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State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family
ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm
Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...
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African American Political Thought A Collected History
ISBN: PB: 9780226725918, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"African American Political Thought" offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, so...
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£28,00
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Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables
After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...
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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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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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Is Europe Christian?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381902, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In this short but bracing book, Olivier Roy traces the Church's long battle against a tide of secularization in Europe. Since the Enlightenment, religion has been losing ground as the source of moral norms. But while the questi...
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German New Right AfD, PEGIDA and the Re-Imagining of National Identity
ISBN: HB: 9781787381407, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the "best Germany" that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that r...
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Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise
ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables
Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...
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£74,00
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Marx's Dream From Capitalism to Communism
ISBN: HB: 9780226554525, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With "Marx's Dream", Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed a...
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£34,00
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Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...
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