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Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism
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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That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood
ISBN: HB: 9780300229394, Yale University Press, August 2020
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Rogers Smith has long argued for the importance of "stories of peoplehood" in constituting political communities. By enabling a people to tell others and themselves who they are, such stories establish the people's identity and values and guide its a...
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...
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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...
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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...
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£12,00
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Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent
ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
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Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...
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Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest
ISBN: PB: 9780300244533, ISBN: HB: 9780300211450, Yale University Press, May 2019
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America's bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. f...
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Teachers of the People Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill
ISBN: PB: 9780226637624, ISBN: HB: 9780226467498, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9781849048774, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, t...
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