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Citizenship Between Past and Future
Paperback,
13/03/2009,
£46.99
£42.29
China is poised to gain global importance as a growth engine for the world economy on a par with Europe and the US. This book presents current research and thinking on the significance of corporate Japan's growing engagement with China.
Condition of Citizenship
Paperback,
04/03/1994,
£43.99
£39.59
Explores the ways in which the idea of citizenship can be a unifying concept in understanding contemporary social change. It outlines traditional linkages between citizenship and public participation, national identity and social welfare, and shows its relevance for a range of contemporary issues.
Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations
Paperback,
04/11/2011,
£36.99
£33.29
An agenda setting book from a major academic figure in the social sciences.
Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Hardback,
15/06/2017,
£18.99
£9.50
Discover why outsiders from Trump to Corbyn are succeeding like never before - and what this means for you.
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
Hardback,
04/10/2018,
£20.00
£18.00
Future Politics confronts the most important question of our time: how will digital technology change society?
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization
Paperback,
13/02/2018,
£15.99
£14.39
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
Development and the State in the 21st Century: Tackling the Challenges facing the Developing World
Paperback,
27/10/2015,
£35.99
£32.39
Development and the State in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive analysis of the state's role in contemporary development.
Applying Political Theory: Issues and Debates
Paperback,
20/05/2016,
£34.99
£31.49
How can political theory help us understand and solve the political questions of our time? This introduction to political theory illuminates its relevance and applicability and clarifies what is at stake in a range of contemporary debates. The new edition has been revised throughout and has a new chapter on civil disobedience and whistle-blowing.
Rational Choice
Paperback,
31/07/2015,
£36.99
£33.29
Assuming no prior knowledge, this widely-used and critically-acclaimed text provides a clear introduction to, and uniquely fair-minded assessment of, Rational Choice approaches.
Urban Planning: An Introduction
Paperback,
08/01/2016,
£31.99
£28.79
A comprehensive introduction to planning that covers history, theory and practice and shows how planning contributes to more sustainable, efficient and equitable urban areas. Suitable for planning courses around the world, it reflects the increasingly cosmopolitan nature of planning practice and the similarity of issues faced by planners globally.
Comparative Health Policy 5ed
Paperback,
17/10/2017,
£34.99
£31.49
A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.
Politics and IR Companion 2ed
Paperback,
28/02/2018,
£23.99
£21.59
Furthermore, it helps students to prepare for a career and a lifetime's interest and involvement in politics. From pre-course reading, to core text on introductory Politics and IR modules, to handy reference guide across a degree program, this Companion provides a one-stop resource, packed with tips for succeeding at university and beyond.
Understanding Public Administration
Paperback,
06/04/2016,
£35.99
£32.39
Public administration - the practice of producing and executing government policy by bureaucrats, politicians, managers and other officials - affects almost everything we encounter in our day-to-day lives.
Theory and Methods in Political Science 4ed
Paperback,
13/10/2017,
£34.99
£31.49
Integrating guides to further reading and clear examples of how research methods can be applied, it enables readers to feel confident about taking their study of politics forward.
An ideal foundation for study and research in political science, this textbook will be essential to students at any stage of their degree.
Philosophy and Methods of Political Science
Paperback,
24/11/2015,
£36.99
£33.29
This original account of the role of philosophy and methodology in political science gets back to the basics of studying politics. It enables students of political science methodologies and related disciplines to apply sharp analysis and in-depth philosophical understanding to their study of political events and structures.
Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work 2ed
Paperback,
23/11/2016,
£23.99
£21.59
Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever. The result is that politics in the democratic world faces a crisis in the 21st century. The revised edition of this highly successful text reassesses the gap between citizen expectation and the realities of government in light of new developments.
Rethinking Terrorism: Terrorism, Violence and the State
Paperback,
28/08/2015,
£34.99
£31.49
A major new text on terrorism in the contemporary world. Terrorism, Colin Wight argues, is not only a form of political violence but also a form of political communication and can only be understood - and countered effectively - in the context of its relationship to the state.
Environmental Politics and Policy
Paperback,
08/11/2017,
£32.99
£29.69
This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.
Political Ideologies: An Introduction 6ed
Paperback,
13/02/2017,
£33.99
£30.59
A clear and accessible introduction to the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated and shaped politics around the world. The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and now has a new chapter on the rise of religious politics and Islamism and an improved page design to aid student learning.
Comparative Public Policy
Paperback,
17/04/2018,
£34.99
£31.49
The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This is a core text for introductory modules on undergraduate and postgraduate public policy, public management and public administration programmes.
Governance, Management and Development: Making the State Work
Paperback,
21/07/2015,
£35.99
£32.39
This fully revised edition of the same authors' Governance, Administration and Development is the ideal introduction to public management and the policy process in developing countries. With a new chapter on issues of law and order, it also covers current debates on civil society, aid and intervention, and the relationship of states and markets.
Urban Resilience
Paperback,
16/05/2016,
£33.99
£30.59
In the century of the city when crisis has become the new normal, planners are trying to find ways to make cities less vulnerable and to build in resilience. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book examines the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions.
Contemporary Political Theory
Paperback,
03/11/2015,
£33.99
£30.59
Introducing the major theories, issues and concepts in contemporary political theory, this text is a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field.
Research Design in Political Science
Paperback,
10/02/2016,
£35.99
£32.39
Giving accessible and practical advice, without use of mathematical formulas or formalized notation, this clear and engaging book features many examples of real political science research, and will enable readers to design their own research projects as well as to critically evaluate existing research in the social sciences.
Foundational Economy: The Infrastructure of Everyday Life
Paperback,
29/08/2018,
£11.99
£10.79
The foundational economy means those universally necessary goods and services that form the basis of a civilised life: everything from clean piped water to decent health care. In the last generation privatisation and outsourcing have degraded this provision. The book documents all this, and shows how it can renewed. -- .
Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
Hardback,
02/01/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers-but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Cautious Superpower explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.
Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
Hardback,
07/08/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current
American political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country.
Populism and Economics
Paperback,
05/07/2018,
£15.00
£13.50
Dumas shows how the perception of inequality now threatens to destabilize not only politics but also the economic order itself.
Economics for the Many
Paperback,
18/09/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition
Paperback,
10/07/2018,
£16.99
£15.29
A critical assessement of the problems of sincerity and truth in politics argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics without resigning ourselves to it or embracing it, drawing on the lessons of such thinkers as Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sigwick, and Orwell.
Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
Hardback,
25/10/2018,
£25.00
£22.50
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Hardback,
15/06/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
Antisocial Media, is the path-breaking initial step toward understanding how social media is quickly undermining not only centuries of democratic progress, but civil society itself.
Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms
Paperback,
11/09/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
Don't Let My Past Be Your Future, Harry Leslie Smith's follow-up to Harry's Last Stand, is both a survival guide for today's generations and a memoir about persevering through difficult times with one's dignity and optimism intact.
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now
Hardback,
15/04/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade.
Orwell on Freedom
Hardback,
22/11/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie`Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. Orwell's ambition to create a fairer and more egalitarian society is essential inspiration as we strive for freedom and equality in today's world.
Balfour in the Dock
Hardback,
20/10/2017,
£16.99
£15.29
The first biography of a writer, J.M.N.Jeffries, whose pioneering researches in the 1920s and 30s laid bare the way the British government, and in particular the Balfour Declaration of 1917, betrayed the Palestinian Arabs, by helping to turn Palestine into a Jewish state.
NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century
Paperback,
06/08/2009,
£22.99
£20.69
Exposing the liberal media as cheerleaders for government, business and war
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Paperback,
20/09/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
A powerful, forensic critique of the mainstream media in the era of 'Fake News'
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Worst Is Yet To Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide
Paperback,
15/01/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled?
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
Paperback,
05/01/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
Lisa Mckenzie lived on the notorious St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her `insider' status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders, to give a unique account of life in poor communities in contemporary Britain.
Anarchism, Marxism, And The Future Of The Left: Interviews and Essays 1993 - 1998
Paperback,
12/07/2000,
£13.95
£12.56
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
Paperback,
15/02/1995,
£4.50
£4.05
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