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Philosophy

Naive Readings Reveilles Political and Philosophic

Lerner Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780226353296, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they h...

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America

Streets of San Francisco Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972

Lowen Agee Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226378084, ISBN: HB: 9780226122281, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 map

For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal", known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in t...

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Political Science

General

Anthropology of the Name

Lazarus Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...

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Criminology

Arresting Citizenship The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

Lerman Amy E., Weaver Vesla M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137834, ISBN: HB: 9780226137667, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 figures, 5 tables

The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before h...

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Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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Asia

Political Science

Chinese Question in Central Asia Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese Factor

Laruelle Marlene, Peyrouse Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9781849041799, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organiza...

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Islam

Political Science

Hezbollah The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God

Levitt Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781849043335, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisa...

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Political Science

Media Studies

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Political Science

Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance

Lenz Gabriel S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226472140, ISBN: HB: 9780226472133, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 2 halftones, 64 line illus.

In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-relate...

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