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Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
ISBN: HB: 9780300235081, Yale University Press, December 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how...
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Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
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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£24,00
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£76,00
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Prisms of the People Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226743905, ISBN: HB: 9780226743875, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 7 tables
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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World Safe for Democracy Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300230987, Yale University Press, November 2020
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal c...
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African American Political Thought A Collected History
ISBN: PB: 9780226725918, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"African American Political Thought" offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, so...
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£28,00
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Justice Is an Option A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226734484, ISBN: HB: 9780226702889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared,...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Obama The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama (Updated Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781454937821, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
320 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, illus.
Through stunning images by White House photographers and others, as well as notable essays and quotes from a broad spectrum of people, this updated edition of Obama looks back at the President's journey from his remarkable victory to his life after t...
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£25,00
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How to Secure a Country
ISBN: HB: 9783037785973, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
220 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illus.
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...
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Open World How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300250329, Yale University Press, October 2020
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm
This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19,...
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Power on the Precipice The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World
ISBN: HB: 9780300243505, Yale University Press, October 2020
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polari...
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