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Idiocracy Thinking and Acting in the Age of the Idiot
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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£20,00
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Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
ISBN: HB: 9780226784380, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an oft-unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry's political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime,...
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£32,00
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Inventing the Ties That Bind Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226734200, ISBN: HB: 9780226734170, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From deciding to hold the door for the person behind you, to resolving for whom you will cast your vote, every day we find ourselves charged with making moral decisions. What steers our choices? And how do we weigh competing priorities and moral conv...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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ISIS Reader Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
ISBN: HB: 9781787381971, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the wake of its "Caliphate" declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persist...
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£35,00
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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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£14,99
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International Populism The Radical Right in the European Parliament
ISBN: PB: 9781787381391, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 2014 European Parliament elections were hailed as a "populist earthquake", with parties like the French Front National, UKIP and the Danish People's Party topping the polls in their respective countries. But what happened a...
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£30,00
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Icons of Dissent The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden
ISBN: HB: 9781849046657, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced a small number of iconic figures and what this tells us about cross-border, trans-cult...
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£17,99
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Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
ISBN: PB: 9781849049849, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's "Little Red Book" with the "Analects" of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology o...
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£12,99
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Invisible Countries Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
ISBN: HB: 9780300221626, Yale University Press, June 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
What is a country? While certain basic criteria – borders, a government, and recognition from other countries – seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules, including self-proclaimed countries such as Abkhazia, K...
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Increasingly United States How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized
ISBN: PB: 9780226530376, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 line drawings, 9 tables
In a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because Ameri...
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£26,00
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