art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Billionaires and Stealth Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...
PB:
£19,00
QTY:
HB:
£57,00
QTY:
Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...
PB:
£23,00
QTY:
HB:
£68,00
QTY:
Becoming Political Spinoza's Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment
ISBN: HB: 9780226555478, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, "Becoming Politi...
HB:
£30,00
QTY:
Biographic: Churchill Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453018, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...
HB:
£9,99
QTY:
Black Wind, White Snow The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
ISBN: PB: 9780300226454, ISBN: HB: 9780300120707, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism", a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in t...
PB:
£12,99
QTY:
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables
"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...
PB:
£36,00
QTY:
Bigot Why Prejudice Persists
ISBN: PB: 9780300223842, Yale University Press, November 2016
248 pp., 20.2x12.8 cm
<p>Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will su...
PB:
£16,99
QTY:
Beyond Crimea The New Russian Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300214505, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial...
HB:
£30,00
QTY:
Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...
PB:
£13,00
QTY:
HB:
£18,00
QTY:
Bosnia's Paralysed Peace
ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...
PB:
£16,99
QTY:
HB:
£45,00
QTY: