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Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2009.01975.x
Subject(s) - hatred , yesterday , politics , democracy , terrorism , law , economic history , german , history , palestine , spanish civil war , sociology , political science , religious studies , art history , ancient history , philosophy , physics , archaeology , astronomy
Books reviewed in this issue. Britain's four political traditionsBritain since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy , by David Marquand. The darker side of nudgingNudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness , by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. The almost‐forgotten Korean WarThe Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War , by David Halberstam. Reasoning about riskGlobal Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years , by Vaclav Smil. The great war on terrorTerror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty‐first Century , by Philip Bobbitt. From terrorism to pop cultural icons?Baader‐Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left‐wing Terrorism , edited by Gerrit‐Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils. An incoherent critique of New Labour?The End of Politics: New Labour and the Folly of Managerialism , by Chris Dillow. Top of the papsBorn Yesterday: The News as a Novel , by Gordon Burn. The slight hand of historyGreat Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland , by Jonathan Powell. Israel–Palestine: insiders and outsidersPalestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation , by Saree Makdisi.