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Democratic Governance and Economic Performance: How Accountability Can Go Too Far in Politics, Law, and Business by Dino Falaschetti 9781461417217
Booksplease Price: £91.90Conventional wisdom warns that unaccountable political and business agents can enrich a few at the expense of many. But logically extending this wisdom implies that associated principals - voters,... -
Governing after Communism: Institutions and Policymaking by Vesselin Dimitrov 9780742540095
Booksplease Price: £56.12This timely comparative analysis explores the evolution of governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The book considers post-communist leaders' key challenge: the development of central government... -
Anti-Money Laundering: International Law and Practice by Wouter H. Muller 9780470033197
RRP: £131.00Booksplease Price: £118.32Anti-Money Laundering is the definitive reference on money laundering and practice. First an outline will be given of the general approach taken by supra-national organisations like the United... -
Transforming Government and Building the Information Society: Challenges and Opportunities for the Developing World by Nagy K. Hanna 9781441978455
Booksplease Price: £90.56Information and communication technology (ICT) is central to reforming governance, innovating public services, and building inclusive information societies. Countries are learning to weave ICT into... -
Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana's Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries by Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei 9783031123771
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic... -
Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants by Christine Oppong 9781032515052
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration, paid employment, and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies, in decision making in households, and in the sexual division of... -
Bronze Age Metalwork: Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC by Heide W. Norgaard 9781789690194
Booksplease Price: £87.25Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork... -
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines by Reo Matsuzaki
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.05How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the... -
Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions by Oyeniyi Abe 9781032268309
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing... -
The Political Economy of the European Union Dermot McCann (London Metropolitan University) 9780745638911
Booksplease Price: £24.63The core business of the European Union is the creation of an integrated European market. The scale of this project is enormous, covering a wide variety of national 'models' of capitalism, many of... -
Doing Business in India by Rajesh Kumar 9781137284525
Booksplease Price: £46.28The aim of this book is to analyze the nature of European and North American firms' business experience in India with a particular emphasis on understanding the causes of their successes and failure... -
Public Space: The Management Dimension by Professor Matthew Carmona 9780415396493
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have... -
The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico by Roderic Ai Camp 9780199742851
Booksplease Price: £112.65The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico is a broad analysis of Mexico's changing leadership over the past eight decades, stretching from its pre-democratic era (1935-1988), to its... -
Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance: Volume 1 by B. Espen Eckbo 9780444508980
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £117.25Judging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms' financing and investment decisions-empirical corporate finance-has become a dominant field in... -
Political Power and Economic Inequality: A Comparative Policy Approach by Charles F. Andrain 9781442252769
Booksplease Price: £40.79Political Power and Economic Inequality offers a balanced comparative analysis of worldwide income inequality. Charles F. Andrain explores the ways that government institutions, political parties,... -
Sustainability in Global Companies: Theory and Practice Samuel O Idowu 9783031779701
Booksplease Price: £70.88This textbook focuses on how sustainability is practiced in companies in different sectors of the global economy - examples include aviation, banking, energy, financial services, food, manufacturing,... -
Entrepreneurship education and training: insights from Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique by World Bank 9781464802782
Booksplease Price: £28.57Empirical research has found that entrepreneurial activity correlates positively with innovation and job creation, and governments around the world have shown a growing interest in interventions that... -
Forest Policy, Economics, and Markets in Zambia by Philimon Ng'Andwe 9780128040904
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.02This book is the result of over ten years of field research across Zambia. It covers the production and diverse uses of wood and non-wood forest products in different parts of Zambia. Although a... -
The Political Economy of the European Union by Dermot McCann 9780745638904
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53The core business of the European Union is the creation of an integrated European market. The scale of this project is enormous, covering a wide variety of national 'models' of capitalism, many of... -
Global Governance and China: The Dragon's Learning Curve by Scott Kennedy
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This volume offers systematic analysis of China's growing engagement in global governance institutions over the past three decades. During this period, China has gone from outsider to observer to... -
Learning Korean: A Language Guide for Beginners: Learn to Speak, Read and Write Korean Quickly! (Free Online Audio & Flashcards) by Julie Damron
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Learn to speak, read, and write Korean-with manga illustrations!A complete language guide for beginners, Learning Korean is your gateway to learning the basics of the Korean language, allowing you to... -
Creative Insecurity: Institutional Inertia and Youth Potential in the GCC by Dania Thafer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.17The Middle East is experiencing the world's most prominent youth bulge. Yet many MENA economies' institutional designs, both formal and informal, favour the power of business elites, systematically... -
European Perspectives for Public Administration: The Way Forward Geert Bouckaert 9789462702035
Booksplease Price: £35.35The public sector in our society has over the past two decades undergone substantial changes, as has the academic field studying Public Administration (PA). In the next twenty years major shifts are... -
Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the Diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6 by Roger Middleton 9780197265000
Booksplease Price: £57.60The rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of the 1964-6 Wilson government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan... -
Social Welfare Policies and Programmes in South Asia by Channaveer R. M. 9780367777326
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the social welfare policies and programmes devised to address different societal issues and concerns across the South Asian countries. It focuses on the design and delivery of... -
The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma: Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice by Monica Williams 9781479836499
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their... -
The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World by David Skarbek 9780190672492
Booksplease Price: £112.35Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison... -
Business and the Roberts Court by Jonathan H. Adler 9780199859344
Booksplease Price: £56.97In recent years, the Supreme Court appears to have taken a greater interest in "business" issues. Does this reflect a change in the Court's orientation, or is it the natural outcome of the appellate... -
Progressive Capitalism in Britain: Pillars for a New Political Economy by Patrick Diamond 9780992870539
Booksplease Price: £21.68The debate surrounding economic policy in the UK has recently been heavily focused on determining the appropriate response to the financial crisis and recession. There has been less discussion about... -
The Cryptocurrency and Digital Asset Fraud Casebook, Volume III: Exchange Hacks, Deepfakes, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence Scams Jason Scharfman 9783031841071
Booksplease Price: £56.12Cryptocurrencies and digital assets have continued to gain widespread acceptance from both retail and institutional investors. Alongside this rapid growth, the digital ecosystem remains plagued by... -
The Privatisation of British Rail: How Not to Run a Railway by Sean McCartney 9781032494388
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous component parts and sold off to private sector... -
Co-Production and Co-Creation: Engaging Citizens in Public Services by Taco Brandsen
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in... -
The Case for Community Wealth Building Joe Guinan 9781509539031
Booksplease Price: £14.48Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration Christopher Pollitt 9781784712334
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.88Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible... -
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Millennium Volume 3 by Stieg Larsson 9781785863455
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.02The Millennium saga continues with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest! From the bestselling novel series by Steig Larsson come this English translation of the phenomenal French comics adaptation! ... -
Mathematical Population Dynamics and Epidemiology in Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Domains by Harkaran Singh 9781774631539
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £72.84Mankind now faces even more challenging environment- and health-related problems than ever before. Readily available transportation systems facilitate the swift spread of diseases as large... -
The Cryptocurrency and Digital Asset Fraud Casebook, Volume II: DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, Meme Coins, and Other Digital Asset Hacks by Jason Scharfman 9783031608353
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £56.12Cryptocurrencies and digital assets have continued to gain widespread acceptance from both retail and institutional investors. As part of this continued growth, there has been an unfortunate series... -
Iran and the World in the Safavid Age by Edmund Herzig 9781780769905
Booksplease Price: £27.88I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationThe Safavid era is of special significance in the history of Iran. Under the Safavids - between the sixteenth and the mideighteenth century... -
Bristol from Below - Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City by Steve Poole
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics... -
My Egypt Archive by Alan Mikhail
Booksplease Price: £21.69A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy...