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This book argues that fair trade is opposition to trade based on sincere concerns about environmental and labor conditions abroad rather than just protectionism in disguise or labels on coffee products, using public opinion and Congressional voting as evidence that fair trade is sincere and distinct from free trade and protectionism.

In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know (R), intellectual property expert Neil Netanel guides readers through the murky dynamics of modern copyright law. From the basis and purpose of copyright law to a glimpse at what the law could - or should - become in the digital age, Netanel offers the necessary tools for understanding the recent controversies about copyright.

Choreographies of the Living explores the shift from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman's bioaesthetic framework describes how art-making binds us to other animals in literature, visual art, dance, and performance.

In Dispossession without Development, Michael Levien seeks to uncover the structural underpinnings of India's so-called "land wars." He examines how land dispossession changed with India's shift from state-led development to neoliberalism and the consequences of these changes for dispossessed farmers in contemporary India.

Why do states who are committed to the principle of civilian immunity and the protection of non-combatants end up killing and injuring large numbers of civilians during their military operations? Bugsplat explains this paradox through an in-depth examination of five conflicts fought by Western powers since 1989.

Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to Roman philology-the study of Latin language and Latin texts. It explains its history and forms as they were transformed by changing intellectual and social contexts, and provides description and bibliography of hundreds of surviving dictionaries, commentaries, and grammars.

Aspiration by Agnes Callard locates standing assumptions in the theory of rationality, moral psychology and autonomy that preclude the possibility of working to acquire new values. The book also explains what changes need to be made if we are to make room for this form of agency, which I call aspiration.

Do reputations affect world politics? Crescenzi develops a theory of reputation dynamics to identify when reputations form and how they affect world politics. He identifies patterns of reputation's influence in cooperation and conflict. Reputations for conflict exacerbate crises while reputations for cooperation and reliability make future cooperation more likely.

Whether advertising clothes or technology, dance is staple of advertising today. Consuming Dance offers a clear history and analysis of dance in advertising and demonstrates the ways in which the form articulates with, informs, and reflects U.S. culture.

Moving Pictures, Still Lives reframes and rediscovers the virtues and limitations of movies created during the late twentieth century, between the fading modernity crystallized in cinema and the ascendant new digital media visible in the offing.

Marketcraft argues that markets do not arise spontaneously but rather are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft. Vogel systematically reviews the implications of this argument, critiquing prevalent schools of thought and presenting innovative lessons for policy.

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.

In Incremental Polarization, Justin Buchler fills critical gaps in our understanding of legislative polarization by crafting a unified spatial theory of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting. He contends that we need to move beyond elections and factor in Congress members' behavior in roll call voting-where a different but related spatial continuum operates.

As stories on screens claim a more pervasive and influential presence in contemporary culture, Screen Stories argues for a restructuring of film and media studies' approach to ethics.

China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's response to it, and the efforts by the state to tackle it.

Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as the gravest threat to the American education system. Today, wealth, rather than individuals' effort and ability, determines educational outcomes. This book calls for universal Opportunity Investment Accounts to be the cornerstone of the wealth-building agenda the nation needs to salvage the American Dream.

In a comprehensive reviews of constitutional change in Latin America, Fixing Democracy argues that the strongest predictor of whether a new constitution will expand or restrict presidential powers is power asymmetry, or more specifically, the distance between Incumbent and Opposition forces at the negotiating table.

Trade Battles uses data from over 215 in-depth interviews with Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. trade negotiators; labor and environmental activists; government officials; and extensive archival materials to assess how activists politicized trade policy for the first time during NAFTA negotiations. It also examines how this activism influenced trade policy after NAFTA.

The first English-language book-length treatment of the music of an ethnic minority in Vietnam, Musical Minorities examines how musical sounds shape understandings of social identity, providing a fascinating account of music, minorities, and the state in a post-socialist context.

Events like narcoterrorism in Colombia in the 1980s, or beheadings in Mexico, grab headlines easily. Yet drug traffickers also hide or minimize violence, or engage in quiet wars. The Politics of Drug Violence explains variation in drug violence looking at the interactions between state power, criminal competition, and the forms of coercion criminals employ.