosophy

Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...

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Political Science

Hobbes's Kingdom of Light A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy

Stauffer Devin

ISBN: PB: 9780226760124, ISBN: HB: 9780226552903, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here...

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Political Science

Azerbaijan's Geopolitical Landscape Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018

Shafiyev Farid

ISBN: PB: 9788024643915, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia – with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west t...

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Political Science

That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229394, Yale University Press, August 2020
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Rogers Smith has long argued for the importance of "stories of peoplehood" in constituting political communities. By enabling a people to tell others and themselves who they are, such stories establish the people's identity and values and guide its a...

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Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

SoRelle Mallory E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...

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Political Science

Race to the Bottom How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

Stephens-Dougan LaFleur

ISBN: PB: 9780226698984, ISBN: HB: 9780226698847, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized "dog whistles", especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and fr...

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Political Science

Military

Arms and Influence

Schelling Thomas C., Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...

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Political Science

Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246759, Yale University Press, May 2020
480 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail – sometimes catastrophically – in grand efforts to engineer their...

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Political Science

Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt

Sullivan Teresa A., Warren Elizabeth, Westbrook Jay Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...

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Political Science

Hidden Face of Rights Toward a Politics of Responsibilities

Sikkink Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9780300233292, Yale University Press, February 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.

When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights – and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights scholars and activists talk about state responsibility for rights, but they...

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