Cambridge University Press
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How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse
$30.00 Add to cartThis accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-… [more below]
- Author: Geddes, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1107535956
- Language: English
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A Concise History of New Zealand
$34.00 Read moreNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Mein Smith, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1107402174
- Language: English
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200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions
$35.00 Add to cartThis text will strengthen a student’s ability to apply the laws of physics to practical situations and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than to complex mathematics. These problems,… [more below]
- Author: Gn?dig, P
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0521774802
- Language: English
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Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner’s First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games
$21.00 Add to cartHexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi is the inaugural volume in The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library series. Based off of Gardener’s enormously popular Scientific Americ… [more below]
- Series: New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #1
- Author: Gardner, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0521735254
- Language: English
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
$49.58 Add to cartCompetitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed stu… [more below]
- Series: Problems of International Politics
- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0521709156
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
$63.75 Add to cartImmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on al… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Guyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0521710111
- Language: English
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
$60.50 Add to cartThis book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
- Author: McKay, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0521691346
- Language: English
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The Sources of Normativity
$35.00 Add to cartEthical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies a… [more below]
- Author: Korsgaard, Christine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 28 1996
- ISBN10: 052155960X
- Language: English
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Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
$49.58 Add to cartThis is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle’s philosophy and guides us through all the ce… [more below]
- Author: Lear, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0521347629
- Language: English
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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
$55.25 Add to cartAcross centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the … [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Middle East #6
- Author: Sharkey, Heather J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0521186870
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Western Music
$34.00 Add to cartEngaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music – of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griff… [more below]
- Author: Griffiths, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0521133661
- Language: English
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Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
$48.17 Add to cartThe 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Author: Gaddis, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1316514021
- Language: English
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Should You Believe Wikipedia?
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Bruckman, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1108748406
- Language: English
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Neighborhood Watch: Policing White Spaces in America
$45.33 Add to cartAlthough racism has plagued the American justice system since the nation’s colonial beginnings, private White Americans are taking matters into their own hands. From racist 911 calls and hoaxes to gra… [more below]
- Author: Fields, Shawn E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1108793509
- Language: English
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Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
$30.00 Add to cartMedicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to fede… [more below]
- Author: Michener, Jamila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 131664958X
- Language: English
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World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
$48.17 Add to cartAlthough not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies,… [more below]
- Author: Streets-Salter, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1316501094
- Language: English
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Understanding the Christianity-Evolution Relationship
$21.00 Add to cartThe relationship between science and religion is a topic that runs rife with misconceptions, misunderstandings and debates. Are science and religion always in conflict? Is Darwin’s theory of evolution… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Ruse, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1009277286
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays
$77.92 Add to cartWith the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as ‘incomparably more pop… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 701
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1108436528
- Language: English
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English as a Global Language
$21.00 Add to cartDavid Crystal’s classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has b… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107611806
- Language: English
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A Student’s Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy
$48.17 Add to cartThe study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and the known Universe. Using the plain-language appr… [more below]
- Series: Student’s Guides
- Author: Fleisch, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: August 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1107610214
- Language: English
