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American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure Cal Jillson 9781032885087
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the dangerous tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our... -
Russian Government and Politics by Eric Shiraev 9781352007787
Booksplease Price: £46.14Few countries have been transformed as rapidly and dramatically as Russia since the end of the Communist regime. Yet the more that certain things change in Russia, the more others remain the same... -
Public Management in an Information Age: Towards Strategic Public Information Management Albert Meijer (Utrecht University, Netherlands) 9781350343870
Booksplease Price: £43.09New information and communication technologies have drastically changed public management. Public managers are increasingly dependent on information gathered form complex systems and they need to be... -
Tangled Governance: International Regime Complexity, the Troika, and the Euro Crisis by C. Randall Henning 9780198801801
Booksplease Price: £44.36Tangled Governance addresses the institutions that were deployed to fight the euro crisis, reestablish financial stability in Europe, and prevent contagion to the rest of the world. Henning explains... -
Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know by Herbert B. Asher 9781506352428
Booksplease Price: £63.82Polling and the Public helps readers become savvy consumers of public opinion polls, offering solid grounding on how the media cover them, their use in campaigns and elections, and their... -
The Trouble with Lawyers by Deborah L. Rhode 9780190933753
Booksplease Price: £28.55By any measure, the law as a profession is in serious trouble. Americans' trust in lawyers is at a low, and many members of the profession wish they had chosen a different path. Law schools, with... -
A World of Three Cultures: Honor, Achievement and Joy by Miguel E. Basanez 9780190270377
Booksplease Price: £45.60In this book, Miguel Basanez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development. Drawing on data from governments, NGOs, the World Values Survey and more addressing over one... -
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies for Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.08New ways to think in unprecedented times.Named a "must read" by Susan Cain, "endlessly fascinating" by Daniel Pink, and "bursting with practical insights" by Adam Grant.In this accessible and... -
Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics Earl R. Babbie 9781544398006
Booksplease Price: £118.51This text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to data conceptualization, measurement, and association through active learning. Students get step-by-step instruction on data analysis using the... -
Higher Education System Reform: An International Comparison after Twenty Years of Bologna by Bruno Broucker 9789004400108
Booksplease Price: £57.90The Bologna Declaration started the development of the European Higher Education Area. The ensuing Bologna Process has run for already 20 years now. In the meantime many higher education systems in... -
Multinational Firms in China: Entry Strategies, Competition, and Firm Performance by Sea-Jin Chang 9780198743231
Booksplease Price: £40.58As a consequence of aggressive competition, Chinese industries have become increasingly consolidated. While the extent to which emerging local firms can challenge well-established multinational firms... -
A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making: History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples by Paul Frijters 9780192896803
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £117.94This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No... -
People, Planet and Profit: Socio-Economic Perspectives of CSR Samuel O. Idowu 9781032836959
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44It is no longer the case that it EURO s only society which benefits from CSR actions. A corporation actually helps itself when operating sustainably and does well because of its triple bottom line... -
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations by John A. Booth 9780521734202
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of... -
The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent? by Michael Naughton 9780230390614
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body- the Criminal Cases Review Commission- to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up following notorious cases such as the Birmingham... -
China's International Energy Relations: The Impact of Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables Hao Tan 9781108844376
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £91.39This book presents a comprehensive account of China's evolving international energy relations (IER) as the world's largest energy user transitions from fossil fuels to renewables amidst significant... -
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations by John A. Booth
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.25Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of... -
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management by Christopher Pollitt 9780857935434
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.70Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management offers a major reconsideration of patterns in long-term policymaking and organizational change. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert use... -
How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa Yonatan L. Morse (University of Connecticut) 9781108474764
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.43Most autocrats now hold unfair elections, yet how they compete in them and manipulate them differs greatly. How Autocrats Compete advances a theory that explains variation in electoral authoritarian... -
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management by Christopher Pollitt 9781848443082
Booksplease Price: £111.10Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management offers a major reconsideration of patterns in long-term policymaking and organizational change. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert use... -
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary by Sarah Joseph 9780198733744
Booksplease Price: £99.02Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Covenant is of... -
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975 by Claire Hilton 9783319548128
Booksplease Price: £21.99This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited... -
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America by Theodore Roosevelt Johnson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America "Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares... -
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia by Winifred Tate
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the... -
Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity by Birgit Bräuchler 9781032057033
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled. The im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and... -
No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States by Kristin Haltinner 9781793643957
Booksplease Price: £33.49In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural... -
Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services by Leslie P. Willcocks 9780230006591
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book provides in-depth insights into the practices that lead to success in global sourcing. Written by internationally acclaimed academics, it covers best practices on IT outsourcing,... -
A Truly Golden Handbook: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia by Veerle Achten 9789462700796
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.56'A Truly Golden Handbook, No Less Instructive than Delightful, by the Most Learned and Distinguished Professors of the Renowned University of Leuven.' 500 Years Utopia. What would the ideal society... -
Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 G. A. Bremner 9781913107314
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.28This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts The Edwardian Baroque was the closest... -
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order by Francis Onditi 9781498598125
Booksplease Price: £38.71Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on the place of "Africa Agency" in the competitive and changing global system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other... -
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network... -
Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace by Matias Dewey
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53La Salada is South America's largest marketplace for fraudulently labeled clothing, a sprawling and dangerous bazaar on the fringes of Buenos Aires where counterfeit goods are bought and sold, armed... -
Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business by Jason Bloomberg 9780471768586
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £25.91How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business "The real value of this book is that it makes SOA and Web services, which are critical and business-transforming, crystal-clear to the layman, both... -
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer 9781478010258
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network... -
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chavez by David Smilde 9780822350415
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of... -
Digital Co-Production of Public Services: Citizens, Challenges and Cases Taco Brandsen 9781035324286
Booksplease Price: £98.16This timely book examines the function, efficacy, and emerging challenges of using digital co-production in public administrations as digital tools become increasingly prevalent in society... -
Gender: The Basics: 2nd edition Hilary M. Lips 9781138036895
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the influence of cultural, historical, biological, psychological, and economic forces on ways in which we have come to define and experience... -
Responsibility of Higher Education Systems: What? How? Why? by Bruno Broucker
Booksplease Price: £35.07The evolving societal, political and economic landscape has led to increased demands on higher education institutions to make their contribution and benefits to society more visible, and in many... -
Contemporary Digital Forensic Investigations of Cloud and Mobile Applications by Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo 9780128053034
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £67.51Contemporary Digital Forensic Investigations of Cloud and Mobile Applications comprehensively discusses the implications of cloud (storage) services and mobile applications on digital forensic... -
Ideas of Power: The Politics of American Party Ideology Development by Verlan Lewis 9781108701549
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45This groundbreaking book challenges the dominant view of ideology held by both political scientists and political commentators. Rather than viewing ideological constructs like liberalism and...