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Growth and Inequality in Pakistan by Keith Griffin 9781349012770
Booksplease Price: £45.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349012770Author Keith GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher... -
Emotional Logic and Decision Making: The Interface Between Professional Upheaval and Personal Evolution by Christian Bourion 9781403945082
Booksplease Price: £45.92In recent years there has been considerable interest in emotional intelligence. Drawing upon a rich theoretical and philosophical tradition, the author explains the concept and process of emotional... -
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center by Linda Tarte Holley 9781349289530
Booksplease Price: £45.92This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and... -
Robertson on Economic Policy by S. R. Dennison 9781349125036
Booksplease Price: £45.92Examines the work of Dennis Holme Robertson in the field of economics. Chapters examine his life as well as his policy papers, including his study of industrial fluctuations and the role of... -
Economics, Politics and Budgets: The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidations in Europe by Carlos Mulas-Granados 9781403999429
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.84Motivated by the proliferation of fiscal consolidation episodes in the advent of Monetary Union, this book explains the causes and consequences of fiscal policy in Europe, using theory and empirical... -
Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy by C. Lindsay 9781349346004
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of... -
Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights by Wendy L. Bowcher 9781349321407
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.84A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts. The illuminating... -
Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions: Models of Political Rationality by A. Drury 9781349529971
Booksplease Price: £45.92Economic sanctions: panacea, symbolic but ineffectual, or useless and counterproductive? While these questions have framed much the existing debate, Drury digs deeper to why foreign policy leaders,... -
Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues by Omid Tofighian 9781137580436
Booksplease Price: £48.82This book rethinks Plato's creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently... -
Civil Servants and Politics: A Delicate Balance by Luc Verhey 9781349338726
Booksplease Price: £45.92This comparative study focuses on the changing relations between civil servants and politicians in the European Union in the last two decades. As well as national case studies this book also looks... -
Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research by Nick Hubble 9781349351428
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist... -
Export Success and Industrial Linkages: The Case of Readymade Garments in South Asia by S. Khan 9781349375516
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book uses an analysis of the garment industry in South Asia to uphold the predictions of neo-classical economic trade theory, but suggest that there is little to learn from it about business,... -
Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture: Challenging the Executive Mind by D. Swanson 9781137300072
Booksplease Price: £45.92Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture demonstrates that a new frontier for corporate social responsibility is possible in theory and practice. The key idea - discovery leadership - enables corporate... -
Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development by Abbas Mirakhor 9781349288311
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book briefly surveys the evolution of the Western concept of development, recognizing the wider dimensions of human and economic development and the role of institutions and rules, which has... -
Researching Education with Marginalized Communities by Mike Danaher 9781137012678
Booksplease Price: £45.92This collection provides evidence-based strategies for conducting effective and ethical education research with individuals and groups who are marginalised from mainstream society. The book explores... -
Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Volume 1: Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society in Asia by F. Quadir 9781403918833
Booksplease Price: £45.92This edited volume brings together a number of well-known scholars and activists from various parts of the world to present critical perspectives on recent and long term trends in the economic,... -
Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective by Marc Hooghe 9781403962195
Booksplease Price: £45.92Social capital - networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust - is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the... -
Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media by Jaffer Sheyholislami 9781137563873
Booksplease Price: £45.92Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless... -
Globalization, Women, and Health in the Twenty-First Century by Ilona Kickbusch 9781349532001
Booksplease Price: £45.92We are still only beginning to understand the increasingly complex set of interdependencies among gender, health and globalization. This book brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars... -
Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: A Move to the Left by Juan Pablo Ferrero 9781349484119
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence of left-wing politics in two of the largest South American nations: Argentina and Brazil. It looks in particular at the transformation of... -
A Handbook of Verification Procedures by Brigadier Michael Harbottle 9781349110438
Booksplease Price: £45.92An examination of how, in practice, the effective verification of various arms control treaties - including a comprehensive test ban treaty, conventional forces reductions, a fissile material cut-off... -
Subversion, Sexuality and the Virtual Self by Jude Elund 9781137468338
Booksplease Price: £45.92The text analyses identities within virtual on-screen environments. Investigating regions in Second Life, it explores topical issues of the body in virtual space, nature and mythology in virtual... -
Language, Logic and Epistemology: A Modal-Realist Approach by C. Norris 9781403921659
Booksplease Price: £45.92Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to... -
Is God a Scientist?: A Dialogue Between Science and Religion by R. Crawford 9781403916884
Booksplease Price: £45.92The scriptures of the Faiths use models to depict what God is like; namely Father, Mother, Husband, Judge, Lover, Friend, shepherd and so on. Science also uses models to advance its knowledge, and in... -
Why American Foreign Policy Fails: Unsafe at Home and Despised Abroad by Dennis C. Jett 9781403965035
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book explores the recent changes in U.S. foreign policy, examines the roles that the six primary actors (the President, the Congress, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media... -
Embedding Human Rights in Prison: English and Dutch Perspectives by Anastasia Karamalidou 9781349954414
Booksplease Price: £80.08This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. Over the years changes in Dutch penal policy have smoothed to some degree the sharp contrasting... -
The Literature of Place by Professor Norman Page 9781349115075
Booksplease Price: £41.05This collection of essays discusses writers who have in common their use of the English language. The authors are from all over the world and their subject matter ranges from Shakespeare to Hardy,... -
Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks by E. Fisher 9781137310811
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book explores the new terrain of network capitalism through the transformations of the discourse on technology. Rather than viewing such discourse as either a true or false reflection of... -
The Book of the Knight of the Tower: Manners for Young Medieval Women by Rebecca Barnhouse 9781403969910
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book explores knightly stories of medieval manners and is a commentary on what people in the middle ages wore, how they prayed and what they hoped for in this life and the next. These stories... -
Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question by P. Larrivee 9781349664887
Booksplease Price: £45.92In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status... -
Unequal Actors in Equalising Institutions: Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly by Diana Panke 9781349472949
Booksplease Price: £45.92This book explores the interplay between formal rules and real world differences, questioning to what extent size-related capacities between states matters for the dynamics and outcomes of... -
European Social Movements and Muslim Activism: Another World but with Whom? by Timothy Peace 9781137463999
Booksplease Price: £45.92How do progressive social movements deal with religious pluralism? In this book, Timothy Peace uses the example of the alter-globalisation movement to explain why social movement leaders in Britain... -
The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction by Kevin Paul Smith 9781349352661
Booksplease Price: £45.92Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to... -
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon by Timothy R. Robbins 9781137444707
Booksplease Price: £45.92Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are... -
Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World: Experiences of Australia and Japan by E. Healy 9781349705009
Booksplease Price: £45.92Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World examines the ways in which two very different societies, Australia and Japan, have dealt with challenges to their cultural and institutional... -
Building the Innovative Organization: Management Systems that encourage Innovation by J. Christiansen 9781349422487
Booksplease Price: £45.92Traditional management systems were designed to manage routine operations, not to manage innovation. The kinds of management systems we typically have in large companies throw up many roadblocks to... -
The Moral Economy Reconsidered: Russia's Search For Agrarian Capitalism by Stephen K. Wegren 9781403969507
Booksplease Price: £45.92Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, it examines the how the rural... -
Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition by J. Kornai 9781349528141
Booksplease Price: £45.92Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust. But trust is a delicate matter, not least in the former socialist countries where illegitimate behaviour by governments... -
Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work by Mark Addleson 9781349338924
Booksplease Price: £45.92Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite... -
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq by Ofira Seliktar 9781349372232
Booksplease Price: £45.92Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD and more...