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  • - A Reflexive Inquiry into Research and Practice
    av D. Board & R. Warwick
    769,-

    In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the authors make a case rich in theory and narrative for a new reflexive approach to real life situations. This approach (immersed reflexivity) draws on Pierre Bourdieu's logic of practice and the complexity sciences.

  • - How Hot Markets Cool Down
    av B. Brown
    769,-

    Drawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of opinion and soft irrationality, and examines the importance of these swings in the credit markets.

  • av Nira Yuval-Davis & Floya Anthias
    539,-

    This book examines the place of women within ethnic and national communities in nine different societies, and the ways in which the state intervenes in their lives. Contributions from a group of scholars examine the situations in their religious, economic and historical context.

  • av Yoshitaka Suzuki
    375,-

    Part of a series on the modern Japanese economy which explores all the major areas of Japanese economic life, this book examines the managerial hierarchies of large-scale Japanese industrial companies since their emergence.

  • - Jewish Myth and Mysticism
    av S. Nurbhai & K. Newton
    1 455,-

    This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism.

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    1 455,-

    This book provides an up-to-date account of housing policy systems in eight countries - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.

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    1 455,-

    Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics brings together a choice selection of some of the most enduring academic writing published in this field in a single volume. Written by distinguished resource economists, the papers in this volume probe, analyze and illuminate the central issues of the discipline.

  • - Tradition and Change in Post-Keynesian Economics
     
    1 345

    This book provides cutting-edge material elaborating on monetary circuit theory and post-Keynesian monetary economics. It contributes to a new approach to monetary analysis, which provides original insights into the complex fields of money, banking, and finance.

  • - Identity, Nation and Europe
    av Stephen Haseler
    375,-

    The English Tribe is about the crisis of nation and national identity facing the English - and the British - as we meet the challenges of the global economy and absorption into a federal Europe. It asks: what does it mean to be English - and British - at the very end of the twentieth-century?

  • - The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
    av Jonathan Marcus
    695,-

    In the 1988 Presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, obtained over 14 per cent of the vote. This book examines the rise of Le Pen's party and its impact on the political scene. How far is it a threat to French democracy?

  • av Hans-Georg Betz
    1 455,-

    Studies the new West European parties of the radical populist right, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the traditional extremist right, these parties have become a significant challenge to the established structure and politics of West European democracy today.

  • - A Christian Approach
    av R. Cumming
    769 - 789,-

    In this innovative treatment of the ethics of war, Ryan P. Cumming brings classical sources of just war theory into conversation with African American voices. The result is a new direction in just war thought that challenges dominant interpretations of just war theory by looking to the perspectives of those on the underside of history and politics.

  • - How Airline Ticket Pricing Has Inspired a Revolution
    av E. Boyd
    685 - 769,-

    A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and how practices developed in the airline industry are now revolutionizing the world of pricing. This book is written for business professionals and students wanting to better understand the rapid growth of scientific pricing.

  • - Theoretical Foundations of the Contemporary Attack on Government
    av Lionel Orchard & Hugh Stretton
    1 455,-

    'A brilliant critical and fresh look at the public choice school of thought.' - Paul Streeten This book challenges theories of public goods, public enterprise and public choice on three fronts.

  • - Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up
    av W. Grassie
    919 - 1 609,-

    Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.

  • - An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism
    av A. Sereni & M. Panza
    769 - 795,-

    What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first raised by Plato, through the views of Aristotle, Proclus, Kant, Frege, Goedel, Benacerraf, up to the most recent debate on mathematical platonism.

  • - Fleshly Readings of Sex, Masculinity, and Carnality
    av R. Boer
    609 - 769,-

    Through a series of close readings, Boer explores the earthy nature of the Bible. These readings are gathered into three parts: the Song of Songs; Masculinities; Paraphilias. Each study is undertaken with rigorous attention to relevant scholarship and significant theoretical engagement (especially with psychoanalysis, ecocriticism and Marxism).

  • - Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard
    av John Orr
    1 939 - 2 059,-

    This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. Tragicomedy is seen as unique becuae of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

  • av Helen Thomas
    1 455 - 1 615

    This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows;

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    769,-

    This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

  • - Interdisciplinary Insights
     
    1 455,-

    The Intoxication of Power is a collection of contributions by thirteen authors from various academic disciplines sharing a concern for the development of understanding of the nature and origins of leadership hubris. The book originated at conferences held by the Daedalus Trust, which fosters research into challenges to organizational well-being.

  • - Challenging the Culture of Unconcern
     
    359,-

    This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a hard look at the gap between increasingly costs expectations of welfare including other social needs and available revenues.

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    305

    New Sexual Agendas tackles the urgent practical and theoretical challenges in the area of gender and sexuality. This volume highlights the intensity of the feelings generated by the changes occurring in sexual and gender relations, while signalling the possibilities for new strategies encompassing diversity and choice.

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    345

    This book is an action research study of a community at work. It is shown that the type of community prevention that really works and creates sustainable changes, is neither value neutral nor given from above: it adheres to reason, rituals and emotions alike, and requires subjective involvement of the people in the community.

  • - Volume 1: Fifty Years after the War in Europe
     
    405,-

    The World Reshaped: Fifty Years after the War in Europe looks at the way the world has evolved since the end of the Second World War. The book focuses on Europe, commemorating the end of the War and the seemingly inevitable transition into the Cold War;

  • av Ian Oliver
    345

    Police, Government and Accountability is an examination of the relationship between police and central and local government in the United Kingdom. The second edition also re-examines the police and government relationship after the passing of the controversial Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 and the local government reforms.

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    1 455,-

    All too frequently, women's presence in the sporting arena is marginalised and rarely are women's experiences heard and analysed. Drawing on a diversity of women's perspectives and theoretical standpoints, this book focuses upon the neglected process of research with women about 'sport'.

  • av Gillian Peele & Andrew Gamble
    1 455,-

    Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950.

  • - Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World
    av James H. Mittelman
    569

    Development may be best understood in terms of the interplay among capital accumulation, the state, and class. Case-studies - Brazil, the Asian newly industrializing countries, China, and Mozambique - reveal three possibilities for overcoming underdevelopment: joining, leaving, or weaving through global capitalism.

  • - Aspects of Renaissance Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society
    av Peter J. Smith
    589,-

    'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.' - Terence Hawkes, Cahiers Elisabethains Shakespeare studies have become increasingly politicised and clashes of opinion amongst scholars are not uncommon.

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