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Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of the rankings phenomenon. more...
Trick or Treatment?
Transworld 2009; US$ 12.00Welcome to the world of alternative medicine. Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. But how do you know which treatments really heal and which are potentially harmful? Now at last you can find out, thanks to the... more...
Sex, Gender and Science
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 42.00In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to 'sex', sex 'differences' and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of 'sex' are based less upon understanding material sex differences, than on a discourse that emphasizes sex dichotomy over sex diversity and argues for... more...
Modern Money Theory
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 35.00In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, this book presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest. more...
Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 138.00The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details... more...
Qualitative Methods in International Relations
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 31.00We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research:How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed guidance on how to apply specific tools of analysis and how to circumvent their inherent limitations. more...
Sales Force Design for Strategic Advantage
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 65.00This book focuses upon the role of the sales force in today's changing world and how to design a sales force for strategic advantage. It includes sections on how to assess the current sales force design and how to implement change and covers customer segmentation, market strategy, structuring and sizing, alignment, metrics and managing change. more...
The University in the Age of Globalization
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00An informed discussion of the global education market, analysing the rankings system, and the determinants which help universities to advance. The authors examine possible improvements in the promotion and commercialization of university research, and the role of universities in the social and economic development of transition economies. more...
The Business of Empire
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 37.00The first detailed study of what happened in Britain when the East India Company acquired a vast territorial empire in South Asia. It offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the Company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. more...
Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics 18921914
Cambridge University Press 1973; US$ 40.00This study charts the process of internal conversion by which the Edwardian Liberal Party came to favour an advanced social policy. more...









