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Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy by Todd S. Sechser
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's... -
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability by Philip E. Auerswald 9780521857963
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £5.56In the wake of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are increasingly motivated to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on 'critical... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
Booksplease Price: £50.56Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we... -
Profit Power Economics: A New Competitive Strategy for Creating Sustainable Wealth by Mia A.M. de Kuijper
Booksplease Price: £49.20Profit Power Economics is the first comprehensive manual of competitive strategy and value-investing for the economic realities of the 21st century, an age in which information costs are getting... -
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict by Erica Chenoweth 9780231156820
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.64For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting... -
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict by Erica Chenoweth
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting... -
Gun Violence: The Real Costs by Philip J. Cook 9780195153842
Booksplease Price: £38.25100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related... -
Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control by Philip J. Cook 9780691125206
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family... -
In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen 9780674001886
Booksplease Price: £30.25Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the...