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Political Science

Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City

Stone Clarence N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226289014, ISBN: HB: 9780226288963, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables

For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often b...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Nationalism and the Imagination

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: PB: 9780857423184, Seagull Books, August 2015
92 pp., 18.5x11.4 cm

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's "On Grammatology" and her groundbreaking essay, "Can th...

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Islam

Education

Critical Muslim, Volume 15 Educational Reform

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849045421, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas argues that educational reform is the biggest challenge facing Muslim societies, Richard Pringle discusses the purpose of education, Abdelwahab El-Affendi suggests ways that Muslim education should be reco...

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Political Science

Humanitarian Ethics A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

Slim Hugo

ISBN: PB: 9781849043403, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while...

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Political Science

Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212693, Yale University Press, June 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Based on a series of path breaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioural economics to make a fresh argument about the l...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Austerity The Great Failure

Schui Florian

ISBN: PB: 9780300212778, Yale University Press, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

<p>Austerity is at the centre of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to p...

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Political Science

Ukrainian Nationalism Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956

Shkandrij Myroslav

ISBN: HB: 9780300206289, Yale University Press, March 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than...

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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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Political Science

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

Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional Approach to Development

Stein Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226214771, ISBN: HB: 9780226771670, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World...

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