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Political Science

Shapiro Ian, Clark J. C. D., Calvert Jane E., Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...

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Political Science

General

Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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Political Science

Politics of Information Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

Baumgartner Frank R., Jones Bryan D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198125, ISBN: HB: 9780226198095, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 figures, 8 tables

How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search". If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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Political Science

Food Security in the Middle East

Babar Zahra, Mirgani Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781849043021, Hurst Publishers, November 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume comprises original, empirically-grounded chapters that collectively offer the most comprehensive study available to date on food security in the Middle East. The book starts with a theoretical framing of the phenome...

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Political Science

Failed Statebuilding Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation

Richmond Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300175318, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Western struggles – and failures – to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries be...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm

With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...

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Political Science

Fallout Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture

Mallard Gregoire

ISBN: HB: 9780226157894, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 12 tables

Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis – a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing...

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