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Human Resource Management Issues in Developing Countries by Farhad Analoui
RRP: £32.99£29.16Published in 1998, this work brings together 17 individual papers written by academics, practioners and consultants who have dealt with human resource issues in various contexts and developing countries. It covers management, education and training and... -
Perspectives on the Environment (Volume 2): Interdisciplinary Research Network on Environment and Society by Sue Elworthy
RRP: £110.00£95.51Published in 1995, the essays in this book are papers presented to the second conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Environment and Society (IRNES) held in Sheffield in September 1993. It follows "Perspectives on the... -
Integrated Software Reuse: Management and Techniques by Paul Walton
RRP: £91.99£79.80Published in 1993. Software reuse has been shown to achieve improvements in productivity, quality and timeliness of software. The collection of papers in this book were given at a seminar organized by UNICOM and the British Computer Society Software... -
Understanding Global Political Earthquake: Study of Post-Cold War International Systemic Transition and Indo-US Relations by Manoj Soni
RRP: £91.99£79.80Published in 1998, this text presents two theoretical frameworks for understanding the post-Cold War international systematic transition, and Indo-US relational patterns. The frameworks explain the casual determinants of the current international... -
Fashions in Management Research: An Empirical Analysis by Patrick Thomas
RRP: £110.00£95.51Published in 1999, this text sets out to analyze fashions in management literature through studying patterns in the citations offered to leading management authors. Particular attention is paid to those publications which are cited extensively, but only... -
Crime and Social Control in Central-Eastern Europe: A Guide to Theory and Practice by Aleksandar Fatic
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1997. This work provides a criminological introduction to the current situation of criminal justice systems in the politically changing Central-Eastern Europe after 1989. It explores concrete problems which the countries are facing,... -
Informal Criminal Justice by Dermot Feenan
RRP: £32.99£29.56This title was first published in 2002: This volume explores conceptual debates and provides contemporary research in the field of informal criminal justice, including chapters on paramilitary "punishment" and post-cease-fire restorative... -
Envisioning America and the American Self: Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1840-2016 by Scott Appelrouth
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores the Democratic and Republican Party platforms from 1840 to 2016. As the only official, institutionally sanctioned document espousing the parties' views on the state of the nation, the platforms present to the party faithful a diagnosis... -
Positive About Inspection by Paul Nash
RRP: £43.99£38.44Thit title was first published in 2000: This text helps organizations prepare for inspection by the Training Standards Council. It approaches inspection using two distinct perspectives. The first is a linear account of an inspection through... -
A Port in Global Capitalism: Unveiling Entangled Accumulation in Rio de Janeiro by Guilherme Leite Goncalves
RRP: £39.99£35.06Through a study of the port district of Rio de Janeiro and its history, from its emergence as a major slave market to its modern-day incarnation as a hub of tourism, real estate and financial speculation, this book examines the different dimensions of... -
Morality Made Visible: Edward Westermarck's Moral and Social Theory by Otto Pipatti
RRP: £135.00£117.28While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the key... -
Crime In Context by Ian Taylor
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book aims to explore one of the most obvious areas of discontent in post-Fordist societies, the ever-intrusive fear and reality of crime. It provides an analysis that explains the varieties of actually occurring behaviours which certainly are very... -
Negotiating Marriage, Family and Work: Experiences of Middle Class Egyptian Women by Dahlia Roque
RRP: £41.99£36.75Caught between two worlds of social transition and modern progression, young women in the Middle East have for some time been forging means to balance conventional gender roles and marriage expectations, while also advancing their position in society... -
Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime by Jr. Short
RRP: £135.00£117.28Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent... -
Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences by Lee C Mcintyre
RRP: £135.00£117.28The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or... -
The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation by Breda Pavlic
RRP: £28.99£25.09The process of economi c coopera t i on among devel oping countrie s ha s come a l ong way s i nce the ea rl y 1960s . A l ong s i de the movement f rom the e s tab l i s hment of reg i onal and subreg i on a l i n tegration and cooperati on g rou p i... -
Social Policy In A Nondemocratic Regime: The Case Of Public Housing In Brazil by Gil Shidlo
RRP: £135.00£111.30This book had its origins in my doctoral research at the London School of Economics. It developed more rapidly than expected thanks to the good will and collective efforts of various people and institutions who provided help and support-material,... -
Science And Technology In A Changing International Order: The United Nations Conference On Science And Technology For Development by Volker Rittberger
RRP: £135.00£111.70As part of its contribution to the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development IUNCSTD) the United Nations Institute for Training and Research jUNITAR) organized an informal research group to assess various aspects of... -
Rural Transport In Developing Countries by I. Barwell
RRP: £135.00£111.30For more than three decades investment in the transport sector has been a priority for developing country governments. With a few exceptions, roads have accounted for the major part of these investments. The explicit, and often articulated, assumption... -
Rural Communities Study Guide by Jan L. Flora
RRP: £135.00£111.30This book examines the process of rural community development and transition-exploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit change as well as the extent to which local community resources can mobilize to support efforts for community... -
On The Beat: Police And Community Problem Solving by Wesley G Skogan
RRP: £135.00£111.70This book focuses on how Chicago actually tried to formulate and implement problem solving as part of a thoroughgoing change in its style of policing. It describes the five-step problem-solving model that the city developed for tackling neighborhood... -
Wide Crossing: The West Africa Rice Development Association in Transition, 1985-2000 by John R. Walsh
RRP: £37.99£33.38This title was first published in 2001. The West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) was established in the early 1970s to help farmers increase rice production. Africa is the only continent whose population has grown faster than its food... -
The Revelation of Nature by Paul Matthews
RRP: £37.99£33.38This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism, aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world... -
Reading Faces: Window To The Soul? by Leslie Zebrowitz
RRP: £135.00£117.68Do we read character in faces? What information do faces actually provide? Why do we associate certain facial qualities with particular character traits? What are the social and psychological consequences of reading character in faces? Zebrowitz unmasks... -
An America Challenged: Population Change And The Future Of The United States by Steve H Murdock
RRP: £35.99£32.09This study looks at the implications of demographic changes in the USA for business, government and the public. Using up-to-date census information, the author provides a brief historical overview of recent demographic change in the USA and explains the... -
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Volume 3: Figurations of Conflict and Resistance by Bryan Turner
RRP: £135.00£117.28At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become inaccessible for large parts of the population. The... -
Urban Medical Centers: Balancing Academic And Patient Care Functions by Eli Ginzberg
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume reports the different ways in which various urban academic health centers are seeking to reposition themselves in order to protect and advance their primary missions of education, biomedical research, and sophisticated patient care.Book... -
Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia: Of Dominance and Diversity by Enqi Weng
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume explores the contradiction between the news coverage given to issues of religion, particularly since 2001 in relation to issues such as terrorism, politics, security and gender, and the fact of its apparent decline according to Census data... -
Risk In The Technological Society by Chris Hohenemser
RRP: £135.00£111.70In this book, representatives of government, industry, universities, and public interest groups consider the emerging art of risk assessment and discuss the issues and problems involved. They look at two failures in technological risk management-Three... -
Researching International Migration: Lessons from the Kerala Experience by K. C. Zachariah
RRP: £43.99£38.44International migration and workers remittances have, of late, become a significant economic and social phenomena affecting the fortunes of millions of families in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Yet, the measurements and... -
Family Life in Transition: Borders, Transnational Mobility, and Welfare Society in Nordic Countries by Johanna Hiitola
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate, adjust, and reconcile family life,... -
Basic Benefits And Clinical Guidelines by David C. Hadorn
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explains how clinical guidelines might be used to define health care needs and basic benefits. It discusses certain technical issues of the model proposal, including the importance of considering both health outcome evidence and patient and... -
The (Magic) Kingdom Of God: Christianity And Global Culture Industries by Michael Budde
RRP: £135.00£117.28In The (Magic) Kingdom of God, Michael Budde offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the ?global culture industries??increasingly powerful, centralized corporate conglomerates in television, advertising, marketing, movies, and the like?and their impact on... -
Exchange of Expertise: The Counterpart System in the New International Order by Irving J. Spitzberg
RRP: £135.00£117.68The vision of the New International Order emphasizes justice and equality. It also raises profound questions about the nature and future of the relationship between postindustrial and Third World countries. The counterpart system describes one aspect of... -
Curing The Crisis: Options For America's Health Care by Michael D Reagan
RRP: £135.00£117.28With private health insurance costs averaging over $300 per month, per person-and with 36 million Americans lacking coverage of any sort-it is easy to understand why health care has captured the public imagination as the domestic policy issue of the... -
High Altitude Geoecology by Patrick J. Webber
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is concerned with section 6 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, "Impact of Human Activities on Temperate and Tropical Mountain and Tundra Ecosystems."Book InformationISBN... -
Community Development And Family Planning: An Egyptian Experiment by J. Mayone Stycos
RRP: £135.00£117.68Program evaluation is not among the most popular of exercises, since it carries risks for all associated with it. Because every important program has friends and enemies anxious for its prosperity or demise, the investigators and their findings will... -
Enlightened Racism: "The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream" by Sut Jhally
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture. It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more... -
Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, an Oral History by Tyler Bay
RRP: £135.00£117.28Minds Stayed on Freedom is a vivid portrait of the civil rights struggle in one Mississippi county. While the national Movement has been painted in broad strokes by journalists and scholars, here the experiences of ordinary people bring definition to the... -
Changing Organizations: Business Networks In The New Political Economy by David Knoke
RRP: £135.00£118.28Efforts by American companies to adapt to intense environmental pressures, arising from incessant technological innovation and fierce competition across global product markets, are dramatically changing how firms and their employees work. Daily headlines...