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by Jan Cullinane
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
AWARDS: Silver Living Now Book Award, Mature Living/Aging 2014 (Silver)
If you’re one of the 25 million single women over the age of 45 living in the United States today, AARP’s The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement is your new best friend. Walking you through the challenges of retired...
by Jan Hedh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Jan Hedh believes that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy freshly baked bread for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! More than just a collection of recipes, this guide contains vivid, full-color photographs of step-by-step methods to knead, roll, braid, cut, and bake dough into a variety of...
by Jan Norn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
How many beauty products do you use each day? Are they safe or are there toxic chemicals lurking in those seductive creams, silky lotions or luscious lipsticks? How can you tell?
Face Book gives you recipes and tips for some safe options that you can make yourself from ingredients that are trustworthy....
by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do alternate capitalisms offer viable alternatives...
Economic Prospects - East and West
A View from the East
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to examine...
Private Label Strategy
How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
As retailers have become more powerful and global, they have increasingly focused on their own brands at the expense of manufacturer brands. Rather than simply selling on price, retailers have transformed private labels into brands. Consequently, manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson, Nestle,...
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave...
Making Natural Knowledge
Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
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by Jan Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Frustration! Unfortunately that's an eleven-letter word that means crosswords to most people, but for other people the word satisfaction comes to mind. Have you ever wished you knew how to work crosswords? The good news is that it doesn’t take a genius to solve them. Anyone can learn to enjoy this brain-training pursuit that is both an enjoyable and relaxing pastime.
You and the State
A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Jan Narveson asks the provocative, philosophical question: is the state necessary? In this unusual introduction to political philosophy, Narveson draws on the history of political philosophy and discusses its main theories_classic liberal, democratic, socialist, radical_with reference to how each...
The Deepening Divide
Inequality in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which...
Doing Research in Political Science
An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research… an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process
- Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern
Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering...
The Economic History of The Netherlands 1914-1995
A Small Open Economy in the 'Long' Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Jan L. van Zanden in The Economic History of the Netherlands 1914-1995 answers these questions. In the first four chapters the long development of the economy is analysed in detail. Central to this part of the book are the rise (and decline) of managerial enterprise; the growth (and fall) of trade...
State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates...