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Violent Peace Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations

Biltoft Carolyn N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226766423, ISBN: HB: 9780226766393, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world – from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements – by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritab...

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Political Science

Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

Bernholz Lucy, Landemore Helene, Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...

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Britain and Europe in a Troubled World

Bogdanor Vernon

ISBN: HB: 9780300245615, Yale University Press, September 2020
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Brita...

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How the Tea Party Captured the GOP Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Blum Rachel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226687520, ISBN: HB: 9780226687490, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 3 tables

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influenc...

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three Case Studies since 1950

Berkowitz Edward D.

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...

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Philosophy

Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury

Bernstein J. M.

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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Business & Economics

First Responders Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis

Bernanke Ben S., Geithner Timothy F., Paulson Henry M.

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...

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Political Science

Future Perfect / Present Tense Migrant Workers, Expats, and Sponsors in Abu Dhabi

Bristol-Rhys Jane

ISBN: HB: 9781849048224, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Future Perfect/Present Tense" examines the relations between migrants and the Emirati individuals and institutions that sponsor them. Divided by culture, language, and status, the two groups harbour opposing visions of a perfe...

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Political Science

Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights

Beienburg Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226632131, ISBN: HB: 9780226631943, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado's legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many...

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Political Science

Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing

Brauman Rony, Meyran Regis

ISBN: PB: 9781787382169, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Medecins Sans Frontieres, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades – and their justifications are based on li...

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