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What Is Indigenous Knowledge?
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 57.95The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields. more...
Public Choice III
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 47.00This book represents a revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. All of the major topics of public choice are covered. more...
The Clash within Civilisations
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 47.95Expanding upon, and engaging with, the influential theories of Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilisations , this book is a major, and controversial, contribution to these key contemporary debates. Dieter Senghaas examines some of the most significant political issues we face today: * How do societies... more...
Transformational Leadership
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research that can serve as a reference and starting point for additional research on the theory. It can be used as a supplementary textbook in an intense course on leadership--or... more...
Fat Girl
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 13.00For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food... more...
The African City
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present. more...
Gang Leader for a Day
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 12.99In this "riveting"( The New York Times ) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics , the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how... more...
Seductress
Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 16.00In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history?s greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world?from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a ménage with... more...
Indian Givers
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." THE WASHINGTON POST After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces... more...
Leisure Studies
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 57.00A critical evaluation of the central debates within leisure studies, looking at both management theories and leisure management, as well as historical debates on key issues such as rational recreation, public service broadcasting and tourism. more...









