art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three Case Studies since 1950
ISBN: PB: 9780226692234, ISBN: HB: 9780226692067, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings
American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. "Making Soc...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£84,00
QTY:
Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt
ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...
PB:
£14,99
QTY:
Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury
ISBN: PB: 9780226708874, ISBN: HB: 9780226266329, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations – torture – J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructio...
PB:
£30,00
QTY:
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
PB:
£16,00
QTY:
Scots and Catalans Union and Disunion
ISBN: PB: 9780300253382, Yale University Press, March 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 3 maps, 2 black&white figures
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the...
PB:
£11,99
QTY:
Anti-Pluralism The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780300251807, ISBN: HB: 9780300228922, Yale University Press, March 2020
176 pp., 21x14 cm
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political e...
PB:
£14,99
QTY:
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Election Meltdown Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300248197, Yale University Press, March 2020
208 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 10 black&white illus.
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing t...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
First Responders Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780300244441, Yale University Press, March 2020
624 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 85 black&white illus.
In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, t...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies
ISBN: PB: 9780226689456, ISBN: HB: 9780226689319, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In "Power in Modernity", Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination.  Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space,...
PB:
£26,00
QTY:
HB:
£78,00
QTY:
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...
PB:
£12,00
QTY: