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Devil's Dictionary The Patriotic Art of Lying for One's Country
ISBN: HB: 9781851245079, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's "San Francisco Examiner". Bierce was launched on a journ...
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£12,99
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Aristotle Democracy and Political Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...
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£49,00
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Billionaires and Stealth Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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China Imagined From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power
ISBN: HB: 9781787380165, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name "China" was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and i...
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£15,99
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Restraining Great Powers Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300228489, Yale University Press, November 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory – the bedrock of rea...
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£25,00
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Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...
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£22,50
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£68,00
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America, Compromised
ISBN: HB: 9780226316536, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 8 halftones, 1 table
"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are". So begins Lawrence Lessig sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it – from the se...
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£18,00
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Authoritarianism Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226597270, ISBN: HB: 9780226597133, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to "traditional values", in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstrea...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...
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£13,99
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£20,00
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Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...
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£23,00
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