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  • - Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict
    af David L. Rousseau
    971,95 kr.

    Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau challenges this conventional wisdom.

  • af Isaac Martin & Christopher Niedt
    159,95 kr.

    Foreclosed America offers a portrait of the people who lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis-who they are, how and where they live after losing their homes, and what they have to say about their finances, their neighborhoods, and American politics.

  • - Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854-1940
    af Mark Wasserman
    776,95 kr.

    This book is a history of the three-way relationships between foreign investors, government, and elites in Mexico from 1854 through the 1930s.

  • - Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution
    af Timothy K. Kuhner
    317,95 - 1.417,95 kr.

  • - Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War
    af Elizabeth A. Stanley
    765,95 kr.

    Paths to Peace develops a theory about the domestic obstacles to peace in interstate wars-and the role of domestic leadership changes in overcoming these obstacles-and it tests this theory in historical case studies of the Korean War and statistical analysis of interstate wars since 1862.

  • af Keith J. Bybee
    124,95 kr.

  • - State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World
    af Robert Mandel
    342,95 - 1.510,95 kr.

  • af Anna Ohanyan
    255,95 - 1.215,95 kr.

  • af Joseph Vogl
    231,95 - 1.013,95 kr.

    The Specter of Capital provides a searching historical analysis and critique of the role of classical and neoclassical economic theory in creating the economic conditions which produced the global financial crisis.

  • - French Rationalism from Cavailles to Deleuze
    af Knox Peden
    272,95 - 1.222,95 kr.

    DRAFT to be approved by sponsor:This book shows how French philosophers in the twentieth century used Spinoza's rationalism to combat the irrationalism of phenomenology and, in the process, developed a mode of philosophical critique that was effective in targeting philosophical efforts to provide an ontological basis for political engagement.

  • - Looking at the Evidence
    af W. B. Carnochan
    217,95 - 971,95 kr.

    This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim (which was accurate) to have discovered the source of the Nile in the course of their joint expedition to central Africa in the 1850s.

  • - The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250
    af David Malkiel
    782,95 kr.

    Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs.

  • af Christoph Menke
    272,95 - 1.557,95 kr.

    The book argues that the center of political modernity is determined by a conflictive relation between the liberal core concept of political equality and the idea of individuality.

  • - Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra
    af D. George Sherman
    977,95 kr.

    This is an ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra. The author explores the themes of the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry and flooded-field rice growing.

  • - Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
    af Ted A. Smith
    227,95 - 1.015,95 kr.

    The book rehabilitates a concept of "divine violence" to reconsider the story of abolitionist John Brown and to develop a vision for a post-secular American politics.

  • - Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster
    af Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther & Erwann Michel-Kerjan
    319,95 kr.

  • af Raanan Rein
    255,95 - 1.211,95 kr.

    "A shorter, popularized version of this work was published in Spanish ... under the title Los bohemios de Villa Crespo: judios y futbol en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2012)."

  • - Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology
    af Robert Nichols
    317,95 - 1.411,95 kr.

    This first systematic and comprehensive engagement of the relationship of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault makes a unique contribution to our thinking about the question of freedom and shows why these major thinkers must be read in tandem if we want to fully understand twentieth-century Continental thought.

  • - Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
    af Leah Schmalzbauer
    233,95 - 1.063,95 kr.

  • - Ten Syncopators of the Modern World
    af Zeese Papanikolas
    181,95 kr.

    An American Cakewalk is a lively and entertaining look at a group of Americans in the arts and sciences who, in the years between the Civil War and the 1970s, challenged this country's artistic and social norms through subtle and not-so-subtle syncopations of its cultural givens.

  • - The Monetary Component of Hard Power
    af Paul Viotti
    255,95 - 1.492,95 kr.

  • - The New Spirit of Business
    af John R. Ehrenfeld, Roger Saillant, Chris Laszlo, mfl.
    250,95 kr.

  • - Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others
    af Erik Schneiderhan
    250,95 kr.

    This book asks how people can act in the face of competing pressures-the American ideal of self-reliance and a communal value of helping those in need-and explores the stories of two famous community organizers, Jane Addams and Barack Obama, to develop present-day lessons for improving our communities.

  • - International Finance and the Politics of Growth
    af Aaron Major
    1.027,95 kr.

    Architects of Austerity presents a new interpretation of the ascent of neoliberal policy, tracing its spread to the growing influence of central banks and treasuries in the management of the global economy.

  • - Culinary Creativity in Elite Restaurants
    af Vanina Leschziner
    356,95 kr.

    This book examines the creative work of chefs at elite restaurants to explore how creativity and innovation unfold in action.

  • - Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937
    af Elizabeth J. Remick
    682,95 kr.

    DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor):The book examines the history of regulated prostitution in twentieth-century China as a way to show how, in concrete, monetary terms, government officials' choices about gender and sexuality-what is acceptable behavior for women and men in these areas-can make local government bigger, more complex, wealthier, more powerful, or just the opposite.

  • - Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics
    af Jacob Mundy
    272,95 - 1.447,95 kr.

    Using the war in 1990s Algeria as a point of departure, this study examines the ways in which the science and management of armed conflicts after Cold War has become increasingly reliant upon antipolitical, and thus highly defective, understandings of mass violence.

  • - Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film
    af Domietta Torlasco
    719,95 kr.

    The Time of the Crime explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies, using an approach that combines psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and aesthetics to redefine the task of film criticism.

  • - Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present
    af Moon-Kie Jung
    253,95 - 1.116,95 kr.

    Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy upends and deepens our understanding of racism, providing a radical alternative to conservatives' and liberals' contorted renderings of the past and false promises for the future.

  • - Advancing Academic Careers through International Collaboration
    af Kathrin Zippel
    316,95 - 1.117,95 kr.

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