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Latin American Responses to Neo-Liberalism: Strategies & Struggles by Steen Fryba Christensen 9788771120677
RRP: £31.00£24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771120677Author Steen Fryba ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 368g -
Coast Guard Cutters & Polar Icebreakers: Procurement Plans & Issues by Roy M. Schulz 9781624175558
RRP: £168.99£111.20This book provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Coast Guard's programs for procuring eight National Security Cutters, 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters, and 58 Fast Response Cutters. These 91 planned cutters are... -
Airport Baggage & Passenger Screening: Technology Elements & Considerations by Andre E. Bouchard 9781624173158
RRP: £168.99£111.20Responding to the need to reliably detect explosives, bomb-making components, and other potential security threats concealed by airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has focused on the deployment of whole body scanners and... -
Police & Augmented Reality Technology by Matthew D. Blount 9781606922064
RRP: £61.99£41.11We live in a rapidly changing society that is driven by higher and higher levels of technological advancement. New technologies are creating greater and more powerful capabilities for humanity, offering opportunities for change that are fundamentally... -
Bioeconomy Blueprint for the United States: Objectives & Select Elements by Lawrence Gibson 9781622572731
RRP: £159.99£105.36A bioeconomy is one based on the use of research and innovation in the biological sciences to create economic activity and public benefit. The U.S. bioeconomy is all around us: new drugs and diagnostics for improved human health, higher-yielding food... -
Urban Sustainability & Governance: New Challengers in Nordic-Baltic Housing Policies by Arild Holt-Jensen 9781604568868
RRP: £115.99£77.78Urban sustainability and governance in relation to housing trends and policies is the focus of this book written by leading Nordic and Baltic housing researchers. The empirical examples are from the Baltic transition economies and the Nordic welfare... -
Training & Assistance of Foreign Police in U.S. Stability Efforts by David F. Jackson 9781621009832
RRP: £61.99£41.11Over the past few years, the United States has increased its emphasis on training and equipping foreign police as a means of supporting a wide range of U.S. foreign-policy goals, including countering terrorists overseas and stopping the flow of narcotics... -
Politics & Economics of the Middle East by William Evans 9781604567199
RRP: £84.99£56.33This book includes the entire spectrum of contemporary politics and economics of the Middle East. The coverage is intended to deal with the Middle East, its political dynamics, economic policies, and institutions.Book InformationISBN 9781604567199Author... -
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 9781978825413
RRP: £56.00£48.48Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can... -
U.S. Nutrition & Agricultural Research: Overview, Funding Issues & Trends by Arlene Ramos 9781634841702
RRP: £84.99£68.91This book explores the structure and function of the U.S. nutrition research system, with an emphasis on trends in Federal support. It describes how nutrition research is used, especially for nutrition education and communication, but also for regulation... -
Technology & the Future of Cities: Opportunities & Recommendations by Diana L. Washington 9781536104189
£119.29Cities are beginning a new era of change. From 1920 to 2010 many U.S. cities hollowed out as suburbs grew faster than their urban cores. The trend started reversing in 2011 as Millennials and Baby Boomers looking for social connections and convenience... -
Listening to their Voices of Bravery & Heroism: Exploring the Aftermath of Officers Loss & Trauma in the Line of Duty by Konstantinos Papazoglou 9781536100488
RRP: £97.99£79.24Police work is challenging. Police officers are sworn to maintain peace and order in our communities. However, police officers often jeopardise their own safety and lives in order to serve and protect civilians from eminent threat. Exposure to multiple... -
Anthropology & Historiography Of Science: Continental Thought Series, V16 by D. P. Chattopadhyaya 9780821409527
RRP: £66.00£20.40Whether history or anthropology is the most fundamental social science remains still a controversial and undecided issue. For a proper understanding of this instructive controversy, the presuppositions of these two disciplines need to be critically and... -
Socialization: Theories, Processes & Impact by Ethan L. Anderson 9781620818770
RRP: £172.99£113.80Socialisation is known to be a process through which an individual forms a relationship to other individuals, commonly of the same species. The process of socialisation is characteristic of different mammal communities including human society. In this... -
Learning & Performance in Corrections: A Framework & Annotated Bibliography for Workplace Learning by Marco Delgado 9781631175336
RRP: £69.99£46.28Correctional agencies around the country are challenged by an increasingly transient workforce, exponential growth in technology, and continued budget cuts. This book focuses on learning and performance challenges in the 21st century including the role... -
U.S. Secret Service: Background, Missions & Issues by Kyle D. Sayers 9781611221992
RRP: £52.99£35.32The U.S. Secret Service has two missions: criminal investigations and protection. Criminal investigation activities, which have expanded since its inception as a small anti-counterfeiting operation at the end of the Civil War, now encompass financial... -
Social Security: Major Congressional Decisions & Reform Issues by Trevor L. Grover 9781600214387
RRP: £163.99£107.94Since its enactment in 1935, the Social Security Act has been amended numerous times. This book briefly summarises discussions on individual major amendments. These summations do not characterise the complete range of motivations behind Social Security... -
Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of International Education by Kelly Hankin 9781978807686
RRP: £31.00£27.361 in 10 undergraduates in the US will study abroad. Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy... -
Resetting the Kitchen Table: Food Security, Culture, Health & Resilience in Coastal Communities by Christopher C. Parrish 9781600212369
RRP: £79.99£53.12This book examines the history of health, diet, and nutrition with a particular focus on the issue of decreasing food security in places where once-stable food webs have suffered radical shock, as have the cultures of human communities, which have always... -
National Park Service: Analyses & Trends of Appropriations, Fees & Donations by Claire Cohen 9781634858199
RRP: £115.99£93.52The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which covers 84.6 million acres of land and consists of 410 diverse units valued for their natural, cultural, and recreational importance. NPS receives appropriations in the annual... -
Concept of Latin America in the United States: Misrecongnition & Social Scientific Discourse by Joao Feres, Jr. 9781607418689
RRP: £143.99£95.36This book is a study of the semantics and usages of the concept of Latin America in the United States, both in everyday language and in social scientific discourses. Its guiding hypothesis is that Latin America has been historically defined in American... -
Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Davinia Thornley 9781978823099
RRP: £124.00£107.04Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the ‘procreation imperative’ residing at the center of... -
New Developments in Food Policy, Control & Research by Arthur P. Riley 9781594544095
RRP: £172.99£113.80New Developments in Food Policy, Control & ResearchBook InformationISBN 9781594544095Author Arthur P. RileyFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 436g -
New Issues in Food Policy, Control & Research by Arthur P. Riley 9781594549571
RRP: £163.99£107.94This book examines in detail food policy, control and research.Book InformationISBN 9781594549571Author Arthur P. RileyFormat HardbackPage Count 177Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 558g -
Border Security & Who is Responsible for it by Nevio Graziano 9781607418047
RRP: £61.99£41.11This book explores U.S. border security and the role of the key agencies and their missions. The U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) has a long and storied history as our nation's first line of defence against unauthorised migration. Today, the USBP's primary... -
Exploring Policing, Crime & Society: A Brief But Critical Understanding by Jason L. Powell 9781619420014
RRP: £61.99£41.11This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the 'police', one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an integral part of the criminal justice system. On... -
The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America by Ted Galen Carpenter 9781935308881
RRP: £18.99£17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTed Galen Carpenter is senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the author or editor of 18 books on international affairs... -
Globalization & Social Stress by Grzegorz W. Kolodko 9781594541940
RRP: £119.99£79.78Globalisation, like no other term, has gained in recent years a prominent position in nearly all branches of social science. Consequently, its definitions abound, also in economics -- a discipline to which it has a special relevance. In economic terms,... -
The American Dream: Can It Survive the 21st Century? by Joseph L. Daleiden 9781573922654
RRP: £35.00£29.31Can each of us achieve our own "American dream" while recognising needs of other individuals, society, and future generations? Not if our present national policies continue, warns long term planning expert Joseph L. Daleiden. He persuasively argues that... -
Perspectives of Female Researchers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gujarati Identities by Sharmina Mawani 9783832541248
£48.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832541248Author Sharmina MawaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH -
Technology Transfer from South African Technology Stations to Their Sme Clients: a Case Study of the Twelve Technology Stations by Leisl Joanne Neskakis 9783832530563
£54.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832530563Author Leisl Joanne NeskakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH -
The New Humanitarians [3 volumes]: Inspiration, Innovations, and Blueprints for Visionaries by Chris E. Stout 9780275997687
£111.45From Braille Without Borders and Unite for Sight, to Geekcorps and PeaceWorks, humanitarian groups are working worldwide largely in undeveloped countries to better the lives of the residents. Whether they are empowering people with schools for the blind,... -
Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press by John M. Coward 9780252040269
RRP: £91.00£79.32After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like ... -
Anti-Americanism [4 volumes]: History, Causes, Themes by Brendon O'Connor 9781846450044
£112.25Why do people hate America and Americans? The essays in Volume One explore various possible causes, such as American multi-national corporations, America's stance on the environment and the promotion of American values abroad. When did anti-American... -
Putting the Family First: Identities, decisions, citizenship by Bill Jordan 9781032221274
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values. Partners’ cultural practices focus on "making something of themselves", being "supportive" of each... -
Helping in Social Work by Bill Jordan 9781032220925
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure of social work to face-to-face interactions, the author... -
Media and Truth: French Media and the Depiction of China by Maxime Vivas 9781911397243
RRP: £50.00£34.46Why does global media feel a need to denigrate China? Why does discussion and analysis fall back on obvious tropes and polemics, when in reality China is raising living standards, developing its economy and introducing human rights. In this book, Maxime... -
Social Problems and Mental Health by Jessica Kuper 9781032200231
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1987, Social Problems and Mental Health presents a sophisticated response to the whole question of what constitutes a social problem, with nearly fifty entries giving a range of perspectives on the main problem issues of our age. Also... -
Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union by Vic George 9781032168630
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1980, Socialism, Social Welfare and the Soviet Union examines the views of Marx, Engels and Lenin on what constitutes a socialist form of provision of social security, income, education, health and housing. The authors discuss the... -
Social Science and Social Policy by Martin I A Bulmer 9781032159157
RRP: £31.99£28.73First published in 1986, Social Science and Social Policy addresses major questions concerned with the social utility of social science. The book is divided into four parts. The first part considers the place of social science in the policy-making...