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The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 119.95The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is... more...
Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99Readers wont have to disassemble their favorite toys to discover what makes them work. This book explores electric, magnetic, and motion-powered toys from design to function. It introduces readers to the six simple machines and explains how they use force and motion to do work. Not every toy is a technological marvel. Readers learn about time-honored... more...
The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 117.00Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains how political science enriches the contribution of the social sciences to the study of disaster relief, aid and reconstruction following the major disaster events, both natural and man-made, of recent times. more...
Re-framing Regional Development
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ?re-frame? the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they... more...
Political Participation and Ethnic Minorities
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 49.95Amy Freedman's empirical study examines the hows and whys of Chinese overseas political activity in three diverse countries. more...
The Politics of Territory
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00This book explores the relationship between land use planning and ethno-religious segregation. It draws on a range of empirical research and case studies to explore the meaning attached to land in contested places, the challenges these present to planners and the possibilities for accommodating differences over the use and development of territory.... more...
Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99What is modern governance? Is it the battle against a old-fashioneda (TM) hierarchy, or is it the restoration of key hierarchical values? Is it optimizing network management, or maximizing the benefits of market thinking in the public-sector? This book argues that it is the combination of all this. The next question is: In practice, how do successful... more...
Ethnonationalism, Genocide, and the United Nations
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration of UN archives covering... more...
The Republican Alternative
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 49.95A comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the Netherlands and Switzerland, and a remarkable socio-historical commentary on these two remarkably successful democracies more...
Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 138.00Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When ' Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the number of private contractors engaged to keep... more...









