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Education, Globalisation and the State: Essays in Honour of Roger Dale by Xavier Bonal 9781433181658
RRP: $159.71Booksplease Price: $141.75This book pays tribute to an intellectual giant. The twenty-one succinct chapters comprising the volume, and the variety of scholars who have authored them, are indicative of his intellectual,... -
Land Grabbing and Global Governance Matias E. Margulis (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) 9780415628341
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.26Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land... -
Rethinking Corporate Governance: The Law and Economics of Control Powers Alessio Pacces 9781138191259
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.45The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders... -
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems: Modeling with BPMN, OCL, IFML, and Python by Raul Sidnei Wazlawick 9780443137396
RRP: $136.40Booksplease Price: $124.53Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems, Second Edition clearly explains real object-oriented programming in practice. Expert author Raul Sidnei Wazlawick explains concepts such... -
Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation Prof Paula Diehl 9780198934905
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $201.50This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political... -
Financial Innovations and Monetary Reform: How to Get Out of the Debt Trap by Jean-François Serval 9783031241888
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.85Written by two leading experts on multinational accounting and billion-dollar international investment funds, this book provides a framework for a global reform of the world monetary system, and... -
Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System: Two Decades of Rural Local Governance by Atul Sarma 9789811354465
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important... -
Social Safety Net Programs in Bangladesh: Fighting Food Insecurity during COVID-19 Jannatul Ferdous 9789819511556
Booksplease Price: $78.86This book highlights the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Bangladesh's marginalised communities and the pivotal role of Social Safety Net Programs (SSNPs) in alleviating poverty and food... -
Government: Have Presidents and Prime Ministers Misdiagnosed the Patient? by Donald J. Savoie 9780228011095
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27Citizens have lost trust in their institutions of public governance. In trying to fix the problem, presidents and prime ministers have misdiagnosed the patient, failing to recognize that government... -
Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication, and Resistance by Christelle Fischer-Bovet 9781108479257
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the Hellenistic world. This book provides a systematic comparison of the roles of local... -
Case Studies on Sustainability in the Food Industry: Dealing With a Rapidly Growing Population by Samuel O. Idowu
Booksplease Price: $97.19The world's population continues to grow year after year, putting pressure on all global resources. This book provides examples of how we can deal with all the challenges associated with aspects of... -
Digital Government and Public Management: Generating Public Sector Innovation at the Crossroads of Research and Practice by J. Ramon Gil-Garcia 9781032193441
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70In every part of the world information and technology are changing society and challenging the structures, roles, and management of traditional government institutions. At the same time, universal... -
Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society by Emile Nakhleh 9780739168585
Booksplease Price: $98.15The book is a study of political development in Bahrain during the first five years after its independence in 1971. It is based on field research done by the author as the first senior Fulbright... -
Finance and Sustainability: Proceedings from the 2nd Finance and Sustainability Conference, Wroclaw 2018 by Karolina Daszynska-Zygadlo 9783030344030
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $230.56This volume presents the proceedings of the ZAFIN Finance and Sustainability conference, organized by the Wroclaw University of Economics in cooperation with Corvinus University of Budapest and the... -
What's Good for Business: Business and American Politics since World War II by Kim Phillips-Fein 9780199754007
Booksplease Price: $74.17This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the... -
Indonesia's International Economic Strategies by Kiki Verico 9789819984572
Booksplease Price: $235.45This book discusses Indonesia's international economic strategies. It examines unilateral aspects, foreign direct investments, bilateral economic relations, regional elements, ASEAN's role, and the... -
Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management: Conditions for Regime Change and Sustainability by Stefan Kuks 9781402024818
Booksplease Price: $190.81All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union... -
Water Governance for Sustainable Development: Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries by Stefano Farolfi
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly... -
Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies Kenneth Omeje 9781138492028
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa. It evaluates the... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in... -
Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa by Ina Kubbe
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book investigates the pervasive problem of corruption across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on the specifics of the local context, the book explores how corruption in the region is... -
African Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Taylor 9780198806578
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected... -
Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management by Katherine Barrett 9781538125670
Booksplease Price: $108.59As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process improvement, research and... -
The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South Ola G. El-Taliawi 9780228021186
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Mass refugee movements represent a complex policy problem to host governments as they challenge existing socio-economic and political structures. While scholarship on refugee migration tends to... -
The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History Bryan Jones 9780197770429
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $41.79A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the... -
Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge by Christian Dustmann 9780198803690
Booksplease Price: $49.75The changing economic reality of the last decades has prompted large movements of people across and within national borders, which, in turn, have given rise to new opportunities and challenges. This... -
Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe by W Bartlett 9781349347179
Booksplease Price: $98.15Decentralisation is changing the face of South East Europe. This book provides practical analysis of the devolutionary measures reshaping post-Communist economies. Using case studies from Croatia,... -
Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust Elizabeth Mitchell Elder 9780226844534
Booksplease Price: $56.64Reveals the deep, historical roots of public distrust in former mining areas in the US, shedding new light on the corrosive feedback loops that persist today. In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell... -
Devolution and the Governance of Northern Ireland by Colin Knox
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $158.55This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland for almost forty years. It traces the tortuous... -
The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm and Inequality Victoria Collins 9781138584778
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm, the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism and the ways in which our everyday... -
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China by Robert J. Antony
Booksplease Price: $193.62Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs... -
Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters by Christopher L. Atkinson
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.14In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government,... -
Millennium Trilogy Boxed Set by Sylvain Runberg
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $69.64Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikel Blompkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to investigate a unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious computer... -
The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia by Gwen Burnyeat 9780226821627
Booksplease Price: $59.96A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace. Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan... -
Strategic Risk Management: A Research Overview by Torben Juul Andersen 9781032475363
Booksplease Price: $42.29Organizations face challenges in adapting their current business and operational activities to dynamic contexts. Successful companies share a common characteristic of dealing with the emergent risks... -
Interpreting China's Economy by Gregory C. Chow 9789814317955
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $45.82This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert. Beginning with... -
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy by Steven O. Richardson 9780415747349
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process. It addresses the... -
Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies by Courtney Freer 9780190861995
Booksplease Price: $211.97While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier... -
The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė 9781501769771
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $79.70In The Will to Predict, Egle Rindzeviciute demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of scientific... -
Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance: Volume 2 by B. Espen Eckbo 9780444530905
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $246.23This second volume of a two-part series examines three major topics. First, it devotes five chapters to the classical issue of capital structure choice. Second, it focuses on the value-implications...