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Carnage and Connectivity Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849043229, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without historical parallel and the 'wiring up' of the world continues apace, even in the poorest regions. Flux and ever-quickening change are the leitmotifs of the "in...
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£45,00
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Leon Blum Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
ISBN: HB: 9780300189803, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Leon Blum (1872-1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the p...
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£14,99
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Art of Peacemaking Selected Political Essays by Istvan Bibo
ISBN: HB: 9780300203783, Yale University Press, February 2015
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Istvan Bibo (1911-1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This magisterial compendium of Bibo's essays introduces English...
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£65,00
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Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables
During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...
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£73,00
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How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education
ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...
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£88,00
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Politics of Information Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226198125, ISBN: HB: 9780226198095, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 figures, 8 tables
How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search". If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need...
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£67,00
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Food Security in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849043021, Hurst Publishers, November 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume comprises original, empirically-grounded chapters that collectively offer the most comprehensive study available to date on food security in the Middle East. The book starts with a theoretical framing of the phenome...
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£25,00
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If Mayors Ruled the World Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780300209327, Yale University Press, August 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time – climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns and people – the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nati...
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£14,99
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Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables
The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...
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£22,00
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Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...
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£27,00
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