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Gregory Bateson - Steps to an ecology of mind; Collected essays in anthropology.jpg
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight ...
Philip F. Williams – Asian Literary Voices; From Marginal to Mainstream (2011).jpg
The essays in this collection give voice to a wide range of artists and writers from China, Japan, Korea, and India who to this day remain largely unknown or poorly understood in literary circles around the world. Contributors from Asia, Europe, and the United States cover a ...
Alice Teichova - Historical Studies in International Corporate Business (2002).jpg
In this sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (1986) the same editorial team continues the historical explanation of a vital but often misconstrued commercial phenomenon. The contributory essays, each written by an authority in the field and ...
Whitaker's - Whitaker's Almanack 2011 (2010).jpg
For nearly a century and a half Whitaker’s Almanack has been the comprehensive reference resource for anyone interested in current events and general knowledge. The Almanack also contains a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and is an ...
Peter van Lieshout.jpg
Development aid has become the subject of much discussion. Why do we give aid, and does it help? What do we know about the development paths being taken by various countries, or the possibilities of helping them to achieve their goals from outside? How relevant is development ...
Robert Pahre - Leading Questions; How Hegemony Affects the International Political Economy (1999).jpg
Leadership has long been an important subject in the study of international economic relations. Many scholars give American leadership credit for strong economic growth in western Europe and Japan after World War II. Other scholars have accused leading nations of using ...
Cass R. Sunstein - Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1998).jpg
Among the most frequently heard proposals for reform of the judicial system are those calling for strict adherence to guidelines, be they sentencing, constitutional, or otherwise. Cass Sunstein says it doesn't really work that way. Sunstein, a leading author on legal ...
Richard Black - A Continent Moving West; EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe (2010).jpg
A Continent Moving West? argues that the conceptualization of migration as a one-way or long-term process is becoming increasingly wide of the mark. Rather, east-west labor migration in Europe, in common perhaps with other flows in and from other parts of the world, is ...
Irfan Nooruddin - Coalition Politics and Economic Development; Credibility and the Strength of Weak Governments (2011).jpg
Coalition Politics and Economic Development challenges the conventional wisdom that coalition government hinders necessary policy reform in developing countries. Irfan Nooruddin presents a fresh theory that institutionalized gridlock, by reducing policy ...
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk - Culture in Economics; History.jpg
Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional ...
Stephen Knack - Democracy.jpg
For many decades, underdevelopment in much of the world was blamed variously on capital deficits, exploitation by rich nations, and market-distorting economic policies. The chapters in this volume provide much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among ...
J. Timo Weishaupt - From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm; Explaining Institutional Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe (2011).jpg
This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a manpower revolution phase during the 1960s and 1970s, ...
Matthew Bolton - Foreign Aid and Landmine Clearance; Governance.jpg
In the decade since the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which banned the production and use of anti-personnel mines, governments have spent over $3 billion on clearing up and mitigating the security threat of mines, cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance in the ...
Richard Connerney - The Upside-Down Tree; India's Changing Culture (2009).jpg
When he called India a 'functioning anarchy,' economist Kenneth Galbraith may have been thinking about Uttar Pradesh (UP) in northern India. Known as a home of deep poverty, incurable corruption and sticky social problems, UP is not the India that now appears regularly in ...
Liza Mugge - Beyond Dutch Borders; Transnational Politics among Colonial Migrants.jpg
Migrants often remain loyal to their former homelands and stay active in the politics there— despite widespread criticism of these ties in their host countries. Combining extensive fieldwork with quantitative data, Beyond Dutch Borders compares how transnational ...
Richard B. McKenzie - In Defense of Monopoly; How Market Power Fosters Creative Production (2008).jpg
In Defense of Monopoly offers an unconventional but empirically grounded argument in favor of market monopolies. Authors McKenzie and Lee claim that conventional, static models exaggerate the harm done by real-world monopolies, and they show why some degree of monopoly ...
Carolyn K. Lesorogol - Contesting the Commons; Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya (2008).jpg
Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectively managing communally held land has been one key to their success and a cornerstone of their social organization. Over ...
Mohammed Hanif - A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2009).jpg
Pakistan's ongoing political turmoil adds a piquant edge to this fact-based farce spun from the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia, the dictator who toppled Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, father of recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto. Two parallel ...
Jayashankar M. Swaminathan - Indian Economic Superpower; Fiction or Future (2009).jpg
India's prominence in the global economy is on the rise. Are we witnessing the rise of an economic superpower? Or is it a mirage? In this unique collection, leading experts in the field present an in-depth analysis on the rise of the Indian economy across various sectors over ...
Lourdes Casanova - Global Latinas; Latin America's Emerging Multinationals (2009).jpg
Foreign Direct Investment from emerging economies reached $130 billion in 2005, the highest level ever recorded. The number of multinationals from emerging economies in the global Fortune 500 has increased from 19 in 1990 to 47 in 2005, with about ten of them coming from ...
Eamonn Canniffe - Urban Ethic; Design in the Contemporary City (2006).jpg
Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations. The author provides that theoretical framework, looking beyond the style obsession of urban ...
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People and places: A 2001 Census atlas of the UK provides an at-a-glance guide to social change in the UK at the start of the new millennium. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the 2001 Census and offers unique comparisons with the findings of the previous Census a decade ...
Simone Bunse - Small States and EU Governance; Leadership Through the Council Presidency (2009).jpg
Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU’s rotating Council presidency and small states’ capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of ...
