One of the most important strategy manuals ever published, Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War has also been used as a guide to modern business, giving executives an insight into the vital importance of tactics and preparation.
Supreme Court Nominations in an Age of Democracy explores how the rise of mass media, and the democratization of politics more broadly, has affected the Court, the presidency, and the Senate.
The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories of people impacted by injustice across the world.
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in Ameri
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today
This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of "illiberal democracy." The author demonstrates that democracy is not a "demand side" phenomenon, but rather a "supply side" phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend liberal democracy. An original and essential book which will undoubtedly stimulate vigorous debate.
For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. This title lays bare the follies of the international financial system, looking at the nature of capitalism, how it works and why sometimes it doesn't.
Written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively, this book provides an understanding for managing conflicts at all levels interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international.
The official companion title for 'The Walk', where a 3.5m-high puppet will walk 8,000 km along the refugee route though Europe to the UK, in celebration of the contribution that migrants and refugees make to the cultures and communities through which they pass and to the countries in which they find a new home.