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Shaping the Culture of Peace in a Multilateral World by Patrick Petit
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63As the world faces a multitude of complexly-interwoven challenges, new values and new worldviews are emerging to change the ways in which human beings relate to each other, to our planet, and to all... -
From Suburb to Shtetl: The Jews of Boro Park Egon Mayer 9781412813280
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63"From Suburb to Shtetl" is an outstanding ethnography that moves beyond simple demographics. Mayer weaves an intricate tapestry of how family, school, and community leaders influence each other... -
Worlds Ago: A Memoir of My Journeying Years Walter Laqueur 9781412862752
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Originally published in 1993, Worlds Ago is not only about the politics of the times, but also about the world into which Walter Laqueur was born and raised and the world that shaped him: pre-war... -
Controlling Delinquents by Stanton Wheeler 9781412818643
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Delinquency is one of those social problem areas that calls upon the contributions of many different disciplines. A wide variety of social, psychological, economic, and political forces interact in... -
Competence: Select Theoretical Frameworks by Roberta R. Greene 9781412842129
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The actions social workers take are aimed at helping people, communities, and societies attain a sense of mastery, become or remain competent, and achieve or retain a sense of well-being. Such a... -
Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit by Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc 9781412865555
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Like honesty and clean water, ""accountability"" is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most of the greatest abuses in human history... -
Ecology of Communication by David L. Altheide 9780202305332
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Altheide's new book advances the argument set in motion some years ago with 'Media Logic' and continued in 'Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era:' that in our age, information technology and the... -
Newsgathering in Washington: A Study in Political Communication by Dan Nimmo
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume strong strong stems from Dan... -
The State of Our Disunion: The Obama Years by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that... -
Dysfunctions of the Welfare State Joel Gibbons 9781412810982
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This timely analysis of today's economic realities relates the headlines to the long term causes from which they spring. Why did we have a worldwide financial crisis in 2008? Is stimulus the answer,... -
Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States by Gabriel A. Barhaim
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book argues that the transition by Western society to late modernity has weakened the social order, creating a quasi-anomic state that favors those conditions that place culture in a position of... -
Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition by Harold Kaplan
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science and technology and by the intellectual... -
Empowerment as Ceremony by William M. Epstein
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in... -
Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind by Vernon Louis Parrington 9781412818681
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93In Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind, Parrington gives a brilliant account of the beginning and development in American letters, the early ideas that have come to be reckoned as... -
Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America by Eric Beasley 9781412849722
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United... -
Muslim Minorities in Modern States: The Challenge of Assimilation by Raphael Israeli
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Political leaders of the 1930s may be accused of blindness to danger in their failed attempts to appease totalitarian aggression, but no one doubts they believed they were doing so to preserve their... -
Military Rules, Regulations and the Code of War: Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict by Richard Shelly Hartigan
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Military commanders from ancient time had set down rules and regulations to discipline their troops. From the Pharaohs on, commanders directed the strategy, tactics, and camp discipline of the often... -
The Politics of Reapportionment by Malcolm E. Jewell
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with... -
Political and Military Sociology, an Annual Review: Volume 44, Democracy, Security, and Armed Forces by Jonathan Swarts
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security, military training, culture, and the challenges of bureaucracy,... -
On Loss and Losing: Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412842501
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress. All too often, their discomfort is treated as a medical issue requiring treatment-usually through medication. Melvyn L. Fein argues... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412846219
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between... -
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Citizenship and Popular Culture by Michael Mitchell 9781412862417
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first... -
Lessons from Ground Zero: Media Response to Terror by Jay Perkins 9781412813365
Booksplease Price: £46.49It ranked among journalism's finest hours. That is what was heard in the weeks following September 11, 2001. They made mistakes, of course, but in covering one of the biggest disasters ever to hit... -
Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage by Janice Crouse 9781412863179
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In Marriage Matters, Janice Shaw Crouse argues that marriage is a critical element in a free society and that society's most vulnerable communities, especially minorities and the poor, suffer the... -
British Miscalculations: The Rise of Muslim Nationalism, 1918-1925 Isaiah Friedman 9781412863001
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04In the aftermath of World War I there was furious agitation throughout Islam against the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Coupled with the powerful effect of the principle of self-determination,... -
Ideology and the Ideologists Lewis S. Feuer 9781412814423
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the... -
Animals and Criminal Justice Carmen M. Cusack 9781412865210
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Since civil societies are ruled by law, they can be evaluated, both... -
Immigrants on the Threshold by Judith T. Shuval
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary... -
Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today William M. Johnston 9781412842334
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In the twentieth century, celebrations of historical anniversaries abounded. There was the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 150th anniversary of photography, Bach's 300th anniversary, and... -
Long Old Road: Back to Black Metropolis by Horace R. Cayton
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89From the time that he ran away to sea at sixteen, until he graduated from the University of Washington, Horace R. Cayton was a messman on a freighter, an unknowing handyman in an Alaskan brothel, a... -
Psychiatry and Public Affairs: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry by Leo H. Bartemeier 9781412842839
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This stimulating collection bears witness to the insight that psychiatrists, with their special training and background and concern for human relationships, can contribute solutions to major problems... -
Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making by A. Pablo Iannone 9781412853958
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The problems and issues arising from globalization are difficult to resolve, in part because our ways of conceptualizing the conflicts and responding to them are inadequate. This book fills this gap,... -
Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412864053
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Liberalism is dying-despite its superficial appearance of vigour. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein,... -
Power, Norms, and Inflation: A Skeptical Treatment by 9780202304304
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Explanations for inflation had for a long time been ceded to the purview of economists. The acceleration in rates of inflation within advanced economies during the 1960s and 1970s, however, prompted... -
Beyond Therapy: Igniting Life Focus Community Movements Erving Polster 9781412862622
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to... -
Political and Military Sociology: Volume 43, Political Attitudes, Perceptions, and Culture: An Annual Review by Neovi M. Karakatsanis 9781412856997
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This volume encompasses a wide range of empirical research on a variety of topics that are related by their focus on the importance of attitudes, culture, and perceptions. The significance of public... -
The Management of Purpose by Lewis Anthony Dexter 9781412810340
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Lewis Anthony Dexter may well have been one of the better known and least appreciated political scientists of the last century. This outstanding collection of Dexter's writings, demonstrates why... -
Into the Heart of European Poetry John Taylor 9781412811095
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49John Taylor's brilliant new book examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. Venturing far and wide from the France in which he... -
Louis I. Kahn-Architect: Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him by Charles E. Dagit, Jr. 9781412865234
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Few people in the history of art and architecture have planted a seed of inspiration that grew to become a towering oak of lasting influence. There are those, particularly colleagues and students of... -
China's Long March to Freedom: Grassroots Modernization by Kate Zhou
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success has been phenomenal, despite the fact...