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Political Science

Initiative to Stop the Violence Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

Al-Islamiyah Al-Gama'Ah, Jackson Sherman A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196771, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anw...

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Insider's Guide to the U.N.

Fasulo Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300203653, Yale University Press, February 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 illus.

Termed "the indispensable source on the United Nations" by Joseph S. Nye of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect), recent Security...

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Underdog Politics The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives

Green Matthew N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181036, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the...

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Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Shapiro Ian, Clark J. C. D., Calvert Jane E., Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...

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Political Science

General

Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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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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Political Science

Failed Statebuilding Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation

Richmond Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300175318, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Western struggles – and failures – to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries be...

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Breaking Democracy's Spell

Dunn John

ISBN: HB: 9780300179910, Yale University Press, September 2014
160 pp., 21x14 cm

Eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government in this timely and important work. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political s...

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