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The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat
Author Robert Najarian
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....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates
Author Laure Paquette
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....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Author Vladimir Biti
Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. ....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Author Ian Clark
This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism int....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Developing the Global Bioeconomy
Author Heinz Stichnothe , J. Richard Hess , Erin Searcy , Patrick Lamers
Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for....
Release Date 2016/05 -
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
Author George Ritzer
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 ....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Citizen-Centered Cities, Volume I
Author Paul R. Messinger
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, ....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Michael R. Czinkota
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....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Nonprofits as Policy Solutions to the Burden of Government
Author Herrington J. Bryce
This book addresses a specific subset of nonprofits that are chartered with a single mission: decrease the burden of government. Designing and engaging nonprofits to lessen the burden of government requires a specific description and acknowledgement of the burden t....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Shaked Spier
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....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Geographic Mental Maps and Foreign Policy Change
Author Luis da Vinha
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....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Shaun Rein
With Chinese-led initiatives such as One Belt One Road (OBOR) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) combined with uncertainty due to US shifts in policy and apparent commitments over the past decade, the stakes are high for companies looking to profit....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Trust and Western-Russian Business Relationships
Author Angela Ayios
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 ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Luca Zamparelli , Roberto Veneziani
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....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Johannes Rohbeck , Daniel Brauer , Concha Roldán
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 ....
Release Date 2018/06 -
International Relations Today, 2e, 2nd Edition
Author Aneek Chatterjee
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....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Matthew Hindman
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....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Chandran Nair
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, ....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Compassionate Counterterrorism
Author Leena Al Olaimy
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....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author Michael S. Lubell
Navigating the Maze: How Science and Technology Policies Shape America and the World offers a captivating deep dive into the inner workings of the world of public policy. Written by prominent science advocate and renowned physics researcher and educator, Michael S.....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Disorder and Public Concern Around Globalization
Author Mario Amendola , Jean-Luc Gaffard
Disorder and Public Concern Around Globalization examines the contrast between an idealized vision and a realistic view of globalization. Both are inscribed in the contemporary debate within political and economic theory. This opposition highlights the conditions under wh....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Carl Benedikt Frey
How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of....
Release Date 2019/06 -
The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
Author Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby. Taking his typically in....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Nicholas Wallwork
Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world’s biggest break-up Whether you’re a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you’ll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain’s exit from the E....
Release Date 2019/07 -
The Making of a Democratic Economy
Author Ted Howard , Marjorie Kelly
Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much we....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Alan Fortuna
The concept of polarization has become an important topic of interest in politics, society, and discourse around the world today. In the European Union (EU), polarizing rhetoric has driven politics into divided camps on issues ranging from immigration to economic i....
Release Date 2019/07 -
The, Decision Maker's Playbook
Author Simon Mueller , Julia Dhar
Simon Mueller is the General Manager of The Bruce Henderson Institute in New York, The Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) corporate strategy think-tank. The book is built on a broad body of evidence. It is the result of half a decade of research, and numerous interviews with academics at Harvard Busin....
Release Date 2019/09 -
White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author
Author Mark Cuban , Joan C. Williams
"It is really worth a read…" -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save AmericaNow in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cuban and a new Preface by the author, White Working Class explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white workin....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Political Dimensions of the American Macroeconomy, 2nd Edition
Author Gerald T. Fox
Political macroeconomy refers to the interconnection between macroeconomic politics and macroeconomic performance. The expectational Phillips curve may be used to examine the economic aspects of this interrelation. Macroeconomic politics relates to voter behavior, ....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Marcus Goncalves , Harry Xia , Mario Svigir
Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis. In this book, the authors propose a new conceptual business model as a contribution to global sustainable capitalism in the making, in an attempt assist in the education of global stakehold....
Release Date 2019/12