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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world's leading scholars of international relations to provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
"Understanding Environmental Issues provides an excellent foundation for developing critical thinking about contemporary environmental concerns and the ways in which these are debated, represented and managed. The book should achieve its aim of stimulating students to engage with how ideas of...
Social Science Research
From Field to Desk
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author’s own experience.
Barbara Czarniawska takes us on a master...
Global Leadership Perspectives
Insights and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus.
Split into two parts; its first part presents the local...
Cultures and Globalization
Heritage, Memory and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
'This volume of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its three themes are critical for the study of culture and globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory. Exploring the intersection between these three processes, the essays are learned, deeply researched and insightful,...
Consumer Culture
History, Theory and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
"A thorough and wide-ranging synthetic account of social scientific research on consumption which will set the standard for the second generation of textbooks on cultures of consumption."
- Alan Warde, University of Manchester
"The multi-disciplinary nature of the book provides...
by Melinda Mills
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Introducing Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis is an accessible, practical and comprehensive guide for researchers and students who want to understand the basics of survival and event history analysis and apply these methods without getting entangled in mathematical and...
Comparing Democracies
Elections and Voting in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies.
Edited...
Voters and Voting
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2003
'This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoretical and statistical ideas are explained lucidly and effectively - no mean achievement'
- Representation
'Voters and Voting fills a yawning...
Why Voice Matters
Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
"One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by everyone concerned with what it might mean to not only...
by Nick Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
"Nick Stevenson skilfully draws upon a welter of leading thinkers from the liberal, socialist, critical-theory and multiculturalist canons in developing his argument that leading ideas about education are umbilically tied to notions of the good society. The pluralistic and undogmatic manner in...
Work, Consumption and Culture
Affluence and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
The central question in Work, Consumption and Culture is whether consumption has now displaced production as the defining factor in the lives of those in the industrialized West. This book offers a comprehensive review of the key issues in the production/consumption debate, and where it might lead...
Education Policy
Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
`Education policy is now a global matter and all the more complex for that. Mark Olssen, John Codd and Ann-Marie O'Neill do us an invaluable service in producing a carefully theorised guide to current issues and key concerns - this is an important, erudite and very practical book' - Stephen J Ball,...
Women, Policy and Politics
The Construction of Policy Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?'...