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As Democracy Goes, So Does Journalism: Evolution of Journalism in Liberal, Deliberative, and Participatory Democracy by Seong Jae Min 9781498574723
Booksplease Price: £38.80As Democracy Goes, So Does Journalism: Evolution of Journalism in Liberal, Deliberative, and Participatory Democracy explores the symbiotic relationship between democracy and journalism in an... -
China and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era: A Bilateral Approach by Muhamad S. Olimat 9781498518048
Booksplease Price: £96.35This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China's involvement in Central Asia with each country on a five dimensional approach: security... -
Africa's Social Cleavages and Democratization: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Multiparty Era by Douglas Kimemia 9781498500210
Booksplease Price: £44.31Africa's Social Cleavages and Democratization offers a comparative approach to African countries by providing an in-depth analysis of the impact of ethnicity and religion on both multiparty and... -
Building Sexual Misconduct Cases against Powerful Men by Shing-Ling S. Chen 9781498587495
Booksplease Price: £37.42Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men presents a fine-grained analysis of how the rhetorical and social aspects of rape culture and patriarchy lead to a pattern of sexual misconduct... -
Why South Vietnam Fell by Anthony James Joes 9781498503914
Booksplease Price: £44.76Between 1954 and 1963, President Ngo Dinh Diem, against great odds but with U.S. assistance, built a functioning South Vietnamese state. But gravely misled by American journalists in Saigon, the U.S... -
American Farms, American Food: A Geography of Agriculture and Food Production in the United States by John C. Hudson 9781498508223
Booksplease Price: £41.36American Farms, American Food bridges the gap between agricultural production and food studies allowing readers to learn about both subjects up close and in detail. Beyond that, the book provides... -
European Football in Black and White: Tackling Racism in Football by Christos Kassimeris 9780739119594
Booksplease Price: £112.13European Football is Black and White offers an engaging interpretation of a disturbing phenomenon in Europe's favorite sport: football violence fueled by racism. While many fans across Europe have... -
Modern Jeremiahs: Contemporary Visions of American Decline by Mark Stephen Jendrysik 9780739121917
Booksplease Price: £96.35One of the most enduring themes in American political discourse is the idea of decline. Since the very beginnings of the European settlement of North America there have been voices pointing to an... -
The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Culture, Public Culture, and Democratic Memory by Genevieve Souillac 9780739126295
Booksplease Price: £96.35This book offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics. It argues that public culture provides the mediating spaces required for processes of encounter, but should... -
Stagecraft and Statecraft: Advance and Media Events in Political Communication by Dan Schill 9780739128626
Booksplease Price: £51.20Media events are a central communication tactic used by political communicators in political campaigns and in governmental affairs. Each president has an advance staff that creates mediagenic events... -
From Camp David to Cast Lead: Essays on Israel, Palestine, and the Future of the Peace Process by Daanish Faruqi 9780739144565
Booksplease Price: £96.35This volume is an appraisal of the past ten years of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Particularly following Israeli Operation Cast Lead in 2009, prospects for a viable Palestinian state existing... -
Catastrophe and Philosophy by David J. Rosner 9781498540117
Booksplease Price: £90.87This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from... -
Toward a Philosophy of Protest: Dissent, State Power, and the Spectacle of Everyday Life by Clayton Bohnet 9781498596398
Booksplease Price: £90.57Towards a Philosophy of Protest: Dissent, State Power, and the Spectacle of Everyday Life is an inquiry into the nature of protest, legislative efforts at its criminalization, and the common good... -
Revisiting the Roots of the Cold War by Michael G. Carew 9781498578189
Booksplease Price: £37.42Revisiting the Roots of the Cold War is a history of the emergence of the Cold War from 1944-1948, emphasizing the recently available Soviet scholarship and information from other archives. Prior... -
Party Change, Recent Democracies, and Portugal: Comparative Perspectives by Marco Lisi 9780739193655
Booksplease Price: £96.35This book offers a critical overview on the literature on party change and provides original data on several dimensions of party organizations, focusing in particular on Portuguese political parties... -
Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media by Svitlana Malykhina 9780739178447
Booksplease Price: £95.49Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media builds on a growing body of work concerning post-Soviet media culture during the last, transformative decade. Making sense of the... -
Environmental Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making by Robert Mugerauer 9780739120583
Booksplease Price: £61.34Because many people and ecosystems share_or constitute_any given place, they all have a stake in the outcome of what any of us do in regard to environmental problems. It is not surprising that issues... -
Poverty, Justice, and Western Political Thought by Sharon K. Vaughan 9780739122693
Booksplease Price: £51.20The number of people who live in poverty has always far exceeded the number who do not. The normative question of how governments ought to treat the poor goes to the heart of the idea of justice and... -
Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protesters by Jeffrey Becker 9780739191859
Booksplease Price: £103.11The growth of China's internal migrant labor population is one of the most important issues emerging from the Hu Jintao regime. As China continues to undergo an urbanization process as profound as... -
The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver by Ayala Amir 9780739139219
Booksplease Price: £103.11The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary... -
Reason, Faith, and Politics: Essays in Honor of Werner J. Dannhauser by Arthur M. Melzer 9780739118351
Booksplease Price: £112.13Behind many of the hottest political issues of the current moment -abortion, stem-cell research, Intelligent Design, Islamic fundamentalism-stands a resurgence of the centuries-old contest between... -
The Evolution of the Ancient City: Urban Theory and the Archaeology of the Fertile Crescent by Alexander R. Thomas 9780739138694
Booksplease Price: £103.11Urban theory and archaeology merge to create a readable discussion of how ancient cities came to be. Although many consider our modern social ills to be the consequence of Capitalism, many urban... -
Misogyny across Global Media by Maria B. Marron 9781793606235
Booksplease Price: £37.42Misogyny across Global Media argues that, although women's experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institutional systems facilitate gender-based hostility across... -
Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean by Mildred Mortimer 9780739119068
Booksplease Price: £103.11If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely... -
Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential Leadership: The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric by C. Damien Arthur 9780739199190
Booksplease Price: £43.76There is considerable disagreement about whether the U.S. president has a direct and measurable influence over the economy. The analysis presented in Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and... -
Kenya at a Crossroads: Administration and Economy Under Sir Percy Girouard, 1909-1912 by Abdullahi Sara 9781498510653
Booksplease Price: £96.35This work examines the history of colonial administration and economic development policy in Kenya during the early colonial period of 1909-1912. Abdullahi Sara provides analysis of the existing... -
Corporeal Archipelagos: Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women's Literature by Julia Frengs 9781498542296
Booksplease Price: £91.39Corporeal Archipelagos: Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women's Literature offers an examination of contemporary literature from the French-speaking Oceanian region through a focus on four... -
Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization: Islam, Islamism, and Nationalism in Turkey by Rasim OEzgur Doenmez 9781498579391
Booksplease Price: £90.87This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in this... -
The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy by Jeffrey S. Ashley 9781498501972
Booksplease Price: £41.36Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think... -
Adorno and Philosophical Modernism: The Inside of Things by Roger Stuart Foster 9781498525008
Booksplease Price: £102.21Adorno and Philosophical Modernism: The Inside of Things offers an original interpretation and vigorous defense of Theodor Adorno's idea of philosophy as the practice of what Roger Foster calls... -
Representations of Black Womanhood on Television: Being Mara Brock Akil by Shauntae Brown White 9781498592680
Booksplease Price: £37.42Being Mara Brock Akil: Representations of Black Womanhood on Television examines the body of work of Mara Brock Akil, the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is__... -
The Role of Conflict on the Individual and Society by Theresa MacNeil-Kelly 9781793620682
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including autoethnography, interpersonal communication, and large-scale societal conflicts, to explore how humans both observe and confront... -
Freedom and Respect in Jewish Ethics by Kim Treiger-Bar-Am 9781793637697
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book explores the norms we have and where we want to go with them. The project began by asking people what they think is the central value in society today. The responses point to notions of... -
Beyond State Failure and Collapse: Making the State Relevant in Africa by George Klay Kieh 9780739108925
Booksplease Price: £112.43There is a general consensus in the scholarly literature that the post-colonial state in Africa has failed. Some states (Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia) have collapsed. Various arguments have... -
The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams by Christopher Carter 9781498590464
Booksplease Price: £90.57The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist... -
Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum by Kostas A. Lavdas 9781498510998
Booksplease Price: £51.70This book examines the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek... -
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation by Nelia Hyndman-Rizk 9781498522762
Booksplease Price: £37.81Thirty years after the end of the civil war, Lebanese women are still struggling for gender equality. This study builds on recent scholarship on women's activism in the Arab world, in the context of... -
Navigating New Media Networks: Understanding and Managing Communication Challenges in a Networked Society by Miriam Sobre-Denton 9781498523219
Booksplease Price: £44.76Navigating New Media Networks examines the changes introduced into society through the increasing use of communication technology. The development of a networked society has allowed individuals to... -
Revolution and the Historical Novel by John McWilliams 9781498503297
Booksplease Price: £44.76John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of... -
Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw by Martin Roth 9781498539685
Booksplease Price: £41.78As neuroscience continues to reveal the biological basis of human thought and behavior, what impact will this have on legal theory and practice? The emerging field of neurolaw seeks to address this...