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Future Perfect / Present Tense Migrant Workers, Expats, and Sponsors in Abu Dhabi
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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£30,00
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When Peace Kills Politics International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
ISBN: PB: 9781849048316, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts? This book explains the paradoxical role of in...
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£25,00
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Congress The First Branch
ISBN: PB: 9780300220537, Yale University Press, October 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legisl...
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£25,00
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Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300243888, Yale University Press, October 2019
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president – and why that system should be changed – George Edwards includes a new chapter focusing on the 2016 election.
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£20,00
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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Russia's Muslim Heartlands Islam in the Putin Era
ISBN: PB: 9781849048965, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and...
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£20,00
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Heineken in Africa A Multinational Unleashed
ISBN: HB: 9781849049023, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
240 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presen...
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£20,00
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Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...
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£25,00
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Congress's Constitution Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
ISBN: PB: 9780300248333, Yale University Press, September 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz...
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£24,00
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How to Rig an Election
ISBN: PB: 9780300246650, Yale University Press, September 2019
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 figures
<p>Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and...
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£9,99
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