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Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy by Casey Klofstad 9781439902721 [USED COPY]
RRP: $71.02Booksplease Price: $7.10Exploring 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: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62Why 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: $87.10Booksplease Price: $8.71Exploring 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: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53The 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: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81This 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Uncovers 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52While 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11A 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: $64.32Booksplease Price: $6.43When 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.28This 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: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22The 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: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Documents 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42The 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42This 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Understanding 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42In 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Birth 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: $64.32Booksplease Price: $6.43Intervention 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: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65During 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: $87.10Booksplease Price: $8.71Home 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52The 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: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.69This 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... -
On Ceasing to Be Human by Gerald L. Bruns 9780804772082 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.18The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses... -
Comparing the Incomparable by Marcel Detienne 9780804757492 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $9.65In Comparing the Incomparable, Marcel Detienne challenges the cordoning off of disciplines that prevent us from asking trans-cultural questions that would permit one society to shed light on another... -
Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 by Yunxiang Yan 9780804733090 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven... -
Essential Papers on Jews and the Left by Ezra Mendelsohn 9780814755709 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be... -
Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater 9780814751077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $127.30Booksplease Price: $12.73One of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in urban poverty Sociologists have tried to analyze adolescents as long as the discipline has existed. However, most studies have... -
Hoosier Folk Legends by Ronald L. Baker 9780253203342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Politics of Latino Faith: Religion, Identity, and Urban Community by Catherine E. Wilson 9780814794135 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Pundits and commentators are constantly striving to understand the political behavior of Latinos-the largest minority in the United States and a key voting block. As Catherine E. Wilson makes clear... -
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader by Adrien Katherine Wing 9780814793374 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The first anthology to collect essays focusing on the legal rights of women of color around the world Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights... -
American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State by Ruth Colker 9780814715635 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02Since the fall of communism, laissez-faire capitalism has experienced renewed popularity. Flush with victory, the United States has embraced a particularly narrow and single-minded definition of... -
Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism by Kimberly Springer 9780814781241 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement. Covering grassroots and national movements... -
Japan's International Agenda by Yoichi Funabashi 9780814726440 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved... -
Japan's International Agenda by Yoichi Funabashi 9780814726136 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved... -
The Emergence of American Zionism by Mark A. Raider 9780814774984 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine... -
Exploitation by Kai Nielsen 9781573922777 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02This title examines the nature, extent, intensity, and import of exploitation and its relation to the issue of social justice. Noted scholars explore racial and gender exploitation and the way in... -
Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism by Patrick J. Carr 9780814716625 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five... -
The New Regional Politics of Development by Anthony Payne 9780333973950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.95Booksplease Price: $5.90The New Regional Politics of Development assesses the various development strategies being pursued in each of the major regions of the world. While huge inequalities in wealth and capacity remain a... -
Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law by Robert F. Cochran, Jr. 9780814716724 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former... -
The Derrick Bell Reader by Richard Delgado 9780814719695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $127.30Booksplease Price: $1.41An essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell provoked his critics and challenged...