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Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780804761925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52What 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: $285.60Booksplease Price: $28.56Producing 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: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52This 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: $190.40Booksplease Price: $19.04Why 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: $190.40Booksplease Price: $19.04Relatively 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: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Financial 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: $190.40Booksplease Price: $19.04Religious 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: $285.60Booksplease Price: $3.14Cause 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: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85Symbolic 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: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Northeast 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: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Notions 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: $216.58Booksplease Price: $2.38In 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... -
Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age by Dawn C. Nunziato 9780804755740 [USED COPY]
RRP: $199.92Booksplease Price: $19.99Communications giants like Google, Comcast, and AT&T enjoy increasingly unchecked control over speech. As providers of broadband access and Internet search engines, they can control online expression... -
Patriots for Profit: Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security by Thomas C. Bruneau 9780804775489 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of... -
Making Their Place: Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany by Katja M. Guenther 9780804770712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their... -
The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories by Florence E. Babb 9780804771559 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94In recent decades, several Latin American nations have experienced political transitions that have caused a decline in tourism. In spite of-or even because of-that history, these areas are again... -
Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China by Phillip Stalley 9780804771535 [USED COPY]
RRP: $123.76Booksplease Price: $12.38This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "pollution... -
Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest by James M. Jasper 9780804776110 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical... -
Race Relations: A Critique by Stephen Steinberg 9780804753265 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.36Booksplease Price: $17.14Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm... -
The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia by Muthiah Alagappa 9780804760867 [USED COPY]
RRP: $285.60Booksplease Price: $3.14The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post-Cold War security environment. Leading experts... -
Fighting Back: What Governments Can Do About Terrorism by Paul Shemella 9780804777070 [USED COPY]
RRP: $247.52Booksplease Price: $24.75Since terrorism became a global national security issue in the new millennium, all governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet strong measures against terrorism have often made the root causes of... -
State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States by Moon-Kie Jung 9780804772181 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism,... -
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier by David Palumbo-Liu 9780804734448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $380.80Booksplease Price: $38.08This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating... -
Polling to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership by Diane J. Heith 9780804748483 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.36Booksplease Price: $17.14Presidents spend millions of dollars on public opinion polling while in office. Critics often point to this polling as evidence that a "permanent campaign" has taken over the White House at the... -
Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela by Michael Coppedge 9780804722780 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85This bold and comprehensive reassessment of democracy in Venezuela explains why one of the oldest and most admired democracies in Latin America became fragile after more than three decades of... -
Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel by Amir Sumaka'i Fink 9780804736190 [USED COPY]
RRP: $304.64Booksplease Price: $3.36Independence Park, Tel Aviv, is the best-known meeting place for gay men in Israel; Independence Park, Jerusalem, is perhaps the second-best-known; and the hope for independence is the dominant theme... -
Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Ann-Louise Shapiro 9780804716635 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the... -
Castoriadis's Ontology: Being and Creation by Suzi Adams 9780823234585 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.36Booksplease Price: $17.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke by Joseph Pappin 9780823213658 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.36Booksplease Price: $17.14The most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and... -
Dialectic and Dialogue by Dmitri Nikulin 9780804770156 [USED COPY]
RRP: $190.40Booksplease Price: $19.04This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses... -
Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia by Joanne Rappaport 9780822335610 [USED COPY]
RRP: $304.64Booksplease Price: $32.58Although only 2 percent of Colombia's population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country's indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national... -
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary by June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: $223.72Booksplease Price: $23.13In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide by Susan Oyama 9780822324362 [USED COPY]
RRP: $214.20Booksplease Price: $21.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Contemporary Challenges to the Laws of War: Essays in Honour of Professor Peter Rowe by Caroline Harvey 9781107063556 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $3.26The laws of war are facing new challenges from emerging technologies and changing methods of warfare, as well as the growth of human rights and international criminal law. International mechanisms of... -
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred Steger 9780199662661 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $2.98'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are... -
Republic by Plato 9780192829092 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.95Booksplease Price: $2.98The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western... -
Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law by Erik G. Jensen 9780804748032 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.78Booksplease Price: $7.38An intensive global search is on for the "rule of law," the holy grail of good governance, which has led to a dramatic increase in judicial reform activities in developing countries. Very little... -
The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces by Nobuo Masataka 9784431791010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $214.18Booksplease Price: $21.42Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has... -
The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism by John Ryder 9780823244690 [USED COPY]
RRP: $59.48Booksplease Price: $5.95The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-20th century, specifically the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is... -
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson 9780823234684 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.78Booksplease Price: $7.38The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors-and their colleagues and students-over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which...