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Open Budgets
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands?from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic actors, and increasingly from international sources?to... more...
Finance and the Good Society (New in Paperback)
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 19.95The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that... more...
Globalization
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 9.99Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for a third... more...
Responsibility to Protect
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide and mass atrocities and pledging to act in cases where governments manifestly failed in their responsibility. This marked a significant turning point... more...
Introduction to International Relations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 23.99This clear and concise text takes as its starting point the theoretical frameworks that are the foundation of current international relations. Kaufman explains the traditional theories, but also makes a place for understanding the areas that lie outside of or cannot be explained by those approaches. Although levels of analysis are the primary unifying... more...
Justice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 14.99What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel?s ?Justice?... more...
The Art of War
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableThe ancient Chinese treatise of military strategy is now a business classic - here it is brought up to date by bestselling author and military scholar James Clavell. more...
Gideon's Spies
Aurum Press 2010; US$ 10.19Created in 1951 to ensure an embattled Israel?s future, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism and assassination ever ventured. Gideon?s Spies has been created from closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants and spymasters, and drawing from classified documents and top-secret... more...
Star Trek: First Strike
Pocket Books/Star Trek 1999; US$ 6.50A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 95.00This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions. The author discusses `picturesque' and `formal' tendencies in modern architecture, relating them to parallels... more...









