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Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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Political Science

Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Koger Gregory, Lebo Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...

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Political Science

Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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Criminology

Political Science

Sectarianization Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Hashemi Nader, Postel Danny

ISBN: PB: 9781849047029, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to "ancient sectarian differences", putatively primordial f...

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Political Science

Selling Hitler Propaganda and the Nazi Brand

O'Shaughnessy Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781849043526, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, a...

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Political Science

Six Authors in Search of Justice Engaging With Political Transitions

Newman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781849046329, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering transitional justice as conventionally defined, this work explores broader conce...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Stalin New Biography of a Dictator

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Favorov Nora Seligman

ISBN: PB: 9780300219784, Yale University Press, May 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Milli...

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Political Science

Selling the Future The Perils of Predicting Global Politics

Colonomos Ariel

ISBN: HB: 9781849045537, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In an age of uncertainty, those who can anticipate revolution, the outbreak of wars, or which states might default are much in demand. The marketplace of ideas about the future is huge, and includes "wonks", scholars and pundit...

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Political Science

Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

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Political Science

Saving Lives and Staying Alive Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management

Neuman Michael, Weissman Fabrice

ISBN: PB: 9781849046510, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The management of humanitarian security has gradually become the business of professional...

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