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Uluc Ozuyener
Born in Secrecy--Maaminim

This book tells the story of the Sabbatean descendants who continued to carry the spark of faith in the enigmatic Shabbatai Sevi (1626-76), not in public, but behind closed doors, through gestures, ritual…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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Atsuko Ichijo
Nationalism and Subjectivity

Nationalism and Subjectivity: East Asian Experiences challenges the dominant view of the origins of nationalism, that is, that nationalism first emerged in the post-Enlightenment and industrialising West …

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Patrick Emmenegger, André Walter
The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice

The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice explores the strategic manipulation of electoral systems by political actors to maintain access to power. It delves into how electoral systems are more than m…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Tanja Eschenauer-Engler
Dictators' Endgames

Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in "dictators' endgames": large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office.

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Innocent Batsani-Ncube
China and African Parliaments

China and African Parliaments maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilisation of three parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were financed and constructed by the…

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James S Fishkin
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

This book draws on the author's research on Deliberative Polling to chart a unique path to fixing democracy's many problems. It suggests empowering democratic reform that would strengthen rather than repl…

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Meng Xia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

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James Geary
The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

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Brian F Crisp, Patrick Cunha Silva, Santiago Olivella, Guillermo Rosas
Electoral System Incentives for Interparty and Intraparty Politics

Using novel computational tools and a comprehensive and updated dataset on electoral systems, this book develops precise and transparent measures of both electoral systems' interparty and intraparty incen…

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Yann Allard-Tremblay
Disjunctures

Disjunctures demonstrates the transformative potential of Indigenous political traditions in settler states that seek reconciliation. Though there exist irreconcilable differences between Indigenous and d…

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D M Spitzer
Breaking Light

Discloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.In Breaking Light D. M. Spitzer d…

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Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
Making a Career in Dictatorship

Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the…

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Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
Making a Career in Dictatorship

Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the…

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Iosif Kovras
Accountability After Economic Crisis

This book explores how countries responded to the 2008 economic recession and explains the variations in policies of accountability. By comparing five case studies, it considers why some sought to hold th…

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Jan Eijking
The Technocratic International

Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as technical institutions separate from political concerns. An…

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Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

A decade on from the Arab uprisings, debates continue to reiterate exceptionalist discourses about the region and its peoples which tend to deny individual agency. They also neglect long collective histor…

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Ewa Atanassow
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning fa…

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