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Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance: How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor by Brian Warby
Booksplease Price: $117.22This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and... -
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kunstler 9780802121448
Booksplease Price: $17.18James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's... -
Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization by Vivien A. Schmidt 9780521036054
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.68The focus of this 1991 book is on the decentralization reforms legislated by the Socialist government in France from 1982 to 1986. These reforms redefined the role of the central state in the... -
Diversity of Capitalisms in Latin America by Ilan Bizberg 9783319955360
Booksplease Price: $117.21"One of the definite merits of this book is to cleverly mix a theoretical breakthrough with a meticulous historical and empirical account of the transformations of some key Latin American... -
Photography as Social Transformation: How the Idea of Change Helps Us to Understand the Taking, Sharing and Debating of Images by Maciej Frąckowiak 9781032592671
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $47.91Photography as Social Transformation resituates the practices of photography within contemporary sociological thinking. It examines how photography influences and shapes social order in the social... -
The Nationalization of American Politics by William M. Lunch 9780520329287
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $49.63The Nationalization of American Politics delves into the profound shifts in American political dynamics, focusing on the transformation of political parties and the rise of ideological frameworks... -
Who Participates in Global Governance?: States, bureaucracies, and NGOs in the United Nations by Molly A. Ruhlman
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Why are non-state actors sometimes granted participation rights in international organizations? This book argues that IOs, and the states that compose them, systematically pursue their interests when... -
Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law by Olufemi Taiwo 9780801428517
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.95Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a... -
Market as a Weapon: The Socio-economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia by Lionel S. Lewis 9781138511903
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25Power is all-encompassing in Russia, and mediates most interactions among people, including everyday decisions. Even the recent administrative reforms in the country, which began at the end of the... -
Sustainability and Firms: Technological Change and the Changing Regulatory Environment by Sylvie Faucheux 9781858988092
Booksplease Price: $150.26This important book addresses the prospects for reconciling economic competitiveness with sustainable development. It shows that we cannot simply assume that changes in public attitudes, business... -
The Practices of Global Citizenship by Hans Schattle 9780742538986
Booksplease Price: $145.91What is global citizenship, exactly? Are we all global citizens? In The Practices of Global Citizenship, Hans Schattle provides a striking account of how global citizenship is taking on much greater... -
Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation by Monika Dommann
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.42Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze... -
Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law by Iris Chiu
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the... -
Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law by Olufemi Taiwo
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.96Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a... -
The Nationalization of American Politics by William M. Lunch
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.03The Nationalization of American Politics delves into the profound shifts in American political dynamics, focusing on the transformation of political parties and the rise of ideological frameworks... -
Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944 by Dallas Michelbacher 9780253047380
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56Between Romania's entry into World War II in 1941 and the ouster of dictator Ion Antonescu three years later, over 105,000 Jews were forced to work in internment and labor camps, labor battalions,... -
Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture by Jacob Deem 9780228017363
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Federal countries face innumerable challenges including public health crises, economic uncertainty, and widespread public distrust in governing institutions. They are also home to 40 per cent of the... -
Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics by Naomi Zack 9781538120125
Booksplease Price: $43.20Naomi Zack's Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship... -
Introduction to Company Law by Paul Davies 9780198854913
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $140.65Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a political salience that was largely absent in the... -
Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization by Vivien A. Schmidt 9780521391566
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $128.65The focus of this 1991 book is on the decentralization reforms legislated by the Socialist government in France from 1982 to 1986. These reforms redefined the role of the central state in the... -
Making Institutions Work in Peru: Democracy, Development and Inequality Since 1980 by John Crabtree 9781900039703
Booksplease Price: $36.86The 2006 Peruvian elections are an appropriate moment to reflect on Alejandro Toledo's term as president and on the broader agenda for building a more inclusive and democratic government. In a... -
The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance by Rita Kiki Edozie 9781611861365
Booksplease Price: $80.86The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development by Carol Lancaster 9780199845156
RRP: $209.63Booksplease Price: $144.56In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically... -
Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries by Joakim Palme 9781403941633
Booksplease Price: $116.82This volume examines the relationship between Nordic social policy and economic development from a comparative perspective. It identifies the driving forces behind the development of the Nordic... -
Citizenship Education and Social Development in Zambia by 9781607523932
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $81.58Zambia, the butterfly-shaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other Sub-Saharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s... -
Principles of Financial Regulation by John Armour 9780198786481
RRP: $57.39Booksplease Price: $54.32The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As... -
Local Governance in Timor-Leste: Lessons in postcolonial state-building by Deborah Cummins
Booksplease Price: $142.40Across many parts of the postcolonial world, it is everyday reality for people to cross regularly between state-based and customary governance, institutions and norms. This book examines this... -
Introduction to Company Law by Paul Davies
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $53.30Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a political salience that was largely absent in the... -
Contractual Certainty in International Trade: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Debates on Institutional Support for Global Economic Exchanges by Volkmar Gessner
Booksplease Price: $123.57Global business interacts efficiently despite the heterogeneity of social, economic and legal cultures which, according to widespread assumptions, cause insecurities and uncertainties. Breaches of... -
US Government and Politics by William Storey
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.50The US political system is designed to ensure that freedom and opportunity will always be protected, by making it almost impossible for power to become concentrated in the hands of a few people... -
At the Core and in the Margins: Incorporation of Mexican Immigrants in Two Rural Midwestern Communities by Julia Albarrac?¡n
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $32.50Beardstown and Monmouth, Illinois, two rural Midwestern towns, have been transformed by immigration in the last three decades. This book examines how Mexican immigrants who have made these towns... -
The Colonial Towns of Piedmont North Carolina Christopher E. Hendricks 9781621909002
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.95How do towns come into existence? What circumstances determine whether they succeed or fail? In The Colonial Towns of Piedmont North Carolina, author Christopher E. Hendricks looks at one region in... -
Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order by David P. Billington 9780313321795
Booksplease Price: $97.79This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table (Journal of International Affairs) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following... -
Citizenship Education and Social Development in Zambia by 9781607523925
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.23Zambia, the butterfly-shaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other Sub-Saharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s... -
Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty by James P. Hawley 9781107035874
Booksplease Price: $129.30The Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional... -
Brexiternity: The Uncertain Fate of Britain by Denis MacShane
Booksplease Price: $17.34Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state. Brexit has the potential to change everything -... -
Hamiltonia: A State and Local Government Simulation by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky 9781538192498
Booksplease Price: $66.44Students in state and local politics courses frequently have low levels of prior knowledge about the topic and even lower levels of engagement. Hamiltonia: A State Government Simulation promotes... -
A Matter of Style: Organizational Agency in Global Public Policy by Louisa Bayerlein
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $98.56International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global governance, contributing to what some have described as the 'bureaucratization of world politics'. While we do... -
Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico by Arlene Davila
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27"Now everybody loves Puerto Rican culture," says a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, "but that's exactly the problem." Thus begins this major examination of cultural nationalism as a... -
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts Patrick Dias 9780805821482
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site...