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Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality by Carolyn Adams 9781592138975 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $5.71Looking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housingLooking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housingAbout... -
Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression by David Welky 9780252075049 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $5.00As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped... -
Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture by Michelle Habell-Pallan 9780814736630 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.432006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the "Mexican Elvis,"along with his backup singers... -
South Asia by Sumit Ganguly 9780814731772 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43In recent years the world's focus on South Asia has increased dramatically. With the events of 9/11, the detonation of atomic weapons by both India and Pakistan, the discovery of an illicit nuclear... -
Diversionary War: Domestic Unrest and International Conflict by Amy Oakes 9780804782463 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $5.47The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke... -
The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance by Matt Grossmann 9780804781152 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94"Lobbyist" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent "real... -
Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream by Pawan Dhingra 9780804778824 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and-although they are not all... -
Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina by Elana Shever 9780804778398 [USED COPY]
RRP: $199.92Booksplease Price: $19.99While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people's lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and concentrated... -
Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Dan Caldwell 9780804776653 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85More than two million Americans have now served in Afghanistan or Iraq; more than 5,000 Americans have been killed; and more than 35,000 have been grievously wounded. The war in Afghanistan has... -
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804776066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and... -
On Flexibility: Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield by Meir Finkel 9780804774888 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94This book addresses one of the basic questions in military studies: How can armies cope effectively with technological and doctrinal surprises-ones that leave them vulnerable to new weapons systems... -
Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia by Nancy Grey Postero 9780804755191 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Upon winning the 2005 presidential election, Evo Morales became the first indigenous person to lead Bolivia since the arrival of the Spanish more than five hundred years before. Morales's election is... -
Transcendental Heidegger by Steven Crowell 9780804755108 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85The thirteen essays in this volume represent the most sustained investigation, in any language, of the connections between Heidegger's thought and the tradition of transcendental philosophy... -
Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 by Jacques Derrida 9780804742962 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Completing the translation of Derrida's monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who's Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University... -
Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 by Jacques Derrida 9780804742948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94This volume reflects Jacques Derrida's engagement in the late 1970s with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy and the reform of the French university system. He was a founding... -
Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 by Paul Michel Taillon 9780252076787 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $5.00&&LI&& Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;... -
How Free Can the Press Be? by Randall P. Bezanson 9780252075209 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $5.00Randall P. Bezanson explores the contradictions embedded in understanding press freedom in America by discussing nine of the most pivotal and provocative First Amendment cases in US judicial history... -
African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City by David R. Colburn 9780252072604 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $5.71On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors... -
Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy by Casey Klofstad 9781439902721 [USED COPY]
RRP: $126.14Booksplease Price: $12.61Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically activeExploring how the simple act of talking... -
The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia by Erik Martinez Kuhonta 9780804786881 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had... -
Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America by Andrew Grant-Thomas 9781592136919 [USED COPY]
RRP: $154.70Booksplease Price: $15.47Exploring the multiracial, multiethnicExploring the multiracial, multiethnic "line" for the new centuryAbout the AuthorAndrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of The Kirwan Institute for the Study of... -
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman 9780822324546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $247.52Booksplease Price: $24.75The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential... -
Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific by Ellis S. Krauss 9780804749107 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $5.00This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a... -
Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Jeanne Theoharis 9780814783139 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18Uncovers the often overlooked stories of the women who shaped the black freedom struggle The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders... -
Prostitution Policy: Revolutionizing Practice through a Gendered Perspective by Lenore Kuo 9780814747636 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47While widely acknowledged as the world's oldest profession, and often glamorized or demonized in the media, prostitution is a critical part of American culture and its economy, as well as a social... -
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780814742822 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $6.09A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their... -
The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government by Alasdair Roberts 9780814776063 [USED COPY]
RRP: $114.24Booksplease Price: $11.42When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the "imperial presidency" gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president... -
Islam in a Globalizing World by Thomas W. Simons, Jr. 9780804748339 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $4.05This book takes a historical approach to examining Islam's role in globalization. The author identifies complex historical and geopolitical trends in Islamic history, and constructs from these a... -
The Sovereignty Revolution by Alan Cranston 9780804747615 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $5.71The Sovereignty Revolution is the late Senator Alan Cranston's analysis of the problems created by our current conception of sovereignty, "with every nation supreme inside its own borders and... -
Just Trade: A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights by Berta Hernandez-Truyol 9780814736937 [USED COPY]
RRP: $168.98Booksplease Price: $8.28Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.html It is generally assumed that pro-trade laws are not good for human rights, and legislation that protects human rights hampers... -
Social Movements and the New State: The Fate of Pro-Democracy Organizations When Democracy Is Won by Brian K. Grodsky 9780804782319 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85The world's democracies cheered as the social movements of the Arab Spring ended the reigns of longstanding dictators and ushered in the possibility of democracy. Yet these unique transitions also... -
Side Effects: Mexican Governance Under NAFTA's Labor and Environmental Agreements by Mark Aspinwall 9780804782296 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords-called "side agreements"-that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member... -
In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina by Karen Ann Faulk 9780804782258 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions. An "exporter" of... -
Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America by Mark Goodale 9780804784528 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of... -
Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India by Cecilia Van Hollen 9780804784221 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The... -
Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed Conflicts by Aysegul Aydin 9780804782814 [USED COPY]
RRP: $114.24Booksplease Price: $11.42Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention-redefining what it is and why foreign powers take... -
Deterring Terrorism: Theory and Practice by Andreas Wenger 9780804782487 [USED COPY]
RRP: $266.56Booksplease Price: $26.66During the Cold War, deterrence theory was the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, however, popular wisdom dictated that terrorist organizations and radical... -
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City by Benito M. Vergara 9781592136643 [USED COPY]
RRP: $154.70Booksplease Price: $15.47Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy Capital of the United States". In this fascinating ethnographic... -
Marriage Proposals: Questioning a Legal Status by Anita Bernstein 9780814799291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $10.07The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to... -
Readings In American Indian Law by Jo Carrillo 9781566395823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $8.33This selection of works -- many by Native American scholars -- introduces selected topics in federal Indian law. Readings in American Indian Law covers contemporary issues of identity and tribal...