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Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt

Sullivan Teresa A., Warren Elizabeth, Westbrook Jay Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...

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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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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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Future Proof How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World

Coaffee Jon

ISBN: HB: 9780300228670, Yale University Press, August 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have...

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Finance and Security Global Vulnerabilities, Threats and Responses

Navias Martin S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381360, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The global financial sector is increasingly vulnerable to penetration by criminal money launderers, financiers of terrorism, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it offers instruments that can be...

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Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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Business & Economics

America

Forgotten Americans An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation

Sawhill Isabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230369, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white graphs

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society – economic, cultural, and political – and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of...

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From Politics to the Pews How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity

Margolis Michele F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226555782, ISBN: HB: 9780226555645, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 59 line drawings, 34 tables

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "God gap". Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religio...

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For-Profit Democracy Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America

Ashwood Loka

ISBN: HB: 9780300215359, Yale University Press, June 2018
328 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fi...

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Political Science

Foreign Policy for the Left

Walzer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223873, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for workers against moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (We...

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