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Development as Freedomby Amartya Sen
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps... more...
Human Rights from Belowby Jim Ife
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 44.00This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. more...
Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challengeby Rik Coolsaet
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 49.95By its combination of novel thinking, practical experience and a theoretical approach, this collective work compares radicalisation in both continents and the strategies aimed at de-radicalisation. But it also assesses if the concept merits its reputation as the Holy Grail of terrorism studies. It rehabilitates the historical and comparative analysis as a way to grasp the essence of terrorism, including its jihadi strand. more...
Growing Up Absurdby Paul Goodman; Susan Sontag
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 17.95Includes the essay "On Paul Goodman" by Susan Sontag. Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960 and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left. Goodman, at the time well into middle age, was a maverick anarchist who broke every mold, and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hand-on way with words. Growing Up Absurd takes the crisis of disaffected youth as indicative of the crisis within the culture at large,... more...
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare Stateby Jeanette Brejning
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people who work with CSR in England, Denmark and in the EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiating responsibilities in mixed economies of welfare. By situating CSR within the conceptual framework of the mixed economy of welfare and using Historical Institutionalism as a theoretical perspective to explore and explain the relationship between the welfare state and CSR, this book makes an innovative contribution to critical debates in comparative social policy. more...
The Gardens of Democracyby Eric Liu; Nick Hanauer
Sasquatch Books 2011; US$ 12.95American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years the dominant metaphor for understanding markets and government has been the machine. Liu and Hanauer view democracy not as a machine, but as a garden. A successful garden functions according to the inexorable tendencies of nature, but it also requires goals, regular tending, and an understanding of connected ecosystems. The latest ideas... more...
At Risk in Americaby Lu Ann Aday
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 80.00This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence, and the chronically or mentally ill. Lu Ann Aday reviews the major theories and knowledge concerning these at-risk groups and offers new approaches and methodologies for tracing the social determinants and societal influences on health. She examines the specific health needs and risks faced by these groups, their experience in the health care system, the current policies and programs that serve... more...
Economics and Utopiaby Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Routledge 1998; US$ 74.95This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario. more...
EU Social Policy in the 1990sby Gerda Falkner
Routledge 1998; US$ 170.00This book gives an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. It finds that the EU social policy-making environment has become increasingly corporatist in the 1990s. more...
Urban Politics in Early Modern Europeby Christopher R. Friedrichs
Routledge 2000; US$ 34.95Takes a fascinating comparative approach to the nature of conflict and conflict resolution in early modern communities throughout Europe. more...









