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Author Leena Al Olaimy
Release Date 2019/02

From purchasing pay-per-view pornography to smoking pot, many so-called Muslim terrorists prove by their actions that they aren't motivated by devotion to religion, Leena Al Olaimy argues. So why do they really turn to violence, and what does that tell us abo....

The Sustainable State

Author Chandran Nair
Release Date 2018/10

The free-market, limited government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is only possible with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, ....

The Internet Trap

Author Matthew Hindman
Release Date 2018/09

A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the p....

Analytical Political Economy

Author Luca Zamparelli , Roberto Veneziani
Release Date 2018/06

Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject.Includes a wide range of topics and the....

Philosophy of Globalization

Author Johannes Rohbeck , Daniel Brauer , Concha Roldán
Release Date 2018/06

Not so long ago, it seemed the intellectual positions on globalization were clear, with advocates and opponents making their respective cases in decidedly contrasting terms. Recently, however, the fronts have shifted dramatically. The aim of this publication is to ....

International Relations Today, 2e, 2nd Edition

Author Aneek Chatterjee
Release Date 2018/06

International Relations Today, 2e, captures the drastic changes that the discipline of international relations (IR) has undergone since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991. It delves into the way the US has emerged as the only....

Trust and Western-Russian Business Relationships

Author Angela Ayios
Release Date 2018/01

Ayios looks at the Western experience of doing business in Russia, and how trust between business partners from East and West is created or destroyed within the business relationship. This book provides the reader with an in-depth look at the key factors that lead ....

Geographic Mental Maps and Foreign Policy Change

Author Luis da Vinha
Release Date 2017/05

In recent years geographic mental maps have made a comeback into the spotlight of scholarly inquiry in the area of International Relations (IR), particularly Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). The book is framed within the mental map research agenda. It seeks to contri....

Collective Action 2.0

Author Shaked Spier
Release Date 2017/02

Collective Action 2.0 explores the issues related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in detail, providing a balanced insight into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action, which will have an impact on the current discourse. Recent eve....

Citizen-Centered Cities, Volume I

Author Paul R. Messinger
Release Date 2016/12

Modern cities are increasingly involving citizens in decisions that affect them. This trend is a part of a movement toward a new standard of city management and planning—falling under the names public involvement, public engagement, collaborative governance, ....

As I See It…

Author Michael R. Czinkota
Release Date 2016/12

In this era of constant change and globalization, political and international issues influence the business environment worldwide and penetrate our lifestyle and expectations in ways beyond most imaginations. The increasing transparency of information provides easi....

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

Author George Ritzer
Release Date 2016/09

This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and ....

Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates

Author Laure Paquette
Release Date 2016/01

By 2020, half of the world’s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the classic lect....

The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat

Author Robert Najarian
Release Date 2015/12

The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is your guide to the principles and techniques of theatrical violence, combining detailed discussions of the mechanics of stage fighting with the nuances of acting decisions to make fighting styles reflect character and story. Expert....

Leading Across New Borders: How to Succeed as the Center Shifts

Author Karen Cvitkovich , Christie Caldwell , Ernest Gundling
Release Date 2015/09

An insightful, real-world look at the skills today's global leadership demandsLeading Across Borders is the leadership guide for the new business environment. The world's economic center of gravity is shifting at a rapid pace - huge emerging economies have alread....

Tracing the Roots of Globalization and Business Principles, Second Edition

Author Lawrence Beer
Release Date 2015/09

The book begins with a historical perspective of recorded trade. It then offers a deeper insight into the first global products, the infrastructures created to support the trade initiative and the development of financial instruments to further its growth. The....

Intelligent Cities

Author Anupama C. Raman , Pethuru Raj
Release Date 2015/06

The emergence of highly promising and potent technologies has enabled the transition of ordinary objects into smart artifacts-providing wider connectivity of digitized entities that can facilitate the building of connected cities. This book provides readers with a ....

War and Democratic Constraint

Author Philip K. Potter , Matthew A. Baum
Release Date 2015/04

Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the....

The Politics Book

Author
Release Date 2015/03

The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought. Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Politics Book elucidates the theoretic....

Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity

Author Bas van Bommel
Release Date 2015/03

In scholarship, classical (Renaissance) humanism is usually strictly distinguished from 'neo-humanism', which, especially in Germany, flourished at the beginning of the 19th century. While most classical humanists focused on the practical imitation of Latin styli....

Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, 2nd Edition

Author Nora Savage , Jeremiah Duncan , Richard Sustich , Anita Street
Release Date 2014/05

Nanotechnology is already having a dramatic impact on improving water quality and the second edition of Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water highlights both the challenges and the opportunities for nanotechnology to positively influence this area of environme....

The NSA Report

Author President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies , Th
Release Date 2014/03

The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of ....

Lobbying America

Author Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Release Date 2013/11

Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, an....

The Price of Rights

Author Martin Ruhs
Release Date 2013/08

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant wor....

Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

Author Xuetong Yan , Daniel A. Bell , Edmund Ryden , Sun Zhe
Release Date 2013/08

The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influenti....

Environmental Politics in Egypt

Author Jeannie Sowers
Release Date 2013/06

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These include; industria....

Small-Town America

Author Robert Wuthnow
Release Date 2013/06

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educatio....

Political Bubbles

Author Keith T. Poole , Howard Rosenthal , Nolan McCarty
Release Date 2013/05

How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis—and what needs to be done to avoid another similar event Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"—policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilt....

Accelerating Democracy

Author John O. McGinnis
Release Date 2012/12

Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the a....

Coding Freedom

Author E. Gabriella Coleman
Release Date 2012/11

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism?....

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