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Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach by Sidney A. Shapiro 9780804751025 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation" because... -
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil by Stanley R. Bailey 9780804762779 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast... -
Democracy and War: Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict by David L. Rousseau 9780804750813 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.18Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging... -
Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War by John Lewis 9780804753913 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.52Booksplease Price: $1.89The fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies offers an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy... -
Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics by Samantha Frost 9780804757478 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Thomas Hobbes is an iconic figure who serves as an easy reference for pundits commenting on the brutality of war as well as for critics of a distinctly modern individualism in which calculating and... -
Coca's Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom by Richard Kernaghan 9780804759571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79In a valley in the eastern foothills of the central Peruvian Andes, a wealth of cocaine once flowed. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, this valley experienced abrupt rises in fortune, reckless... -
Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation by Elazar Barkan 9780804752244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts... -
(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by Alice D. Ba 9780804760690 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of... -
Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life by Matthew Calarco 9780804750493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this... -
The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations by Srdjan Vucetic 9780804772242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79The Anglosphere refers to a community of English-speaking states, nations, and societies centered on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has profoundly... -
Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You by Peter G. Stromberg 9780804761109 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these... -
Lobbying for Inclusion: Rights Politics and the Making of Immigration Policy by Carolyn Wong 9780804751759 [USED COPY]
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $8.04In every decade since passage of the Hart Cellar Act of 1965, Congress has faced conflicting pressures: to restrict legal immigration and to provide employers with unregulated access to migrant labor... -
Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond by Amy E. Smithson 9780804775526 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.77Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrophe. For decades the ability to ascertain whether... -
Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity by James H. Mittelman 9780804763752 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world... -
Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes by Oliver Schlumberger 9780804757768 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab experts, the collected... -
Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 by Huping Ling 9780804775588 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is... -
Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology by Andrew C. Willford 9780804760201 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been-a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the... -
Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany by Andrew Bickford 9780804773959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised... -
The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier by John F. McCarthy 9780804752114 [USED COPY]
RRP: $192.96Booksplease Price: $2.12This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural... -
Latin American Lawyers: A Historical Introduction by Rogelio Perez-Perdomo 9780804751261 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $5.60This book is the first comprehensive history of the intellectual training and social placement of lawyers in Latin America. Perez-Perdomo examines the Roman legal roots of the Latin American... -
Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias by Ariel I. Ahram 9780804773584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security-the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. ... -
Youth, Globalization, and the Law by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 9780804754736 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses. As practices and ideas travel the globe-such as the promotion and... -
The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall 9780804756433 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often... -
Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research by Jennifer Bair 9780804759236 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Extending the frontiers of commodity chain research, this distinctive volume includes original work from major figures in sociology, history, geography, and labor studies. It underscores the wide and... -
Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States by Monica Varsanyi 9780804770262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at an all-time high and Congressional immigration reform seemingly at a standstill, cities and states across the nation have leapt into... -
The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise by Zulema Valdez 9780804773201 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight... -
The University, State, and Market: The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas by Robert A. Rhoads 9780804751681 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65This volume explores the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets throughout the Americas in light of the growing influence of globalization. It offers a biting critique of... -
Mexico's Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government, and Society by Andrew D. Selee 9780804771610 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65Only a decade ago, Mexico saw the end of seventy years of single-party hegemonic rule and the first free and fair election in its history. How has the country evolved since then, and what is the... -
Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780804761925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness,... -
Democratic Governance in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring 9780804760843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.77Producing more effective governance is the greatest challenge that faces most Latin American democracies today-a challenge that involves not only strengthening democratic institutions but also... -
The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey by Sam Kaplan 9780804754323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and... -
The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804753531 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Why is it that the modern conception of literature begins with one of the worst writers of the philosophical tradition? Such is the paradoxical question that lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Nancy's... -
Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry by Reena Patel 9780804769136 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents... -
Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective by Harold A. Trinkunas 9780804755658 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Financial and material resources are correctly perceived as the life blood of terrorist operations, and governments have determined that fighting the financial infrastructure of terrorist... -
The Civic Life of American Religion by Paul Lichterman 9780804757959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Religious groups constitute a large part of America's voluntary sector, yet relatively few works have investigated them broadly. This collection of essays investigates the public roles of religious... -
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements by Austin Sarat 9780804753609 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $16.08Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause... -
The Cultural Wealth of Nations by Nina Bandelj 9780804776448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place... -
The Making of Northeast Asia by Kent E. Calder 9780804769211 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with... -
Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism by Mitchell Aboulafia 9780804770194 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied... -
Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment by Mona Lynch 9780804762847 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.94Booksplease Price: $12.19In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are...