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Philosophy

Liberalism of Care Community, Philosophy, and Ethics

Fraistat Shawn C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226745350, ISBN: HB: 9780226745213, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest...

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Political Science

Limits of Party Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Curry James M., Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226716350, ISBN: HB: 9780226716213, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 line drawings, 15 tables

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced...

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Computer Science & Internet

Media Studies

Lie Machines How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Howard Philip N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250206, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...

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Political Science

Learning on the Left Political Profiles of Brandeis University

Whitfield Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781684580118, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the u...

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Political Science

America

Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...

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Europe

Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Leaders People Who Shaped the Last Century

Cooper S. K.

ISBN: HB: 9781921024740, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 29x15 cm

The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievem...

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Film Studies

Political Science

Leopard and the Fox A Pakistani Tragedy

Ali Tariq

ISBN: PB: 9780857426390, ISBN: HB: 9781905422296, Seagull Books, March 2019
224 pp., 20x14.6 cm

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarc...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Losing Control The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236941, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In this vividly written and compellingly argued book, economist Stephen D. King suggests that the decades ahead will see a major redistribution of wealth and power across the globe that will force consumers in the United States and Europe to stop liv...

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Political Science

Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226566825, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible o...

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