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  • Atomic Anxiety

    Deterrence, Taboo and the Non-Use of U.S. Nuclear Weapons

    by Frank Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    With the concept of 'Atomic Anxiety', this book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important and longstanding puzzles of international politics: the non-use of U.S. nuclear weapons. By focusing on the fear surrounding nuclear weapons, it explains why nuclear deterrence and the nuclear taboo are working at cross purposes in practice. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Microbicides in Coatings

    by Frank Sauer ...
    Series series European Coatings
    When it comes to protecting coatings, it is essential to strike the right balance between controlling germs in order to avoid economic damage on the one hand and tolerating microbial life where it is necessary and useful on the other. The new book from Frank Sauer provides a comprehensive overview of the working mechanisms and possible applications of microbiocides for coatings - invaluable for ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

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  • World at Risk

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    by Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann ...
    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Metamorphosis of the World

    How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Aspirational Fascism

    The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism

    by William E. Connolly ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilitiesThis quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with Donald Trump’s rhetorical style. Tapping into a sense of contemporary fragility, Aspirational Fascism pays ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Prisoners of Reason

    Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy

    by S. M. Amadae ...
    Is capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm principle. Although imperfect and exclusionary, modern liberalism recognized individual human ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Finding Diefenbunker

    Canadian Nationalism and Cold War Memory

    by Sara Matthews, Justin Anstett, Patricia Molloy ...
    Series series CMTS Dialogues
    The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “Diefenbunkers”—eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these sites have fallen into disrepair or been sold off, one such site has recently been repurposed as “Canada's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

    The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

    by Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin ...
    In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncertain Worlds

    World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

    by Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert ...
    Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind interview with Wallerstein by Carlos Rojas, a conversation between Wallerstein and Lemert about the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism

    by Lenny Flank ...
    A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on the decentralized self-organization of the producers. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus