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Nancy M. P. King - Beyond Regulations.jpg
This is a re-examination of research ethics across a broad range of disciplines. It combines case studies and commentaries by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to explore such issues as informed consent, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and ...
Nancy Dziedzic - World Poverty (2000).jpg
World Poverty is part of the Information Plus Reference Series. The purpose of each volume of the series is to present the latest facts on a topic of pressing concern in modern American life. These topics include today’s most controversial and most studied social issues: ...
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This is a lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus ...
Terje Tvedt - The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age.jpg
The Nile Basin is a vast and varied area of 350 million people. Parts of the basin have become the very symbols of African misery, suffering drought, genocide, state failure and aid dependency. At its heart lies the Nile itself. Yet while the importance of the river is well ...
Michael Saltman - Land and Territoriality (2002).jpg
In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land.This book considers ...
Samson Blinded - A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict (2006).jpg
Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, by Obadiah Shoher, abandons moralizing and ideological hubris to view Israeli-Muslim struggle in terms of raw realpolitik. Terrorism is historically normal mode of war. Israel must respect ...
Francis Pike - Empires at War.jpg
Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how "Modern Asia" came into being. Ranging over the whole of Asia, from Japan to Pakistan, the modern history of this important region is placed in the context of the struggle between America and the Soviet Union. Francis ...
Len Verwey - Parliament.jpg
Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy. In South Africa, massive poverty, inequality and unemployment remain, despite the successful political transformation. Citizens and Parliament have a particularly important role to play in ...
Susan Strange - The Retreat of the State.jpg
Who is really in charge of the world economy? Not only governments, argues Susan Strange in The Retreat of the State. Big businesses, drug barons, insurers, accountants and international bureaucrats all encroach on the so-called sovereignty of the state. Professor ...
Thomas J. Bassett - The Atlas of World Hunger (2010).jpg
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be “making sure that people are able to get enough to eat.” The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and ...
Hassan Fathy - Architecture for the Poor.jpg
Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such ...
J. Gordon Melton - Encyclopedia of Protestantism (2005).jpg
Encyclopedia of Protestantism is the last volume in the Facts On File Library of Religion and Mythology/Encyclopedia of World Religions. Like earlier volumes on Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, it is intended to be a handy guide to the major terms, ...
John M. Najemy - The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli (2010).jpg
Niccol- Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering ...
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Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources provides insight into over two centuries of struggle for human and civil rights and the issues that struggle engenders. The resources in Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources provide evidence to support the ...
Richard Ned Lebow - Why Nations Fight.jpg
Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, ...
Rutsel Silvestre J. Martha - The Legal Foundations of Interpol (2010).jpg
This book is a study of the legal aspects of the birth and development of an international organisation, using the example of INTERPOL as a detailed case study. It is not a constitutional manual for INTERPOL, but an organisational study, and does not seek to be exhaustive in ...
Alice Edwards - Human Security and Non-Citizens.jpg
The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. ...
Christopher Bush - Ideographic Modernism.jpg
Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Rather than focusing on the accuracy of this ideograph as a kind of representation of China (a focus that would yield predictable results), ...
Paul Graham - Inheriting Poverty.jpg
South African legislation, as well as international conventions like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which have been ratified by South Africa, indicate shared and increasing acknowledgement of the ...
Liz Sonneborn - The End of Apartheid in South Africa (2010).jpg
In 1948, the Parliament of South Africa passed a series of laws designed to systematically strip the nation's black majority of all political, economic, and human rights. The result was apartheid, a legislative program that made the South African government one of the most ...
Peter Dauvergne - The Shadows of Consumption.jpg
"In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne tackles the often hidden consequences of globalization and consumption for the environment and for human health and well-being. He demonstrates how the worst of these consequences are displaced, often to the most ...
Moira Fradinger - Binding Violence.jpg
Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the ...
Kimberly A. McCabe - Sex Trafficking.jpg
This book targets sex trafficking within every geographic region and it provides a general profile of the geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and political conditions that may support the growth of sex trafficking. It is written on a basic ...
Jack Niemonen - Race.jpg
A comprehensive guide to the current race-class debate in sociology, Race,Class, and the State traces the evolution of the controversy and analyzes current trends in the field. Focusing on the work legacy of William Julius Wilson and the arguments of his longstanding ...
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This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of Israeli-European relations and discusses significant developments in that relationship from the late 1950s through to the present day. The emphasis is placed on five broad themes that address different dimensions of the ...
Kent Eaton - Politicians and Economi.jpg
"This book makes a significant contribution by synthesizing topics (legislators, party systems, bureaucracies, executive-legislative relations, and public policy) and regions (Latin America and Asia) that are not commonly compared. [It] applies a wide range of ...
George Gavrilis - The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries (2010).jpg
The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries explains why some borders deter insurgents, smugglers, bandits, and militants while most suffer from infiltration and crisis. Grappling with an issue at the core of the modern state and international security, George Gavrilis ...