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Governments, Markets and Globalisationby Quentin Beresford
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 25.45A comprehensive introductory analysis to the ideas, institutions and processes behind Australia's social and economic transformation which examine how the rise of free market ideology and globalization has changed the role of government in modern society. Drawing on a range of contemporary case studies and research in social, economic and environmental policy areas, Quentin Beresford identifies and explains the key institutions and processes involved in policy-making in an accessible way. With opportunities for active learning, the text aims to shed new light on the complex business of government decision-making in tomorrow's society more...
The Middle East in International Relationsby Fred Halliday; Eugene L. Rogan
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00Fred Halliday is one of the most authoritative scholars writing on the Middle East today. His book has been composed as an introduction to the subject for students, and those new to the field, with the objective of setting the Middle East within the broader context of contemporary international relations. more...
Game Changeby John Heilemann; Mark Halperin
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99This shit would be really interesting if we werent in the middle of it.Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clintonand the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obamas partner and Americas face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told. ... more...
The New Machiavelliby Jonathan Powell
Random House 2010; US$ 12.34* ?Niccolò Machiavelli is misunderstood,? argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher?s influential masterpiece, The Prince . Taking the lessons Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today. Illustrating each of Machiavelli?s maxims with a description of events that occurred during Tony Blair?s time as Prime Minister, The New Machiavelli is designed to be The Prince for modern times. * Tony Blair?s Chief of Staff from 1994 ? 2007 , Jonathan Powell recounts the inside story of that period ? drawing on his own unpublished diaries. He tackles the critics of Blair?s ?sofa government? and gives... more...
Political Topographies of the African Stateby Catherine Boone
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. more...
The Age of Austerityby Thomas Byrne Edsall
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 12.99One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials... more...
Politicsby Stephen Tansey
Routledge 1999; US$ 19.95This fully revised and updated edition of Tansey's successful overview of the world of politics introduces the study of politics, the variety of political systems, the main movements and issues which dominate at the start of the 21st century. more...
Beyond Westminster and Whitehallby R.A. Rhodes
Routledge 1988; US$ 59.95Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These bodies are the warp and weft of the British system of government and yet are all too frequently ignored. For a full understanding of British government, the study of sub-central government is of equivalent importance to that of the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and Parliament. more...
Biology and Political Scienceby Robert Blank; Samuel M. Hines Jnr.
Routledge 2001; US$ 160.00This book demonstrates the increasing convergence of interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of the life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. more...
Poland and the European Unionby Karl Cordell
Routledge 2000; US$ 160.00This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratised political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desire to "rejoin Europe". more...