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Modern Constitutions by Rogers M. Smith
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14More than two millennia ago, Aristotle is said to have compiled a collection of ancient constitutions that informed his studies of politics. For Aristotle, constitutions largely distilled and... -
Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs by Rogers M. Smith
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38From anxiety about Muslim immigrants in Western Europe to concerns about undocumented workers and cross-border security threats in the United States, disputes over immigration have proliferated and... -
Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership by Rogers M. Smith
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that... -
Political Peoplehood: The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities Rogers M. Smith 9780226285092
Booksplease Price: £26.68For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of... -
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith 9780300078770
Booksplease Price: £61.48In this powerful and disturbing book, Rogers Smith traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through the Progressive era and shows how and why throughout this... -
America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair by Rogers M. Smith 9780226834023
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55A sobering portrait of the United States' divided racial politics. For nearly two decades, Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King have charted the shifting racial policy alliances that have shaped American... -
America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair by Rogers M. Smith 9780226834047
Booksplease Price: £24.80A sobering portrait of the United States' divided racial politics. For nearly two decades, Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King have charted the shifting racial policy alliances that have shaped American... -
Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership by M.Smith Rogers 9780521813037
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.26How can we build thriving political communities? In this provocative account of how societies are bound together, Rogers Smith examines the importance of 'stories of peoplehood', narratives that... -
Electrochemical Detection in HPLC: Analysis of Drugs and Poisons by Robert J. Flanagan 9780854045327
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £83.54Electrochemical Detection in HPLC: Analysis of Drugs and Poisons is the first monograph devoted to the application of this mode of analysis to the assay of exogenous compounds such as drugs in... -
HPLC: A Practical Guide by Toshihiko T. Hanai 9780854045150
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.05How can these compounds be separated? Why was that method used? These are the two basic questions often asked by students of chromatography. HPLC: A Practical Guide provides the answers, enabling the... -
Picking Winners: Citizenship, Central Banks, and Consumer Finance by Lawrence R. Jacobs 9780197831786
Booksplease Price: £70.83Politically independent central banks such as America's Federal Reserve have enormous sway over the financial lives of citizens globally and often affect citizens differently according to their... -
Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging by Professor Suzanne Oboler 9781403967404
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book explores the extent to which the varied political status of Latinos is changing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States. It brings together broad theoretical... -
Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives by Anders Berg-Sorensen 9781138274082
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80As we enter the twenty-first century, the role of religion within civic society has become an issue of central concern across the world. The complex trends of secularism, multiculturalism and the... -
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography by 9780851865775
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £50.24The RSC Chromatography Monographs Series is designed for the individual practising chromatographer, providing guidance and advice on a wide range of chromatographic techniques with the emphasis on... -
Virtue: Nomos XXXIV by John W. Chapman 9780814714843
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American... -
Virtue: Nomos XXXIV by John W. Chapman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American... -
Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar by Bernard Yack 9780226944692
Booksplease Price: £91.54Well before her untimely death in 1992, Judith Shklar was recognized as one of the outstanding political theorists of modern time. An important figure in the reinvigoration of liberal theory since... -
Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State by Ian Shapiro 9780814740569
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal... -
Citizens, Strangers, And In-betweens: Essays On Immigration And Citizenship by Peter Schuck
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens, an integrated series of fourteen essays, Yale professor Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces... -
Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State by Ian Shapiro 9780814740262
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal... -
Without Justice For All: The New Liberalism And Our Retreat From Racial Equality by Adolph L. Reed, Jr. 9780813320519
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social... -
Limits Of Law: Essays On Democratic Governance by Peter Schuck 9780813367583
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94Law is an increasingly pervasive force in our society. At the same time, however, the obstacles to law's effectiveness are also growing. In The limits of Law, Yale law professor Peter H, Schuck draws... -
The Original Compromise: What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking by David Brian Robertson 9780199796298
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £40.49What were the Founding Fathers really thinking when they gathered in the Pennsylvania State House to draft the United States Constitution? When answering this question, most have relied on The... -
Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954 by Julie Novkov 9780472068852
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £25.01In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate... -
Hyphenated Techniques in Speciation Analysis by Ryszard Lobinski 9780854045457
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £75.39Speciation analysis is a field of trace element analytical chemistry that deals with detection, identification and determination of individual chemical forms of metals and metalloids. There has been... -
Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic by Robert W. T. Martin
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the... -
Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization by Calvert W. Jones 9781107175723
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56How are state leaders adapting their citizen-building strategies for globalization? What outcomes are they achieving, and why? Bedouins into Bourgeois investigates an ambitious state-led social... -
Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition by Ruth O'Brien
Booksplease Price: £26.04Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In "Out of Many, One", Ruth O'Brien explains why... -
American Political Thought – An Invitation by Kersch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89How do Americans think about foundational political questions? Covering the full span of U.S. history, American Political Thought: An Invitation offers a lively yet sophisticated overview of the... -
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics by Ian Shapiro 9780521831741
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £98.84The study of politics seems endlessly beset by debates about method. At the core of these debates is a single unifying concern: should political scientists view themselves primarily as scientists,... -
Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, Third Edition by James F. Hollifield 9780804786263
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.57The third edition of this major work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of a selection of major countries, including the U.S., to deal with immigration and immigrant issues-... -
Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship by Sigal R. Ben-Porath
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82In Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and... -
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics by Ian Shapiro 9780521539432
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.75The study of politics seems endlessly beset by debates about method. At the core of these debates is a single unifying concern: should political scientists view themselves primarily as scientists,... -
Citizen Power: A Citizen Leadership Manual, New Jersey Edition by Harry S. Pozycki
Booksplease Price: £22.81The Citizens Campaign, co-founded by the author and his wife, Caroline B. Pozycki, offers citizen leadership training and citizen leadership service opportunities for regular citizens. CITIZEN POWER... -
Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers by Josh Chafetz
Booksplease Price: £35.52A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances. Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective... -
The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State by Paulina Ochoa Espejo
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.38Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the... -
A Common Country: Solidarity and the Making of American Democracy Nathan Pippenger 9780197811733
Booksplease Price: £66.79As their democracy faces an array of crises Americans confront a recurring question: whether they really constitute a democratic "people" at all. Reactionaries promote a nostalgic ideal of American... -
Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat by Sara Wallace Goodman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections... -
Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution by Christina Duffy Burnett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional... -
Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity by Ran Hirschl 9781009473248
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Constitutional identity has become one of the most important and hotly contested concepts in contemporary constitutional theory and practice. It has been repeatedly invoked in debates concerning EU...