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Social Policy: Issues of Choice and Change: Issues of Choice and Change by Martin Rein 9780873322355
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations... -
Economic Reforms in the Socialist World by Stanislaw,etc, Gomulka
Booksplease Price: €55.32First Published in 1990. Socialist countries now account for about a quarter of the world economy, about a third of the world population and about half the world military power. What happens in those... -
The Cost of Human Neglect by Harrell R. Rodgers 9780873322379
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €33.07This book discusses the failure in America's welfare system and provides effective welfare reforms. It also includes a survey of the Western European nations' welfare programs and provides the... -
The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974-79 by Adam Fforde 9780873324861
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €36.10This volume investigates why peasants defend themselves against the predations of politics by using such "everyday" forms of protest as footdragging, feigned ignorance, false compliance, etc. With a... -
The Great Market Debate in Soviet Economics: An Anthology: An Anthology by David M. Jones 9780873328685
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91The most agonizing and protracted of all the Soviet reform debates has been the debate over economic reform. This anthology of essays and roundtables from party, professional and literary journals... -
Reorganization and Reform in the Soviet Economy by Susan J. Linz 9780873324724
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €131.36Richly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends in this work are religious tales in a peasant village setting. Among the standard themes is the return of Christ, who wanders through... -
On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: Li Yizhe Debates: Li Yizhe Debates by Anita Chan 9780873323420
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21The Chinese political system has not been hospitable to political dissidence. From the end of the Cultural Revolution fighting in 1968 up to 1976, the year of Mao's death -- an eight year period... -
Controversies in Soviet Social Thought: Democratization, Social Justice and the Erosion of Official Ideology: Democratization, Social Justice and the Erosion of Official Ideology by Murray Yanowitch 9780873325585
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91Over the past several years observers have become aware of what might be called the "expansionary logic" of the reform debate in the Soviet Union. Punctuated by periods of reaction and retreat,... -
Macroeconomics by Amit Bhaduri 9780873323604
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30The climate of opinion among economists recently seems to have shifted in favour of the view that the Keynesian style of economic management does not work in industrial capitalism. This has provided... -
Legacy of a War: American Soldier in Vietnam by Ellen Frey-Wouters
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23A survey examines American attitudes toward the Vietnam War and the experiences and ideas that turned most people against the war.About the AuthorEllen Frey-Wouters (Author)Book InformationISBN... -
Labyrinth: An Essay on the Political Psychology of Change: An Essay on the Political Psychology of Change by R.E. Wilson 9780873324854
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91To receive tenure, college and university professors have long been required to write scholarly monographs or articles, engage in serious research and teach effectively. This collection of articles... -
Cult and Canon: Origins and Development of State Maoism, 1935-78: Origins and Development of State Maoism, 1935-78 by Helmut Martin 9780873321501
Booksplease Price: €131.36The 18th-century Chinese poet, Yuan Mei, also wrote some short fiction - "Censored by Confucius" - which is reproduced here. The stories offer insights into Mei's views on crime, sex, the status of... -
The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815 by Curtis P. Nettels
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and... -
Made in Japan and Other Japanese Business Novels Tamae K. Prindle 9780873327725
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30The term "business novel" is a translation of the Japanese word kezai shosetsu, which may be translated literally as * 'economy novel.'' Critic Makoto Sataka first used the word "business" in place... -
Reflections on the Brazilian Counter-revolution by Florestan Fernandes 9780873321778
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.08Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics of justice in Russia. Coverage of major court cases ranges from the 1961 trial... -
Just Married by Debbie Cornwell
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €41.16This book is the playful and romantic approach to gourmet dining for newlyweds. It includes elegant, yet easy, recipes to launch newlyweds' life together with fun and style. The book is designed to... -
Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction: Short Stories and Novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Short Stories and Novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Hong Kong by Michael S. Duke 9780873327589
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems... -
China's Establishment Intellectuals by Carol Lee Hamrin 9780873323666
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €131.36First published in 1987. This book is part of an ongoing intellectual project-to understand how a changing Chinese Marxism both reflects and shapes the lives of the intelligentsia in China.About the... -
On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-27: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-27 by Milly Bennett 9780873325233
Booksplease Price: €108.27Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary life that led from her native San Francisco, to Honolulu, to China for the revolution, to the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, to the... -
Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China and India Harold R. Isaacs 9780873321617
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30A presentation of eight contemporary Chinese women writers, representing two generations of women with different backgrounds and experiences. The selections explore esthetic, cultural and ideological... -
Origins of the Crisis in the U.S.S.R.: Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System: Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System by Hillel Ticktin
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Hillel Ticktin has been one of the most controversial figures in Soviet studies for 25 years. His assertions that the Soviet economy was hopelessly inefficient, that the ruble was a sham, and that... -
Why Economics is Not Yet a Science by Alfred S. Eicher
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30First published in 1983. A collection of papers directed at those outside the field of Economics, to open up discussions around the scientific worth of Economics.About the AuthorAlfred S. Eichner,... -
Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History: Studies in Social and Cultural History by Barrington Moore, Jr. 9780873322690
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This title was first published in 1984. Focusing on Brazil, this text covers issues such as: the legacy of colour; social realities; and diversions and assertive behaviour.About the AuthorBarrington... -
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki Kyoko Iriye Selden 9780873327732
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.About the AuthorAuthored... -
The Soviet Regional Dilemma by Jan Ake Dellenbrant
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Incorporating an oral history approach, this history of radio covers the impact of the arrival of television, the rise of transistor radios, the popularity of rock n' roll, FM stereo stations,... -
Political Economy of Socialism by Branko Horvat 9780873322560
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This book is an exploration into the uncharted territory of social reality. It explores social relations and politics, presenting a critique of contemporary socioeconomic systems and discussions on... -
Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China by Jonathan Unger 9780873327480
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is... -
Comparative Economic Systems: v. 2 by Richard L. Carson 9780873325813
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €35.09Comparative Economic Systems is published in three editions, one for each major part. This is Part II and covers Socialist Alternatives, looking at the Hungarian Economy, the structure and trends of... -
Hunger Trilogy by Wang Ruowang
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the... -
Asia's Miracle Economies by Jon Woronoff
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30An expanded and updated edition of Woronoff's 1986 study of Asia's emerging economic giants, this book looks back at what has happened in the intervening years, especially as regards the "discovery"... -
Advertising and socialism: The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland: The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland by Philip Hanson
Booksplease Price: €71.50This title was first published in 1974.Book InformationISBN 9780873320535Author Philip HansonFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint -
Soviet Historians and Perestroika: The First Phase: The First Phase by Donald J. Raleigh
Booksplease Price: €71.50The Soviet historical profession is in ferment. For decades it was relegated to the task of obfuscating the past, gilding the status quo and papering over the "blank spots" in Soviet history - events... -
The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces by J. Unger
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which... -
The Philosophy of Science and Economics by Robert A. Solo
Booksplease Price: €55.32The philosophy of science proposes criteria to delineate true science and a theory to explain its progress. As a graduate student under the supervision of Lionel Robbins and Karl Popper, Solo first... -
The Stone Lion and Other Chinese Detective Stories: Wisdom of Lord Bau by Yin-Lien C. Chin 9780873326353
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.08Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful.About the AuthorYIN-LIEN CHIN teachers Chinese at Vassar College... -
The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe Vaclav Havel 9780873327619
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter... -
The Stone Lion and Other Chinese Detective Stories: Wisdom of Lord Bau by Yin-Lien C. Chin 9780873326346
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €131.36Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful.About the AuthorYIN-LIEN CHIN teachers Chinese at Vassar College... -
Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India by Gail Omvedt 9780873327855
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This study describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle... -
Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 9780873326247
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues... -
Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan Chieko Irie Mulhern 9780873325523
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female roles. In examining the lives of the mythological...