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Political Science

General

Political Peoplehood The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285092, ISBN: HB: 9780226284934, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of "political peoples", a category that is much broader and mo...

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World

Political Science

Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda

Macrakis Kristie

ISBN: PB: 9780300212600, Yale University Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

"Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies" is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked,...

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Christianity

Political Science

Politics of Religious Freedom

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred, Shakman Hurd Elizabeth, Mahmood Saba, Danchin Peter G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226248509, ISBN: HB: 9780226248479, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have r...

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Political Science

Positive Case for Negative Campaigning

Mattes Kyle, Redlawsk David P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226202167, ISBN: HB: 9780226202020, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 45 tables

Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that Americans hate negativity in political advertising, and some have even...

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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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Political Science

Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Political Science

Politics and Power in the Maghreb Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring

Willis Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849043922, ISBN: HB: 9781849042000, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why...

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Political Science

Political Biography of an Earthquake Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India

Simpson Edward

ISBN: PB: 9781849042871, Hurst Publishers, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the stat...

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Military

Political Science

Purify and Destroy The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide

Semelin Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9781849043939, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, "Purify and Destroy" demonstrates that it is indeed possible to...

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Military

Political Science

Putin's New Order in the Middle East

Nizameddin Talal

ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...

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