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Sociology and the World's Religions by M. Hamilton 9780333652220
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sociological and related studies of systems of religion tend to be fragmented. This book brings together and assesses a diverse range of substantive sociological, anthropological and... -
Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America by Walter Little 9780333663103
Booksplease Price: £25.62This book looks at political corruption in Latin American and Europe from both an historical and a contemporary angle. The approach is therefore comparative and interdisciplinary, bringing together... -
Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel after the War by Hanna Yablonka 9780333665855
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book deals with the integration of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust into Israeli society in the early years of the new State's existence. Among the issues discussed are: the ways in which... -
Economic and Political Impediments to Middle East Peace: Critical Questions and Alternative Scenarios by J. W. Wright, Jr. 9780333678992
Booksplease Price: £46.28The accords and protocols that underlie the Arab and Israeli peace agreements set into place economic policies and political processes so flawed that they are bound to fail. The chapters in this... -
Women and Scientific Employment by J. Glover 9780333683187
Booksplease Price: £46.28Women and Scientific Employment combines rich empirical data and theoretical discussion on the 'problem' of women's representation in scientific education and employment. A distinction is made... -
Beyond the Developmental State: East Asia's Political Economies Reconsidered by Steve Chan 9780333690680
Booksplease Price: £91.98This collection of essays examines the historical influence of states in East Asia's political economies, and considers their contributions to the ongoing social, economic and political... -
The Post-Communist Era: Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe by B. Fowkes 9780333692035
Booksplease Price: £90.56History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. This book tells the story of what followed during the 1990s. Political and national conflict, social and cultural... -
Foreign Ministries: Change and Adaptation by B. Hocking 9780333692431
Booksplease Price: £46.28In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with... -
Communicating out of a Crisis by Michael Bland 9780333720974
Booksplease Price: £91.98This is a modern, professional and practical approach to crisis management from a leading expert. The book examines the impact of a crisis - big or small - and the threat of negative publicity to... -
Green Politics: Dictatorship or Democracy? by J. Radcliffe 9780333739419
Booksplease Price: £90.56At the heart of the green debate are a set of basic contradictions concerning beliefs and actions. This book reveals the problems associated with these contradictions, including adherence to... -
The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History by Rick Halpern 9780333739716
Booksplease Price: £46.28The essays collected in this volume explore the multiple connections and parallels between the histories of the American south and the Italian south. Leading historians of the two regions consider... -
Privatisation and Its Limits in Central and Eastern Europe: Property Rights in Transition by Hella Engerer 9780333751428
Booksplease Price: £90.86Hella Engerer analyses the emergence, evolution and theory of property rights and establishes the limits for privatization of state owned enterprises in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe... -
In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity by D. Norris 9780333751688
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of modernity and the ever-present dread of primitivism which is highlighted in... -
Structural Prevention of Ethnic Violence by Christian P. Scherrer 9780333752067
Booksplease Price: £46.58Today, ethnic violence accounts for the majority of the world's conflicts. The question is how ethnic difference is to be recognized. The task is to pre-empt destructive forms of interaction between... -
Africa at the Millenium: An Agenda for Mature Development by Bakut Tswah Bakut 9780333753521
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book is aimed at providing a framework for research into African issues in the twenty-first century. Apart from its African-centred approach, it argues that previously marginalised areas of... -
The Psychology of Food and Eating: A Fresh Approach to Theory and Method by John L. Smith 9780333800218
Booksplease Price: £43.76There has long been an interest in food among psychologists across the full range of the discipline, from the physiology of hunger and the psychophysics of taste and smell to the development of food... -
Sport and Modern Social Theorists by Richard Giulianotti 9780333800782
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sport and Modern Social Theorists is an innovative and exciting new collection. The chapters are written by leading social analysts of sport from across the world, and examine the contributions of... -
Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945-1953 by Eric Duskin 9780333918944
Booksplease Price: £90.56Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical... -
Biological Warfare Against Crops by Simon Whitby 9780333920855
Booksplease Price: £46.28Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. This book represents the first substantive study of... -
The Progressive Century: The Future of the Centre-Left in Britain by Neal Lawson 9780333949610
Booksplease Price: £46.28Can Labour and the Liberal Democrats redefine politics to make the 21st Century a progressive century? Can the centre-left find a common cause to tackle the alienation from politics, the... -
The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts by Owen Davies 9780230237100
Booksplease Price: £13.27'The Haunted' is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural... -
New Economy - New Competition: The Rise of the Consumer? by D. Asch 9780333778234
Booksplease Price: £47.28The new economy has given rise to new forms of competition. This book provides a rich mix of theory, evidence and management practice that will be invaluable to directors and managers who want to... -
Spanish at Work: Analysing Institutional Discourse across the Spanish-Speaking World by Nuria Lorenzo-Dus 9780230579095
Booksplease Price: £46.28A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what... -
The Atlantic Imperial Constitution: Center and Periphery in the English Atlantic World by Ken MacMillan 9780230111745
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its... -
Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies by Wolf Linder 9780333715628
Booksplease Price: £47.28An authoriative analysis of Swiss democracy, the institutions of federalism, and consensus democracy through political power sharing. Linder analyses the scope and limits of citizen's participation... -
Intergovernmental Relations and Economic Management in China by J. Ma 9780333660072
Booksplease Price: £92.16This book examines how China's decentralization process has affected and will affect the country's macroeconomic performance and the functioning of the market. With an innovative application of game... -
The Politics and Government of Switzerland by C. Church 9780333692776
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Politics and Government of Switzerland is one of very few English language studies of contemporary Swiss politics. Drawing on recent research in Switzerland, and the author's own observations, it... -
Animal Rights: The Changing Debate by Robert Garner 9780333674840
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book, written by leading academics and activists, examines the development of animal rights over the past two decades and asks where the issue goes from here. The contributions cover animal... -
Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World by Frederic Lapeyre 9780333715499
Booksplease Price: £90.56In Western Europe, the notion of social exclusion is rapidly diffusing in recent years. This book investigates the notion of social exclusion as a new way to approach social issues such as the 'new... -
The Moral Dimensions of Empathy: Limits and Applications in Ethical Theory and Practice by J. Oxley 9780230276567
Booksplease Price: £46.28Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defined by various ethical theories. This multi-faceted work links... -
Elections and Democracy after Communism? by Erik Herron 9780230600959
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book uses elections as a vehicle to explain the unanticipated outcomes of post-Soviet politics. It assesses how the behavior of voters, candidates and government officials is influenced by the... -
Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens by J. Gordon 9780230110885
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we... -
Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future by Dmitry Shlapentokh 9780230603752
Booksplease Price: £46.28Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream phenomena, and one that can often be stopped by strong... -
Political Transformations and Political Entrepreneurs: Israel in Comparative Perspective by Assaf Meydani 9780230618671
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book presents a theoretical framework based on the empirical context of the Israeli political system to evaluate under what conditions and in what ways can fundamental institutional changes... -
The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators: Challenges of Definition, Aggregation, and Application by King Banaian 9780230600836
Booksplease Price: £46.28This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests... -
The Politics of Global Health Governance: United by Contagion by Mark W. Zacher 9780230605893
Booksplease Price: £46.28Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly affects us all. This book is about how global health... -
Literature, Metaphor and the Foreign Language Learner by Jonathan D. Picken 9780230506954
Booksplease Price: £46.74Theory in reader-response and stylistics traditions supports L2 work with literature as it is valued by students and helps develop communicative and critical language skills. The author uses insights... -
Haiku and Modernist Poetics by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780230616554
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary... -
Sir Philip Sidney, Cultural Icon by Richard Hillyer 9780230102385
Booksplease Price: £46.74This study analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's reputation from his own day to the present by discussing his reception in the work of authors as diverse in time and type as Sir Fulke Greville, Christopher... -
Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America by Gabriela Polit Duenas 9780230113787
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the...