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Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Middle East

Al-Shabaab in Somalia The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012

Hansen Stig Jarle

ISBN: PB: 9781849045100, ISBN: HB: 9781849042505, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...

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Political Science

Africa

How South Africa Works And Must Do Better

Herbst Jeffrey, Mills Greg

ISBN: PB: 9781849046565, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment, which falls especially on African youths who were promised a better future after 1994. If the current unemployment challeng...

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Political Science

Why Washington Won't Work Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis

Hetherington Marc J., Rudolph Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226299211, ISBN: HB: 9780226299181, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 figures, 29 tables

Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans a...

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Political Science

Mere Machine The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy

Harvey Anna L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205770, ISBN: HB: 9780300171112, Yale University Press, August 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches, and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts, or myths? In this...

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Political Science

Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Political Science

Justice and Peace Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Relationship

Hellmann Gunther

ISBN: PB: 9783593399829, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
196 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Justice and peace are key concepts in the discourse of many academic disciplines. Conceptually, they are obviously linked, but perennial disputes surround the question of their interdependence and whether priority must be accorded to justice or peace...

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Political Science

Voting Wars From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198249, ISBN: HB: 9780300182033, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000 presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the presidency by the U. S. Supreme Court, revealed that our electoral processes...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why

Hart Roderick P., Childers Jay P., Lind Colene J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.

It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...

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Political Science

Health Care for Some Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

Hoffman Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780226102191, ISBN: HB: 9780226348032, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought because...

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