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Num Pages: 240 pages, over 550 color photos, line drawings. BIC Classification: JWG; JWMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 225 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1578.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764301476
- ISBN
- 9780764301476
Condition: New
€ 54.46€ 39.25
€ 54.46
€ 39.25
Hardback. Five years after Citizens United, political financing has become one, giant corrupt cash grab. In this entirely new edition, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig exposes the most vexing problem in American democracy and offers a new plan to save our lost republic. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 33. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455537013
- ISBN
- 9781455537013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.96
€ 32.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. A comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, this text examines how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. The author argues that nostalgia directed towards the living Republic city is an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 403 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 10 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520230507
- ISBN
- 9780520230507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.08€ 65.15
€ 84.08
€ 65.15
Hardback. This book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences; and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics. Editor(s): Niederberger, Andreas; Schink, Philipp. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748643066
- ISBN
- 9780748643066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.58€ 103.18
€ 106.58
€ 103.18
Paperback. Explores the historical and theoretical relationships between democracy and republicanism, and their consequences. This book critically assesses conceptions of democracy in different republican traditions. Editor(s): Niederberger, Andreas; Schink, Philipp. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474403047
- ISBN
- 9781474403047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
paperback. An intimate, investigative portrait of how the purveyors of the politics of personal crisis and redemption brought down the GOP--and why they're still calling the shots for the party Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFM; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nation Books United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568584171
- ISBN
- 9781568584171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.21
€ 26.99
€ 20.21
Hardback. What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? This book captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 84 black and white, 8 color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBTV; JPH; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284364
- ISBN
- 9780520284364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.87€ 54.08
€ 69.87
€ 54.08
Paperback. This study offers solutions to the intellectual rigidity and theoretical fragmentation that characterize much contemporary debate in political philosophy. It offers interpretations of republicans such as Aristotle, Machiavelli and Rousseau, and liberals such as Locke, Smith and Mill. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847683741
- ISBN
- 9780847683741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback. This text makes available in English the essay, "How to Bring Order to Popular Government", by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. It also analyzes this work, showing that the long maturation of Florentine constitutional thought points to a modern idea of the republican state. Translator(s): Moulakis, Athanasios. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689941
- ISBN
- 9780847689941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.06
€ 65.06
Hardback. Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. Editor(s): Laborde, Cecile; Maynor, John. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155793
- ISBN
- 9781405155793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.08
€ 116.08
Paperback. Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. Editor(s): Laborde, Cecile; Maynor, John. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155809
- ISBN
- 9781405155809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.17
€ 46.17
hardcover. Explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. This book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics, the ideology and practice of official French republicanism and the broader European and American civic republican tradition. Editor(s): Honohan, Iseult. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719075919
- ISBN
- 9780719075919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.12
€ 147.12
Hardback. In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628073
- ISBN
- 9780745628073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 41. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619382
- ISBN
- 9780700619382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.38
€ 76.38
Hardback. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca 1490), this work depicts a debate between the king himself and a Florentine merchant at his court on the relative merits of republics and kingdoms. It discusses such issues as free trade and the morality of commerce and the inequalities of wealth typical of republics. Editor(s): Hankins, James. Translator(s): Hankins, James. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033986
- ISBN
- 9780674033986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.72
€ 40.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? This book attempts to answer this fundamental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. It explains how governments acquire reputations in the eyes of investors, and argues that concerns about reputation sustain international lending and repayment. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 line illus. 27 tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134697
- ISBN
- 9780691134697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801474897
- ISBN
- 9780801474897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. The US Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? This book traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 856 pages, 13 halftones. 17 line illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; JPH; KNDP; LNTM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 824
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141800
- ISBN
- 9780691141800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.21€ 46.57
€ 59.21
€ 46.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 77 pages. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 4. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 77
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616681531
- ISBN
- 9781616681531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.41€ 52.00
€ 73.41
€ 52.00
Paperback. Reputation or Cover-Up? - top lawyer David Hooper's explanation of what the libel laws are, with an emphasis on recent decisions. Num Pages: 592 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751542172
- ISBN
- 9780751542172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.31
€ 23.31