Filter By
Books (253)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation: The Great Transformation by William L. Parish 9780873323444
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them. The relationship between history and memory informs... -
Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection by Martin Rein 9780873324984
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic... -
Perestroika at the Crossroads by Alfred J. Rieber
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or... -
Soviet Society Under Gorbachev: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change Maurice Friedberg 9780873324434
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy,... -
Chinese Urban Reform: What Model Now?: What Model Now? by Kwok Yin-Wang 9780873325899
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Based on a 1987 conference on urban development at the Centre for Urban Planning and Development at Hong Kong University.About the AuthorKwok Yin-WangBook InformationISBN 9780873325899Author Kwok... -
Everyday Islam: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia by Sergei P. Poliakov
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble... -
Accumulation and Power: Economic History of the United States Richard B. DuBoff 9780873325592
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Accumulation and Power analyses America's economic development across three great waves of economic expansion: the Grand Traverse 1850-1900, the New Era 1916-1929 and the Great Postwar Boom,... -
Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries Kenneth Lieberthal 9780873328906
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major... -
The Joan Robinson Legacy by Ingrid H. Rima 9780873326117
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98First Published in 1991. The undertakings within this book are testimony to the professional legacy Joan Robinson left behind. The contributors discuss her irreverence for established theory, her... -
Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia by Michael Rywkin
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is... -
Soviet Emigre Artists by Marilyn Rueschemeyer 9780873328104
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set... -
Revival: Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union (1977) by Murray Yanowitch
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This title was first published in 1977Book InformationISBN 9780873321051Author Murray YanowitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History: v. 1 by Joshua A. Fogel
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present... -
Political Economy of Reaganomics by Stephen Rousseas
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69According to Stephen Rousseas, economics cannot be separated from politics. Here, he provides theoretical background and insight into the ideology of supply-side economics, commonly referred to as... -
Foundations of Radical Political Economy by Howard J. Sherman
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1987. Similar in content to Sherman's previous book, Radical Political Economy, it covers most of the same issues and reaches the same overall conclusion in favour of democracy and... -
Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia by Michael Rywkin 9780873326131
Booksplease Price: £110.39A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is... -
Labor Markets in a Global Economy: A Macroeconomic Perspective: A Macroeconomic Perspective by Ingrid H. Rima 9780873327381
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This introductory text on labour economics covers topics such as: the shift in America from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy; the changes in the economic conditions in the US; the... -
Making America's Budget Policy from the 1980's to the 1990's by Joseph J. Minarik 9780873326216
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64This collection of articles traces the evolution over the 1980s of budget policy and tax reform by an architect of the Bradley tax reform bill. The articles present a chronological analysis of tax... -
Yin Jiaqi and China's Struggle for Democracy by David M. Bachman 9780873327817
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This collection of essays documents his views on a range of... -
Morality, Rationality and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-economics: New Perspectives on Socio-economics by Richard M. Coughlin 9780873328210
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The papers in this collection were selected from nearly 200 that were presented at the 50 sessions of the second annual International Conference on Socio-Economics held at The George Washington... -
Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy: Reader in Political Economy: Reader in Political Economy by Randy Albelda
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Exploring the question of whether China's peasantry was a revolutionary force, this volume pays particular attention to the first half of the 20th century, when peasant-based conflict was central to... -
Socio-economics: Toward a New Synthesis: Toward a New Synthesis by Amitai Etzioni
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German... -
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 George R. Taylor 9780873321013
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.Book InformationISBN... -
World War Two: Crucible of the Contemporary World - Commentary and Readings: Crucible of the Contemporary World - Commentary and Readings by Lily Xiao Hong Lee 9780873327329
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29This anthology contains 16 readings by English-language scholars that deal with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of World War II and its consequences for the contemporary world... -
Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41 by Broadus Mitchell
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of American commerce from the era of the Great Depression until World War II... -
Radical Political Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis by Victor Lippit
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays presented in this book offer a representative sampling... -
Marxist Thought on Imperialism: Survey and Critique Charles A. Barone 9780873323451
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First Published in 2015. Classic and contemporary Marxist theoretical works on imperialism are systematically summarized and critiqued in this useful survey. Throughout the discussion, attention is... -
The Contemporary Soviet City by Henry W. Morton
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War,... -
Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan Edwin A. Winckler 9780873327718
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional... -
Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis by Peter B. Doeringer 9780873323321
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £45.94This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical debate about the origins of the institutions it describes and their... -
Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents by Michel C. Oksenberg 9780873326841
Booksplease Price: £27.23A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are... -
Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents by Michel C. Oksenberg
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are... -
Reform in China by B. L. Reynolds
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This work includes every Supreme Court case relevant to gender and sexual equality from 1787 to the end of the 1999/2000 term. It is a primary document reference book, organized in eight chapters,... -
Marxism--Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie? Paul Mattick Jr. 9780873322614
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews... -
Macroeconomics in Question: The Keynesian-Monetartist Orthodoxies and Kaleckian Alternative by Malcolm C. Sawyer 9780873322201
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Originally published in 1982, this book has two central purposes. The first is to present a rather more critical view of the Keynesian and monetarist approaches to macro-economics than is usually... -
The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty by Ming K. Chan 9780873328357
Booksplease Price: £35.46This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry... -
Technology and American Economic Growth by Nathan Rosenberg 9780873321044
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry... -
Dilemmas of the Dollar: Economics and Politics of United States International Monetary Policy: Economics and Politics of United States International Monetary Policy by C. Fred Bergsten
Booksplease Price: £30.29An examination of the role of the dollar in the global financial system which presents a long-term historical perspective on the international monetary system in this century. The main focus is on... -
Military Expansion, Economic Decline: Impact of Military Spending on United States Economic Performance by R.W. DeGrasse
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59By assessing the costs and benefits of military spending, the authors provide a "second opinion" on the subject of military economics. While advocates of increased military spending often stress the... -
Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms by Robert T. Huber 9780873328296
Booksplease Price: £46.49This book is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform, the composition, organisation,...