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Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...
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Herodotus in the Anthropocene
ISBN: PB: 9780226704845, ISBN: HB: 9780226704708, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative polit...
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£72,00
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Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies
ISBN: PB: 9780226689456, ISBN: HB: 9780226689319, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In "Power in Modernity", Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination.  Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space,...
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£78,00
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Great Alignment Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
ISBN: PB: 9780300245738, ISBN: HB: 9780300207132, Yale University Press, August 2019
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the pol...
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Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters
ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables
Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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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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Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables
Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...
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Assassination Who Killed Indira G?
ISBN: PB: 9780857426383, ISBN: HB: 9781905422852, Seagull Books, March 2019
152 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who...
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Banker for All Seasons Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.
ISBN: PB: 9780857426406, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 20x14.4 cm
During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank... the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce Internation...
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