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Political Science
Empire of Civilization The Evolution of an Imperial Idea
Bowden Brett
ISBN: PB: 9780226142401, ISBN: HB: 9780226068145, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as "civilized" – or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopoliti...
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Political Science
Women Studies
End of Equality
Campbell Beatrix
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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Middle East
Political Science
Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood
Osman Tarek
ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.
In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...
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Africa
Political Science
Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa
Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick
ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...
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Education
Political Science
Education, Justice, and Democracy
Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob
ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...
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Political Science
Law
Electing Judges The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy
Gibson James L.
ISBN: PB: 9780226291086, ISBN: HB: 9780226291079, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.
In "Electing Judges", leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds tothe growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence and even the rule of law. While many people have opinion...
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Political Science
EU and Africa From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa
Adebajo Adekeye, Whiteman Kaye
ISBN: PB: 9781849041713, Hurst Publishers, August 2012
536 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book offers a holistic and comprehensive assessment of the European Union's relations with Africa, focusing on their historical, political, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions. In the high imperial period from the nine...
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Political Science
Military
Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict
Eric D. Patterson
ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...
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Philosophy
Law
Ethics of Interrogation
Skerker Michael
ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm
The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...
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Political Science
End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America
Kinder Donald R., Dale-Riddle Allison
ISBN: PB: 9780300175196, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor...
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