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Philosophy

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...

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Political Science

African American Political Thought A Collected History

Rogers Melvin L., Turner Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226725918, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"African American Political Thought" offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, so...

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Political Science

Azerbaijan's Geopolitical Landscape Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018

Shafiyev Farid

ISBN: PB: 9788024643915, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia – with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west t...

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Political Science

Military

Arms and Influence

Schelling Thomas C., Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...

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Political Science

Anti-Pluralism The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

Galston William A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251807, ISBN: HB: 9780300228922, Yale University Press, March 2020
176 pp., 21x14 cm

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political e...

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Public Health

Political Science

Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector

Dromi Shai M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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Political Science

Authoritarian Apprehensions Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226650609, ISBN: HB: 9780226650579, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 6 line drawings

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In "Authoritarian Apprehensi...

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Ancient World

Political Science

Athens A History of the World's First Democracy

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246605, Yale University Press, August 2019
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Political Science

General

Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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