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Paperback. How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? This title examines and challenges the dominant paradigm of presidential leadership. It contends that presidents cannot create opportunities for change by persuading others to support their policies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 10. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154367
- ISBN
- 9780691154367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.20
€ 32.99
€ 27.20
Hardback. When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. This book shows that the president's frustrations were predictable and the inevitable result of misunderstanding the nature of presidential power. Num Pages: 224 pages, 44 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPH; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153681
- ISBN
- 9780691153681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Paperback. In the fifth Deaf Lives volume, Jacobs tells of searchingin Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented, as being neither deaf nor hearing, but an in-between." Series: Deaf Lives Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781563683503
- ISBN
- 9781563683503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.39
€ 30.99
€ 24.39
Hardback. The Athletic Trap will be of interest to university presidents, board members, and administrators, sport sociologists concerned with the balance of power between academics and athletics, and anyone else with a serious interest in college sports and its future. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNM; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411958
- ISBN
- 9781421411958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.13
€ 35.99
€ 30.13
Paperback. Stories of homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their patrons held broad appeal in pre-modern Japanese culture. An independent popular writer, Saikaku wrote "Nanshoku Okagami" in 1687 with the intention of extending his readership. Num Pages: 384 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; 3JD; FA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718950
- ISBN
- 9780804718950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
Paperback. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums'. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425933
- ISBN
- 9781474425933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.42
€ 40.99
€ 35.42
Hardback. In order to enable general understanding and to foster the implementation of necessary support measures in organizations, this book describes the fundamental and conceptual aspects of cyberspace abuse. These aspects are logically and reasonably discussed in the fields related to cybercrime and cyberwarfare. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JKV; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781848216716
- ISBN
- 9781848216716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.73
€ 176.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; PSVP; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845401023
- ISBN
- 9781845401023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.80
€ 15.80
hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JMR; PSVP; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845400217
- ISBN
- 9781845400217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.98
€ 25.98
Hardback. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: CFGR; JHMC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 252 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118909713
- ISBN
- 9781118909713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.61
€ 112.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Gonzalez-Burgos, Ignacio. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: JMRM; MJN; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634832793
- ISBN
- 9781634832793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 287.52€ 213.19
€ 287.52
€ 213.19
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107177857
- ISBN
- 9781107177857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.94
€ 70.94
Hardback. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from diverse backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. This book relates their experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together. It presents a history of changing conditions in US and Central Europe. Series: Studies in German History. Num Pages: 21 ills, index. BIC Classification: BGA; HBTB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451387
- ISBN
- 9781845451387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.10
€ 164.10
paperback. Explores the problematic relationship between Islam, the West and 'modernity' -- in the light of an increasingly vocal Muslim diaspora in Europe and the United States. Series: Critical Studies on Islam. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745316116
- ISBN
- 9780745316116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.43
€ 36.99
€ 29.43
Paperback. An early study of queer theory and non-Western feminism, challenging the concept of gender. Series: Critique. Influence. Change. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783603329
- ISBN
- 9781783603329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.67
€ 20.99
€ 19.67
Paperback. Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH5; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223231
- ISBN
- 9780812223231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 540 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1293.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814737545
- ISBN
- 9780814737545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478949
- ISBN
- 9780801478949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.75
€ 36.99
€ 33.75
Hardcover. The aim of this book is to shed light on policy practice in social work discourse, education and practice in eight liberal democracies. This is the first effort to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social policy formulation processes. Editor(s): Weiss-Gal, Idit; Gal, John. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847429735
- ISBN
- 9781847429735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.55
€ 97.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL4; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 209 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595589613
- ISBN
- 9781595589613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.94
€ 16.99
€ 15.94