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Cartels Diagnosed: New Insights on Collusion

Cartels Diagnosed contains twelve gripping and insightful case studies of collusion from key business sectors – such as airlines, gasoline industry, and big pharma – which span from North...

Joseph E. Harrington Jr., Maarten Pieter Schinkel | 18 Feb 2025

How Congress Gathers Information: The Politics Behind Hearings on the Hill

Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture.  Yet, they are not experts...

Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You | 17 Feb 2025

African Governments, New Creditors, and the Politics of Aid and Finance

In the past two decades, African governments have transformed their financial relationships – in the process gaining leverage in foreign relations in ways many would not expect. At the dawn of the 2000s,...

Alexandra O. Zeitz | 14 Feb 2025

Maximizing Your Study Time: Efficient Techniques from BASIC Essentials

BASIC Essentials is a comprehensive review book for the Anesthesiology BASIC Exam. It is designed to provide a concise and focused review of high-yield and testable facts for the BASIC examination. The...

Alopi M. Patel, | 14 Feb 2025

God’s Means and God’s Ends are Identical

In 1999 I was an area dean overseeing a group of clergy in west Norwich, England. Having encouraged my colleagues to read my first book, published the previous year, another priest suggested we read a...

Samuel Wells | 14 Feb 2025

Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity: An Anthropology of Science

When we look up into the night sky, we see stars and the few constellations that we can name, even occasionally a planet.  But at the same time, we know that with the aid of telescopes and astronomical...

Francesca Rochberg | 13 Feb 2025

Agrarian Elites’ Representation, Democracy and Inequality in Latin America

How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization...

Belén Fernández Milmanda | 13 Feb 2025

Decoding Persuasion: A Linguistic Journey Through Manipulation and Influence

People will always do what they want to do. Right? Well, not exactly. We can easily think about situations in which we tried to change someone else’s mind: begging parents for a toy, asking a...

Sofia Rüdiger, Daria Dayter | 13 Feb 2025

The Art of Walking in London

When, in his 1716 poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay announced he would instruct his readers on “How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night”, he firmly positioned...

Alison O'Byrne | 12 Feb 2025

Looking in the Mirror of Early Modern Art

What is a painting?  An application of coloured pigments to a flat surface, be it a wall, a canvas, or a panel.  My book poses this question in historical perspective, to ask: what was a Renaissance...

Genevieve Warwick | 7 Feb 2025

Beyond the Invisible Hand: Exploring the Construction of Markets

Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s...

Susi Geiger, Annmarie Ryan, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Pascale Trompette, Philip Roscoe, Neil Pollock, Katy Mason | 6 Feb 2025

Reimagining Prosperity in the EU

We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where have the hope and optimism go? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the...

Marija Bartl | 6 Feb 2025