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Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution by Evan J. Ringquist 9781563242038
Booksplease Price: £46.79Why do some states enact stronger pollution control progammes than others? And, do stronger controls have identifiable impacts on environmental quality in these states? This work seeks to answer... -
East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era by Sheldon W. Simon 9781563240584
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This edition adds chapters on Burma and Vietnam, and updated material throughout reflects the current economic crisis in the region.Book InformationISBN 9781563240584Author Sheldon W. SimonFormat... -
Churchill to Major: The British Prime Ministership since 1945: The British Prime Ministership since 1945 by R.L. Borthwick 9781563246357
Booksplease Price: £52.42This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to... -
Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America by Jean M. Hartman 9781563249624
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty. The essays are organized around seven key topics including: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use... -
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life by Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal 9781563243394
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Manmohini, a member of the family of Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru and grandfather of Indira Gandhi, recalls her life, including her years in the anti-British campaign, her prison terms,... -
From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture by Susan G. Josephson 9781563248764
Booksplease Price: £64.14The true measure of the practice of public service is its ability to remain faithful to the tenets of democratic society. This introductory text links the practice of public administration to the... -
An Institutionalist Guide to Economics and Public Policy by Marc R. Tool 9780873323000
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century "shipping out" of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of "counter-exploring", that echoed the ancient... -
Toward a European Nation?: Political Trends in Europe - East and West, Center and Periphery: Political Trends in Europe - East and West, Center and Periphery by Max Haller 9781563243844
Booksplease Price: £110.39This text presents the work of scholars from all over Europe who examine processes of integration and disintegration at the level of nation states, federations, regions and Europe overall.Book... -
Trade Policy and Global Growth: New Directions in the International Economy: New Directions in the International Economy by Robert A. Blecker 9781563245312
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34This collection of essays offers critical perspectives on current issues in the international economy. Divided into four parts, U.S. Trade Policy and Global Growth discusses managed trade and... -
Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy by Gosta Esping-Andersen
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39These essays analyze the ideological and historical sources of the apparent reversal of the pattern of welfare state expansion in the United States, Great Britain, and Western and Eastern Europe.Book... -
The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty by Ming K. Chan
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.79This 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... -
The Modernization of Inner Asia by Cyril E. Black
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Inner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan,... -
On Economic Knowledge by Adolph Lowe
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69A cross-cultural analysis of the abortion issue in the United States and Canada. The book focuses on: the judicial, legislative and executive branches; public opinion and interest groups; federal... -
New East Asian Economic Development: The Interaction of Capitalism and Socialism: The Interaction of Capitalism and Socialism by Lily Xiao Hong Lee
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This text documents the economic development of East Asian countries in order to highlight the beneficial techniques used to increase growth. Socialist and capitalist structures are discussed,... -
Teaching and Development: A Soviet Investigation: A Soviet Investigation by L.V. Zankov
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This text presents an analysis of how international direct investment since World War II has played an important role in the process by which industrial countries generate technology and productivity... -
The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by S. Frederick Starr 9781563243615
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781563243615Author S. Frederick StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint M.E... -
The Private Regulation of American Health Care by Betty Leyerle 9781563242892
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public... -
The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 8: Economic Transition in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by S. Frederick Starr 9781563243660
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781563243660Author S. Frederick StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint M.E... -
Beyond Survival: Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century: Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century by Cyrus Bina 9781563245152
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of... -
Soviet Society Under Gorbachev: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change by Maurice Friedberg 9780873324427
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The 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,... -
After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000 by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a... -
The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by S. Frederick Starr 9781563243608
Booksplease Price: £58.46First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781563243608Author S. Frederick StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint M.E... -
China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problem of Reforms, Modernisation and Interdependence by The Joint Economic Committee 9781563241598
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £45.54Most students of contemporary China are familiar with the Joint Economic Committee studies on China, which have appeared periodically since 1967. This is the most recent study in the series (released... -
Japan's Quest: The Search for International Recognition, Status and Role: The Search for International Recognition, Status and Role by Warren Hunsberger 9781563248412
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? They try to find a satisfactory... -
National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China by Edward Friedman 9781563244346
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates... -
The Bridge Builder's Story: A Novel: A Novel by Howard Fast 9781563246913
Booksplease Price: £113.74Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of democracy. This book argues the need to... -
Beyond Dissent: Essays in Institutional Economics: Essays in Institutional Economics by Philip A. Klein 9781563243219
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the... -
The End of Government... as We Know it: Making Public Policy Work: Making Public Policy Work by Elaine Ciulla Kamarck 9781588264947
Booksplease Price: £31.35In the last decades of the 20th century, many political leaders declared that government was, in the words of Ronald Reagan, "the problem, not the solution." But on closer inspection, argues Elaine... -
The Welfare State as Employer by Jon Eivind Kolberg 9780873326483
Booksplease Price: £110.39An analysis of the Scandinavian model of the welfare state, based on a research program initiated by the Nordic Council in 1985. From an examination of the specific configurations of labor markets... -
The Paradox of Power in a People's Republic of China Middle School by Martin Schoenhals
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the... -
The Atomistic Congress: Interpretation of Congressional Change: Interpretation of Congressional Change by Allen D. Hertzke
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780873328715Author Allen D. HertzkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint M.E... -
China's Search for Democracy: The Students and Mass Movement of 1989: The Students and Mass Movement of 1989 by Suzanne Ogden 9780873327244
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are... -
The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 4: The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by S. Frederick Starr 9781563243592
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781563243592Author S. Frederick StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint M.E... -
Firms Afloat and Firms Adrift: Hungarian Industry and Economic Transition: Hungarian Industry and Economic Transition by Joseph C. Brada 9781563243202
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Designed for various types of college courses, this book discusses the interpretation of statistical data in such fields as the economy, business, demography, housing, health, education and crime... -
Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics by Theodore H. Friedgut 9781563244032
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98An analysis of local legislative and budgetary politics during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period with case studies of electoral behaviour, distribution processes, political contestation, and... -
The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study: A Comparative Study by Raymond Tatalovich 9781563244186
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44A cross-cultural analysis of the abortion issue in the United States and Canada. The book focuses on: the judicial, legislative and executive branches; public opinion and interest groups; federal... -
Victory: How a Progressive Democratic Party Can Win the Presidency: How a Progressive Democratic Party Can Win the Presidency by Arthur Sanders 9781563240874
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The author of this book is an unabashed liberal democrat. He argues that there are a number of myths and half-truths about American politics that need to be properly understood if progressives and... -
The Concept of Activity in Soviet Psychology by James V. Wertsch 9780873321587
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69An anthology of Chinese writings drawn from the late-1980s Maoist revival in mainland China. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, these selections are introduced and annnotated to provide an... -
Economic Democracy: The Challenge of the 1980's: The Challenge of the 1980's by Martin Carnoy 9780873321631
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.Book InformationISBN 9780873321631Author Martin... -
Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Prospects for Socialism in China's Countryside: Prospects for Socialism in China's Countryside by Steve Howard 9780873324717
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24These essays look at how baseball has both reflected and shaped social, economic and political change. Sports writers, commentators, players and academics offer articles on issues of class, race, and...