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The Global North-South Atlas: Mapping Global Change by Marcin Wojciech Solarz
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29This innovative atlas deconstructs the contemporary image of the North-South divide between developed and underdeveloped countries which was established by the 1980 Brandt Line, and advocates the... -
The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems by Bryan D. Jones
Booksplease Price: $66.65On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and education to health care and defense. This has been... -
Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County by Jean C. Oi 9781503604001
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly... -
Postrevolutionary Iran: The Leader, The People, and the Three Powers by R. R. Asaadi 9781793620309
Booksplease Price: $167.02How is Iran governed? Is the state accountable to its society? How have Iran's political institutions evolved since the 1979 revolution? In short, Postrevolutionary Iran: the Leader, the People, and... -
Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action by Masooda Bano 9780804781329
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $59.53Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in... -
Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail Sasha Davis 9781517919511
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16A practical call to action against oppression Across the globe, millions of people have participated in protests and marches, donated to political groups, or lobbied their representatives with the... -
Ethics and Crisis Management by Lina Svedin 9781617354960
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $76.36The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public's trust in... -
Innovations in Financing Public Services: Country Case Studies by Pekka Valkama 9781349317356
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public... -
International Taxation and the Extractive Industries by Philip Daniel
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue. This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview... -
Wisconsin Politics and Government: America's Laboratory of Democracy by James K. Conant
Booksplease Price: $68.45Throughout the twentieth century, Wisconsin won national visibility and praise for its role as a "laboratory of democracy" within the American federal system. In Wisconsin Politics and Government... -
Human Entanglement Theory: A Quantum Approach to the Study of All-Encompassing Human Communication Christian Aspalter 9789819751600
Booksplease Price: $216.51This innovative book has combined the latest drive to integrate the findings and principles of quantum mechanics and quantum technology, especially here quantum computing, into the flamboyant world... -
American Politics and Society Today by Robert Singh 9780745625263
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $103.94From the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton to the 2000 elections and George W. Bush's presidency, American politics has been marked by controversy. American Politics and Society Today analyses these... -
Global Commodity Governance: State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification by Fred Gale 9780230516632
Booksplease Price: $90.25The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market incentives to encourage sustainable management... -
Ethics and Crisis Management by Lina Svedin 9781617354977
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $131.24The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public's trust in... -
BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing by Shakeel Ali 9781849513944
Booksplease Price: $89.90Written as an interactive tutorial, this book covers the core of BackTrack with real-world examples and step-by-step instructions to provide professional guidelines and recommendations to you. The... -
From Knowledge Abstraction to Management: Using Ranganathan's Faceted Schema to Develop Conceptual Frameworks for Digital Libraries by Aparajita Suman 9781843347033
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $98.63The increasing volume of information in the contemporary world entails demand for efficient knowledge management (KM) systems; a logical method of information organization that will allow proper... -
Strengthening the Human Right to Sanitation as an Instrument for Inclusive Development by Pedi Chiemena Obani 9781138618480
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $224.19Over a third of the current 7.3 billion people worldwide are burdened with poor sanitation services. The resulting social, relational and ecological exclusion make the realisation of the human right... -
Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crises in Turkey: Perspectives from Actors by Emrah Atar 9781666915761
Booksplease Price: $159.88Refugee and migration crises are among the most heartrending and troubling humanitarian issues of this century. These crises are particularly evident in the case of Syria, where, since 2011, civil... -
Health Management 2.0: Transformational Leadership for Challenging Times by Usman Khan 9781800433458
Booksplease Price: $97.29From precision medicine to pandemics, from value-based healthcare to stakeholder engagement, European health systems are facing unprecedented change. How can health managers cope with these... -
Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context: A Comparative Study of Policy Transfer in Samoa and Tonga by Timothy Philip Fadgen 9789811564789
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the... -
Contingent Capital: Short-term Investors and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in France and Germany by Michel Goyer 9780199578085
Booksplease Price: $224.02Corporate Governance has become a major topic of interest for both academics and policy-makers in recent years. The advent of major financial scandals in the early 2000s (Enron, WorldCom, Ahold,... -
The Mayflower by Kate Caffrey 9781442242487
Booksplease Price: $39.02The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to... -
State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India by K. S. Subramanian 9780815393009
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29This book discusses the history of unrest and conflict in Northeast India from 1947 to the present day. A perceptive study on public policy and its delivery in the region, the volume highlights that... -
The Politics of Budgets: Getting a Piece of the Pie by Christine S. Lipsmeyer 9781107179318
Booksplease Price: $188.78While governments prefer to alter budgets to fit their ideological stances, the domestic and international contexts can facilitate or constrain behavior. The Politics of Budgets demonstrates when... -
Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context: A Comparative Study of Policy Transfer in Samoa and Tonga by Timothy Philip Fadgen 9789811564819
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the... -
Global Governance from Regional Perspectives: A Critical View by Anna Triandafyllidou 9780198793342
Booksplease Price: $204.83Global Governance from Regional Perspectives argues that the academic debate on global governance has neglected the combination of power with value constellations/culture. Both input and output... -
Register–based Statistics – Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes by A Wallgren 9780470027783
RRP: $206.60Booksplease Price: $185.66There is a growing interest in developing register-based surveys; that is surveys based upon already available administrative data. Since huge amounts of such data are generated within various... -
Becoming Europeans?: Attitudes, Behaviour, and Socialization in the European Parliament by Roger Scully 9780199284320
Booksplease Price: $109.67An almost universal point of agreement in contemporary political science is that 'institutions matter'. But the governing institutions of the European Union are widely presumed to matter more than... -
Institutional Investor Activism: Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation by William Bratton 9780198723943
Booksplease Price: $191.53The past two decades has witnessed unprecedented changes in the corporate governance landscape in Europe, the US and Asia. Across many countries, activist investors have pursued engagements with... -
Building Global Democracy?: Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance by Jan Aart Scholte 9780521140553
Booksplease Price: $69.75The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems... -
Building Global Democracy?: Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance by Jan Aart Scholte 9780521192194
Booksplease Price: $175.29The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems... -
These Estimable Courts: Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making by Damon M. Cann 9780199307210
Booksplease Price: $143.87In These Estimable Courts Damon Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America -- our nation's state... -
Waste Management for Global Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of China-US Policies and Practices Haifeng Huang 9789819683048
Booksplease Price: $195.37This book represents a pioneering contribution to the study of municipal solid waste and the policies that can mitigate its negative impact on both the environment and the economy. It is structured... -
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $7.14***********************Lisbeth Salander returns to take her revenge in the most explosive novel of the series - 100 million copies of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide"Complex,... -
Strategic Performance Management Bernard Marr 9780750663922
Booksplease Price: $143.70This book is about strategic performance management for the Twenty-First Century organization. In a practical step-by-step approach it navigates readers though the identification, measurement, and... -
Developmental States beyond East Asia by Jewellord T. Nem Singh
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of both successful and failed state-led development,... -
Social Housing in Transition Countries by Nora Teller
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about... -
The Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State by S. Sawyer 9781137463210
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.46International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous... -
The Internal Market as a Legal Concept by Stephen Weatherill 9780198794806
Booksplease Price: $224.02What does the 'internal market' mean? The EU is committed to the construction of an internal market, and in this analysis Stephen Weatherill explains that the EU's internal market is an ambiguous... -
The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841 by Elaine K. Swift 9780472107025
Booksplease Price: $164.81At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a Senate that was nothing short of an American House of Lords. Until the early 1800s, it remained the insulated, legislatively reactive,...