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Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography

Tanguay Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm

Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...

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Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

Totten Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

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Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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The French List

Torture and the War on Terror

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497361, Seagull Books, October 2009
64 pp., 16.5x11.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though the recent election of American President Barack Obama and his signing of the executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay signals a considerable shift away from the policies of the Bush era, the lessons to be learned from the war on...

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Islam

Political Science

Hamas Unwritten Chapters

Tamimi Azzam

ISBN: PB: 9781849040013, Hurst Publishers, June 2009
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood, details the influence of its exiled leadership in Syr...

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Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf

Teitelbaum Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9781850659280, Hurst Publishers, November 2008
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Persian (or Arab) Gulf countries produce about 30 per cent of the planet's oil, and keep in the ground around 55 per cent of its crude oil reserves, hence the stability of the region's autocratic regimes is vital to the wor...

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Asia

Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan

Talbot Ian, Tatla Darshan Singh

ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...

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Political Science

Serbia Under Milosevic Politics in the 1990s

Thomas Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781850653677, Hurst Publishers, April 1999
433 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This study examines, in the context of Serbia's political and cultural development, how in the late 1980s a faction within the Serbian Communist Party, led by Slobodon Milosevic, was able to exploit national and constitutional...

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