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Hardback. Looks at how the US government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies. This book charts the various symbolic, ideological, and political meanings that have developed around human rights and democracy movements. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231131247
- ISBN
- 9780231131247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52
€ 94.52
Paperback. Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote. This book proposes a simple solution: a Democracy Index that would rate the performance of state and local election systems. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 147 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154374
- ISBN
- 9780691154374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.66
€ 23.99
€ 18.66
Paperback. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796262
- ISBN
- 9780804796262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.58
€ 33.99
€ 30.58
Hardback. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804795425
- ISBN
- 9780804795425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.57
€ 140.57
Hardback. Num Pages: 145 pages. BIC Classification: JW; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- RAND United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780833016379
- ISBN
- 9780833016379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.05
€ 20.05
Paperback. The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates hope for a renewed democracy, tempered with critical scholarship and political realism. Editor(s): Gastil, John; Levine, Peter. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118105108
- ISBN
- 9781118105108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.73
€ 59.73
The Delegated Welfare State. Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of ...
Morgan, Kimberly J.; Campbell, Andrea Louise
Paperback. In The Delegated Welfare State, the first book in the Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development series, Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan use the exampke of Medicare to tackle the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector. Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development. Num Pages: 328 pages, 17 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQB; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199730353
- ISBN
- 9780199730353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794623
- ISBN
- 9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardcover. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794616
- ISBN
- 9780814794616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.63
€ 88.63
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Loki Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780952942641
- ISBN
- 9780952942641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Wade, Terry. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629486833
- ISBN
- 9781629486833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.68€ 58.06
€ 82.68
€ 58.06
The Defense Department's Enduring Contributions to Global Health. The ...
Peake, James B.; Morrison, Sephen J.
Paperback. Series: CSIS Reports. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892066490
- ISBN
- 9780892066490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. The forts built from the early seventeenth century onwards, the ships that defended Macau's waters, the weapons that armed the facilities and the soldiers and sailors who manned them all are carefully detailed in The Defences of Macau. More than 200 illustrations serve as a visual record of what has survived. Num Pages: 288 pages, 213. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789622099937
- ISBN
- 9789622099937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.84
€ 78.84
Paperback. To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. This book reveals the precise role of the Service in twentieth-century British history, since its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 to root out 'the spies of the Kaiser'. Num Pages: 1072 pages, Illustrations, col. map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBT; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 52. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141023304
- ISBN
- 9780141023304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.09
€ 25.99
€ 18.09
Paperback. Translator(s): Hoskins, Stuart. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024634234
- ISBN
- 9788024634234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.35
€ 18.99
€ 16.35
Paperback. The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 191.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879722364
- ISBN
- 9780879722364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.32
€ 14.99
€ 14.32
Paperback. During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story of how US nationals participated in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself. Num Pages: 341 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTS; JPSD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 341
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814736890
- ISBN
- 9780814736890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143109938
- ISBN
- 9780143109938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.80
€ 23.99
€ 17.80
Hardback. Series: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: JNHX; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024534
- ISBN
- 9780253024534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.87
€ 84.87
Paperback. Deals with the contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This title presents a discussion of race, class, and social policy. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226901411
- ISBN
- 9780226901411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.41
€ 39.41