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The Government of Scotland
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 48.00A critical challenge to Scotland's new system of government is the making and implementation of public policy. This book offers a comprehensive account of the policy process in contemporary Scotland. There is a review of theories of policy-making, focusing on decentralised systems. The author then identifies the key actors and institutions, patterns... more...
Plurinational Democracy
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 64.99Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of... more...
The Independence of Scotland
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 94.99After three hundred years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland as a political community while the ideology and practices of the old unionism have atrophied. Yet while Britishness is in decline,... more...
The Simple Art of SoC Design
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book tackles head-on the challenges of digital design in the era of billion-transistor SoCs. It discusses fundamental design concepts in design and coding required to produce robust, functionally correct designs. It also provides specific techniques for measuring and minimizing complexity in RTL code. Finally, it discusses the tradeoff between... more...
Nations against the State
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 168.00This is a comparative study of nationalism and nation-building in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland. All are historic nations within larger states. Nationalism is presented as a mechanism for dealing with the place of the territorial society in the new order. It is no longer concerned with the creation of a traditional nation state but with maximizing... more...
European Integration and the Nationalities Question
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95A highly topical examination of the effect of European integration on relations between states and minority nations. This new collection brings together the leading specialists in the field, and covers a wide range of cases, from Northern Ireland in the West, to Estonia and Latvia in the East, and Cyprus in the South-East. The contributors... more...
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 36.00A new textbook for masters and doctoral students introducing the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. more...
Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 139.99Globalization and European integration are sometimes seen as the enemies of nationalism, sweeping away particularisms and imposing a single economic, cultural and political order. The book argues on the contrary that, by challenging the 'nation-state' as the sole basis for identity and sovereignty, they open the way for a variety of claims... more...
Advances in the Treatment of B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Future Medicine Ltd 2012; US$ 184.00The past two decades have seen substantial advances in the understanding of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), including new insights from genetics and molecular biology regarding the heterogeneity in clinical behavior observed in this disease. The Editors highlight how vast and complex the CLL has become, but foresee a new dawn for physicians and... more...
Political Autonomy and Divided Societies
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully. more...









