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Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...
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£15,00
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£54,00
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Boxing Pandora Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300235890, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed...
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£30,00
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Climate Change from the Streets How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780300232158, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions...
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£40,00
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Hidden Face of Rights Toward a Politics of Responsibilities
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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£20,00
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Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: HB: 9780226695624, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 line drawings, 48 tables
The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigr...
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£105,00
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Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent
ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
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£16,95
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£45,99
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Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226705347, ISBN: HB: 9780226138626, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 1 halftone, 4 line illus.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than...
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£16,00
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£19,50
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Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector
ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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