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De Kostovicova - Kosovo; The Politics of Identity and Space (2005).jpg
Throughout the 1990s, pictures of Albanian youngsters studying in makeshift classrooms became a symbol of Serbian state repression in Kosovo. The establishment of so-called parallel education in private houses and businesses in Kosovo became part of Albanian ...
Berch Berberoglu - Globalization in the 21st Century; Labor.jpg
This book examines the development and transformation of global capitalism in the late 20th and early 21st century. It analyzes the dynamics and contradictions of the global political economy through a comparative-historical approach based on class analysis. After ...
Rodolfo Saracci - Epidemiology; A Very Short Introduction (2010).jpg
Epidemiology plays an all-important role in many areas of medicine, from discovering the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, to documenting the impact of diet, the environment, and exercise on general health, to tracking the origin and spread of new ...
Jorge Reina Schement - Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (3 Volume Set) (2001).jpg
This new three-volume encyclopedia summarizes the current state of knowledge in the communication and information science fields, which are changing rapidly. The 280 signed articles in the set, edited by Schement (communication and information policy, Pennsylvania ...
Marci Bortman - Environmental Encyclopedia (2002).jpg
There are a surprisingly small number of encyclopedias covering environmental science and environmental issues. The expanded and updated edition of Gale's Environmental Encyclopedia does little to improve on the quality of such offerings.Entries range from 100 to ...
Geoffrey K. Fry - Politics of the Thatcher Revolution; An Interpretation of British Politics 1975 - 1990 (2008).jpg
The Thatcher era was the most dramatic period in British politics since the 1940s. The Keynesian order established then was falling apart thirty years later and the time had come for radical change. As Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher proved to be the "Iron ...
Joanne McEvoy - The Politics of Northern Ireland (2008).jpg
The political scene in Northern Ireland is constantly evolving. This book reflects the most recent changes and synthesises some of the best thinking on the subject. It provides an overview of the politics of Northern Ireland, including detailed coverage of the ...
Mohamed Othman - Accountability for International Humanitarian Law Violations; The Case of Rwanda and East Timor (2005).jpg
The book is a critical review of accountability conducted under the authority of the United Nations Security Council, by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). It is centred on ...
Dani Cavallaro - Cyberpunk & Cyberculture; Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson (2001).jpg
Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational greed and urban subcultures. Massively succesful in both book and film form, cyberpunk has redefined not only ...
Fadwa El Guindi - Veil; Modesty.jpg
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. The movement, which rapidly expanded and continues to gather momentum, has ...
Martha Buskirk - The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (2003).jpg
In this book Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, ...
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The World of the Policy Analyst offers a detailed study of the policy analyst's role in the policymaking process. By stressing the need of the analyst to recognize the political, social, and ideological forces that operate in the policy process while retaining analytical ...
Yu Keping - Democracy is a Good Thing; Essays on Politics.jpg
As an amazed world watches the explosive growth of China's increasingly free market economy, international observers hope that this economic liberalization will be followed by greater political liberalization and freedom. This timely volume provides important clues ...
William M. Reddy - Money and Liberty in Modern Europe; A Critique of Historical Understanding (1987).jpg
The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, ...
Paul McLaughlin - Anarchism and Authority (2007).jpg
Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, Paul McLaughlin relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority. The book pays particular attention to the authority of the state and the ...
Sandra L. Borden - Journalism as practice; MacIntyre.jpg
The process of turning the news into just another product has been going on since at least the nineteenth century. But this process of commodification has accelerated since a few, publicly owned conglomerates have come to dominate the global media market. The emphasis on ...
Jon Coaffee - Terrorism.jpg
"Terrorism, Risk and the City" was published at a time (2003) when London, and many other global cities, were coming to terms with the expanded threat of international terrorism they faced. The book offered a historical as well as contemporary account of the physical, ...
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Heritage is a prized cultural commodity in the marketing of tourism destinations. Particular aspects of heritage are often more actively promoted, with others played down. The representation of heritage in tourism as static and timeless, derived since time immemorial ...
Doug Hopton - Money Laundering; A Concise Guide for All Business (2006).jpg
Around the world, anti-money laundering regulations and legislation have become one of the weapons of choice of governments that are fighting global terrorism and criminality. Within the UK, the latest regulation, The Money Laundering Regulations 2003, have extended ...
Paul D. Hutchcroft - Booty Capitalism; The Politics of Banking in the Philippines (1998).jpg
In the early postwar years, the Philippines seemed poised for long-term economic success; within the region, only Japan had a higher standard of living. By the early 1990s, however, the country was dismissed as a perennial aspirant to the ranks of newly industrializing ...
Paweł Bożyk - Globalization and the transformation of foreign economic policy (2006).jpg
The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international political economy of nations and regions continues to be drawn and redrawn, this book traces the goals and instruments of foreign ...
Peter Drahos - The Global Governance of Knowledge; Patent Offices and their Clients (2010).jpg
Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world's ...
Richard C. Martin - Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World (2003).jpg
The reference literature for Islam has long consisted of either a densely academic, multivolume encyclopedia or several, often specialized, single-volume works with brief definitions. Happily, there is now a reference work falling between these two extremes. The ...
Rowan Williams.jpg
The financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the links between the activities of bankers and the wellbeing of society as a whole. The idea that economics is morally neutral or that finance should be above ethical ...
Rosemary Byrne - New Asylum Countries (2002).jpg
How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve collisions between both? And, finally, is law ...