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Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies by M. Anne Pitcher 9780521449625
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary... -
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... -
The Legislature in Nigeria’s Presidential Democracy of the Fourth Republic: Power, Process, and Development by Omololu Fagbadebo 9783031246944
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book investigates whether legislative institutions, state and national, in Nigeria's Fourth Republic have been able to harness constitutional powers to impact public policy. Presenting how the... -
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... -
Public Administration and Policy in Korea: Its Evolution and Challenges by Keun Namkoong 9780367350703
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54The present Korean public administration and policy system has shown very significant differences compared to the system in 1970s. This book provides a comprehensive and holistic view on the... -
Understanding the European Union John McCormick 9781350517059
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.41This is the must-have introduction to the European Union. A primer on the EU's history, institutions, and politics, this brief and engaging textbook reviews the challenges and opportunities faced by... -
Small Area Estimation and Microsimulation Modeling by Azizur Rahman
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Small Area Estimation and Microsimulation Modeling is the first practical handbook that comprehensively presents modern statistical SAE methods in the framework of ultramodern spatial microsimulation... -
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... -
Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done by Dr Stefaan De Rynck
Booksplease Price: £26.71As a close aide to Michel Barnier, Stefaan De Rynck had a front row seat in the Brexit negotiations. In this frank and uncompromising account, De Rynck tells the EU's side of the story and seeks to... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development in its Embryonic Form by Stephen Vertigans 9783319266671
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility and its development in Africa. It provides in-depth studies on 11 sub-Saharan countries, demonstrating that corporate... -
Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 G. A. Bremner 9781913107314
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95This 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... -
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Volume 2: Urban Neo-liberalisation by Bryan S. Turner
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as... -
Gender: The Basics: 2nd edition by Hilary M. Lips 9781138036888
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85Gender: 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... -
Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth by Tamar Groswald Ozery 9781009158244
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57Applying a novel theoretical approach, Tamar Groswald Ozery combines law and political economy to deconstruct the role of law in China's market development since 1978. The book examines how economic... -
Environmental Performance Auditing in the Public Sector: Enabling Sustainable Development by Awadhesh Prasad 9780367856045
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern. Trillions of dollars of mostly public money are invested every year in domestic and international policies and...