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Harootunian Harry D.

ISBN: PB: 9780996635578, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
150 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm

The work of Karl Marx has been taken up by a huge range of American writers, from a wide variety of perspectives. As Harry Harootunian argues in this provocative pamphlet, however, there is an indelible American stamp to this scholarship that unites...

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America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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Political Science

Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three Case Studies since 1950

Berkowitz Edward D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226692234, ISBN: HB: 9780226692067, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. "Making Soc...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Menasseh ben Israel Rabbi of Amsterdam

Nadler Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300224108, Yale University Press, August 2018
312 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx's Dream From Capitalism to Communism

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226554525, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With "Marx's Dream", Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed a...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

Bowles Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...

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Military

Political Science

My Enemy's Enemy India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal

Paliwal Avinash

ISBN: HB: 9781849048347, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplis...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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Political Science

Mask and the Flag The Rise of Anarcho-Populism in Global Protest

Gerbaudo Pauolo

ISBN: PB: 9781849045568, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From Tahrir Square in Cairo to the "indignados" of Madrid and Barcelona, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Gezi Park in Istanbul, contemporary protest bears the mark of anarcho-populism, a hybrid political culture where th...

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Political Science

Master Plan ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Fishman Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300221497, Yale University Press, February 2017
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020. Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materi...

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