Filter By
Books (1185)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography by Richard Phillips 9780719070068
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $157.92Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving... -
Beyond Westminster & Whitehall R. A. Rhodes 9780415079075
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $121.44Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These... -
Asymmetric Engagement: The Community and Voluntary Pillar in Irish Social Partnership by Joe Larragy 9780719086502
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $158.55This book focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and... -
mHealth Innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions by Emma Baulch 9789402415155
Booksplease Price: $97.19This open access book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives... -
Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2012 Workshops, USEC and WECSR 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers by Jim Blythe 9783642346378
Booksplease Price: $86.86This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the workshop on Usable Security, USEC 2012, and the third Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research, WECSR 2012,... -
Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan by Peter Donovan 9780892640249
Booksplease Price: $18.86During the long years of civil strife in China the Nationalist authorities amassed extensive materials on their Communist adversaries. Now stored in government institutions on Taiwan, these materials... -
The Sociology of School: Studies of Social Interaction in Education Ingrid Bosseldal 9781666977301
Booksplease Price: $169.53This book examines schools as dynamic social arenas where everyday interactions are shaped by broader institutional conditions.Drawing on sociological theory - particularly Erving Goffman’s... -
mHealth Innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions by Emma Baulch 9789402412505
Booksplease Price: $97.19This open access book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives... -
Chemical-Mechanical Polishing 2000 - Fundamentals and Materials Issues: Volume 613 by Rajiv K. Singh 9781107413146
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $56.30Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) is a critical technology in the planarization of multilevel metallization systems and shallow-trench isolation in semiconductor manufacturing. Other emerging... -
Entities and Structures in the Embedding Process: A Sociological Analysis of Changes in the Government-enterprise Relations by Qingong Wei 9789811323898
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Focusing on the government and its... -
Can America Govern Itself? by Frances E. Lee 9781108497299
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $162.94Can America Govern Itself? brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars to analyze how rising party polarization and economic inequality have affected the performance of American... -
Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism by Gerald A. McDermott 9780472068036
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $58.46Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of their... -
Ideas of Power: The Politics of American Party Ideology Development by Verlan Lewis 9781108476799
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $184.63This groundbreaking book challenges the dominant view of ideology held by both political scientists and political commentators. Rather than viewing ideological constructs like liberalism and... -
Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate by Kathleen A. Miller
RRP: $182.68Booksplease Price: $167.87Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for... -
Jaume Plensa. The Four Elements Geert Bouckaert 9789462704329
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $63.00Special edition on the first permanent sculpture by Jaume Plensa in Belgian public spaceAcclaimed Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver Jaume Plensa is renowned for his ability to... -
Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity by Christopher Pollitt 9780198795186
Booksplease Price: $115.42Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform... -
Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy by Stuart N. Soroka
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $97.21This book develops and tests a 'thermostatic' model of public opinion and policy. The representation of opinion in policy is central to democratic theory and everyday politics. So too is the extent... -
Corporations and Citizenship by Andrew Crane
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $136.27It is widely accepted that corporations have economic, legal, and even social roles. Yet the political role of corporations has yet to be fully appreciated. Corporations and Citizenship serves as a... -
Gothic Kings of Britain: The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers, 1016-1399 by Philip J. Potter 9780786440382
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government... -
Extralegal Governance: The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China by Peng Wang 9781009622172
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $53.80Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It... -
Singapore Perspectives 2017: What If? by Gillian Koh 9789813224742
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $80.16Singapore has experienced remarkable progression in the first 50 years of its independence. This volume comprises chapters written by thought leaders in Singapore where they re-examine Singapore's... -
Methodologies for Soil and Sediment Fractionation Studies Philippe Quevauviller (European Commission, Belgium) 9780854044535
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $139.63The analysis of soils and sediments for pollutants is increasingly required in today's industrial world. It is therefore important that extraction procedures used for environmental risk assessment... -
World public sector report 2023: transforming institutions to achieve the sustainable development goals after the pandemic by United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs 9789210029094
Booksplease Price: $118.73This report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for... -
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Defining Iran's Military Doctrine by Alma Keshavarz 9781350255661
Booksplease Price: $148.87The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran’s IRGC and Qods Force,... -
Corporations and Citizenship by Andrew Crane 9780521612838
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $82.34It is widely accepted that corporations have economic, legal, and even social roles. Yet the political role of corporations has yet to be fully appreciated. Corporations and Citizenship serves as a... -
Extralegal Governance: The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China by Peng Wang 9781009622141
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It... -
COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy by I. Glenn Cohen 9781009265706
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.07The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enduring effect across the entire spectrum of law and policy, in areas ranging from health equity and racial justice, to constitutional law, the law of prisons,... -
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO by Richard Peet 9781848132511
Booksplease Price: $190.20Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it? The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of... -
Territorial Self-Government as a Conflict Management Tool by Dawn Walsh 9783319772332
Booksplease Price: $214.62This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and... -
Herodotus and the Birth of Freedom: Liberty in Ancient Greece and Persia Matthew K. Reising 9781399558914
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $170.21Herodotus and the Birth of Freedom examines Herodotus’ presentation of Persia in the History, arguing that Herodotus considered the Persians to be free rather than slaves and the Persian monarchs to... -
The Man Who Sold Tomorrow: The True Story of Dr. Solomon Trone The Worldas Greatest & Most Successful & Perhaps Only Revolutionary Salesman by David Evans 9781634241908
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $27.99Following Solomon Trone into the heart of the conspiracies of the last century, this book traces the story of a simple businessman, leading a sedate life in upstate New York, who was thrown into a... -
Prometheus Reimagined: Technology, Environment, and Law in the Twenty-first Century by Albert C. Lin 9780472036981
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $58.04Technologies such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and geoengineering promise to address many of our most serious problems, yet they also bring environmental and... -
Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands: Environment, Governance and Risk by Ariell Ahearn 9781874267980
Booksplease Price: $140.11Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands brings together the work of scholars from across Asia to discuss the transforming boundaries, agencies and risks involved in pastoralist livelihoods. The... -
Citizen Privacy Framework: Case of a Fuzzy-based Recommender System for Political Participation by Aigul Kaskina 9783031060205
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book presents the concept of a fuzzy-based recommender system for user account privacy settings that can be used for citizen participation on online political platforms. The elaborated... -
Maoism in India and Nepal by Ranjit Bhushan 9780815376071
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18Why are Maoist, Naxalite and Left extremist movements taking root in the most backward and underdeveloped regions of South Asia? This book examines this multi-layered question in democracies such as... -
Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China by Rory Truex 9781107172432
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $197.63Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in authoritarian... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Media Law and Policy in Europe by Martin Senftleben 9781009568166
Booksplease Price: $107.54This Handbook analyses pressing legal and policy issues that have arisen in the rapidly changing media ecosystem: from threats to media freedom and pluralism and the safety of journalists to... -
Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages by Jie Lu 9780199378746
RRP: $203.70Booksplease Price: $155.97It is well understood that "good institutions" are essential for good governance. But even institutions that follow similar designs vary significantly with regard to performance across countries and... -
Guided by the Mountains: Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance by Michael Lerma 9780190639853
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $132.09What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the... -
Global Monitoring: The Challenges of Access to Data by Ray Harris
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $231.82This highly technical work is at the leading edge of spatial analysis. It covers the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative in the international context of access to...