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Political Science

Production of Local Knowledge History and Politics in the Work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado

Tapia Luis

ISBN: HB: 9780857423344, Seagull Books, July 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume presents a comprehensive examination of the work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado (1939-1984), the most notable Bolivian political thinker of the twentieth century. While Zavaleta did not live to see the triumph of the indigenous social movements...

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Political Science

Idiocracy Thinking and Acting in the Age of the Idiot

Terzic Zoran

ISBN: PB: 9783035803679, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Beyond the universal story of human incapability, there is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. This new idiot appears merely as the figure of the s...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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Law

Political Science

How to Lobby Alaska State Government

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...

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Current Affairs

Political Science

Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Route Through Europe

Thorpe Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780300241228, Yale University Press, March 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus.

War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, S...

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Political Science

Legacies of Losing in American Politics

Tulis Jeffrey K., Mellow Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Political Science

Chinese Nuclear Proliferation How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization

Turner Haynes Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781612348216, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
208 pp., 23x15 cm

While the world's attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it "the forgotten nuclear power",...

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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Asia

China and Tibet The Perils of Insecurity

Topgyal Tsering

ISBN: PB: 9781849044714, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-polit...

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