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Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226774046, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the years following the election of Donald Trump – a victory that hinged on the votes of white Midwesterners who were both geographically and culturally distant from the media's coastal concentrations – there has been a flurry of investigation int...
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Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
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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£28,00
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Race to the Bottom How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics
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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£72,00
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Responsible Parties Saving Democracy from Itself
ISBN: PB: 9780300251944, ISBN: HB: 9780300232752, Yale University Press, May 2020
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to...
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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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Racial Stasis The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226643625, ISBN: HB: 9780226643595, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings
Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a mu...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Russia's Muslim Heartlands Islam in the Putin Era
ISBN: PB: 9781849048965, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and...
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£20,00
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Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...
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£11,99
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Russia's Crony Capitalism The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300243093, Yale University Press, May 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the jud...
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Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Route Through Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300241228, Yale University Press, March 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus.
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, S...
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