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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang 9780231149655
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution... -
Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky 9780231172448
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political... -
AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Alan Whiteside 9781403997685
Booksplease Price: £51.50This book, first published in 2002 to widespread acclaim, is fully revised and updated to take account of the latest facts and developments in the field. Carefully written to be accessible, this book... -
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China by Guobin Yang 9780231149648
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution... -
Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University by Diana Rhoten 9780231151146
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities... -
How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics by Itty Abraham 9781503608412
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international... -
How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics by Itty Abraham 9780804791632
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international... -
American Social Theory Prof Charles Lemert 9781138629776
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £40.49In this dynamic book, Charles Lemert elaborates a vigorous, distinctive, and creative American tradition in social thought.American social theory has tended to be overshadowed by European social... -
Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World by Hent de Vries 9780823226450
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.65What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a... -
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert K. Merton
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered... -
Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective by Myra Ferree
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both... -
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town by Rogers Brubaker 9780691136226
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been... -
Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers 9780521790611
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Genealogies of Citizenship is a remarkable rethinking of human rights and social justice. As global governance is increasingly driven by market fundamentalism, growing numbers of citizens have become... -
Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.22Genealogies of Citizenship is a remarkable rethinking of human rights and social justice. As global governance is increasingly driven by market fundamentalism, growing numbers of citizens have become... -
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi 9781107432437
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.68How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term... -
A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa by Mirjam Kunkler 9781108417716
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how... -
A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa by Mirjam Kunkler
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how... -
Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Comparing the US, China, and Singapore by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032065403
Booksplease Price: £60.08What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing... -
Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Cases of United States of America, China and Singapore by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032065410
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing... -
Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Medecins Sans Frontieres Renee C. Fox (Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania) 9781421416922
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.81This study of Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) casts new light on the organization's founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its... -
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanovic
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the YearOne of the world's leading... -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691155678
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells... -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691163499
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.20Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells... -
Policy Strategy and Innovation Primer: Process, Praxis and Tools Charles Chao Rong Phua (Chairman of Solaris Consortium, Singapore) 9781032309095
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Phua focuses on applying the best of corporate strategy and innovation tools and praxis into the policy process with the aim of devising a coherent policy strategy-innovation framework and process... -
Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032279572
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as...