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Political Science

Leopard and the Fox A Pakistani Tragedy

Ali Tariq

ISBN: PB: 9780857426390, ISBN: HB: 9781905422296, Seagull Books, March 2019
224 pp., 20x14.6 cm

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarc...

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Political Science

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

Why Parties Matter Political Competition and Democracy in the American South

Aldrich John H., Griffin John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226495378, ISBN: HB: 9780226495231, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones, 17 line drawings, 20 tables

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of compet...

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Middle East

Political Science

Salman's Legacy The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849049658, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges. The dilemmas he has faced are new and significant, from leadership shuffles and falling oil prices to regional and interna...

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America

Political Science

Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Ackerman Bruce A., Engel Stephen M., Skowronek Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....

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Political Science

Europe Didn't Work Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit

Atkinson Dan, Elliott Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780300228793, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failed – and what will happen when the European Union completely unravels.

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Earth Sciences

Political Science

Elements of Power Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

Abraham David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226904, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet...

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General

Political Science

Social Currents in North Africa Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring

Abi-Mershed Osama

ISBN: PB: 9781849048279, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Social Currents in North Africa" is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. The contributors analyse the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioral and ideological norms,...

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Philosophy

Political Science

We Reviving Social Hope

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226334660, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society's profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for st...

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Political Science

Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

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...

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