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Political Science

Heininen Lassi, Southcott Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....

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Political Science

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe

Scharpf Fritz W.

ISBN: PB: 9783593391885, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2010
391 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe".Community and Autonomy" collects in one volume Scharpf...

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Anthropology

Political Science

Neoliberal Frontiers An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa

Chalfin Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226100616, ISBN: HB: 9780226100593, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones

In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanai...

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Fiction

Political Science

Bait Four Stories

Devi Mahasweta

ISBN: HB: 9781906497491, Seagull Books, July 2010
175 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm

Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first s...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Conversations with Jacqueline Rose

Chaudhuri Supriya, Sen Aveek, Bechler Rosemary, Moore Henrietta, Frosh Stephen, Lerman Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780857425928, Seagull Books, July 2010
153 pp., 21.4x14.6 cm

In this collection of conversations that were conducted in Calcutta, at the London School of Economics, through Jewish Book Week, and on the radical website openDemocracy, internationally renowned Jewish scholar Jacqueline Rose explores the debates t...

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Africa

Political Science

Milk and Peace, Drought and War Somali Culture, Society and Politics

Hoehne Markus V., Luling Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781849040457, ISBN: HB: 9781849040440, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Somalia and Somali land, one that transcends the usual boundaries and presents readers with a timely, incisive and compelling introduction to Somali culture, history...

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Political Science

New Powers How to Become One and How to Manage Them

Narlikar Amrita

ISBN: HB: 9781849040778, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Being the new kid on the block is seldom easy at any level, and it is certainly not easy in the anarchical world of international politics. New powers such as Brazil, China and India have to tread a difficult balance as they ne...

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Europe

Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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Political Science

Strategic Speaker The Goal-Driven Leadership of Speakers of the House

Green Matthew N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300153187, Yale University Press, May 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

In this title, Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker's party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing o...

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