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Political Science

Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in America

Glickman Lawrence B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226298672, ISBN: HB: 9780226298658, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 35 halftones

A definitive history of consumer activism, "Buying Power" traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation's founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott e...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Beyond the Wall Writing a Path through Palestine

Bidisha

ISBN: PB: 9780857420398, Seagull Books, May 2012
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm

Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand...

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Political Science

Broken Ballots Will Your Vote Count?

Jones Douglas W., Simons Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781575866369, ISBN: HB: 9781575866376, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
420 pp., 23x15 cm

For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws,...

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Fiction

Political Science

Bait Four Stories

Devi Mahasweta

ISBN: HB: 9781906497491, Seagull Books, July 2010
175 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm

Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first s...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Back in the USSR

Kagarlitsky Boris

ISBN: HB: 9781906497279, Seagull Books, November 2009
88 pp., 19x11.9 cm

Though it has been nearly two decades since the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the accompanying disintegration of the Soviet state, a strange aspect of the current cultural situation in Russia and in the other former republics of th...

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Political Science

British Consul Heir to a Great Tradition

Dickie John

ISBN: HB: 9781850658290, Hurst Publishers, November 2006
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In an era when many other familiar pillars of society have disappeared in Britain, one valiant figure has survived: the traveller's best friend, the British Consul. Till now there has been no comprehensive account of how the Co...

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Political Science

Bulgaria in Europe Charting a Path Toward Reform and Integration

Keridis Dimitris

ISBN: PB: 9781574889550, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2006
296 pp., 23x15 cm

In cooperation with the Kokkalis Foundation, this volume is the fourth in the IFPA-Kokkalis Series on Southeast European Policy. The book explores Bulgaria's progress in the realms of economic and political reform, as well as its overall strategic an...

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