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Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...
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£16,00
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£19,00
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Inventing the Ties That Bind Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226734200, ISBN: HB: 9780226734170, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From deciding to hold the door for the person behind you, to resolving for whom you will cast your vote, every day we find ourselves charged with making moral decisions. What steers our choices? And how do we weigh competing priorities and moral conv...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables
In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Icons of Dissent The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden
ISBN: HB: 9781849046657, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced a small number of iconic figures and what this tells us about cross-border, trans-cult...
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£17,99
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Billionaires and Stealth Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Restraining Great Powers Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300228489, Yale University Press, November 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory – the bedrock of rea...
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£25,00
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Heart of the Declaration The Founders' Case for an Activist Government
ISBN: PB: 9780300234626, ISBN: HB: 9780300216189, Yale University Press, May 2018
224 pp., 21x14 cm
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties:...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies
ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables
In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Public Policy A Comprehensive Introduction
ISBN: PB: 9788024635569, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws...
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£22,50
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Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe
ISBN: PB: 9788024634234, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...
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£13,99
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