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On Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780300254051, Yale University Press, January 2021
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democra...
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£14,99
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Toddler in Chief What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
ISBN: PB: 9780226714257, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 halftones
"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room... And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't" – An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a Ne...
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£12,00
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Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226705347, ISBN: HB: 9780226138626, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 1 halftone, 4 line illus.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than...
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£16,00
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£19,50
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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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Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector
ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Social Democracy in the Making Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
ISBN: HB: 9780300236026, Yale University Press, June 2019
600 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism – a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citiz...
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£25,00
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Why Liberalism Failed
ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...
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£12,99
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How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power
ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...
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£27,00
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Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...
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£25,00
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Critical Terms for the Study of Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...
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£24,50
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£74,00
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