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Political Science

Europe Didn't Work Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit

Atkinson Dan, Elliott Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780300228793, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed – and what will happen when the European Union completely unravels.

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Earth Sciences

Political Science

Elements of Power Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

Abraham David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226904, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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Political Science

The German List

Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For

Menasse Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780857423627, Seagull Books, March 2017
112 pp., 19x12.7 cm

In 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to begin work on a novel centered on the European Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely different book – "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficiencies", a work of nonfiction ex...

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Political Science

Europe isn't Working

Elliott Larry, Atkinson Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300221923, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the a...

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Political Science

Africa

Eat the Heart of the Infidel The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram

Walker Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781849045582, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boko Haram's appetite for violence and kidnapping women has thrust them to the top of the global news agenda. In a few years, they have all but severed parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state and largest economy, from th...

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Political Science

Africa

Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa

Turner Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...

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Europe

Political Science

Emigration and the Sea An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781849044165, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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Military

Political Science

Endgame for ETA Elusive Peace in the Basque Country

Whitfield Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9781849043465, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
402 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied e...

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