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First Responders Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis

Bernanke Ben S., Geithner Timothy F., Paulson Henry M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300244441, Yale University Press, March 2020
624 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 85 black&white illus.

In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, t...

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Political Science

Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Ariail Reed Isaac

ISBN: PB: 9780226689456, ISBN: HB: 9780226689319, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In "Power in Modernity", Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space,...

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Political Science

Toddler in Chief What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

Drezner Daniel W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226714257, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 halftones

"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room... And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't" – An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a Ne...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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Political Science

Boxing Pandora Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World

Waters Timothy William

ISBN: HB: 9780300235890, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed...

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Ecology

Climate Change from the Streets How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Mendez Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300232158, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions...

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Political Science

Hidden Face of Rights Toward a Politics of Responsibilities

Sikkink Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9780300233292, Yale University Press, February 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.

When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights – and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights scholars and activists talk about state responsibility for rights, but they...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Ganguli Ina, Kahn Shulamit, MacGarvie Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780226695624, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 line drawings, 48 tables

The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigr...

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Political Science

Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent

Lukacs Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France

Guilluy Christophe, DeBevoise Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...

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