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  • THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE
    JEAN BLONDEL / E. DREXEL GODFREY, JR.
    First published in 1968, The Government of France is a guide for students of politics to learn about the eventful history of French democracy and the often startling role of France on the international scene. In conveying information, the authors never fail to relate the structure to the social and economic background, and their commentary is enlivened by amusing asides. By the...

    $840.00

  • THINKING POLITICALLY
    JEAN BLONDEL
    This book gives some insight into the profession of political science and about 'thinking politically'. It shows how thinking politically contributes, in a significant fashion, to answering those questions that, from curiosity or necessity, mankind has incessantly raised and wished to solve. ...

    $1,160.00

  • AFRICAN PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLICS
    JEAN BLONDEL
    This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries. Using two groups of case studies, African Presidential Republics examines the variations between presidential republics within Africa since decolonisation. Jean Blon...

    $1,200.00

  • CITIZENS AND THE STATE
    TAKASHI INOGUCHI / JEAN BLONDEL
    This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top down perspective without systematically examining empirical data about their association. In contrast, Citizens and the State, analyses the relationship from a primarily bottom up standpoint. Using the 18 country cross-national survey (the Asia-Europe Survey...

    $1,320.00

  • POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, PARTIES AND CITIZENS
    JEAN BLONDEL
    Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership has increased. This volume explores, both theoretically and empirically, the increa...

    $1,460.00

  • POLITICAL CULTURES IN ASIA AND EUROPE
    JEAN BLONDEL / TAKASHI INOGUCHI
    This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this book assesses how political culture differs across the two regions and whether this can be drawn back to a profound di...

    $640.00

  • EXPOSED
    JEAN-PHILIPPE BLONDEL
    "Art, love and longing, the French way . . . an emotionally taut portrayal of late-in-life, post-marriage drift" from the author of The 6:41 to Paris ( The New York Times Book Review). A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encount...

    $164.00

  • A VERY FRENCH CHRISTMAS
    GUY DE MAUPASSANT / JEAN-PHILIPPE BLONDEL / PAUL ARÈNE / FRANÇOIS COPPÉE / ANATOLE LE BRAZ / DOMINIQUE FA
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword Reviews   This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and...

    $149.00

  • THE 6:41 TO PARIS
    JEAN-PHILIPPE BLONDEL
    After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a "suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).   Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always s...

    $200.00