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Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 42.00As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home? Alan Gilbert speaks to an issue at the heart of current international-relations debate. He contends that, in spite of neo-realists' assumptions, a vocal citizen democracy can and must have a role in global politics. Further,... more...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 17.50We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary... more...
Landlord and Tenant
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 236.00This ground-breaking work employs survey data and in-depth interviews to compile a detailed picture of landlords and tenants in developing countries. Focusing on Mexico the authors examine the state's housing policy, with its clear bias towards increasing home ownership, and explores the possibilities of improving the quality and increasing the stock... more...
Housing, the State and the Poor
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 38.00This book is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor in Latin America and how they are articulated and satisfied. more...
Seeking Sickness
Greystone Books 2012; US$ 14.00Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer... more...
Practical Rules
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00The two dominant models in the current literature on rules are the particularist and normative accounts. Taking a position between these two extremes, Alan Goldman is the first to provide a systematic framework to clarify when we need to follow rules and when we ought not to do so. more...
Pharmacology of the Critically Ill
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2001; US$ 84.95This book deals with how changes in organ function can affect the way the body handles drugs. Most books on this subject deal with how drug treatments affect organ function. This book approaches it from the other way round. The information in this book will allow safer prescribing of drugs to critically ill patients. This is a clinical governance issue.... more...
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